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2018届高三第四次模拟考试英语试题
第I卷 选择题（共100分）
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。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上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。 1. Where will the woman go first?
A. To the beach. B. To the bank. C. To the bathroom. 2. What does the woman mean? A. The man forgot to do his hair. B. The man forgot to put on a tie.
C. The man is wearing clothes that don’t match. 3. How does the woman probably feel?
A. Annoyed. B. Hungry. C. Excited. 4. Why didn’t the man answer the phone?
A. He lost it. B. He didn’t hear it. C. His phone ran out of power. 5. Who did the woman want to call?
A. James. B. Drake. C. Daniel. 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。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. What does the man order? A. Hot dogs and fries. B. Burgers and fries. C. Sandwiches and sodas. 7. How much does the man give the woman as a tip? A. Three dollars. B. Two dollars. C. One dollar. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. Where are the speakers? A. In a car. B. On a boat. C. On a motorcycle. 9. What is the woman doing? A. Looking at a paper map. B. Trying to find a website. C. Using a phone to give directions. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What does the man like about YouTube? A. Watching funny home videos.
B. Learning about the special TV channels. C. Putting his own videos on the website.
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11. What kind of meals do the guys make in Epic Meal Time (《超级开饭时间》)? A. Low fat meals. B. Unhealthy meals. C. Vegetarian meals.
12. What happens to the meals in the end? A. They are tasted by the audience. B. They are given to the homeless.
C. They are eaten by the cooks and their friends. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their vets. B. Money spent on pets. C. Ways to buy dogs’ medicines. 14. What is the man’s dog’s name?
A. Brett. B. Fargo. C. Ferguson. 15. What doesn’t the woman like about her vet? A. The limited services.
B. The prices her vet charged.
C. The difficulty of getting an appointment. 16. What isn’t one of the man’s suggestions?
A. Going to his vet. B. Looking online. C. Going to a special pet store. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When will the fire arrive close to Lakewood? A. By six o’clock in the evening. B. By five o’clock in the evening. C. By six o’clock in the morning.
18. Where shouldn’t residents go to escape the fire?
A. Springfield. B. Western Hill. C. Point Cabina Station. 19. How long will it take residents to reach the safe zone? A. Less than ten minutes. B. Less than twenty minutes. C. Less than thirty minutes.
20. What are residents advised to do before they leave? A. Leave all pets behind.
B. Stay calm and do not panic.
C. Tell the state police where they are going.
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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Flower festivals are celebrated all over the world. Some countries place great importance on this event. The following are the four most wonderful flower festivals in the world. Chiang Mai Flower Festival
The Chiang Mai Flower Festival takes place on the first weekend of February. This festival is celebrated in Thailand and often known as the Rose of the North. The flower beds in public spaces all around the town are especially beautiful at this time of year. Everywhere there are displays of
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yellow and white chrysanthemums (菊花), and the Damask Rose, a variety found only in Chiang Mai.
Bloemencorso
Bloemencorso is the world’s largest flower parade (游行) made entirely by volunteers in the Netherlands. Millions of flowers are used to decorate floats (花车). Although Bloemencorso takes place on the first Sunday in September, tents are set up around town in May and June, and from then on, members of the competing villages start working on their work. They discuss design ideas and building techniques, but it’s the three days before the big event that are the most stressful.
Portland Rose Festival
For more than 100 years, this festival has been going on during May and June every year in downtown Portland. Oregon, America. Known for its roses, Portland shows off its greatest harvests with fascinating and creative floats. In 2011, the Portland Rose Festival was named “Best Festival in the World” by the International Festival and Events Association. Spalding Flower Parade
The Spalding Flower Festival, held in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, began life in 1935. In 1959, the first oficial Spalding Tulip (郁金香) Parade took place and showed many beautiful floats decorated with tulip heads. In years when the tulips were late, daffodils or hyacinths were sometimes used in their place. If the tulips were early, crepe paper was substituted. Within a few years the event had attracted worldwide attention.
