湖北高三-高考模拟二英语.doc
英语 2018年高三湖北省第二次模拟试题 英语考试时间：_分钟题型单选题填空题总分得分单选题 （本大题共15小题，每小题_分，共_分。） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。 A You may haveknown YouTube quite well. This website is pretty famous for video viewing andsharing on the Internet. Apart from YouTube, there are other websites that alsohave a large video library. Vimeo One of the mostpopular websites to upload and show videos is Vimeo. You can trust the privacyof these videos as Vimeo gives you the freedom to decide who views the videos.You can connect to people by following them and receive updates from themalongside sending messages to them. The Vimeo Video School will help yousharpen your video skills by taking their video tutorials. Videojug From food anddrink to technology and cars, Videojug has a huge video library with 60,000+“how to” videos and guides. They have experts on each topic who carefullyexamine every video, and it is only after this check that the videos arepublished. If you like any video and want to use it in your blog, you can usetheir embed code (嵌入代码) for the same. Veoh If you want towatch movies online for free, then you must log on to Veoh. You can watch fullepisodes (集) of your favorite television shows, even on your iPod touch,iPhone, or iPad. They also offer a software application, Veoh Web Player, wherefull-length videos can be viewed. Before a user may share a video through Veoh,he must register. SchoolTube This website iscompletely devoted to educational videos. All the content is monitored byteachers before uploading. Thousands of school kids are users of this site, whoupload about 1,000 videos a day. Whenever a student wants to upload a video, ateacher from the same school has to first approve of it before uploading thesame.What can we do on Vimeo?A. Teach other people video skills.B. Gain much knowledge on privacy.C. Subscribe to other peoples videos.D. Watch many “how to” videos and guides. A You may haveknown YouTube quite well. This website is pretty famous for video viewing andsharing on the Internet. Apart from YouTube, there are other websites that alsohave a large video library. Vimeo One of the mostpopular websites to upload and show videos is Vimeo. You can trust the privacyof these videos as Vimeo gives you the freedom to decide who views the videos.You can connect to people by following them and receive updates from themalongside sending messages to them. The Vimeo Video School will help yousharpen your video skills by taking their video tutorials. Videojug From food anddrink to technology and cars, Videojug has a huge video library with 60,000+“how to” videos and guides. They have experts on each topic who carefullyexamine every video, and it is only after this check that the videos arepublished. If you like any video and want to use it in your blog, you can usetheir embed code (嵌入代码) for the same. Veoh If you want towatch movies online for free, then you must log on to Veoh. You can watch fullepisodes (集) of your favorite television shows, even on your iPod touch,iPhone, or iPad. They also offer a software application, Veoh Web Player, wherefull-length videos can be viewed. Before a user may share a video through Veoh,he must register. SchoolTube This website iscompletely devoted to educational videos. All the content is monitored byteachers before uploading. Thousands of school kids are users of this site, whoupload about 1,000 videos a day. Whenever a student wants to upload a video, ateacher from the same school has to first approve of it before uploading thesame.Which website should you visit if you want to learn how to build a car model?A. SchoolTube.B. Videojug.C. Vimeo.D. Veoh. A You may haveknown YouTube quite well. This website is pretty famous for video viewing andsharing on the Internet. Apart from YouTube, there are other websites that alsohave a large video library. Vimeo One of the mostpopular websites to upload and show videos is Vimeo. You can trust the privacyof these videos as Vimeo gives you the freedom to decide who views the videos.You can connect to people by following them and receive updates from themalongside sending messages to them. The Vimeo Video School will help yousharpen your video skills by taking their video tutorials. Videojug From food anddrink to technology and cars, Videojug has a huge video library with 60,000+“how to” videos and guides. They have experts on each topic who carefullyexamine every video, and it is only after this check that the videos arepublished. If you like any video and want to use it in your blog, you can usetheir embed code (嵌入代码) for the same. Veoh If you want towatch movies online for free, then you must log on to Veoh. You can watch fullepisodes (集) of your favorite television shows, even on your iPod touch,iPhone, or iPad. They also offer a software application, Veoh Web Player, wherefull-length videos can be viewed. Before a user may share a video through Veoh,he must register. SchoolTube This website iscompletely devoted to educational videos. All the content is monitored byteachers before uploading. Thousands of school kids are users of this site, whoupload about 1,000 videos a day. Whenever a student wants to upload a video, ateacher from the same school has to first approve of it before uploading thesame.While visiting Veoh, you must _.A. register before sharing videos on itB. limit the length of the video to watchC. equip your computer with Veoh Web PlayerD. log on using your iPod touch, iPhone or iPad B “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame. “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldnt wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies. As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced. But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahirs The Namesake. I began to realize that apersons culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of. Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “Its not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“Its a prayer mark, a tilak.”What did the author do after hearing the young boys words?A. He complained to his mother.B. He removed the red prayer powder.C. He hid himself from his classmates.D. He stopped his forehead from bleeding. B “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame. “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldnt wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies. As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced. But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahirs The Namesake. I began to realize that apersons culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of. Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “Its not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“Its a prayer mark, a tilak.”What was the authors attitude towards Indian culture when he was a teen?A. Supportive.B. Unconcerned.C. Contradictory.D. Disapproving. B “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame. “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldnt wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies. As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced. But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahirs The Namesake. I began to realize that apersons culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of. Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “Its not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“Its a prayer mark, a tilak.”According to Paragraph 4, The Namesake _.A. is mainly about cultureB. made the author hate his nameC. was written by Priyanka ChopraD. inspired the author to attend McNair B “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame. “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldnt wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies. As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced. But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahirs The Namesake. I began to realize that apersons culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of. Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “Its not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“Its a prayer mark, a tilak.”What do the authors words in the last paragraph imply?A. He misses his childhood very much.B. He has pity on the four-year-old boy.C. He is very patient with young children.D. He has gladly accepted the Indian culture. C This evening,while searching through the files on an old shelf trying to look for aself-improvement book, I found an aged file containing some of the examinationpapers Id taken during my pre-university days. It was on economics, a subjectthat I didnt really like much back then. As I lookedthrough the papers, memories of the past flooded my mind. I saw myself sittingon one of the study tables, burying my head into some ten years series. Backthen, it was popular for most Singaporean students to treat the ten yearsseries, which basically is a collection of past years Cambridge A levelexamination papers, as if their life depended on it. It was duringthose times that I first started to set goals for myself. I didnt know muchabout goal setting then. I didnt use any goal tracking tool either. All I knewwas that I had to make it to university. I skipped breaks to go through mylecture notes and stayed back late after a tiring school day for more revisionswith my classmates, so much so that I would miss the school lock-out hours andhad to climb college gates in order to leave. It was perhaps this attitude thatignited my determination to go through what I had to do to get this far. Yes, it may havebeen hard. But the sweet taste of victory experienced at the po
