1、广州二模英语试题2019年广州二模英语试题AThe country is India. A large dinner party is being given in an up-country station by a colonial official and his wife. The guests are army and government officers and their wives, and an American naturalist.At one side of the long table, a spirited discussion springs up betwee
2、n a young girl and an army officer. The girl insists women have long outgrown the jumping- on- a- chair -at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era, and that 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
3、 crisis, the officer says, “is to scream. And while a man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.The American scientist does not join in the argument but sits and watches the faces of the other guests. As he stares, he sees a slight, though strange look of anxiety come
4、over the face of the hostess. With a small gesture she summons the servant standing behind her chair. She whispers to him. The servants eyes widen. He turns quickly and leaves the room. No one else sees this, nor the servant when he puts a bowl of milk on the balcony outside the glass doors.The Amer
5、ican understands. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing. It is bait for a snake. He realizes there is a cobra in the room. The Americans eyes move across the room but 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 t
6、he others. But he knows any sudden movement will frighten the cobra and it will strike. He speaks quickly, the quality of his voice so arresting that it quietens everyone. I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will count three hundred-thats five minutes-and not one of you is
7、 to move a single muscle. Now! Ready!The 20 people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying. two hundred and eighty.when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the snake emerge and make for the bowl of milk. Four or five screams ring out as he jumps to slam shut the balcony doors.There is
8、 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 cobra was in the room?A faint smile comes across the womans face as she replies. Because it was lying across my foot.21.What is the argument between the ar
9、my 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.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
10、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 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 ho
11、stesss final statement?A. The army officers opinion is wrong.B. The hostess understood the Americans intention.C. The American was surprised by the snakes presence.D. The hostess has had previous experience dealing with snakes.25.What caused musicals to move in a new direction during the 1930s?A. Th
12、e development of new musical instruments.B. The audiences demand for more realistic art forms.C. The rising popularity of other types 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.
13、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 story 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 1874Francis Galton, a British professor, analyzed a
14、 sample of English scientists and found the vast majority to be first-born sons. This led him to theorize that first-born children enjoyed a special level of attention from their parents that allowed them to advance intellectually. Half a century later Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychologist, made a
15、similar argument relating to personality.First-born children, he suggested, were more diligent, while the later-born were more outgoing and emotionally stable. Many subsequent studies have explored these ideas, but their findings have been varied-some supporting and some rejecting the original concl
16、usions.The main problem with the previous studies is that they were too small-often limited to a few dozen individuals. This would be true even if the statistical methods needed to analyze the data were simple, but they are not. Distinguishing birth-order effects from those caused by family size com
17、plicates matters, meaning still bigger samples must be analyzed to obtain meaningful results.To overcome the limitation of these earlier studies, German social scientist Dr. Helmet Schmukle and his colleagues analyzed three huge sets of data from America, Britain and Germany.These data sets, though
18、collected for other purposes, included personality and intelligence tests on 20,186 people at different stages of their lives. The American tests were on individuals aged between 29 and 35. The British tests were conducted on 50-year-olds. The German tests ran the whole span of adult life, from 18 t
19、o 98.Birth order, they found, had no effect on personality: first-borns were no more, nor less, likely than their younger siblings to be hardworking, outgoing or anxious. But it did affect intelligence. In a family with two children, the first child was more intelligent than the second 60% of the ti
20、me, rather than the 50% that would be expected by chance. On average, this translated to a difference of 1.5 IQ points between first and second siblings. That figure agrees with previous studies, and thus looks confirmed.It is, nevertheless, quite a small difference-and whether it is enough to accou
21、nt for Galtons original observation is unclear. In any event, it is certainly not deterministic. Galton was the youngest of nine.28.Alfred Adler concluded that first-born children were_.A. more stable B. more sociableC. more intelligentD. more hardworking29.What does the underlined “they”in paragrap
22、h 2refer to？A. The data.B. The analyses.C. The previous studies.D. The statistical methods.30.Why was Schmukles study considered superior to previous research？A. It involved a wider age range. B. It had a much larger sample size.C. It included a larger number of countries.D. It was conducted over a
23、longer period of time.31.Why does the author mention Galtons family background in the last paragraph？A. To confirm Galtons difficult upbringing.B. To suggest Galtons theory may not be correct.C. To compare his experience with Galtons parents.D. To explain why Galton was interested in birth order.DPh
24、otography has opened our eyes to a multitude of beauties, things we literally could not have seen before the invention of the frozen image. It has greatly expanded our notion of what is beautiful, what is aesthetically（审美上）pleasing. Items formerly considered trivial, and not worth an artists paint,
25、have been revealed and honored by the photograph: things as ordinary as a fence post, a chair, a vegetable. And as technology has developed, photographers have explored completely new points of view；those of the microscope, the eagle, the cosmos.What is it that delights the human eye and allows us t
26、o claim that a photograph is beautiful？Photography depends on the trinity of light, composition, and moment. Light literally makes the recording of an image possible, but in the right hands, light in a photograph can make the image soar. The same is true with composition. What the photographer choos
27、es to keep in or out of the frame is all that we will ever see-but that combination is vital. And the moment that the shutter is pressed, when an instant is frozen in time, provides the whole image with meaning. When the three-light, composition, and moment-are in balance, there is visual magic.Ligh
28、t, composition, and moment come together in a photograph to bring us the ultimate reality: a view of the world unknown prior to the invention of the camera. Before photography, the basic artistic rules of painting were rarely broken. Images were made to please, not to capture reality. But as photogr
29、aphy evolved, painterly rules were often rejected in the pursuit of fresh vision.Photographers became interested in the real world, good and bad, and it was the accidental detail that was celebrated. Photography invited the world to see with new eyes-to see photographically-and all of the arts have
30、drawn new inspiration from this change.With these basic aesthetic tools, photographers have evolved from scientists longing to fixan image-any image-to artistic revolutionaries. Photographs have created a new way of seeing, changed our ideas of beauty and, most importantly, made art more democratic.
31、 They have given us visual proof that the world is grander than we imagined, and that there is beauty, often overlooked, in nearly everything.32.Before the invention of photography, which of the following was least likely to appear in an artistic work?A. A great person.B. A lovely insect.C. A grand
32、building.D. A beautiful landscape33.What is the function of paragraph 2?A. To argue that photographic beauty is subjectiveB. To explain the evolution of the concept of beauty.C. To describe the elements that make a successful photo.D. To illustrate different types of photographic techniques.34.How has photography affected other art forms?A. It has reduced their popularity. B. It has forced them to change their rules.C. It has changed their methods of co
