高考模拟试卷卷I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。

AIt’s nearly exam time, so check out some of the best free apps around to help you manage the stress of exams and ensure you are studying effectively over the coming weeks.Exam CountdownThis app can help to remind you how many days, hours, and minutes you have until the exam. This can help to motivate you to hit the books before it’s too late.Block the InternetAre you constantly checking Facebook when you should be writing an essay? Or perhaps are you distracted by a battle in League of Legends? Download this app to get rid of online distractions by temporarily blocking Internet sites on your mobile. Simply add the websites you want to block and the period of time to block them for. Guarantee to get yourself focused on that assignment.CBT-i CoachThe US Department of Veterans (老兵) Affairs developed the app, CBT-i Coach, to assist with insomnia (失眠) and help people who would like to improve their sleeping habits. It provides several key parts: information about sleep and insomnia, strategies for improving sleep, relaxation skills and a helpful sleep diary.YogaYoga has great health benefits both for the mind and body and will help you to perform at your best while at high school. Download this app and have your own personal yoga instructor in your living room. You can choose from short or long workouts and have a qualified instructor teaching you how to do each pose (姿势). Choose from a variety of yoga routines and watch the instructional videos. Go on and stretch out those sore muscles.21. Which app is the most useful for a student addicted to video games?A. Yoga.B. CBT-i Coach.C. Exam Countdown.D. Block the Internet.22. What do we know about CBT-i Coach from this article?A. It helps to build up stronger muscles.B. It helps students to manage their study time.C. It monitors and improves people’s sleeping quality.D. It is used to treat soldiers with sleeping difficulties.23.What does the author mainly intend to tell us in this passage?A. Some apps that can help students better prepare for exams.B. The influence of our study habits on our exam results.C. Several tips on how to throw off anxiety before exams.D. Details of some apps that are helpful to improve learning skills.BIn the space of just two years the app Douyin, created by Beijing-based company ByteDance, has gathered more than half a billion users — around 40% of them are outside China-who share short videos of themselves lip-syncing (假唱), cooking dancing or just being silly. What sets ByteDance apart is its success in the social media category, which is controlled by Facebook, Twitter and Snap — all Western companies.ByteDance calls itself an artificial intelligence company. It uses machine learning and algorithms（演算法）to figure out what people like and give them more of what they want to see. On Douyin, people can edit and beautify 15-second videos before posting them online. The app has even spawned (引发) a phrase to describe a kind of behaviour of people glued to their customized feeds: “shua Douyin” or “scrolling through Douyin”. Last year, the company released TikTok, the overseas version of Douyin. ByteDance’s growing video empire has made it the world’s fifth biggest app maker. ByteDance says TikTok and Douyin together have more than 500 million monthly active users.Investors（投资者）like ByteDance because its hundreds of millions of users attract a lot of advertising money. The video apps are lucrative because they attract a lot of users in their teens and 20s who are more generous with the money. ByteDance also makes moneythrough income sharing deals. People on TikTok, for example, can buy digital coins to give to other people on the app like throwing money in a performer’s tip jar. Byte Dance takes a cut of those earnings.ByteDance’s founder and CEO is Zhang Yiming, a 35-year-old former Microsoft employee. People who have worked with Zhang describe him as someone who thinks deeply about technology and spends much of his free time writing code.Like Facebook and Twitter, ByteDance is also battling fake news and inappropriate content. ByteDance promises to add more employees to review content.24.How many overseas users does Douyin have?A. Under 20 million.B. About 200 million.C. Around 400 million.D. Over half a billion.25. Why is ByteDance a success?A. It has controlled Facebook, Twitter and Snap .B. Its app challenges the Western companies’ rule.C. It invented the social media app initially in the world.D. It is the biggest artificial intelligence company on earth.26. How does ByteDance mainly earn money?A. By charging the users.B. By the users’ donation.C. By the advertising revenue.D. By its artificial intelligence.27. What is the social media apps’ common trouble?A. How to keep their content positiveB. What to do with fierce competition.C. Where to find much new investment.D. When to introduce their new version.CIn a recent green paper, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences planned to reform the national working schedule in 2030 to nine hours a day and four days a week.The green paper follows such logic (逻辑): As China's production rate continues rising,it is possible to let people work less