2019年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试
上海英语模拟试卷
iREAD中学英语测评（命题）研究中心
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A Short Conversations
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
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1. A. Understandable. B. Pointless.
2. A. Gather more information from others.
C. Ask a professor to help them
3. A. Find a different hotel.
C. Pay for the conference in advance.
4. A. Study her notes over the weekend.
C. Take the quiz before the man does.
鲅鱼圈旅游攻略5. A. The man looks very nice in a suit and tie.
B. The man needn‟t have changed his clothes.
C. She likes the sweater the man is wearing.
D. She does not think jeans are appropriate.
6. A. He cannot walk becau his foot is broken. C. He feels relieved about his injury.
7. A. He cannot afford to buy a computer.
B. He was the last person to leave the computer lab.
C. He is worried about turning in his paper late.
D. He ud a typewriter for his paper.
8. A. Look for another job.
C. Ask his boss for a rai in pay.
9. A. His grade was not as good as the woman's. C. He had hoped to get a better grade.
10. A. He does not want to continue on the project today.
B. He will work on the project without the woman.
C. He does not know when the project is due.
D. He will need five more hours to finish the project.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will
be asked three questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are bad on the following passage.
11. A. A lifeboat. B. A lucky person
C. A a storm.
D. A shipwreck
12. A. When the boat started to rock violently. B. When he saw someone in the water
C. When his wife screamed for life. C. When he found no life belt
13. A. When it turned dark.
B. When another ship found them.
C. When they found the crew on a life boat.
D. When a film was shot bad on his experience.
Questions 14 through 16 are bad on the following passage.
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14. A. Why American industries grew rapidly in the nineteenth century.
B. How advances in transportation helped American cities develop.
C. Transportation between the cities of the United States.
D. Great American inventors of the nineteenth century.
15. A. They could be controlled independently. B. They were resistant to fire.
C. They could keep working for longer.
D. They offered more room for pasngers.
16. A. It made the subways much quieter.
B. It brought electric light to the tunnels.
C. It enabled pasngers to breathe cleaner air.
D. It allowed subways to be repaired inexpensively.
Questions 17 through 20 are bad on the following conversation.
17. A. He found he had consumed too much fast food.
B. People spent little time looking for organic food.
C. A fast food restaurant opened near the Spanish Steps.
鹃组词语D. The most well-known monuments in Rome were destroyed.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and gra
mmatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, u one word that best fits each blank.
Pay as you sit
What‟s the appeal of coffee shops? It‟s been said that JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books (21)________ (sit) in one in Edinburgh.
Many people spend hours in the places nursing a coffee as they work away on their laptops.
But if you‟re spending all day buying one expensive coffee after another and (22) ________ (not ll)your first novel yet, the costs can really add up. For tho who work outside of a traditional office or just want to take time out, there‟s a new alternative in London: a pay-per-minute cafe.
Y ou can stay for as long as you like in the Ziferblat coffee shop. Y ou'll be given a clock when you come in to keep time. When you leave, you return the item and pay the bill. The cost of hanging out, eating, working and meeting new people in the place is 3 pence per minute—or
£1.80an hour. The shop‟s owner, Ivan Meetin, says: ……Everything is free, (23) ________the time you spendthere”. Customers help (24) ________to coffee and cookies. They can also bring their ow
n food to eatwhen (25) ________ (connect) to the Internet through Wi-Fi.
Meetin‟s customers clearly are not the types who rush t o work with a paper cup (26) ________ (drink) from at their desks. They are there for the atmosphere. Informality is at the heart of Meetin‟s concept. He‟s always loved the idea of building his own hou. “With my mates，we were building treehous (27) ________rules of society didn't exist, he says.
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Meetin believes his coffee shop is a bit like “social media”, but with a face. Like-mindedpeople go there to socialize. Some feel so much at home (28) ________they wash the dishes.
I'd like to try it at least once. Who knows---I (29) ________even start writing my own novel. (30) ________coffee shops are good enough for JK Rowling to spend quality time in, why can't I? Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Snow school closures ‘no harm to learning’
Closing schools on occasional days becau of bad weather does not damage learning, rearch shows. The rearch wanted to find an answer to the winter argument about whether schools should _____31____ to stay open in heavy snow or shut their doors. Seven years of school test data showed no evidence that snow closures negatively affected results. The worst disruption was caud when schools tried to stay open but many staff and pupils were____32_____. The study, carriedout by Joshua Goodman, assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Massachutts in the US, was an attempt to ____33_____ the impact of school days lost to bad weather.
