2018年广州一模英语试题及答案

第三部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)

第一节(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

One of' my teammates said it best on our last day of the season: “Guys, you are my family. We are all brothers.” Our tennis team is more than just a group of individual players thrown   41  ; there is a friendship   42  by no other group with which I have been involved. We are   43  , yet connected. We have student-athletes from all four years of high school, from different parts of the city, and from different families and social   44  . Nevertheless, we are all   45   by a shared love of tennis. The tennis team   46   to me because it contains two things that I treasure most: tennis and   47  .

Ever since I was ten years old, the   48   aspect of tennis attracted me to an otherwise physical sport. My first tennis coach always used to say, “Tennis is 10% physical and 90% of mental.”

  49  the mental strength to stay   50   and controlled under pressure, skills are   51  . Sometimes I feel like I have two   52   in a match: me against the person on the other side of the net, and me against the person inside my head, telling me to hit a better shot.

However, despite the   53   pressures of tennis, the brotherhood   54    by working together as a team helps spread the _  55    of the pressure over an entire group. We   56   each other on and off the court. We do this because we have become a/an    57   away from home. I play my best tennis when I have my teams full support,   58   in the knowledge that they are always backing me    59  . I know that each one of us puts everything we have into every   60   whether we are playing or cheering.

41.   A.around                  B.back                     C.forward                     D.together

42.   A.earned                  B.followed              C.matched                     D.noticed

43.   A.courageous           B.diverse                 C.motivated                   D.skillful

44.   A.activities              B.backgrounds         C.responsibilities         D services

45.   A.disturbed              B.sponsored            C.trained                       D.united

46.   A.continues              B.returns                  C.matters                       D.occurs

47.   A.brotherhood         B.childhood             C.entertainment             D society

48.   A.physical               B.environmental      C mental                        D.technical

49.   A.According to        B.Beyond                 C.In spite of                  D.Without

50.   A.active                   B.calm                     C hopeful                      D.silent

51.   A.contradictory       B.difficult                C.useless                       D powerful

52.   A.opponents            B.friends                  C.goals                          D.risks

53.   A.unavoidableB unreasonable                 C.unexpected                 D unwelcome

54.   A.allocated              B.created                 C.imagined                    D.suspected

55.   A.area                      B.control                 C.value                          D.weight

56.   A.support                 B.fight                      C.recognize                   D.teach

57.   A.audience              B family                   C.reason                        D.surprise

58.   A.anxious                B.curious                 C.sensitive                    D.secure

59.   A.enthusiastically    B.differently            C gradually                   D.intentionally

60.   A.dream                   B.person                  C match                         D.team

第II卷

第三部分英语知识运用(共两节;满分45分)

第二节(共10小题:每小题1.5分,满分15分)

阅读下面材料,在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

More than 700 years ago, a 17-year-old Italian youth followed his father and uncle on a journey to the East, dreaming about the mysteries ofChina. The three set     61    on a path that might have frightened even the most ambitious travellers. The young adventurer was Marco Polo.

Having a talent for languages, Marco Polo learned to speak Mongolian and Chinese. Later under the orders of Kublai Khan, he   62    (travel) far and wide acrossChina. Along the way, he stopped    63    (record) detailed notes about the local customs, geography and values of the people, so as to report back to the Khan.

Marco Polo returned toVenice24 years later. With   64   (count) treasures brought back from the East, he became    65     wealthy man overnight.      66    he witnessed inChinaaroused much interest among his countrymen. Marco polo's journey toChinaand the contents of his 67        (vivid) written book, The Travels of Marco Polo, which   68   (think)to be a fairy tale inEuropeat the time, triggered a wave of European interest in the Orient.

Marco Polo’s story is both one about an explorers search for riches and a Westerner   69  (follow ) his dream to reachChina. More than 700 years later, China, the once mysterious Oriental nation, is igniting the Chinese dream of many modern Marco Polos, attracted by its rapid   70  (develop )and its growing importance in the world.

第四部分写作(共两节,满分35分)

The summer job is a tradition among American university students. Long after the end of the school year, students start their summer vacation job search. They send letters to businesses, going to job interviews, and ask our friends and relatives for help. By June the students usually have been found their jobs and then they begin preparing to enter the world of works.

Reasons for wanting a summer job differs from student to student. Some work help pay their school expenses, others work to gain experience in their chosen professions: still others work just for the funny of it. Salesmen or waiters are two of the much common jobs that students try to find during the summer months.