1、- 1 -山东省泰安市 2018 届高三英语第二次模拟考试试题本试卷由四个部分组成。其中，第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节为选择题。第三部分的第二节和第四部分为非选择题，共 12 页。试卷满分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。注意事项：1答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目涂写在答题卡上。2答选择题时，每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试卷上。3答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。第一部分 听力(共两节，满分 30 分)做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录
2、音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节(共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分)听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1How much were the cards all together?A10 cents B14 cents C40 cents2Why did the customer return the dress?ABecause she didnt like its colo
3、rBBecause it was too smallCBecause it was too expensive3What kind of bike does Tom want to buy?AA heavier one BAn expensive one CA racing one4What does the woman mean? AThey cant be gotten nowBIts the right season to grow itCThey have been sold out 5When would the man like to see the Great Wall?- 2
4、-AIn spring BIn winter CIn autumn第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分)听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。6How long will Uncles family stay at Toms?AFor about a weekBFor at least four daysCFo
5、r three days7What can we infer about their ages?ATom is older than Fay but younger than RosemaryBFay is two years younger than RosemaryCRosemary is younger than Fay but older than Tom听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 10 三个小题。8Where is the woman going?ATo the library BTo the cinema CTo the classroom9What does the man
6、 invite the woman to do?AWrite papers BSee a film CDo some reading10Why does the woman refuse the mans invitation?AShe has three classesBShe has to take examsCShe has to do her schoolwork听下面一段对话，回答第 11 至第 13 三个小题。 11Where are the two speakers?AIn a dining room BIn a classroom CIn a poo112When does t
7、he conversation take place? AIn the morning BIn the afternoon CIn the evening.13What will the speakers do at the end of the talk?AGo to class BEat breakfast CGo swimming- 3 -听下面一段对话，回答第 14 至第 16 三个小题。14Why will the woman put on a show?ATo make money BTo have fun CTo select singers15What can we learn
8、 from the conversation?AMany people will watch the show BThree songs will be sung in the showCThree people will appear on the stage16What do we know about the man?AHe has never sung beforeBHe often appears on a stageCHe11 sing and dance in the show听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。17Whats discussed in the p
9、assage?APrisons in Britain BCooking or cleaning CWork or study18What will become of the lawbreaker?AHe will be asked to do some homeworkBHe will be ordered to do some cleaningCHe will be paid for what he does19How many hours can a prisoner in the closed prison spend outside?A2 hours B12 hours C8 hou
10、rs20How will prisoners in open prisons spend the night?AThey are free within the prison groundsBThey can study out of the prison groundsCThey are locked up during the night第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 40 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 ASeveral Jobs That Will Be
11、Automated By Artificial Intelligence(AI) And - 4 -RobotsTranslatorImage recognition software and voice recognition software are bringing some major advances to language translationApplications like Googles Word Lens can translate words from signs and documents in real time and there ale a lot of tra
12、nslation apps that allow you to type in a word or phrase and will translate it for youSome will even speak the phrase for you and raw word-to-word translation will be fully automated soonFast food workersAutomated ordering booths have already made their way into a few McDonalds restaurants around th
13、e world，and cooking positions could be removed nextThe booths probably cant handle customer service problems well，so televideo systems could bring in an office employee to deal with complaintsField technicianNew advances in the Internet of Things could make this work obsoleteLow-cost sensors combine
14、d with high availability cellularsatellite communications and cloud technology are being started to automate and alarm these sites，and can be checked and maintained from a desktop or mobile deviceSales representativeBut，e-commerce is changing how we make purchasing decisions，especially those where t
15、here isnt much differentiation among the major competitorsIf youre selling a high-differentiation product andor a high-price，low-volume product you have some job security，but if youre selling a high-volume，low-differentiation product，you better start polishing your resume，said Doug Camplejohn，CEO of
16、 Fliptop “These kind of product sales are all moving online ”21What can Googles Word Lens do?ATranslate by image and voice recognition softwareBSpeak the phrase or word for you- 5 -CMake real-time translationDAllow you to type in a word or phrase22What can we infer from the second part?AAll the rest
