(西安交大附中2007—2008學(xué)年度下學(xué)期高三第四次模擬考試D篇)

Ralph Ellison’s novel, “Invisible（看不見的） Man”, was published in nineteen fifty-two. Ellison was at once called a major new writer. The book won the National Book Award ,a high and rare honor for a first novel.

       Since then millions of copies have been printed .The book is still used in many universities and other schools. One professor said that he has used the book in his teaching for twenty-five years. He said that each time he returns to “Invisible Man” he finds new ideas in it.

       After “Invisible Man” was published ,Ralph Ellison taught at a number of universities. He retired from Now York University in nineteen eighty .While he was alive ,he published only two other books .They were books of criticism（批判）and essays ,called “Shadow and Act” and “Going to the Territory”.

       Ralph Ellison died in nineteen ninety-four ,at the age of eighty. After his death ,a book of his stories, “Flying Home” ,was published .Shortly before his death ,Ellison had told someone that his second novel was almost finished .He had worked on the novel for forty years without finishing it.

       Parts of the book had appeared in magazines during the nineteen sixties and seventies. Ellison had to rewrite the novel after a large part of it was burned in a fire at his home in nineteen sixty-seven. The novel was said to be two thousand pages long. Finally ,his friend John Callahan put the book together after Ellison died. The novel was published in nineteen ninety-nine. It was called “Juneteenth”.

       Since “Invisible Man” was published ,many American writers have said how much Ellison influenced them.

       In nineteen ninety ,another black writer ,Charies Johnson ,was given the National Book Award. In receiving the prize ,Johnson thanked Ralph Ellison for leading the way for black writers. Ellison was present at the ceremony .He thanked Johnson. Then he expressed his belief that black writers should not be influenced only by other black writers. He said:

       “You do not write out of your skin. You write out of your ideas and the quality of your mind.”

53．Which of the following statements about “Invisible Man” may NOT be right?

       A．It was written when Ellison was a professor New York University.

       B．It was Ellison’s first novel.

       C．It was still in use when the above passage appeared.

       D．It was so successful that it won itself a place in American literature.

54．According to the passage, “Juneteenth”        .

       A．is written by John Callahan

       B．is Ellison’s second novel

       C．was published in Ellison’s seventies

       D．was published 10 yours after his death

55．What can we infer from the passage?

       A．Ellison was a great white writer.

       B．“Flying Home” is one of Ellison’s novels.

       C．It took half of Ellison’s life time to write “Juneteenth”.

       D．Ellison didn’t live to see the publication of “ Shadow and Act” and “Going to the

Territory”.

56．We can see from the passage ,when Ellison’s first novel appeared ,he was in his    .

       A．twenties              B．thirties                 C．forties                 D．fifties

 (衡陽市八中2008屆高三模擬試題A篇)

Sacagawea, the only woman on the Lewis and Clark expedition into the American West, was the daughter of a Shoshone chief. Around the age of 12, Sacagawea was captured by Hidatsa Indians, an enemy of the Shoshones. She was then sold to a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau and became one of his wives.

In November 1804, an expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived there. Often called the Corps of Discovery, the expedition planned to explore newly acquired western lands and find a route to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark hired Charbonneau to serve as interpreter on their expedition. Even though she was pregnant with her first child, Sacagawea was chosen to accompany them.

She was killed at finding eatable plants. When a boat she was riding on turned over, she was able to save some of its goods, including important documents and supplies. She also served as a symbol of peace---a group traveling with a woman and a child were treated with less suspicion than a group of men alone.

Sacagawea also made a miraculous discovery of her own during the trip west. When they met a group of Shoshone Indians, she soon realized that its leader was actually her brother Cameahwait. It was through her that the expedition was able to buy horses from the Shoshone to cross the Rocky Mountains.

After reaching the Pacific coast in November 1805, they remained there until March of the following year. Sacagawea, her husband, and her son remained with the expedition on the return trip east until they reached the Mandan villages. And for her contribution to the Crops of Discovery, she was even featured on a dollar coin issued in 2000 by the US Mint.

