惠州市2016届高三第一次模拟考试
英 语
2016.4．
注意事项： 1. 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。答卷前，考生
必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。因考试不考听力，第I卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21”开始。 2．回答第I卷时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答题标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。写在本试卷上无效。
3. 回答第II卷时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
4. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第I卷
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。
A Dear Daughter,
As we drove off from Columbia University, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind.
College will be the most important years in your life. It is in college that you will truly discover what learning is about. I encourage you to be inquisitive, but I also want to tell you: \materials taught isn't as important as you gaining the ability to learn a new subject, and the ability to analyze a new problem. That is really what learning in college is about— this will be the period where you go from teacher-taught to master-inspired, after which you must become a self-learner. So do take each subject seriously, and even if what you learn isn't critical for your life, the skills of learning will be something you cherish forever，so do your best in classes and learn.
Take care of yourself and follow your passion in college. Take courses you think you will enjoy. Don't be trapped in what others think or say.
Most importantly, make friends and be happy. College friends are often the best in life. Pick a few friends and become really close to them —pick the ones who are genuine and sincere to you. People are not perfect, so as long as they are genuine and sincere, trust them and be good to them. They will give back. This is my secret of success— that I am genuine with people and trust them (unless they do something to lose my trust).
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Please treasure your college years – make the best of your free time, become an independent thinker in control of your destiny, be bold to experiment, learn and grow through your successes and challenges. May Columbia become the happiest four years in your life, and may you blossom into just what you dream to be.
Love, Dad (& Mom) 21. What can we learn from paragraph 2? A. Education is what you learn at school. B. Ability is more important than knowledge. C. Learning and analyzing are equally important. D. Colleges only focus on skills of learning.
22. The writer thinks his daughter should_____________.
A. ask for his advice on her choice B. make a lot of friends C. get along well with her friends D. spare no effort to succeed 23. According to the passage, the writer is a _________ father.
A. wise and caring B. strict and warm-hearted C. generous and talented D. diligent and successful 24. Why does the father write this letter?
A. To inform his daughter of college life. B. To show father‘s love. C. To broaden his daughter‘s mind.. D. To guide his daughter.
B
As the proverb goes, man struggles upwards; water flows downwards. Water runs downhill from mountaintops to streams, to rivers and to oceans. But downhill isn‘t the only way that water moves. A new study measures how water travels from country to country for human consumption. This flow isn‘t the type we usually think about.These scientists looked at the water used to grow and make the products which get shipped from nation to nation as imports or exports. They call this a flow of ―virtual water‖.
We typically think about water as the liquid that flows from a tap. However,92％of the water used by people goes into growing crops, according to a water researcher Arjen Hoekstra. He recently studied the hidden travels of virtual water used in products made from things like crops and meats. These products are shipped around the world.
For example, consider a sugary soft drink. Hoekstra estimated that to produce one half-liter of the drink requires between 170 and 310 liters of water—about 95% is used to grow and process the ingredients(原料).Another 4％ goes into the packaging and labeling. In Hoekstra‘s calculation, when one country produces a half-liter of soda and sells it abroad，it exports as much virtual water as would fill a large refrigerator．
According to Hoekstra‘s new report，dry countries like Israel and Kuwait，both in the Middle East, get the majority of their virtual water from other countries，through imported products. More surprisingly, some wetter countries，like the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, also get the majority of their virtual water from other places. That means that most of the water used to grow
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or produce the products and food consumed in those countries came from other countries.
25. The proverb in Paragraph One is used to_________.
A. inspire readers to struggle upward B. tell a law of nature
C. introduce the topic of the passage D. summarize the main idea of the passage 26. In which countries does most part of virtual water come from outside? .
A. The United Kingdom and China B. America and Israel
C. The Netherlands and Kuwait D. The Netherlands and America 27. What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A. Benefits of Virtual Water B. Hidden Uses of Water C. Crops and Virtual Water
D. Water‘s Worldwide Travels
28. Where does the passage probably come from?
A .A science news report. B. A newspaper advertisement. C. A book review. D. A science fiction story.
C
Though many Internet celebrities try to shrug off their fame, Yan Mingliang, 27, has dreamed of joining the Internet elite(精英) ever since he entered college.
However, luck didn‘t favor him. Instead, fame fell into the lap of his pet dog, Beiji. In early 2015, Yan used his microblog to post two pictures of Beiji lying on the ground, and they went viral on social media. Because he took the photos at a strange angle, it almost looks like Beiji‘s body has fallen apart.
Finally, Yan got to experience what is like to be an Internet celebrity, or more accurately, the owner of an Internet celebrity dog. New followers started to flood in, and Yan received hundreds of private messages each day. In less than four weeks, Yan managed to attract more than 20,000 followers. ―I am famous now.‖ Yan thought at that time.
However, fame didn‘t just bring joy, but also annoyance. Since Beiji was only 3 months old and Yan sometimes had to put him into a cage as a means of ―education‖, there were also private messages from followers who fiercely criticized Yan for being too cruel.
―It gradually occurred to me that no matter how frankly you present yourself on social media, Internet users only witness part of your life. And their judgments depend on that partial life story of yours,‖ said Yan, ―They don‘t know how hard it is to raise a pet dog when you‘re unemployed, Yan explained. They also don‘t care about whether the dog they‘re enjoying is being pushed too hard.‖
Yan finally decided to leave his Internet fame behind and focus more on his real life. ―The lesson I learned is that, if you can‘t live up to your followers‘ expectations, it‘s better not to be an Internet celebrity,‖ he said.
29. The underlined phrase ―went viral‖ in Paragraph 2 probably means ______. A. were exposed B. became widely-spread C. were criticized D. became viruses
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