17、aurants own automated ordering boothsBService problems cant be handled automaticallyCCooks will not be automated by AI and robotsDCustomers will have no complaints because of AI23What does the underlined word“obsolete”mean in Part 3?AAbandoned BWelcome CForbidden DEfficient24What does the author mea
18、n by“you better start polishing your resume”in the last paragraph?A You must value your present workBYou have some job securityCYour resume needs correcting furtherDYou should consider changing the jobBIt was Groundhog DayA winter storm had hit overnight tooI tried to open my backdoor only to find s
19、ix inches of wet，heavy snow piled up against itI knew I had quite a job of shoveling out ahead of me，so I reached over to grab my snow shovelIt looked a lot more ready to work than I didI sighed and pulled on my boots，gloves，and heavy coatThe wind chill was below zero and cut into my face as I slowl
20、y shoveled off my deckAfter that I stayed my way over to my daughters house shoveling the path as I walkedIt took a while to get her driveway clear and I knew I still had a lot to doNext came the paths down the hill to my own cars covered in snowI had grabbed the broom to sweep them off as wellI win
21、ced when the breeze blew the swept snow back into my faceThen I started to shovel out my drivewaysMy back was aching as I workedI wished I could be building a snowman instead of shovelingWinter sure had seemed a lot more fun when I was a boy- 6 -When I was done I examined my workIt didnt look half b
22、adI smiled and looked at the woods covered in whiteThey were such a special sightI leaned on my shovel and took it all inThen I started up the hill with the snow shovel in one hand and the broom in the otherSuddenly ，an urge came over me and I dropped them bothI spread my arms，fed back into the blan
23、ket of white and happily moved my arms and legs to make an angel in the snowAs you go through the seasons of this life take joy in your workTake joy in your lifeRemember that the course of your days rests in your own hands25Whats the theme of the text?AEnjoy winter work BTake things seriouslyCTake j
24、oy in your life DFight against cold- 7 -26Which is the correct order of what the author shoveled?Ahis deck-his daughters driveway-his cars-his drivewayBhis cars-his deck-his daughters driveway-his drivewayChis daughters driveway-his deck-his driveway-his carsDhis driveway-his daughters driveway-his
25、cars-his deck27What can we conclude about the author from Paragraph 3?AHe was not satisfied with his workBHe was absorbed in the snow sightCHe was fond of making snowmenDHe was in low spirits after workCIf youre a book lover，you have a pile of books on your bedside，or a bookshelf in your library wit
26、h a“to read”sign on itYet you cant stop yourself from adding to the pileThis can lead to feelings of guilt over your new purchasesBut Im here to tell you to stop worryingWhat you have is an antilibrary，and its a very good thingThe term comes from writer Umberto EcoHe is the owner of a large personal
27、 libraryHe separates visitors into two groups：those who react with“Wow! What a library you have! How many of these books have you read?”and the others who get the point that a private library is not something to show off but a research too1Read books are far less valuable than unread onesIndeed，the
28、more you know，the larger the rows of unread booksLet us call this collection an antilibraryIf you think you already know everything about a subject，youre cutting yourself off from a stream of information at an artificial pointSo a growing library of books you havent read means youre consistently cur
29、ious about the unknownAnd that attitude is a great foundation for a lifelong love of 1earning So dont feel guilt over your unread booksThose books will be there for you when you do want them，and as you build your library of read and unread - 8 -books，you can start using it as you would use a bigger
30、libraryCertain books may become references more than read-throughsOr you may find that a book you bought five years ago has special relevance todayLetting the role of books evolve in your life is a healthy sign of curiosityThats good for you and good for the world around you- 9 -28What does the unde
31、rlined word“antilibrary”in Paragraph 2 refer to?AFeelings of guilt over new booksBA pile of books on the bookshelfCThe collection of unread booksDA large personal library 29According to the author，more unread books mean_Ayour wrong lifelong learning attitudeByou limit yourself from the unknownCyour
32、have no interest in the new worldDyour strong desire about new information30Whats the authors attitude towards having an antilibrary?AFavorable BDoubtful CAmbiguous DContradictory31What can we know from the last paragraph?ACuriosity is a sign of high IQBBooks are the ladder in our lifeCUnread books
