发布时间 : 星期六 文章江苏省淮安市淮海中学2018届高三3月高考模拟测试（一）英语试题更新完毕开始阅读
and Hou Yunde at an annual ceremony held in Beijing on January 8, 2018.
A. purchased
B. presented
C. promised
D. predicted
31. — Shall we go to an Indian restaurant or an Indonesian restaurant?
— Neither. Let’s go to an Italian restaurant. They ________ the best specials of the year.
A. are having
B. have
C. had had
D. have had
32. ________ your belief that we shall fail, I know we shall succeed as long as we try hard enough.
A. In search of
B. In contrast with
C. In connection with D. In terms of
33. If you do not wish anyone to know what you have done, it is better not to have done it in the first place. Just as the saying goes, “________”.
A. Never hit a man when he’s down C. When one will not, two cannot quarrel
B. The cheaper buyer takes bad meat D. What is done by night appears by day
34. A student of mid-level ________ could become an excellent one as long as he is able to arrange his time in a proper order.
A. intelligence
B. comment
C. dimension
D. criterion
35. — Dear, Wendy is too full to eat your food. — ________. She simply hates my cooking. A. I’ll give you that C. Don’t give me that
B. I don’t get it D. You’ve got me there
第二节: 完形填空 (共20小题; 每小题1分, 满分20分)
请阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Growth Pain
You might not get what you wish for, but you always get what you work for. I want to be a(n) 36
ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York when I grow up, and I work toward my 37 by training over 18 hours a week. I 38 start homeschooling so I could make more time for dance. I love dancing 39 anything. It makes me feel strong and invincible (不可战胜的), like nothing could ever 40 me. Most importantly, it’s helped me 41 the most difficult event of my life — the death of my dad when I was seven.
My dad died of a heart attack while playing hockey. When my mom first told me, it didn’t 42 me that I would never be able to see him again. He’d always 43 with me; I even used to make him do
warm-up stretches beforehand. It was also hard to tell my friends and classmates 44 I didn’t know what to say and they never knew how to 45 . But four years later, everything that I do, I do in 46 of my dad. I dedicated my first dance solo, “The Love Lives On” to him when I was nine.
I would have never 47 the experience without my mom. She 48 me when I was in grief and pain, and we wrote down all the memories I had with my dad in a special book. Now that I’m older, my mom and I do have each other’s trouble more often — for a while, my schedule was very busy and we were so stressed that our little miscommunications would rise into huge 49 . But after we attended counseling (咨询) and I started homeschooling, things got much better, and now my mom and I have more quality time to 50 together.
I’ve learned that talking and 51 are very important things to do in any relationship, and that definitely includes friendships, too! When I 52 with my friends, I try not to look at my phone. It’s so 53 when you’re sitting at a table with someone else and she’s 54 instead of talking to you. I think a good friend is kind, respectful, fair, and funny — and I’ll always try to be all of these things in person, not just on the 55 ! 36. A. controversial 37. A. future 38. A. even 39. A. rather than 40. A. win 41. A. meet with 42. A. hit 43. A. walked 44. A. because 45. A. disturb 46. A. search 47. A. got through 48. A. disciplined 49. A. concerns 50. A. spend 51. A. cooperating
B. professional B. career B. still B. more than B. fail B. stick with B. occur B. talked B. since B. respond B. favour B. ran across B. guaranteed B. arguments B. work B. competing
C. aggressive C. hobby C. ever C. other than C. beat C. play with C. prove C. danced C. when C. perform C. memory C. got over C. discriminated C. compromises C. count C. communicating
D. enthusiastic D. dream D. just D. less than D. save D. deal with D. tell D. studied D. though D. conduct D. praise D. ran through D. comforted D. agreements D. shift D. criticizing
52. A. check out 53. A. optimistic 54. A. eating 55. A. table
B. hang out B. sympathetic B. speaking B. food
C. leave out C. reluctant C. dancing C. phone
D. stand out D. awkward D. texting D. friend
第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分)
请阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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A. They have to be Europeans. B. They have to be 18 or above.
C. They have received admission to an American university. D. They have learned Spanish at college at least for one semester.
57. Which of the following is TRUE about Barcelona?
A. The local people speak English besides Spanish. B. It owns the most famous avenue and museum in Spain. C. There is a conflict between modern and traditional cultures. D. It can prepare students for global awareness and involvement.
B
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“The Simpsons is one of the modern world’s greatest cultural artifacts (制造物), partly because it is so full of philosophy,” John Donaldson, creator of the course, told the BBC. “Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Camus and many other great thinkers’ ideas are represented in what is arguably the purest of philosophical forms