黃岡中學(xué)2016英語(yǔ)A卷.doc

黃岡中學(xué)2016年自主招生（理科實(shí)驗(yàn)班）預(yù)錄考試英語(yǔ)模擬試題（A卷）共75分.單項(xiàng)選擇（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）從A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。( )1. Its a pity that the headmaster turned a deaf ear to the_ of the parents. A. words B. voice C.noise D.sounds( )2. What else should we pay attention to _ building the bridge? The change of the weather, I think. A. finish B. finished C. to finish D. finishing( )3.Professor Wang _ in Harvard University for 10 years, but he has never regretted returning to China to work for his motherland. A. has taught B. taught C. had taught D. has been teaching( )4. Do you know Mary quarreled with Ann? I dont know, _. A. so do I care B. so dont I care C. I dont care too D. nor do I care( )5. Which of those magazines do you like most? They look beautiful. _ at all. They are both expensive and of little use. A.None B. Neither C. All D.Both( )6. Mr. Wang, can I ask you some questions about your holiday? Of course, feel _ to ask me. A. good B.calm C.happy D.free( )7. He hasnt got a hobby _ you call playing computer games a hobby. A. while B. unless C. though D.if( )8. The school network will be shut down for safety reasons. That doesnt _ me at all. Im not a networm, anyway. A.satisfy B. surprise C. worry D.include( )9. Many boy students think math is _ English. I agree. Im weak in English.A. less difficult than B. so difficult as C. much difficult than D. more difficult than( )10.The old photos the man was quite fond of _ him so many happy memories of his study life in Wuhan University. A. bringing B. had brought C. has brought D. brought( )11. My face turned red and I ran back home _ ,expect for the $20 bill I held tightly in my pocket. A.open-mouthed B.tongue-tied C.empty-handed D.broken-hearted( )12.The boy _by his uncle _ the plan that he should also raise his father and mother. A. brought up; agreed to B. put up; agreed on C. brought on; agreed with D. brought up; agreed with( )13.The boy wanted to take his latest iPhone to school, but his mother told him _. A. not to do B. not to C. dont do it D. not do it( )14. Her sister has become a lawyer, _ she wanted to be.A. Who B. when C. what D. which( )15.Most of the students felt rather disappointed at the English party. They say that it _ better organized. A. had been B. had to be C. must have been D. could have been( )16.Please _ where to begin and how to do it. A explain us B explain it us C explain to us D explain it to us( )17.I havent heard _ my sister _ a long time. A about; for B on; about C from; for D from; at( )18.Jenny nearly missed the flight _ doing too much shopping. A. as a result of B. on top of C. in front of D. in need of( )19.As the film star began to appear, the children watched, _. A.fascinating B. fascinated C.being fascinated D. having fascinated ( )20. How about seeing the new movie at the theater tonight? _, but Ive got to go over my notes for tomorrows exam. AAll right BSounds great CI know DI am terribly sorryII. 完形填空（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分） 閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。 My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of21Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some22to the area Last summer, I found a tiny little23 in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didnt plant it and Denise said she didnt either. We decided to let it24 growing until we could find out what it was. Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the25plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided to26the weeds around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something27. The sunflower had notstarted where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big28and grown under and around it to reach thesun Thats when I 29that if a tiny little sunflower didnt let a big rock stand in its30 of developing, we too have the ability of doing the same thing. If webelieve in ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we31to go and get what we need for growth We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ability to achieve our goals. Like the32, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had33in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be34who and what we are, then the environment will begin tosupport us. We will find a way to go under or35any “rocks ” in order to reach our goals( )21. A. flowers B. insects C. rocks D. vegetables( )22. A. color B. water C. fertilizer肥 D. shape( )23. A. weed B. seed C. rock D. plant( )24. A. stop B. continue C. improve D. escape( )25. A. weak B. lonely C. strange D. pretty( )26. A. remove B. tend 趨向 C. watch D. collect( )27. A. wonderful B. terrible C. valuable D. unusual( )28. A. tree B. table C. rock D. wall( )29. A. realized B. doubted C. regretted D. hoped( )30. A. place B. way C. course D. process( )31. A. forget B. hate C. aim D. wait( )32. A. yard B. sunflower C. home D. summer( )33. A. energy B. virtue 美德 C. courage D. faith信仰( )34. A. aware of意識(shí)到 B. afraid of C. proud of D. tired of( )35. A. into B. around C. through D. fromIII. 