广东省珠海市2018-2019学年度第二学期高三二模英语试题
一、阅读理解
(★★)
This week, we’re sharing our favorite recent reads. To help round out our recommendations, we
also tapped some folks who you’ve heard on Code Switch before — novelists, scholars, poets and podcasters.
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
“The book is an extraordinary, honest and sympathetic look at adoption, race in America and
families in general. It’s also such an engaging read. I stayed up way too late one night reading it because the story just pulled me in. And I’ve recommended many of my friends to read it so I can talk about it with them.” — Jasmine Guillory, author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal and the forthcoming book The Wedding Part.
Becoming by Michelle Obama
“It’s a deeply-moving coming of age story of Michelle Obama in her early life. There are such
moving anecdotes about how this family just invested everything in the possibility of giving their children a better life. It’s not a sweet book, but at the same time, it’s deeply hopeful about the possibility of what happens when you work hard, what happens when you love hard.” — Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, Silver Sparrow and other books.
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
“What really impressed me about this book is this idea that women should be allowed to express
their anger, particularly in Latin American families and communities. I just think Soraya goes into this incredible detail citing scientific studies and different works of literature that really convey the necessity to female anger, not only for the health of women, but for the health of equality in society.” — Jean Guerrero, reporter with KPBS and author of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir. 1
.
Who
wrote
The
Wedding
Date?
A．Tayari Jones
B．Jean Guerrero
C．Jasmine Guillory D．Soraya Chemaly
2
.
Which
book
tells
a
bitter
story
with
hope?
A．Becoming
B．All You Can Ever Know
C．Silver Sparrow D．Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
3
.
What’s
the
purpose
of
the
passage?
A．To sell books.
B．To comment on books.
C．To share reviews of books. D．To collect opinions of books.
(★★)
Our hero’s origin story started this past February in the Perine family living room in Birmingham,
Alabama. Austin, a 4-year-old boy, and his father, Tad Perine, were watching a program on Animal Planet about a mother panda leaving her cubs. “I told him that the cubs would be homeless for a while,” Tad says. “Austin didn’t know what homelessness meant, but he was sad and wanted to know more.”
Seeing this as a teachable moment, Tad took Austin to the Firehouse Ministries, a local shelter that
provides housing, food, and other services for homeless men. As they drove by the redbrick building, they saw a group of 25 homeless men standing on the street corner. “Dad, they look sad.” Austin said. “Can we take them some food and make them smile?” That day, Austin used his allowance to buy each man a Burger King sandwich and handed the food out himself. Seeing what their presence meant to the men at the ministry, Austin and Tad returned the next week.
After he returned every week for five weeks, word of Austin’s acts of kindness spread through social
media and national news outlets. Burger King jumped aboard, agreeing to donate $1,000 a month for an entire year toward the cause. Soon, churches and shelters across the country began inviting Austin to come to distribute food in other areas. Whereas before Austin and Tad could feed 25 to 50 people at a time; now, thanks to corporate and community support, they can feed 800 to 2,000 people at once.
As for Austin, he continues to give out food, smiles, and his inspirational message of love. “It makes me feel like I’m saving the day.”
4
.
How
does
Austin
feel
when
seeing
the
TV
program?
A．Surprised B．Joyful
C．Grateful D．Unhappy
5
.
Why
did
Tad
drive
Austin
to
the
local
shelter?
A．To donate some money for the homeless.
B．To ask for some help from the homeless.
C．To teach him the meaning of homelessness.
D．To introduce Austin to the staff there. 6 . What does the author
intend
to
do
in
Paragraph
3?
A．To confirm Austin’s influence.
B．To praise Burger King’s donation.
C．To thank the community’s support
D．To convey appreciation of the homeless. 7 . What can be a
suitable
title
for
the
text?
A．A Teachable Moment
B．A Boy Fighting Against Hunger
C．A Kind Family Helping the Poor
D．Tad’s Inspirational Message of Love
(★★★★)
The tons of plastic we’re dumping in the oceans is finding a new home—the stomachs of our
beautiful marine animals. Yet another reminder of this fact washed ashore in Eastern Indonesia this week. A large amount of waste, including drinking cups and flip-flops, was found in the stomach of a whale that died off the coast near Kapota Island.
The 9.5-metre sperm whale (抹香鲸) was found by rescuers from the Wakatobi National Park. The
whale had swallowed 5.9 kilograms of plastic waste containing 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, and more than 1,000 other kinds of pieces of plastic, park chief Heri Santoso told the reporter.
“Although we have not been able todeduce the cause of death, the facts that we see are truly awful,”
said Dwi Suprapti, a marine species conservation co-ordinator at WWF Indonesia. She said it was not possible to determine if the plastic had caused the whale’s death because of the animal’s advanced state of decay (腐烂). But this is only the latest.
Four Asian nations—Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand—account for 50% of the
plastic waste in the oceans, according to a report by environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment. The Philippines is second to Indonesia when it comes to putting away plastic waste in the oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science in January. Of the 3.2 million mismanaged waste it produces every year, 1.29 million ends up in the ocean.
A report released earlier this year stated that the amount of plastic in the ocean is likely to increase.
8
.
What
can
we
know
about
the
sperm
whale?
A．Its stomach is the home of plastic waste.
B．It died of swallowing lots of plastic waste.
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