21. If you want to see special yellow and white chysanthemums, you can go to _________. A. The Netherlands B. England C. America D. Thailand 22. What’s special about Spalding Flower Parade? A. It has the longest history. B. It can change its flowers for the display. C. It has attracted worldwide attention. D. It has many facinating floats with tulips. 23. What is the passage mainly about? A. The history of four flower festivals. B. Introduction to four flower festivals. C. Celebrations of four flower festivals. D. Rules and regulations of four flower festivals.
B
A city in Denmark is about to become the first in the world to provide most of its citizens with fresh water using only the energy created from household wastewater.
The Marselisborg Wastewater Treatment Plant in Aarhus has undergone improvements that mean it can now produce more than 150 percent of the electricity needed to run the plant, which means the surplus can be used to pump drinking water around the city. As well as regularly powering the entire water system of 200,000 people living in the inner city area, any unwanted electricity could be sold into the local grid (电网).
The plant produces energy from the biogas (生物气) it creates out of household wastewater. Carbon is removed from the wastewater and pumped into digesters (沼气池) kept at 38℃ filled with bacteria. These produce biogas—mostly methane (甲烷) —that is then burned to make heat and electricity.
Upgrading the facilities in Marselisborg required nearly �3 million, but Aarhus Water expects that to be recovered in just five years. Other cities in Denmark, including Copenhagen, have been trying to copy the example of Aarhus.
When talking about copying Denmark’s experience, Molly Walton, energy analyst at
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International Energy Agency, says, scientists and engineers have a long way to go to improve energy efficiency, and it requires a big investment that could considerably increase the price of the water. Moreover, to work, the wastewater plant needs to be big enough to produce enough biogas, and even the wastewater has to be the right mix—if it’s diluted (稀释) by much storm or groundwater it will be almost impossible to recover energy, Walton says.
With rising global temperatures, more energy will be needed to provide fresh water from other sources such as seawater. The city’s action may not solve the problems, but it is a big step in the right direction.
24. What does the underlined part “the surplus” refer to?
A. The electricity needed to run the plant. B. The electricity that is more than needed.
C. The amount of electricity used by citizens. D. The extra electricity used to treat wastewater.
25. How does the plant produce biogas?
A. It uses the reactions between carbon and bacteria. B. It allows bacteria to produce biogas out of methane C. It uses electricity to remove biogas from wastewater. D. It produces biogas by mixing wastewater with methane. 26. What does Walton think of the plant’s new technology?
A. It is difficult to apply in practice. B. It achieves high energy efficiency. C. It can make good use of storm water. D. It lowers the costs of water treatment. 27. Which can be the best title for the text?
A. Why does the water service need more energy? B. Should cities copy the example of Aarhus?
C. How Aarhus turns wastewater into energy D. How wastewater treatment plants work
C
In today’s world of smart phones and laptops, most people have at least one time-telling thing with them. Since these digital products are so common, is time running out for the 500-year-old watch? According to some consumers, the answer is yes. New Jersey teenager Charlie Wollman says a watch is “an extra piece of equipment with no necessary function.” Many young adults think so and use their smart phones to tell time. It is said that fewer young people wear watches today than ten years ago. As a result, some people say that the watch industry is at a crossroads. However, watchmakers optimistically say that watches redeem popularity when consumers reach their 20s and 30s. By then, they are willing to spend money on a quality watch that doesn’t just keep good time. Fifty years ago, watchmakers took pride in their products’ accuracy. But in recent years, the watch industry has changed itself into an accessory (配饰) business. And today, the image a watch conveys has become more important than the time it tells. “Complications” — features that go beyond simple timekeeping (计时) — are an important part of a watch’s image. Today’s watches offer lots of features that meet almost any personality. These features include compasses, USB drivers, and even other functions that measure the effectiveness of golf swings!
Creativity also plays a key role in designing today’s watches. For example, Japanese watchmaker Tokyoflash makes watches that don’t even look like watches. The company’s popular
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