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太原市2015届高三年级三模
英   语

第一部分 听力理解（略）

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，20小题，每小题3分，共60分）
第一节：阅读理解（共15小题； 每小题3分， 满分45分）
    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Yesterday, I was walking past some lavender colored lilacs(淡紫色丁香) growing alongside the sidewalk on the way to catch a ride with my neighbor who was joining me for a community dinner gathering. The quiet and soft movement of the little flowers as they danced in the breeze just make me pause for a moment.  I looked at them moving gently from one side to another in the breeze as if they were alive and happy. I was thinking about what it would be like to make another human being alive and happy like those lilacs.
It was Mother's Day, and I live many continents away from my mother. I thought about my neighbor, who is a mother too. As a matter of fact, she was a mother of two children.  I hurriedly went back home with my new idea unfolding in my mind. I looked through my yellow pages quickly, located the nearest flower sellers, and made sure that they had fresh flowers to sell with which I was able to add love and a bright feel to warm a mother's heart.
Collecting a bouquet of sunshine yellow daffodils(水仙花),I opened the door of my neighbor, the door of a mother, the door of someone who smiled and hugged me and held my hand tightly with great joy. Such a short moment of exchange in a doorway made a mother dance with life and I have to thank the little lilacs for that moment!
21. The view of the lilacs made the author_______.
A. want to delight someone
B. want to dance like the lilacs
C. think of her own loneliness
D. miss her parents in a faraway place
22. What do the underlined word “new idea” in the Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Collecting flowers for her mother living away.
B. Leaving the gathering in advance and hurrying home.
C. Saying thanks to the neighbor for the ride.
D. Giving the neighbor flowers as a present for Mother’s Day.
23. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Love goes beyond border
B. Love the flower, love the branch
C. Lilac-produced idea bring warmth
D. Memories brought back by lilacs

B

People in the US have a special camp to go to this summer. Those who are tired of the social media and want to unplug(不插电) for a couple of days can consider going to a fast-growing summer camp three hours outside of San Francisco.
 Checking into the camp involves handing over your personal electronics to volunteers in white lab coats. Camp Grounded now in its second year, offers attendees a break from the constant noise of social media severely fighting for their attention.
The rules of this camp are clear: No shop talk, no alcohol, and most importantly, no phones, computers, tablets or watches.
Co-founder Levi Felix has stressed it is not just an experience for tech workers, although current and former Silicon Valley(硅谷) employees make up the biggest part of the attendees. This year, campers ranged from college graduates to retirees. 
In recent years, the “unplugging movement” has been gathering steam, although it has been criticized by the press for causing “postmodern techno-anxiety” and failing to recognize the positive impacts of technology. Each March, thousands of people unplug from their devices for 24 hours, as part of an event organized by the nonprofit organization Reboot.
Tech-free getaway options like Camp Grounded are growing in the US, reported NPR. Hotels like the Lake Placid Lodge in New York and Hotel Monaco Chicago are offering digital detox or “black-out” services. The “Check-In to Check-Out” package at the Lake Placid Lodge invites guests to leave their electronic devices at the front desk to enjoy the peace and calm of their environment.

24. Where can you go to Camp Grounded?
A.Near San Francisco
B.Near New York
C.Near Chicago
D.Anywhere in the US
25. Who is most likely to attend the camp this year according to the passage?
A.Guests to the hotels
B.Volunteers in white lab coats
C.Employees from Silicon Valley
D.People from all walks of life
26. The purpose for those to attend the camp is  ?
A.to live a totally simple life
B.to be free from modern tech occasionally
C.to escape from the modern society completely
D.to totally break away from the noise of social media
27. What’s the media’s attitude toward the “unplugging movement”?
A   Negative       B Unclear        C Indifferent      D Objective

C

The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and for the environment. Those findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
There are ways to solve this diet-health-environment problem. But they will require a change in eating habits. And what we eat can be a product of culture, personal taste, price and ease.
David Tilman is a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota. In the study, he examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health. Mr. Tilman noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose. More people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in refined, or processed, sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter -- and sicker. "The excess, let us say, in the 15 richest nations of the world, right now is on the order of about 400 or 500 extra calories a day that are eaten beyond what people need, and that lead people to gain weight." David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for non-infectious diseases like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. "Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these same health impacts, and in some cases if you are Asian, you have them more severely ."
And, a diet bad for human beings, it seems, is also bad for the environment. As the world's population grows, experts say more forests and tropical areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for grazing cattle. These areas will be needed to meet the increasing demand for food.
"We are likely to have more greenhouse gas released in the future from agriculture because of this dietary shift than all the greenhouse gas that right now comes out of all forms of transportation. "
Mr. Tilman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, "a trilemma." He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.

