河南省顶级名校2015届5月热身模拟英语试卷（2）（本试卷共120分，考试时间100分钟）第一卷第一部分听力部分（略）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.并且在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

AMy grandparents were married for over half a century, and played their own special game the time they had met each other. The goal of their game was to write the word “shmily” in a surprise place for the other to find. They took turns leaving “shmily” around the ho use, and as soon as one of them discovered it, it was their turn to hide it once more. They dragged “shmily” with their fingers through the sugar and flour containers to await whoever was preparing the next meal. “Shmily” was written in the steam left on t he mirror after a hot shower, where it would reappear bath after bath. There was no end to the places where “shmily” would pop up. Little notes with “shmily” were found on car seats, or taped to steering wheels. The notes were put inside shoes and left und er pillows. “Shmily” was written in the dust upon the mantel（壁炉架）and traced in the ashes of the fireplace. This mysterious word was as much a part of my grandparents’ house as the furniture.It took me a long time before I was able to fully appreciate my grandparents’ game. Skepticism has kept me from believing in true love—one that is pure and enduring (持久的). However, I never doubted my grandparents’ relationship. It was based on passionate affection which not everyone is lucky enough to experience.But there was a dark cloud in my grandparents’ life: my grandmoth er had breast cancer. The disease had first appeared ten years earlier. As always, Grandpa was with her every step of the way. He comforted her in their yellow room, painted that way so that she could always be surrounded by sunshine, even when she was too sick to go outside. But my grandmother grew steadily weaker until, finally, she could not leave the house any more. Then one day, what we all dreaded finally happened. Grandma was gone.“Shmily.” It was written in yellow on the pink ribbons of my grandmother’s funeral bouquet (花束). As the crowd thinned and the last mourners turned to leave, Grandpa stepped up to my grandmother’s coffin and, taking a shaky breath, he began to sing to her. Through his tears and grief, the song came: S-h-m-i-l-y: See How Much I Love You.21. The first paragraph is mainly about ________.A.what the word “shmily” meansB.how the author’s grandparents played their special gameC.how the author appreciated her grandparents’ gameD.how the author’s grandparents cared for each other22. The underlined phrase “pop up” in Paragraph 1 means ________.A. appearB. changeC. surviveD. work23. According to the passage, the author _________.A. thought the game was meaninglessB. believes everyone can experience true loveC. doubted the existence of true love at firstD. sometimes left “shmily” around the house24. Grandpa tried to make Grandma comfortable by _______.A. singing songs to her every dayB. painting the room yellowC. encouraging her to go outsideD. helping her take a hot shower every da yBA very close friend phoned me this weekend and asked a specific question about earning a few extra dollars each month online. For the benefit of keeping her name and details secret, I will call her Annie in this article. You see Annie suffers from a severe form of inaction syndrome; she is full of great ideas that never materialize into cash and she is having a problem finding the link that will achieve this.Somebody once said that knowledge is power, yet we constantly find from readers of our website that they have knowledge to burn and still do not have power. Just look at the academics in universities all around the world; they have so much knowledge that they should control the wealth of the world. In truth they work for peanuts and very few of them ever achieve the power of independence. So knowledge certainly isn’t power. Therefore, we should change that “wise” statement to: “Power is the ability to use knowledge to your own benefit.”That paragraph was inserted because Annie is a typical academic—strong on talks and plans but a little weaker on actions. In the period of a twenty-minute conversation, she expounded（阐述）a whole list of plans and ideas to make the extra few hundred dollars each month she was seeking. Any one of her many ideas was a potential money maker, but she had taken action on none of them. At one time she said, “I’m lost as to what to do next.”That was my cue（提示）to get involved. “Take action,” I advised.All that is wrong is that Annie was inactive without knowing it. In five minutes we drew up a plan of action and agreed to talk again in a month to review progress. When we finished the conversation, she sounded much happier and more motivated than when we started. Annie just needs a little push into beneficial action.25. What’s the problem with Annie?A. She has too many great ideas.B. She never puts her ideas into practice.C. She suffers from a strange illness.D. She knows little about making money online.26. What is the most important according to the author?A. The ability to use o ne’s knowledge.B. The ability to acquire knowledge.C. A great deal of knowledge.D. A good understanding of oneself.27. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. Annie will succeed in later life.B. Annie is going towards success.C. Annie doesn’t realize her problems.D. Annie talks too much in daily life.CIncreasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店).Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medicalcare, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may a1so fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctors can also be a deadly game.Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers—most of them aren't nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn't. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the l69 websites the researchers rated, only l6 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.The problem is that most people don't know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine 1ike Google, get l8 trillion choices and start clicking. But that's risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative, so it's hard to know whether what you're reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.28. According to the text, an increasing number of Americans .A. are suffering from mental disordersB. turn to Internet pharmacies for helpC. like to play deadly games with doctorsD. are skeptical about surfing medical websites29. Some Americans stay away from doctors because they .A. find medical devices easy to operateB. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctorsC. are afraid to face the truth of their healthD. are afraid to misuse their health insurance30. According to the study of Brown Medical School .A. more than 6 million Americans distrust doctorsB. only 1/l0 of medical websites aim to make a profitC. about l/10 of the websites surveyed are of high qualityD. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts31. Which of the following is the author's main argument?A. It's cheap to se1f-treat your own illness.B. It's embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.C. It's reasonable to put up a medical website.D. It's dangerous to be your own doctor.DI’d always dreamed of exploring Africa, ever since I read my first Tarzan comic as a child. Finally, in 2004, to celebrate my 60th birthday, I went to Tanzania to experience a safari and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Seated next to me on the flight was Tanzania’s minister of water and wildlife development. We talked for thousands of miles, and he arranged me to visit a school. When I toured the school, I was shocked. The leaky roofs turned the dirt floors into mud during the rainy season, and the walls couldn’t keep out the heat, cold or bugs. Theschool was in need of all material goods, but the kids possessed great human spirit.It broke my heart that these children had to struggle to survive, so I asked the headmaster what it would cost to feed them. As little as 20 cents per child per day, he told me. Immediately I got home, I founded Kids of Kil imanjaro. Since then we’ve grown to provide hot lunches for nearly 13,000 schoolchildren every day. The free lunch program has eased a major problem the youngsters face.I know a good education could really make a difference in these children’s lives. My p arents always stressed the importance of education. I paid my own way through college in Tokyo by teaching English to students and businesspeople. After attending university I moved to San Francisco, when I was 25 years old. In 1978 I realized my American dream when I founded my own company. My success all started with a good education.It’s amazing that something as simple as a nutritious lunch can change and enrich so many lives. Giving young people a better, healthier life can inspire them to go all the way through college and lead a movement that transforms their country.32. Why did the author go to Tanzania to celebrate his 60th birthday?A.He was curious about what Africa was like.B.He was concerned about the Africans’ miserable life.C.He wanted to get an idea of the area’s wildlife.D.He hoped to lead a movement that would transform his country.33. What is the main purpose of Kids of Kilimanjaro?A.To make sure the African kids are mentally healthy.B.To spread knowledge among the African kids.C.To build new schools for the African kids.D.To protect the African kids from hunger.34. What is the correct sequence of the following events?a.“I” founded “my” first company.b.“I” founded Kids of Kilimanjaro.c.“I” read “my” first Tarzan comic.d.“I” moved to San Francisco.A.a, c, d, bB. a, d, c, bC. c, a, d, bD. c, d, a, b35. The author believes education is important because __________.A.his parents always stressed the importance of educationB. a good education contributes to his successC.he paid his own way through college by teaching EnglishD.he’s trying to realize his American dream第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。