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1、2016高考冲刺模拟卷(三)(时间:120分钟满分:150分)第卷第一部分听力(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。(A)The Tropical Paradise HolidayWelcome to St Anna,our tropical paradise just off the coast of Latin America.You can spend two weeks in our luxury four-star hotel.The cost of your fl
2、ight is included in the holiday,and you can be picked up from your home by our special airport bus.On your arriving,our coach will be waiting to take you to the hotel.All flights leave from Heathrow on a Monday morning.The Cowrie Hotel is built right on the beachfront,and many rooms have wonderful o
3、cean views.If swimming and surfing are not enough for you,the hotel also offers horse rides on the island,and a discount membership of the golf club.The Rain Forest Adventure HolidayEvery year Broughton holidays offer twelve days of unforgettable adventure in a tropical rain forest.You may have a ch
4、oice of Borneo,Malaysia,Indonesia,or even to the greatest rain forest of them all,the mighty Amazonian forest.You will fly to our special base camps at the edge of the forest,where you will be given five days of survival training,and talks on the local wildlife.Then you take a bus into the forest.Yo
5、u will have to walk the final five miles to the camp sites to avoid disturbing the local ecology.All of the camp sites have been carefully built to cause the minimal amount of disturbance to the local wildlife.Remember that these adventure holidays take you deep into the wilderness,and they are not
6、suitable for families with young children.Also remember that no more than two dozen guests can stay at any camp at one time,so if you want to go on one of these very special holidays,you will need to book early!21.What can we learn about the rain forest holiday?()A.Travelers will learn to talk with
7、wild animals.B.Different means of transportation will be used. C.The holiday will end with a survival training.D.Booking early,travelers will get a discount.22.What kind of people will probably choose the rain forest holiday?()A.People loving water sports.B.People travelling with children.C.People p
8、referring comfortable hotels.D.People concerned with environment and wildlife.23.Which of the following is mentioned in both holidays?()A.Transportation.B.Price.C.Reservation.D.Departure time.(B)Many people think of the brain as a mystery.They dont know much about intelligence and how it works.When
9、they do think about what intelligence is,many people believe that a person is born either smart,average,or dumband stays that way for life.But new research shows that the brain is more like a muscleit changes and gets stronger when you use it.And scientists have been able to show just how the brain
10、grows and gets stronger when you learn.Everyone knows that when you lift weights,your muscles get bigger and you get stronger.A person who cant lift 20 pounds when they start exercising can get strong enough to lift 100 pounds after working out for a long time.Thats because the muscles become larger
11、 and stronger with exercise.And when you stop exercising,the muscles shrink and you get weaker.Thats why people say,“Use it or lose it!”But most people dont know that when they practice and learn new things,parts of their brain change and get larger a lot like muscles do when they exercise.Inside th
12、e cortex (脑皮层)of the brain are billions of tiny nerve cells.Communication between these brain cells is what allows us to think and solve problems.When you learn new things,these tiny connections in the brain actually multiply and get stronger.The more you challenge your mind to learn,the more your b
13、rain cells grow.Then,things that you once found very hard or even impossible to do seem to become easy.The result is a stronger and smarter brain.Scientists started thinking that the human brain could develop and change when they studied animals brains.They found out that animals who lived in a chal
14、lenging environment,with other animals and toys to play with,were more “aptitudinal”they were better at solving problems and learning new things.24.Whats the main idea of the passage?()A.Scientists show strong interest in what intelligence is.B.A new study shows the brain can be developed like a mus
15、cle.C.Both muscles and the brain are important to humans.D.Intelligence exists in both humans and animals.25.By using such numbers as 20 and 100 in Paragraph 2,the author tries to prove that .A.exercise plays an important role in keeping muscles strongerB.exercise is more important to people than mo
16、st of the animalsC.everyone can keep healthy if they do enough exercisesD.everyone should learn as many new things as possible26.Like stronger muscles come from exercise,smarter brains need .A.to be well taken care ofB.a good communication between personsC.help from scientistsD.our learning new things27.What does the underlined word “aptitudinal” in the last paragra