Almost as soon as the first winter snowflake falls, there are debates about whether schools should be kept open. The study suggests there are _____34____ arguments for them being clod. Prof Goodman was asked by the Massachutts education department to find out whether there really was any loss to learning from snow closures. Looking at test results in the US state between 2003-10, he found no evidence that pupil _____35____ had been affected when schools were occasionally shut. A former high school teacher himlf, Prof Goodman says schools can easily adapt to short-term closures, ____36_____their plans for the rest of the term. Such a clean break 使绊子
emed to cau less disruption than trying to stay open, when many pupils might not be able to get into school. This creates a knock-on effect of pupils trying to catch up, he says. And this does em to have a negative impact on results. Prof Goodman says that arguments over a few days of snow closures can often become very “emotional”---and they_____37____ that many pupils miss a greater number of school days through other types of abnteeism, such as ____38_____. Suchabnteeism by individuals does negatively affect their results, he says, more
than an occasional _____39____ closure by the whole school. This good news for pupils wanting an authorid day off was ____40_____ by Prof Goodman: “Closures have no impact. Abnces do.”
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.
Obviously, I did not feel so ready for the early races in my career as the races we‟ve done recently. There is a lot to be said for just gaining experience—just getting out there and getting your feet wet teaches you the right skills and ____41_____ .
It‟s often not the most____42_____ prepared or the fittest teams but the teams who race intelligently and adapt to unexpected situations that win. To achieve this you have to be_____43____and patient. The only way to develop tho _____44____is to get out and race or do long training trips with your team-mates and friends.
Adventure races are such a huge ____45_____that when you enter a race you always think, “Am 1 ready? Did I train enough? Did I forget something?” I remember one race in particular, my very first Eco-Challenge and only my cond race ever. When I did it, I felt totally _____46____ and unprepared. Most of my fear was due to lack of_____47____ and knowledge. I really had no idea what I was getting in to becau I had never done a 24-hour race before. Even so, we won it somehow, and were invited to compete in the Eco-Challenge in Australia.
Then we went to Australia and entered the race. We didn‟t plan a _____48____ at all, but just ran as fast as possible from the start. Keeping my mouth shut and following my team-mates, I just tried to keep up with my team, who were more experienced than I was. Although we arrived at a few of the check points in first place and were among the top five, I knew we didn't ____49_____ there.
______50___ , two of my team-mates decided not to continue the race after just a day and a half. O
ne was feeling ill—he was just too tired to carry on, while another had vere problems with his feet but we had been going so fast that he felt ____51_____asking us to stop so he could take care of his blisters (水泡). The other two of us, feeling fresh still, had to ____52_____ with the rest of our team. Four days later, we watched in____53_____as the winners crosd the finishing line. I knew that our team had not been prepared or realistic about the pace we could keep, but not finishing that race was the most ___54______ lesson I could have learned.
I _____55____ then to come back one day and finish the race, which was ven years—and thousands of race miles---ago.
41. A. attitude B. decision C. timing D. behaviour
42. A. partially B. mentally C. folly D. physically
43. A. strong B. diligent C. intelligent D. flexible
44. A. qualities B. ideas C. talents D. interests
45. A. investment B. challenge C. step D. increa
46. A. anxious B. afraid C. alone D. abnormal
47. A. accessibility B. information C. experience D. equipment
48. A. strategy B. goal C. campaign D.backup
49. A. pau B. live C. belong D. appear
50. A. To make the matters wor B. To cut a long story short
C. To sum up
D. To start with
51. A. obliged B. uncomfortable C. justified D. unfortunate
52. A. move about B. keep up C. look on D. drop out
53. A. annoyance B. excitement C. relief D. disappointment
54. A. unexpected B. costly C. valuable D. specific
55. A. promid B. requested C. offered D. agreed
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Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by veral questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choo the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
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Who wants to be a millionaire? has been one of the most popular television quiz shows in Britain. In the show, the host asks a question and gives the contestant four possible answers. If the contestant gets the right answer, they win the money say £100—and then go on to the next question for, say, £250. The money increas for each question until, if the contestant has answered all the other questions correctly, the prize for the final question is one million pounds.
In this extract from a show some years ago, the host of the show is television personality Chris Tarrant. Answering the questions is an ex-army officer, Charles Ingram.
TARRANT: What kind of garment is an …Anthony Eden‟？An overcoat, hat，shoe，tie?
INGRAM: I think it is a hat.
A cough from the audience.
INGRAM: Again Tm not sure. I think it is ...
Coughing from the audience.
INGRAM: I am sure it is a hat. Am I sure?
Coughing from the audience.
INGRAM: Yes, hat, ifs a hat.
In that show, Charles finally won a million pounds. But something wasn‟t quite right. Charles Ingram didn't really em very sure of himlf; he obviously didn't know the answer at first. To many in the audience that night, it emed as if he frequently repeated an answer as if waiting for a signal.
He was.
Charles Ingram's wife Diana was in the audience, and so too was a man with the extraordinary name of Tecwen Whittock. He had a bad cough. But a man sitting next to him in the audience noticed that there was something strange about the cough. It was too loud, and it wasn't
