湖北省麻城市(思源实验学校)2018-2019学年度 重点高中自主招生考试英语试题
（共75分）
一、单项选择（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
从每小题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
( ) 1. —The dishes in this restaurant are delicious but very expensive.
—Don’t worry. You can enjoy yourself. It’s my ______.
A. time B. task C. taste D. treat ( ) 2.It’s crazy of you to spend more time playing computer games than you ____ studying.
A. are B. do
C. have D. will
( ) 3. Children need friends ______ their own age to play with.
A. of
B. for C. in D. at
( ) 4. —Do you have __________ i-Phone 5?
—I am eager to have __________, but my parents think it’s better to use a simple type.
A. a, it B. an, it C. the, one D. an, one ( ) 5._____ in thought,he almost ran into the car in front of him.
A. Losing B. Lost C.Having lost D. To lose
( ) 6. The teacher together with the students _______ discussing
Reading Skills that _______ newly published in America . A. are, were
B. is, were
C. are, was D. is, was
( ) 7. —Is your son still in bed?
—No, he _______and _______ for the AMC in his room now. A. is already up; preparing B. got up, preparing C. has got up; prepared D. is already up, prepares
( ) 8. This book is said to be a special one which ________ many
events not found in other history books.
A. writes B. prints C. covers D. reads
( ) 9. When people talk about the cities of Britain, the first ___comes into mind is London.
A. city B. one C. of which D. that
( ) 10. The doctors have the patients ______ the soft music , because it
helped make them ______.
A. to listen to, stressing B. listen to, stressed C. listen to, relaxed D. to listen to, relaxing
( ) 11. The murderer was brought in ,with his hands ____ behind his
back.
A. being tied B.having tied C.tied D. to be tied
( ) 12. We planned to meet at 10:00 at the station,but he didn’t _____ until 12:00.
A. turn up
B. give up C. stay up
D. grow up
( ) 13. My sister suggested ___because I was too fat.
A. me lose weight B. I lose weight C. me to lose weight D. I losing weigh
( ) 14. —When was it __you realized she was a famous film star?
—___she took off her dark glasses. A. when, When B. that, Until C. that, Not until D. When, Until
( ) 15. —Thank you ever so much for your help. — _____.
A. Glad to hear that B. Not worth thanking
C. You’re too polite D. Think nothing of it
二、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案，并将答案填在题前的括号里。
A
If you need to call your parents but your phone is not with you, can you remember their numbers?
To remember 11 numbers is not difficult. However, because of the smart phones, many of us losing this ability. Record Japan reported.
What’s more, smart phones weaken our skills at giving directions, as well as killing face-to-face communications. Even when friends are having a meal together, it’s common for most to check their phones.
According to a report by Kleiner, Perkins Caufield Byers, an American company, Chinese people spend average 170 minutes on their smart phones daily.
For students, an addiction to smart phones is no good for studying. Research by Japan’s Education Ministry showed Children who spend more than four hours a day on their phones perform much worse in school tests than those who play with their phones for 30 minutes.
It’s true that the smart phones have made our lives easier. But many also think they spend too much time on it, and this is bad for their study or work. People are trying to change that.
A new app called Forest was introduced this month. It lets users plant a seed that grows into a tree over the next 30 minutes. During the half hour, users cannot use their phones, or the tree will die.
Many people now have the habit of checking their cell phone while eating. A restaurant in Los Angeles, US, gives people a 5 percent discount if they don’t check their phones during a meal. Owner Mark
Gold said that he hoped it could give people a way to enjoy their meals and actually talk with friends and family in person. ( ) 16. What does the app Forest aim to do?
A. To call on people to care about trees
B. B. To introduce a new game for students C. To help people spend less time on phones D. D. To make people focused on their phones
( ) 17.Who can get the 5 percent discount of a restaurant in Los Angeles?
A. People who don’t check their phones during a meal B. People who use their phones twenty minutes during half an
hour.
C. Students who spend three hours a day on their phones D. Students who play their phones for thirty minutes
( ) 18. What does the article mainly talk about?
A. The advantages of smart phones. B. B. The disadvantages of smart phones. C. How often people use smart phones. D. D. The change of smart phones.
B
Huckleberry Finn，the great character from the Mark Twain book，did not like school. He preferred floating down the Mississippi River on a raft and looking for adventure．That’s why generations of schoolboys have loved reading Huckleberry Finn：they feel the same way about the school as he did.
For many boys，being forced to sit all day in a school room is like being punished for a crime they did not commit. There are endless hours of boredom spent learning things they have no interest in．That’s why
many boys do poorly in school and many give up on education altogether．
Ironically(具有讽刺意味的是)，the whole idea for schools was invented for boys. If a boy wanted to grow up to be a useful man，he had to be educated. By and by，people realized that educating girls was a good idea, too. And, ironically again, it was discovered that the school system suits girls just fine; so fine that girls now do much better than boys in school.
No one really knows why that is. Some say that girls mature(发育成熟)quicker than boys and adapt better to school life. Some also say that the school system and the curriculum(课程) have changed to encourage girls but the needs of boys have been overlooked. Educators are now trying to find ways to get boys to be more successful in school. There are suggestions to separate the sexes and teach boys separately. There are also suggestions to change the curriculum to make it more interesting for boys.
Whatever the changes are, boys still will be boys，and dreams of floating down the Mississippi River will always be an attractive choice to just sitting in a classroom.
( ) 19. Huckleberry Finn is________.
A. a boy of Mark Twain’s B. B. a character in a book
C. an American writer D. D. a river’s name
( ) 20. Many boys do poorly in school because________.
A. they give up on education
B. they’re punished for a crime they did not commit C. they have no interest in the things they’re learning D. they prefer floating down the Mississippi River on a raft
( ) 21. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 means that________.
A. more boys are needed B. B. boys need to be cared about a lot C. the needs of boys have been very important D. people have paid little attention to the needs of boys.
( ) 22. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Girls now do much better than boys in school. B. The school system has changed to encourage girls． C. Girls mature quicker than boys and adapt better to school
life．
D. The curriculum has changed to be more interesting for boys. C
Violin prodigies (神童), I learned, have come in distinct waves from distinct regions. Most of the great performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were born and brought up in Russia and Eastern Europe. I asked Isaac Stern, one of the world’s greatest violinists the reason for this phenomenon. “It is very clear,” he told me. “They were all Jews and Jews at the time were severely oppressed and ill-treated in that part of the world. They were not allowed into the professional fields, but they were allowed to achieve excellence on a concert stage.” As a result, every Jewish parent’s dream was to have a child in the music school because it was a passport to the West.
Another element in the emergence（出现） of prodigies, I found, is a society that values excellence in a certain field to nurture (培育) talent. Nowadays, the most nurturing societies seem to be in the Far East. “In Japan, a most competitive society, with stronger discipline than ours,” says Isaac Stern, children are ready to test their limits every day in many fields, including music. When Western music came to Japan after World