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1、 2019年广州市普通高中业班综合测试（二）英语2019.4本试卷10页,满分120分，考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1.本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和和第卷(非选择题)两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型(A)填涂在答题卡相应位置上。用2B铅笔在“考生号”处填涂考生号信息点，修改时须用橡皮擦干净。因笔试不考听力，第I卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始,试题题序号从“21”开始。2.作答第I卷时,选出每小题答案后,用2B铅笔在答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试卷上。3.第卷必须用黑
2、色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液不按以上要求作答无效。4.考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后,将试卷和答题卡一并并交回。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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AThe country is India. A large dinner party is being given in an up-country station by acolonial official and hi
3、s wife. The guests are army and government officers and their wives, and anAmerican naturalist.At one side of the long table, a spirited discussion springs up between a young girl and an armyofficer. The girl insists women have long outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouseera, and tha
4、t they are not as anxious as their grandmothers were. The officer says they are,arguing women havent the actual nerve control of men.“A womans reaction in any crisis, the officer says,“is to scream. And while a man mayfeel like it, he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.The American scie
5、ntist does not join in the argument but sits and watches the faces of theother guests. As he stares, he sees a slight, though strange look of anxiety come over the face of thehostess. With a small gesture she summons the servant standing behind her chair. She whispers tohim. The servants eyes widen.
6、 He turns quickly and leaves the room. No one else sees this, nor theservant when he puts a bowl of milk on the balcony outside the glass doors.The American understands. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing. It is bait fora snake. He realizes there is a cobra in the room. The Americans eyes
7、 move across the roombut he sees nothing. He realizes the snake can only be in one place - under the table.His first reaction is to jump back and warn the others. But he knows any sudden movementwill frighten the cobra and it will strike. He speaks quickly, the quality of his voice so arrestingthat
8、it quietens everyone.“I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will countthree hundred - thats five minutes - and not one of you is to move a single muscle. Now! Ready!The 20 people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying .o. hundred and eighty.when, out of the corn
9、er of his eye, he sees the snake emerge and make for the bowl of milk. Four orfive screams ring out as he jumps to slam shut the balcony doors.“There is your proof! the host says.“A man has just shown us real control.“Just a minute, the American says, turning to his hostess,“How did you know that co
10、brawas in the room?A faint smile comes across the womans face as she replies. “Because it was lying across myfoot.21. What is the argument between the army officer and the young girl about?A. Whether women are afraid of mice.B. Whether men are calmer than women.C. Whether men are cleverer than women
11、.D. Whether women would make suitable soldiers.22. Why is the servant asked to put out some milk?A. To play a trick.B. To serve the guests.C. To attract the snake .D. To feed the hostesss pet.23. Why does the scientist suggest the guests play a game?A. He doesnt want anyone to panic.B. He intends to
12、 test the officers theory.C. He sees there was a snake in the room.D. He wants to entertain the other guests.24. What does the author imply through the hostesss final statement?A. The army officers opinion is wrong.B. The hostess understood the Americans intention.C. The American was surprised by th
13、e snakes presence.来源:Zxxk.ComD. The hostess has had previous experience dealing with snakes.B25. What caused musicals to move in a new direction during the 1930s?A. The development of new musical instruments.B. The audience s demand for more realistic art forms.C. The rising popularity of other type
14、s of entertainment.D. The greater acceptance of black performers by white audiences.26. In which period did musical theatre become more complex and dramatic?A. Pre - 1900.B. 1900- 1929.C.1940- 1949.D.1950- 1959.27. What can be reasonably inferred about the musical West Side Story?A. It told its stor
15、y in a new way.B. It was based on a true story.C. It was a non-Broadway show.D. It was not very successful at first.CIn 1874 Francis Galton, a British professor, analysed a sample of English scientists and foundthe vast majority to be first-born sons. This led him to theorise that first-born childre
16、n enjoyed aspecial level of attention from their parents that allowed them to advance intellctually. Half acentury later Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychologist, made a similar argument relating to personality.First-born children, he suggested, were more diligent, while the later-born were more outgoing andemotionally st
