2016届广州市高考模拟考试(广州零模)试题

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Far out in the lakewas a large wooden platform on which stood an improbably highdiving board — a kind of wooden Eiffel Tower. It was, I’m sure, thecounty’s tallest wooden structure and no one had ever been known tojump from it.

So it was quite ashock when our teacher, Mr. Milton, announced that he would diveoff the high board that very afternoon.

Word of hisquestionable plan was already spreading through town as Mr. Miltonswam out to the platform. He was just a tiny, stick figurewhen he got there but even from such a distance the high boardseemed almost to touch the clouds. Once at the top, he paced theenormously long board, then took some deep breaths and finallystood at edge. He was going to do it.

Several hundredpeople had gathered at the shore to watch. Mr. Milton stood forquite a long time, then he raised his arms, took one massive bounceand launched himself into a perfect dive. It was beautiful. He fellwith perfect style for what seemed minutes. The crowd fell silent.The only sound to be heard was the faint whistle of his bodytearing through the air toward the water far, far below.

But about threequarters of the way down he seemed to have second thoughts andbegan suddenly to panic, waving his arms and legs like someonehaving a bad dream. When he was perhaps thirty feet above thewater, he gave up on waving and spread his arms and legs wide,apparently hoping that it would somehow slow his fall.

It didn’t.

He hit the water atover six hundred miles an hour. The impact was so loud that it madebirds fly out of their trees three miles away. I don’t think heentered the water at all. He just bounced off it, about fifteenfeet back into the air. After that, he lay still on the surface,spinning like an autumn leaf.

He was brought toshore by two passing fishermen in a rowboat and placed on an oldblanket where he spent the rest of the afternoon. Occasionally heaccepted small sips of water, but otherwise was too shocked tospeak. From head to toe, he was covered with deep redbruises.

... It was the bestday of my life.

12. What did thewriter think of Mr. Milton’s plan to jump from the divingboard?

A.Crazy.  B.Disappointing. C.Heroic.  D.Confused.

13. In Paragraph 3,Mr Milton is described as “a tiny, stick figure” because he was__________.

A. tired afterswimming B. very small and thin

C. very faraway D. sure to be broken

14. Why did Mr.Milton suddenly start swinging his arms and legs during thedive?

A. He thought it wasthe best way to slow his fall.

B. He lost hisconfidence and started to panic.

C. He was signallingthe crowd for help.

D. He wanted to showhis courage.

15. Which of thefollowing sentences from the passage is an example of afact?

A. He hit the waterat over six hundred miles an hour.

B. The impact was soloud that it made birds fly out of trees up to three milesaway.

C. He just bouncedoff it, about fifteen feet back into the air.

D. He was brought toshore by two passing fishermen in a rowboat ….

第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10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选项。

Since the day of itsbirth, the United Nations has been the subject of much debate.16

Others think that itis too weak. We can better understand this debate if we learn moreabout the U.N. and its history.

The U.N. was startedfor two reasons. First, when the idea was born, people all over theworld were tired of war. They felt that there must be peacefulanswers to the world’s problems.

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The second reason wasthat modern science had developed new bombs and airplanes.18

National borders werebeginning to lose their meaning. Science would develop even moredangerous weapons in the future. Only an international organizationwould be able to control modern science.

Franklin D.Roosevelt, U.S. President at the time, believed that the Allies（联盟）should plan for peace before the war ended. On December 1, 1943,Roosevelt, Britain’s Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin fromSoviet Union agreed to start an organization for world peace.19

During the next yearand a half, the idea of such an organisation was debated around theworld. Then came the big day. On April 11, 1945, the firstinternational meeting of the United Nations took place in SanFrancisco. The goal of the meeting was to write the U.N. Charter（宪章）.All of the fifty-one nations at the meeting had their own ideas tooffer for the Charter.20

Every nation presentvoted for the Charter. No one voted against it.

A. After a longdebate, a final Charter was agreed upon.

B. The U.N. Charteris a beautiful piece of writing.

C. They asked allcountries, large and small, to join the organization.

D. Even the smallestcountry on earth can have its voice heard.

E. They also feltthat only an international organization could keep worldpeace.

F. These weapons madeit almost impossible for a country to defend itself.

G. Some people attackthe organization because they think it is too powerful.

第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30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 liftedmy wet woollen gloves to my face and wiped the snowflakes from myeyes. I could not feel my nose and my21 formed a thick fog in the air. The biting windwas making me

22  . I was fedup! I didn’t want to be here. I wanted to go home.But Mum and Dad had23 me to go for a Sunday afternoon walk in the park. Icould see my24 in the snowy path, like a trail of breadcrumbs（一串面包屑） in the forest showing me the way25 .

I stopped and listened to my26  . Icould27 the wind crying like a homeless dog hungry for adelicious28  .The once-green tree29  ,which used to wave gently in the breeze, had become bare,and the grass was covered with a30 blanket of fresh snow. Then I saw a brokenspider’s web shining golden beneath a pale sun. Mybreath was like silky soft31 floating up into the freezing cold air.

Suddenly there was Mum,32 handing me a big cup of hot chocolate. Her bigsmile immediately33 my heart.

“Here you are, Jo. This will keep you34  ,”she said as she placed a comforting arm around my shoulders and35 her cheek against mine.

I slowly took a mouthful of the hot36 and felt it slowly dripping down my throat likelava （熔岩）37 down a mountainside. My wetwoollen gloves were now warm, not38 .  My breath warmed, and Iwas  39 fed up or cold. I was happy and40 .

21. A. sweat B.breath C. tears D. words

22. A. hungry B. thirsty C. cold D. tired

23. A. forced B. forbidden C. allowed D. needed

24. A. shadow B. image C. shoes D. footprints

25. A. up B. inside C. home D.there

26. A.surroundings B. whispers C. heartbeat  D. mind

27. A.see B. hear C. feel D. smell

28. A. chocolate B. drink C.bone  D.snowball

29. A. roots B.branches C. trunks D. leaves

30. A.colourful B. shabby C. plain D. white

31. A.ice B. rain C.smoke D. light

32. A. finally B.cheerfully C. gradually D. unwillingly

33. A.melted B. impressed C.broke D. stopped

34. A. calm B. alive C.warm  D. awake

35. A. raised B.felt C.dropped D. pressed

36. A. soup B. liquid C. meal D. cup

37. A.flowing B.walking C.jumping  D. squeezing

38. A.damaged B.abandoned C. frozen D. worn

39. A. either B.sometimes  C. no less D. no longer

40. A. surprised B.contented C. determined D.warm-hearted