56.The text is mainly about_______.

  A. the whole life of Sacagawea          B. the difficulties the Corps of Discovery met

  C. American history in exploration       D. Sacagawea’s contribution to the Corps of Discovery

57.What’s one of the purposes of the Corps of Discovery?

  A. To drive the Indians away                 B. To explore the Rocky Mountains

  C. To find how to reach the Pacific            D. To look for Sacagawea for help

58.During the expedition, what excited Sacagawea most was that she______.

  A.bought horses for Lewis and Clark           B. saved important documents and supplies

  C.was considered as a symbol of peace         D. reunited with her brother Cameahwait

59.What can be inferred from the text?

  A.Sacagawea is still highly honored by Americans

  B.Sacagawea’s husband was unfamiliar with the West

  C.Sacagawea stayed on the Pacific coast for half a year

  D.Sacagawea’s husband did little for the expedition

 (安徽省蕪湖一中2008年高三5月最后一模D篇)

A 13-year-old Chinese girl, Fan Yi (Nancy), who had her primary education in the US, recently published her first fairy tale, Swordbird. The fairy tale written in English has appeared on the children’s fiction bestseller list in the US, the Shanghai Evening Post reported.

Fan Yi was greatly interested in observing birds ever since she was a little girl. In Hamilton, New York, where she lives, she often watches kingfishers and woodpeckers flying over her house from the small woods nearby. The inspiration for writing the book Swordbird actually came from one of her dreams. At that time, she was studying American history in school and happened to read many articles in magazines about the 9.11 terrorist(恐怖分子) attacks. One day, she had a dream in which some rosefinches and bluejays were controlled by some black birds and began to fight with each other. When she woke up, she decided to turn her dream into a story and to convey her message of peace to the public.

In order to get her book published in China, Fan translated the entire English version into Chinese.

“It is a learning process. Since I didn’t know many Chinese idioms, I had to get help from my mom and dad from time to time. For another thing, a lot of poems in the original story are written in rhyme, so when I translated them into Chinese, I wanted to make sure that they were in rhyme, too.” she said.

Fan Yi was born in Beijing in 1993. She stayed in Beijing until she finished her first grade of primary school. Then she moved with her parents to the United States when she was seven. Two years later, she started to write her English story.

In March this year, the book was published by HarperCollins Publishers. It was selected as the week’s bestseller of children’s fiction by the New York Times soon after it was published.

Fan Yi has said she will write more books in the future. It is expected that the sequel(續(xù)篇) to Swordbird will come out next year.

68．The underlined words “rosefinches” and “bluejays” in Paragraph 2 probably refer to       .

A．creatures from outer space                         

B．different kinds of birds

C．different kinds of planes                             

D．people from different races

69．Fan Yi’s book was related to the 9.11 terrorist attacks because        .

A．it was being written when the attacks happened

B．it expressed her desire for peace and an end to terrorism

C．they both involved fighting in the air

D．the attacks were mentioned in her book

70．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Swordbird is an English adventure story.

B．One of her dreams made her begin to write Swordbird.

C．Swordbird only has an English version.

D．Swordbird is an excellent adult fiction.

71．What can we learn about Fan Yi from the passage?

A．She’s beliveed to be writing more bird stories.

B．Her Chinese version of Swordbird has been published in China.

C．She is learning how to write English poems from her parents.

D．She’s likely to become a full-time writer.

 (安徽省蕪湖一中2008年高三5月最后一模A篇)

Many people could not forget the buautiful dance during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. The dance was performed by 20 disabled girls. They can’t hear or speak. But their performance is remembered by many people. The leading dancer of the dance is Tai Lihua. She is 28 years old. She is very beautiful.