閱讀理解（20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 AOn school nights, lots of kids have to do their reading before they are allowed to watch TV. Pretty soon, you might get to do both at the same time, in true Harry Potter style. Several companies are racing to produce electronic paper and ink, complete with colors and moving imagines(圖像). One idea would be to create a newspaper like The Daily Project in the Harry Potter books. Its pages would hold video clips of baseball games instead of just black-and-white photos. Electronic paper is not a new idea. A company in Massachusetts called E ink, for example, has been working for years on such a technology. Little electricity determines(決定)whether each microsphere (灌球)looks black or white at any given time. Together, microspheres make up words and imagines. The techniques seems promising for creating still imagines that can be changed when needed, but the process is too slow for good videos. Scientists in the Netherlands now report a new type of e-paper technology. By using layers(層) of oil, the requirements. They can also make images which change fast enough to meet standard video requirements. They can also make brilliant colors. So far, however, each image is smaller than the fingernail. For now, reading and watching TV will have to return two separate activities. Keep your eyes open, though, in the future, TV watching and reading might be part of the same work.( )36. According to the passage, kids soon can .A. be allowed to watch TV B. watch TV while doing their homeworkC. watch Harry Potter on TV D. be allowed to read a newspaper( )37. Several companies are racing to .A. Make the Harry Potter TV program B. create a newspaper like the The Daily Project C. provide baseball games for kids D. produce electronic paper with colors and moving images( )38. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Electronic paper is not a new idea. B. Microspheres make up words and images . C. Now TV watching and reading is part of the same work. D. Scientists use layers of oil in a new research.( )39. From the last paragraph, we know that .A. scientists are still working on the new technology B. kids love to red while watching TV C. parents may be against this new idea D. teachers may not teach students any more BOur eyes may be playing tricks on us. New research shows that sometimes people physically see what they want to see. Cornell University social psychologist (心理學(xué)家) David Dunning carried out experiments to test whether wishful thinking can actually affect what we see. “Its well proved from what is experienced in everyday life, and from the laboratory as well, that people think what they want to think,” he says. “Were taking this a step further. Were asking if strong wishes and fears can actually affect what people physically see.” Dunning and his assistants told volunteers that a computer game would show them either a letter or number to decide whether they would drink orange juice or fruit syrup (果子露). As they wrote in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the computer would flash an ambiguous picture, which could be seen as the letter “B” or the number “13”. Volunteers who were told that a letter would get them orange juice most often reported seeing “B”. Those who were told that a number would get them orange juice most often saw “13”. The researchers also used a hidden camera to track volunteers eye movements, particularly the first eye movement. “We dont control them,” Dunning says, “and they dont even know that we are watching them, so it honestly shows what a person is seeing.” “This research suggests that the brain is doing a lot of work between the eye and the conscious awareness to affect what we think,” Dunning concludes(得出結(jié)論). “Before we even see the world, our brain has decided to keep what we want to see and avoid what we dont want to see.”( )40. The passage is mainly about _. A. the eye movements of some volunteers B. an experiment by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology C. a social psychologist Dunning and his assistants D. new findings on what may affect what we see( )41. In Dunnings experiment, if “13” gets you orange juice, which of the following will also get you orange juice? A. B. C. D.( )42. The underlined word “ambiguous” most probably means _. A. interesting B. unclear C. important D. old( )43. Which of the following statements is true according to Dunnings findings? A. The brain can influence peoples vision. B. The brain forgets what it wants to see. C. The eyes cant see without strong wishes and fears. D. The brain is not actually connected to the eyes. C People who are about the same age as you are your peers. Peers include your friends and your classmates.They have strong influence on your actions. Your peers influence how you think, how you act, and even how you dress. Peer pressure is the influence that people of the same age have on one another. Sometimes your peers influence you in a helpful or positive way. A friend may notice that you have problems in math. And he might invite you to join a study group or show you how to solve a difficult problem during lunch. Such actions are helpful to you. Sometimes your peers influence you in a negative or unhealthy way. A friend might offer you cigarettes（香煙).Cigarettes are harmful to your health. Your friend knows that. Your friend also knows that underage smoking is against the law. Yet he or she still makes the offer. This bad influence is negative peer pressure. Your peers may not always realize they are influencing you in a negative way. For example, a friend might invite you to the movies. You would love to go. but you have a lot of housework to do. In situations like this you should make a wise decision. You can learn to deal with negative peer pressure. Keep away from people who try to influence your behavior in harmful ways. Though it is trot always easy to say no, its really necessary to learn flow to do that. Follow the following steps. First, look at the person and say no in a firm(堅(jiān)定的）but polite voice. Make sure your face shows that you are serious. Let the person know you will not back down. Then, give reasons for saying no. Explain why you wont do what the person wants. Remember to say goodbye and walk away if he or she continues.