2017年高考模拟试卷英语卷
本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
第I卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
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第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）原创 第一节 （共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项涂黑。
A
Crossing your legs is an extremely common but unconscious habit. While you may find this gesture comfortable, it might be causing health problems without your ignorance.
A study published in Blood Pressure Monitoring stated that sitting with your legs crossed can increase your blood pressure. The habit increases the resistance for the blood to be pumped back to your heart, making it harder to circulate, which causes your body to increase your blood pressure to push the blood back to the heart. You won’t feel any immediate effects, but it’s quite another thing for long periods of time. So, you’d better not have your legs crossed for more than 15 minutes, and it’s advisable to get up and walk around at least once every hour.
Crossing your legs can also lead to neck and back pain. It’s not easy to maintain perfect posture all day, but when you sit with your legs crossed your hips are in a twisted position, causing one of your pelvic bones to rotate. Since your pelvic bone supports your neck and spine, this can cause pressure on your lower and middle back and neck.
You also might notice that when you sit with your legs crossed for long periods of time your feet and legs become uncomfortable. This is because crossing your legs causes pressure on the veins and nerves in your legs and feet. It can cause numbness and/or temporary paralysis (麻痹) in the legs, ankles, or feet. While the feeling of discomfort may only last a minute or two, repeatedly crossing your legs until they feel numb can cause permanent nerve damage.
So next time you sit down, try to get yourself in the habit of sitting with both of your feet on the floor. Not only will it help your posture and stability, but it will also save your health in the long run. 21. Which one is not the consequence of crossing legs while sitting? A. increased blood pressure C. immediate paralysis
22. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To introduce some deadly results of crossing the legs. B. To inform readers of harm of crossing the legs.
B. painful neck and back D. everlasting nerve damage
C. To help people get rid of crossing the legs.
D. To explain why crossing the legs increase the blood pressure. 23. Where does the passage probably come from? A. A biology news C. A health newspaper
B. A medical book D. A research reportB
Microsoft has developed a new smartphone app that interprets eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing people with motor neurone disease to communicate with others from a phone.
The GazeSpeak app combines a smartphone’s camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements in real time and convert them into letters, words and sentences.
For people suffering from ALS（渐冻症）, also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the only way they are able to communicate.
“Current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS or other motor impairments are expensive, not strong and healthy under sunlight, and require frequent re-check and lots of relatively fixed setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology.
“To ease the drawbacks…we created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be low-cost, stable, hand-held and easy to learn.”
The app is used by the listener by pointing their smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the smartphone is then used by the speaker to determine which eye movements to make in order to communicate.
The sticker shows four grids of letters, which each correspond to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids (格) the letters they want belong to. The artificial intelligence computational procedure is then able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to say.
Zhang’s research, Smartphone-Based Gaze Gesture Communication for People with Motor Disabilities, is set to be presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May. 24. Who will benefit from the newly-developed App? A. ALS victims C. smartphone addicts
25. What are not the basic elements used in the App? A. artificial intelligence C. user’s eye movements
B. a smart phone’s camera D. hand-written letters B. people with eye disabilities D. technology researchers
26. What did the researchers do to improve the current eye-tracking input systems? A. to check the eye signals twice to make it fixed
B. to create a stable and convenient eye-gesture communication system C. to point the smartphone at the speaker
D. to look up, down, left or right
C
On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication of any coming severe weather. The first alert my husband, Jimmy and I got came around 9 p.m., from some scrolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.
No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. The wind began to roar, the bones of the house shook, and the power went out. We need to reach the strongest place—the closet on the first floor, which is wedged underneath a brick staircase.
I didn’t know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. I held the banister tightly and tried to move forward, but this intense pressure held me in place, with everything rattling and moving.
As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out and the back wall of the house followed suit and tore off into the darkness outside. By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I grasped Jimmy’s arm, trying to bring Jimmy with the never-fully-shut door. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay.
“Hold on! Hold on!” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to. All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over.
The storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured and we didn’t lose any neighbor.
27. The occurrence of the tornado was confirmed through ________. A. some scrolling text C. a relative
28. Why couldn’t Jimmy get inside? A. Because he had to push his wife. B. Because he has run out of all the strengths. C. Because the door didn’t shut. D. Because the wind was too strong.
29. Which word can best describe the author’s feeling during the tornado? A. grateful C. upset B. frightened D. unexpected
B. the local Pensacola Florida station D. observing the top of their house
30. What can we infer form the passage? A. The tornadoes took place at midnight.
B. People in tornadoes like to lift off their feet in the movie. C. There was a bay in front of the couple’s house. D. The disaster caused property loss but no death. 第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）原创
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Enjoy Life As a Teen
Your high school days maybe not the \most of them. 31
? Learn to appreciate small things. Whether it's having a good supply of food, a bed to sleep on, family that loves you, having a decent education or simply being born in this world. Remember that the point of life is for you to enjoy it. 32 ? Choose your friends wisely. Being sociable and participating in colorful activities increase your chances of meeting new friends. However, you don't have to have many friends to be happy. 33 , not those who like your certain brand of shoes. ? 34 There is nothing more satisfying than seeing your hard work pay off in the form of A's and B's (but mainly A's). This also gives you opportunity to go to a better college, which in turn prepares you for a better career and better quality of life in the future. Plus, excellent academic level means no angry parents.
? You can pursue interests you enjoy. 35 Use your spare time to either to do voluntary work to gain practical skills for college apps, job resumes, and scholarships, or get into something in the creative field like painting or dance, because this is the time to start developing and uncovering passions that might otherwise lie dormant. A. Having a healthy body leads to a healthy and happy mind. B. Be happy, and life will reward you. C. Keep your grades up.
D. But you do need those who like you who you are, E. Work at a job you can enjoy.
F. Here are some important points about to enjoy life as a teen. G. You can find a hobby that is meaningful or practical. 第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）原创
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的
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