Tai Lihua was born healthy. When she was two years old, she lost her hearing because of a fever. Not long after that, she became mute, too. From then on, her world was silent. But she didn’t know this at first. At five years old, when she played a game about sounds with her schoolmates she discovered that she was different from the others. She was very sad about it. Her father went to many places to look for best treatments for her illness. But nothing worked. When she was seven years old, she went to a school for deaf and mute children. In that school, she did well in her studies. Her teacher said she used her mind more than the others and was good at expressing her feeling through dance. She also began to love dance. She thought she could use dance to express what she  thought about life.

When she was 15 years old, she began to learn to dance. At first, she couldn’t dance well. But she didn’t stop. She worked harder than the others. She also spent more time learning. Her efforts made her a very good dancer. She has been to many countries to perform and many foreigners like her style. She now lives a happy life with her family.

56．From the passage we know       .

A．Tai Lihua was found deaf and mute by her father when she played a game with her classmates

B．Tai Lihua danced very well at the beginning of learning to dance

C．Tai Lihua never gave up when she was in trouble

D．Tai Lihua’s parents didn’t take good care of her

57．Which is the right order of the events to Tai Lihua?

a．She danced during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

b．She was a healthy girl.

c．She began to learn to dance.

d．She lost her hearing.

e．She went to a school for deaf and mute children.

f．She couldn’t speak.

g．She found she was different from the others.

A．a(chǎn)bdfgce                  B．badfegc                  C．bdfegca                  D．bdfgeca

58．People could not forget Tai Lihua because        .

A．she was born mute and deaf and good at dancing

B．she used her mind more than the others and could use dance to express what she thought about life

C．she has been to many countries and now lives a happy life

D．though mute and deaf, she is beautiful and hard working and good at dancing

59．The best title of the story is        .

A．A poor girl                                                

B．A dancer in the silent world    

C．A beautiful dancer                                      

D．The dance duringt the CCTV Spring Festival Gala

 (南昌市南昌二中高三沖刺模擬考試D篇)

Fred Marzocchi grew up with dreams of drawing for a living．“There aren’t many ways to make a living with your sketchbook（寫生冊）, but advertising was one of them．”

       After a few hopeless attempts to find a job, Fred became desperate for experience．He found a large drugstore chain with an in-house advertising unit and offered to work for literally nothing．They took him up on the offer, and within weeks not only had he gained professional experience, but the drugstore decided to pay him for his efforts．

       After working for a number or advertising agencies, Fred went on to open his own graphics design and photography business．He often looks back on the offer to work without pay．“I just needed a chance, a start in this business, and I haven’t had to work for free since,” he says with a smile．

       College students who served in internships（實習(xí)） were 15 percent more likely to find employment after graduation, and 70 percent believed they were better prepared for the workplace because of their internship experience．

68．From the passage, we can infer_________.

       A．Fred is very good at doing business．

       B．After working for a number of advertising agencies, Fred opened his own photography

       business．

       C．Fred can only make a living by drawing

       D．People with some working experience can have more chance to find a job．

69．Fred offer to work for the drugstore without pay, because_________.

       A．he wanted to show his ability

       B．he thought he would be employed by the drugstore later．

       C．he intended to gain some experience．

       D．he couldn’t find a job in other companies

70．What would be the best title for the passage?

       A．Work for free

       B．Get experience, anyway you can

       C．Experience ---the most important thing

D．How Fred became successful

 (南昌市南昌二中高三沖刺模擬考試C篇)

Misery and setbacks are not always as terrible as one imagines．Hard times can offer new ways of looking at life that would otherwise never be known．And, if you are a writer, this can be the source of much of your success．

     Popular British author, Charles Dickens' （1812-1870） family could hardly make ends meet （入不敷出）．They could only afford to send one of their six children to school．

     Dickens was not that child．

     His parents chose to send a daughter, who had a talent for music, to an academy．Then at the age of 12, Dickens' life took another turn for the worse．

His father, a clerk, was placed in prison for unpaid debts．And, being the oldest male left at home, Dickens took up work at a factory．His horrible experience there became the fuel for his future writing．

His father was freed three months later and inherited （繼承） a small amount of money．Dickens was then sent to school．