1. Which of the following statements is Not True according to the report?

A. Different culture may cause different eating habits.
B. Population increase is likely to lead some people to accept the Western diet.
C. Western foods will probably make more people overweight.
D. The Western diet is unhealthy because it is high in vitamins and proteins.

1. What can we learn from the report?

A. The western diet does less harm to the health of Asians.
B. More greenhouse gas has been given off from agriculture.
C. Western eating habits are responsible for some diseases like cancer.
D. Nearly all people in developed countries consume more calories than needed.

1. The underlined word “ trilemma” in the last paragraph means __________.

A. a relation to be maintained.
B. an opinion causing an argument.
C. a decision to be made.
D. a problem offering a difficult choice

1. What does this report mainly tell us?

A. What people eat does influence their health.
B. Our change in diet will lead to global climate warming.
C. The Western diet is bad for environment as well as for human beings.
D. Industrialization considerably shortens the lifespan of the world people.

D

In recent years many countries have been faced with the problem of how to make their workers more productive. Some experts claim the answer is to make jobs more varied. But do more varied jobs lead to greater productivity? There is evidence to suggest that while variety certainly makes the worker's life more enjoyable, it does not actually make him work harder. As far as increasing productivity is concerned, then, variety is not an important factor.

 Other experts feel that giving the worker freedom to do his job in his own way is important. The problem is that this kind of freedom cannot easily be given in the modem factory with its complicated machinery .Thus, while freedom of choice may be important, there is usually very little that can be done to create it.

Another important consideration is how much a worker contributes to the product he is making. In most factories the worker sees only one small part of the product. Some car factories are now experimenting with having many small production lines so that each worker contributes more to the production of the cars on his line. It would seem that not only is degree of the worker's contribution an important factor, but it is also one we can do something about.

To what extent does more money lead to greater productivity? The workers themselves certainly think this is important. But perhaps they want more money only because the work they do is so boring. Money just lets them enjoy their spare time more. A similar argument may explain demands for shorter working hours. Perhaps if we succeed in making their jobs more interesting, they will neither want more money nor will shorter working hours be so important to them.

32.According to the author, what advantage do varied jobs bring?
A.They increase productivity enormously.
B.They reduce boredom among workers.
C.They bring out the best in workers.
D.They relive workers’ difficulties.
33.What can we clearly see from the passage?
A.It’s practical to allow more freedom in a modern factory.
B.It’s necessary to have a large number of workers.
C.It’s important to raise workers’ sense of contribution.
D.It’s difficult to have more production lines.
34.The passage seems to suggest that_______
A.more money leads to demands for shorter working hours
B.more money does not automatically create higher productivity
C.workers like more money better than more interesting jobs
D.workers expect to have both more money and more interesting jobs
35.What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.How to enrich workers’ life
B.How to make workers more productive
C.How to shorten working hours
D.How to decrease dullness in a factory

第二节 七选五 （共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
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。选项中有两项为多余项。

How to overcome challenges in your life
We all face tough and difficult challenges in life. To overcome challenges you need to have that “never quit” attitude in life. If you develop it, you’ll overcome quite a bit.
Motivate yourself. Say “YES, I CAN”. The challenge should bring out the best of you in this situation. Slow it down, think that process though.      36       If you develop that mindset(心态), you’ll get it done.
Stay calm and cool headed. Remain calm when you’re facing serious troubles and problems in life.       37       Take a deep breath, relax, slow it down. Think things through calmly.
Let failure and fear fuel you in a positive way. Everyone fails at times. If you fail the first, second, or third time, don’t give up. Pick yourself up, and learn from why you’ve failed, and move on in positive direction.      38      
Simplify the problem or challenge you’re facing. Break it down into steps, and work your way to the top of it. Work through each step of the process of overcoming this challenge. Make the challenge easier than it.      39      As you get through each step, you develop more belief you can get it done, then you will.
      40      To overcome a challenge, you have to believe you can really do it. You have to find out all the ways you can overcome it, and put it to full use and effort. People overcome all kinds of challenges every day. I believe that challenges aren’t nearly as hard as presented most the time. Depends exactly what this challenge is. It’s our own mental stability that’s the difficult part. When you get into the mind frame of doing it mentally, you’ll actually be able to do it.