time. instead of 40 hours, in which case people can rest three days a week. If implemented, the new four-day working schedule would doubtlessly help to accumulate more social wealth and promote consumption.When people rest three days a week, they can travel for longer distances and spend more money on their trips.A glance at the past will also show the trend of fewer working hours per week. The number of working days every week has been reduced from six days to five and a half days then to five days.However, on the social network microblog, the most common response to the report is “No, please don’t”. Why is that? The answer lies in their anxieties about an uncertain future. As capital gets increasingly accumulated ordinary workers, blue-collar workers and white-collar workers alike, face the sad and cold fact that unemployment is likely to rise. Many people face the risk of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence and automation. That’s why many people are rather worried about their future. To solve this, the key lies in promoting the idea of wrest". The right to rest and the right to labor must be protected together so that people can be more certain about their future.In March and April this year, a New Zealand firm ran an experiment which reduced the workweek to 32 hours from 40 hours and its employees worked four days a week while being paid for five days. The experiment was so successful that it hoped to make the change permanent. In Sweden, a trial in the city of Gothenburg required a six-hour day, and officials found employees completed the same amount of work or even more. But when France required a 35-hour workweek in 2000, businesses complained of reduced competitiveness and increased hiring costs.28. How long will the working hours be shortened by in a week for Chinese workers from 2030?A. 4 hours.B. 8 hours.C. 36 hours.D. 40 hours.29. Which of the following best explains the word “implemented” in bold type in paragraph 2?A. Put off.B. Made up.C. Carried out.D. Turned down.30. What is most microbloggers’ attitude to the four-day working schedule?A. Doubtful.B. Favorable.C. Indifferent.D. Opposed.31. Which sentence can best summarize the text?A. A glance shows the trend of fewer working hours per week.B. Many countries intend to implement the schedule of working 4 days a week.C. What workers will be doing in 2030 in China.D. The 4-day workweek plan brings job loss fears to many people.DThe longest total lunar eclipse (月全食) of the21st century takes place this Friday, July 27, 2018. The “blood moon” eclipse will last 1 hour and 43 minutes, during which Earths natural satellite will turn a deep red or reddish-brown color. From start to finish, the entire event will last nearly 4 hours. Observers in much of Africa, the Middle East, Southern Asia and the Indian Ocean region will get an eyeful of the eclipse, given cooperative weather.July’s total lunar eclipse occurs on the same day the planet Mars reaches its opposition, when it will shine at its best in the night sky. This month, Mars will be at its closest to Earth since 2003. When Mars becomes the brightest, it will reach that closest point to Earth on July 31.The moon turns deep red or reddish-brown during eclipses, Instead of going completely dark. That’s because some of the sunlight going through Earths atmosphere is bent around the edge of our planet and falls onto the moon’s surface. The Earth's atmosphere also spreads more shorter- wavelength light, in colors such as green or blue; what's left is the longer-wavelength light, the redder end of the spectrum (光谱).“What controls the duration of the lunar eclipse is the position of the moon as it passes through the Earth’s shadow,” Petro, the project scientist for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, said. The darkest part of Earth's shadow is called the umbra. You can picture the umbra as cone（圆锥体）extending from Earth in the opposite direction to the sun. Petro explained, “The moon can either graze (擦过) the cone, or go right through the middle, which gets a longer-time eclipse. This time, the moon is passing closer to the center of that cone, and it’s therefore a little bit longer.” Additionally, the moon will be at a farther point from Earth along its orbit. That means the moon will appear slightly smaller in the sky and will take a little bit longer to go through Earth’s shadow.32. Which of the following people might not see the whole total lunar eclipse?A. Indians.B. Turks.C. Europeans.D. Egyptians.33. Why does the moon turn red during eclipses?A. The sunlight shines on the moon’s surface.B. The longer-wavelength light is refracted to the moon.C. The shorter-wavelength light falls on the moon.D. The sunlight is bent around the edge of the moon.34. The duration of the lunar eclipse lies on______.A. whether the moon is behind the sun.B. how far the moon is away from the sun.C. where the moon goes through the umbra.D. when the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow.35. Which can be the most suitable title of the text?A. The Longest Total Lunar Eclipse.B. Earths Natural Satellite.C. The Blood Moon Eclipse.D. The Closest Mars to Earth.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。