From 1836 to 1837, he wrote a monthly series of stories．Thus the "Pickwick Papers" （《匹克威克外傳》）, came into being, which brought fame to the 23-year-old man．

Throughout his career, Dickens covers various situations in his novels．He wrote about the miserable lives of the poor in "Oliver Twist" （《霧都孤兒》）, the French Revolution in "Tale of Two Cities", and social reform in "Hard Times" （《艱難時世》）．He also wrote "David Copperfield" （《大衛(wèi)·科波菲爾》）, a book thought to be based on his own life．

"I do not write bitterly or angrily: for I know all these things have worked together to make me what I am," he once said．

His difficult childhood did indeed shape the person he became, as well as his writing career．There are shades of young Dickens in many of his most beloved characters, including David Copperfield and Oliver Twist．

Like the author, all these characters come from poor beginnings and are able to rise above their setbacks and achieve success．

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into an ill-conditioned state from too much comfort," he once wrote．

     On June 9th, 1870, aged 58, Dickens died, leaving one unfinished work．The words on his tombstone read: "He was a sympathizer （同情者） to the poor, the suffering and the oppressed （受壓迫者）, and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world．"

64．The book that called public attention to Dickens was ______．

       A．the Pickwick Papers                         B．Oliver Twist

       C．Tale of Two Cities                      D．David Copperfield

65．The phrase “shades of” in bold means “_____”．

       A．various shapes of                          B．situations of

       C．different experiences                       D．reminders of

66．How did Dickens see his childhood?

       A．He felt grateful for it．

       B．He felt it a pity that things weren’t in his favor．

       C．He loved writing about it．

       D．He chose to forget the bitterness about it．

67．From the story, we can see Dickens’ attitude towards an easy life is ______．

       A．to enjoy it                            B．to hate it

       C．not to indulge in （沉湎于） it        D．to work hard for it

 (浙江省寧�？h知恩中學(xué)2009屆高三最后適應(yīng)性考試A篇)

Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural，” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”

Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”

Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as tourist attraction.”

41. What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?

A. To provide different forms of amusement.  B. To keep the cultural variety of the city.

C. To inspire its immigrant community.       D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants.

42.   Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the

government ______.

A. to make an experiment                                  B. to perform a research

C. to start a marketplace                                       D. to operate a business

43. According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ______.

A. market management                                     B. travel industry

C. community service                                       D. city planning

44. It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports ______.

A. the protection of different cultures                 B. the plan of an open-air market

C. the request of merchants                               D. the attitude of shoppers

 (上海市崇明中學(xué)2009屆高三5月高考模擬考試B篇)

Susan Sontag (1933 — 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything — to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.

By conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感覺論者), but by nature she was a moralist (倫理學(xué)者), and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities(被壓抑的性格), a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000．But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.

“Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

68．The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag ______.

A．was a symbol of American cultural life                                    

B．developed world literature, film and art 

C．published many essays about world culture                          

D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture

69．She first won her name through _______.

A．her story of a Polish actress                                                          

B．her book illness as Metaphor 

C．publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review 

D．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

70．Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon _______.

A．a(chǎn) tireless, all-purpose cultural view                                          

B．her lifelong watchword: seriousness 

C．publishing books on morals 

D．enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing  

71．From the works Susan published in the 1970s and 1980s, we can learn that _______.

A．She was more a moralist than a sensualist

B．She was more a sensualist than a moralist

C．She believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness

D．She would like to re-examine old positions

 (安徽省馬鞍山二中2009屆高三第四次模擬考試E篇)

John Dalton was born in England in 1766，ten years before the U．S．Declaration of Independence was signed．His family lived in a small cottage．As a small child，John worked in the fields with his brother，and helped his father in a shop where they wove cloth. Most poor boys at that time received no education，but John was lucky to attend a nearby school In 1766，when only about one out of every 200 people could read．

    John was a good student and loved learning．His teachers encouraged him to study many things when he was twelve. He opened his first school in a nearby town，but there was little money．He had to close his schoo1．