第三部分  英语知识运用（共两节，满分55分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in Atlantic City, landing on my head. Now I’m 32. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to be able to __41__ again, but a disaster can do surprising things to people. It __42__ to me the other day that I might not have come to love__41__ as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply__44__. I don't mean that I would __45__ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the __46__ of them made me appreciate the more what I had __47__.
The hardest __48__ I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been __49__ to do that, I would have collapsed and __50__ a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. It took me years to discover and strengthen this __51__. Once a man gave me an indoor __52__. I thought he was laughing at me and I was __53__."I can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he __54__ me, "and roll it around." The __55__ stuck in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me a(an)__56__ how to achieve a goal I had thought __57__, playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I __58__ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to __59__ them, one at a time. I would fail __60__ anyway but on the average I made progress.

41. A. hear           B. see            C. speak              D. walk
42. A. appeared     B. seemed      C. occurred        D. got
43. A. life             B. nature        C. peace             D. world
44. A. besides      B. otherwise        C. therefore     D. moreover
45. A. agree           B. decide         C. promise         D. prefer
46. A. loss          B. discovery        C. protection         D. mention
47. A. left             B. finished          C. gathered       D. removed
48. A. custom        B. knowledge      C. lesson          D. method
49. A. afraid               B. likely           C. able            D. eager
50. A. watched          B. become           C. seized      D. found
51. A. belief             B. result           C. fact             D. reason
52. A. basketball        B. baseball        C. volleyball       D. football
53. A. frightened          B. surprised      C. excited       D. hurt
54. A. ordered       B. threatened      C. warned         D. urged
55. A. idioms        B. phrased          C. words            D. sentences
56. A. attitude         B. idea            C. view             D. suggestion
57. A. impossible       B. improper      C. unnecessary    D. unimportant
58. A. possessed        B. produced      C. purchased        D. invented
59. A. study          B. accept             C. reach            D. control
60. A. always         B. seldom            C. never          D. sometimes

第二节  语法填空  （共10小题；每题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下列材料，在空白处填上适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Marie: Hi, Helen! It’s good to see you again.
Helen: Yes, it’s been quite a while, Marie. And you look 61     (differ) from the last time I saw you.
Marie:  Yeah, ever since I got married I 62    (put) on weight. My husband’s a good cook.
Helen: But don’t blame your husband’s good cooking. You need to start exercise.
Marie: I know I should. But after I come home from work, I’m too tired to exercise. And I don’t have any place 63      (take) any exercise anyway.                                    
Helen: Have you thought about joining 64      excellent health club?
Marie: I have. But it’s expensive and I just don’t have the time.
Helen: I am a member of Spa Fitness and you’d be surprised how 65____       (expensive) a year’s membership is and most of the _66_____ (member) are just “normal” people who take exercise for about an hour just three times a week.
Marie: _67_____ (sound) reasonable. I mean, you look strong and handsome enough.
Helen: Well, to tell the truth, I haven’t always looked like this! After I turned 30, I couldn’t fit into my favorite jeans any more. I was feeling fat. I didn’t have any energy.
Marie: That’s how I feel. I mean, exercise sounds like something _68_____ would make me feel more tired.
Helen: That’s what most people think about exercise. The funny thing is, once you take _69_____ a regular exercise program, you start feeling much _70_____ (good) immediately.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
短文改错（共10小题；每题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一下作
文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

My cousin George and I went on a tip to my uncle last Sunday. We were riding a hillside then suddenly some big stones were rolled down and knocked us off our bikes. George’s legs got seriously injure and so did mine. We couldn’t move a bit. Lucky, I saw some farmers ahead. Wave our hands, we cried for help like crazy. On hearing us, they run to the spot as fast as they could. Thanks their help, we were all sent to a nearby hospital and received medical treatment in time. Although we do not know about their name, we feel they are like our dear big brothers and sisters.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，前些天在网上买了一个今年最新的电子产品——便携式折叠阅读灯(Folding Book Lamp)，用后感觉不错，于是写信向你的朋友John推荐这款阅读灯。要点如图所示：

注意：1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;
3.邮件的结尾已经给出，不算入总词数。
Dear John,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Looking forward to your reply.

Yours,
Li Hua

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