北京西城区高三英语模拟试题及参考答案3

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；第小题2分，满分40分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出选项。
　　（A）
　　One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Street, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks．Why I wished to buy only one pair was unimportant．I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, and a boy clerk who could not have been more than seventeen years old came forward, “What can I do for you, sir?” “I wish to buy a pair of socks.” His eyes shone．There was a note of excitement in his voice, “Did you know that you had come into the finest place in the world to buy socks?” I had no idea of that, as my entrance had been accidental．“Come with me,” said the boy, eagerly．I followed him to the back of the shop, and he began to pull down from the shelves box after box showing their contents for my choice.
　　“Hold on, lad, I am going to buy only one pair!” “I know that,” said he, “but I want you to see how beautiful these are．Aren’t they wonderful!” There was on his face an expression of seriousness and pride and delight as if he were showing to me the secrets of his religion．I became far more interested in him than in the socks．I looked at him in amazement．“My friend,” Said I, “if you can keep this up, if this is not merely from having a new job, if you can keep up this high spirit and excitement day after day, in ten years you will own every sock in the United States.”
　　56．What did the writer want to buy one fine afternoon?
　　A．A pair of shoes． B．A pair of socks.
　　C．Two pairs of socks．　 D．A set of books.
　　57．Which is true according to the passage?
　　A．The shop was on the Second Road.
　　B．The boy was 18 years old.
　　C．The boy was not in high spirits.
　　D．The writer entered the shop by chance.
　　58．What the writer said in the last paragraph means that.
　　A．if you don’t work hard, you will lose the job
　　B．you should keep on following your customs
　　C．if you keep up your great interest in your work, you will succeed in the future
　　D．if you are to hardworking, you will fail
　　（B）
　　Besides this question of the time given to pronunciation, there are two other requirements for the teacher：the first, knowledge; the second, technique.
　　It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the necessary information．This can generally be got from books．It is possible to get from books some idea of the speech, and of what we call general phonetic rules．It is also possible in this way to get a clear mental picture of the relationship between the sounds of different languages, between the speech habits of English people and those, say, of your students．Unless the teacher has such a picture, and explanations he makes on his students’ pronunciation are unlikely to be of much use, and lesson time spent on pronunciation may well be wasted.
　　But it does not follow that you can teach pronunciation successfully as soon as you have read the necessary books．It depends, after that, what use you make of your knowledge; and this is a matter of technique.
　　Now the first and most important part of a language teacher’s technique is his own performance, his ability to show off the spoken language, in every detail of sound as well as in fluent speaking, so that the student’s ability for imitation (模仿) is given the fullest space and encouragement．The teacher, then, should be as perfect a model in this field as he can make himself．And to make his own performance better, however satisfactory this may be, the modern teacher has in his hand recordings and a radio, to supply the real voices of native speakers, or, if the teacher happens to be a native speaker himself, or speaks just like one, then to change the method of presenting the language material.
　　However, the process of showing pronunciation, whether by personal example or with the help of machines, is only the beginning of teaching pronunciation．The technique of teaching each sound also needs to be considered.
　　59．How might the teacher find himself wasting lesson time?
　　A．By spending lesson time on pronunciation.
　　B．By making ill-informed explanations upon pronunciation.
　　C．By not using books on phonetics in the classroom.
　　D．By not giving students a clear mental picture of the difference between sounds.
　　60．Students have an ability for imitation which is__________.
　　A．plain and obvious
　　B．well developed
　　C．not yet developed
　　D．too weak to be useful
　　61．What is the main point the author makes about imitation of the teacher?
　　A．It is a matter of secondary importance.
　　B．Students should be given every chance for it.
　　C．It depends on the student’s ability.
　　D．Teachers are perfect models for students to imitate.
　　62．To someone teaching his own language to foreigners, mechanical aids (技术手段) can______.
　　A．improve his own performance
　　B．replace his own performance
　　C．provide examples of native speech
　　D．make his voice louder
　　63．Showing Pronunciation is to be regarded as__________.
　　A．a part of teaching pronunciation
　　B．an exercise of value in itself
　　C．an example of the use of mechanical aids
　　D．a technique for teaching separate sounds