    Three years later，he joined his older brother and a friend in running a school. John studied the weather and nature around him. He collected butterflies，snails and mites. He discovered he was colorblind and studied that,too．

    In 1793，John began to think about different elements and their composition. He had a theory that each element is made up of identical(完全相同的) atoms and that elements are different because each is made of different atoms．

    In 1808，Dalton published a book，which listed the atomic weights of many known elements．These formed the basis for the modern periodic table(元素周期表)．Not everyone accepted Dalton’ theory of atomic structure at the time．However，he had to defend it with more research．

    When John Dalton died in 1844，he was buried with honors in England．More 400,000 people viewed his body as it lay in state．As his final experiment，he asked that an autopsy(驗尸)be performed to learn the cause of his color-blindness：This was done，and proved the color-blindness was caused not by a problem with his eyes，but with the way his brain worked．Even in death, he helped expand scientific knowledge．

    Today．scientists everywhere accept Dalton’s theory of atomic structure．A simple country boy showed the world a new way of thinking about the universe and how it is made．

73．John Dalton’s first school had to be closed mainly because___________．

A．he was color-blind                  

B．his family lived in a small cottage

C．he had hardly enough money to run I  

D．he lacked experience

74．Which of the following descriptions about John Dalton is wrong?

    A．John found a cure for color-blindness

    B．As a student，John was outstanding

    C．John used to help with farm work

    D．In his book，presentation of the atomic weight of many known elements was of great importance.

75．From the passage we may conclude that______．

    A．John Dalton’s only contribution to science was his achievement in chemistry

    B．a(chǎn)s a great educator，John Dalton established the basis for education in England

    C．John Dalton’s book about the elements enjoyed great popularity then

    D．John Dalton devoted his entire life to science

 (湖北省宜昌市一中2009屆高三5月仿真模擬考試A篇)

Here’s an unusual story：a diamond ring was recently found in an egg．The magician，Liu Qian，discovered it，in front of an audience of millions at CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala．Liu’s magic tricks have made the centuries-old art of magic fashionable once again，and made him the hottest magician in China．

As a seasoned young magician from Taiwan，Liu is popular worldwide for his magic shows．Countries he has performed in include the United States，Japan，South Korea and the UK．

Witnessing something impossible happen right before your eyes is the root of people’s love for magic．

Liu is known for his interaction with his audiences．He has a unique understanding of showmanship (演出技巧) ．

“It’s actually thinking rather than one’s controlling skills”，that is more important to achieving a successful magic show．We think carefully about how to design the shows creatively，to make them appear more interesting, Liu said.

Liu Qian’s success dated back to his childhood．Born in 1976 in Taiwan，he found himself attracted to a magic toy in a shop when he was seven years old．At the age of 12，he won Taiwan’s Youth Magic Contest，which was judged by the great American magician，David Copperfield．

Yet，Liu never planned on becoming a professional magician．He studied Japanese literature at university and only hoped to be an amateur magician in his spare time．However，his failure to find a proper job after graduation pushed him towards magic as a career．

To refine his performing skills，he has performed on streets，roads and fields，for passers-by，policemen and farmers．

“Street shows are the biggest challenge for us magicians．We have to deal with unexpected situations and tough crowds,” Liu said．

51．The story is about______.

A．how Liu Qian became China’s hottest magician

B．why people love magic

C．what magic tricks are

D．how fashionable magic is

52．People love to watch magic because___________________．

A．they can’t figure out the secret of magic

B．it arouses their curiosity

C．they love watching magicians make the impossible happen

D．it is a centuries-old art

53．Which of the following is the key reason why Liu Qian decided to make magic his career?

A．He was interested in magic when he was young.

B．He had won Taiwan’s Youth Magic Contest．

C．He became all amateur magician in his spare time．

D．He couldn’t find an acceptable job after graduation．

54．From the story we know that_______________．

A．Liu Qian competed in many magic competitions

B．Liu Qian often invites audiences to be in his magic show

C．Liu Qian performs on streets in order to increase his fame

D．Liu Qian does street show to make money