( )44. From Paragraph 2, we can infer that a friend who influences you in a positive way might_ A. go to school together with you B. do your homework instead of you C. share cigarettes from his father with you D. try to help you when you are in trouble( )45. What does the underlined word negative in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Harmful. B. Useless. C. Careless. D. Forgetful.( )46. How many steps of saying no are mentioned in the last paragraph? A. Five. B. Four. C. Three D. Six.( )47. Which sentence shows the writers opinion? A. Peer pressure is the influence that people of the same age have on one another. B. We should learn to deal with negative peer pressure. C. Its not always important to say no to your peers. D. Peers include your friends and your classmates. D When Tim Longs father died, Tim inherited a great of money. For a long time, he didnt know what spend it on, then one day he saw an advertisement for drains. The advertisement said, “Get a better brain and lead a more successful life.” The advertisement had been put in the newspaper by a doctor. Tim went to see him. “Please explain your advertisement to me,” he said. “very well,” the doctor answered. “Have you heard of heart transplants?” “Yes,” Tim said. “A heart transplant is when you take a heart from one person and put it into the body of another.” “That is correct,” the doctor said. “Well, I do brain transplants.Now”he pointed to a price list, “we have several brains in stock. You can have a sanitation workers brain for 5,000.” Tim shook his head. “What about a university professors brain? You can have one of those for 20,000,”the doctor said. This was interesting, Tim thought, but he wanted more information. “Is that the most expensive brain?” he asked. “No. You can have a judges brain for 50,000,” the doctor told him. “That sounds very interesting,” Tim said. “And is that the most expensive brain?” The doctor shook his head. “Oh, no,”he said. “The most expensive brain is a politicians. That will cost you 100,000.” Tim was surprised. “Why is a politicians brain so expensive?”He asked. “Because its never been used,” the doctor said. “Its as good as new.” ( )48. Whats the meaning of the underlined part brain transplants in Paragraph 7? A. planting a new brain in ones head. B. replacing a brain with a plant. C. using a plantshaped brain to help people. D. replacing an old brain with a better new one.( )49. A university professors brain is much more expensive than a cleaners probably because _. A. a professor is more than a cleaner B. a professor does more work than a cleaner C. a professors work has something more to do with thinking D. a professors work allows him to have more free time( )50. Tim asked for more information about expensive brains because _. A. he believed a more expensive brain was better B. he was not satisfied with his own brain C. he had much money and he was not sure what to spend it on D. he was advised to choose the most expensive brain( )51. The best title of this passage is _. A. The best brain B. A politicians brain C. As good as new D. Brain transplants EI had five hours in the company of First Great Western(FGW) last weekend, on a train full of passengers, all the way from Cornwall to London. I got to know some of my fellow passengers rather well. Not through talking to them, you understand.There was the youth who was explaining to his friend exactly how he enjoyed a party with his friends last night. Opposite him was a young woman who was very excited to be going to Lanzarote for her summer holiday. And then there was the man who I took to be a car mechanic(汽車修理工); so detailed and technical was his conversation about a second-hand Audi. Everyone had a different, noisy ringtone, and none of the mobile phone conversations I was forced to hear was interesting.By the end of the journey, I was silently complaining about the modern world, and feeling mad with FGW who, at the very moment when our carriage fell silent, would make an announcement about the buffet car (a carriage where food and drinks are sold) either opening or closing.FGW seems to be campaigning against peace and quietness, having removed quiet carriage spaces where passengers were requested not to use mobiles so that their trains could carry more passengers. How so? I cannot understand why FGW takes no notice of passengers like me, who have suffered a lot from hearing endless telephone conversations. I have no interest in the smallest details of others lives. Making people listen to boring mo