33、are surely relevant to the presentDWe should read through every bookDNoise-cancelling audio instruments have been around for a while now，but one Berlin-based designer believes that blocking“visual noise”is as important，if not more so， as cancelling out unwanted sounds To this end he has created a si
34、mple accessory called the Focus CapOpen work spaces definitely have their benefits，but they come with the drawback of offering employees little to no control over visual distractions(干扰)With so many people around and so much going on，some of us can easily get disturbed by this information overload a
35、nd lose focus in whats really importantThats where the Focus Cap comes into play“As we are still cavemen or mammals kept in an unnatural environment，I believe that only by reclaiming(收回)the normal，stress-free human state through simple tools and techniques can we finally release our actual creative
36、potential - 10 -and create our meaningful work for a brighter future， ”says German designer Hannes Greblin，inventor of the Focus CapAfter looking at other products designed at minimizing visual distractions，Greblin decided that most of them were either too expensive or too uncomfortable to become ma
37、instream，so he decided to go with something much simpler a simple cap with a retractable visor(可伸缩的帽沿)Greblins Focus Cap is really straightforwardYou just wear it like a regular capwith the sides of the visor retracted，and just collapse the sides whenever you need to focus on whats ahead of youWheth
38、er youre trying to focus on a task in an open work officeTrying to study at university，or practicing yoga in a park and trying to ignore stares from strangers，the Focus Cap can helpTo be honest，this whole project sounds like a joke，but the Focus Cap does have its own website where people interested
39、in this unusual accessory can actually sign up for updates on when it will go on saleGreblin claims it will cost 30 euros($37)plus shipping32Which of the following can be the best title for the text?AWhen to use the Focus CapBHow to operate the Focus Cap CThe Focus Capan ordinary accessoryDThe Focus
40、 Capa nose-cancelling accessory33Why did Greblin create the Focus Cap?ATo help people focus BTo develop intelligenceCTo make people comfortable DTo release creative potential34What do we know about the Focus Cap?AIts expensive BIts simple CIts delicate DIts complex35From the text we can infer that_A
41、The Focus Cap simply blocks unwanted soundsBThe Focus Cap can only be used in the office- 11 -CGreblin is confident about the future of his productDThe Focus Cap has been on sale in quantity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。 RecentlyIve been following a simple rule
42、 that is helping me crush procrastination(拖延症)and making it easier for me to stick to good habits at the same time 36 There are two parts to the 2-Minute RulePart 1If it takes less than two minutes，then do it now37 For example，washing your dishes immediately after your meal，tossing the laundry in th
43、e washing machine，taking out the garbage，sending that email，and so onIf a task takes less than two minutes to complete，then follow the rule and do it right nowPart 2When you start a new habit，it should take less than two minutes to doCan all of your goals be accomplished in less than two minutes? Ob
44、viously notBut，every goal can be started in 2 minutes or less 38 It might sound like this strategy is too basic for grand life goals，but I beg to differThe 2-Minute Rule works for big goals as well as small goals because of the inertia(惯性 )of life 39 I love the 2-Minute Rule because it embraces the
45、idea that all sorts of good things happen once you get started The most important part of any new habit is getting startednot just the first time，but each timeIts not about performance，its about consistently taking actionI cant guarantee whether or not the 2-Minute Rule will work for you 40 Anyone c
46、an spare the next 120 secondsUse this time to get one thing doneGoAI call this little strategy the“2-Minute Rule” BAnd thats the purpose behind this little ruleCHeres what you need to know to stop procrastinating- 12 -DOnce you start doing something，its easier to continue doing itEBut，I can guarante
47、e that it will never work if you never try itFThe goal is to make it easier for you to get started on the things you should be doingGIts surprising how many things we put off that we could get done in two minutes or less第三部分 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 15 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
48、、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。 These days， upcycling(升级改造)is popular with peopleThey 41 something unique from existing materials rather than buy moreMy granny，Bobo has spent 92 years doing just that out of necessityWasting time and resources was 42 an option in the world she grew up inWith seven children to 43 ，she lived a hard and economical lifeBobo has been upcycling 44 the day Great-G
