2014年新思维教育高考英语(二).doc

2014年新思维教育高考英语（二）本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分，第卷1页至8页，第卷9至10页。考生作答时，须将答案答在答题卡上，在本试题卷、草稿纸上答题无效。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第卷（选择题 共90分）注意事项：1.必须使用2B铅笔在答题卡将所选答案对应的标号涂黑。2.第卷共两部分，共计100分。第一部分 英语知识运用（共两节，共40分）第一节 单项填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）1. Excuse me. How much is the shirt? .A. Extra LargeB. 50 eachC. It sells wellD. Altogether there are 52. New technologies have made possible to turn out new products faster and at a lower cost.A. thatB. this C. oneD. it3. Goodbye, John. Come back again sometime. Sure. .A. I didB. I doC. I shallD. I will4. At school, some students are active some are shy, yet they can be good friends with one another.A. whileB. althoughC. soD. as5. This is not my story, nor the whole story. My story plays out differently.A. is thereB. there isC. is itD. it is6. Tom took a taxi to the airport, only his plane high up in the sky.A. findingB. to findC. being foundD. to have found7. The hotel is almost finished, but it needs one or two weeks to get ready for guests.A. onlyB. alsoC. evenD. still8. I looked up and noticed a snake its way up the tree to catch its breakfast.A. to windB. windC. windingD. wound9. Did you catch what I said?Sorry. I a text message just now.A. had answeredB. have answeredC. would answerD. was answering10. If you happen to get lost in the wild, youd better stay you are and wait for help.A. whyB. whereC. whoD. what第二节，完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。Lightning flashed through the darkness over Sibson bedroom skylight（天窗）. Sibson was shaken by a clap of thunder 11 he knew what was happening. The storm had moved directly 12 his two-story wooden house. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping.Sibson rushed down the stairs barefoot to 13 ; he opened the door to the basement（地下室）, and flames 14 out. Sibson ran back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom. “I felt 15 because the room had a separate outdoor stairway,” he explains.But the phone didnt work, and when he tried to go down the outdoor stairway, he was 16 by a wall of flames. Sibson realized he was trapped（困住）.Sibsons house was three kilometers 17 the main road and was so well hidden by trees that he knew calling for help would be 18 .Up a hill nearby lived Sibsons neighbor, Huggons. He was lying in bed when something like a smoke alarm 19 his ears. He jumped out of bed, took his 20 and flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the 21 .That was when he saw the rolling heavy smoke.Huggons dialed 911, and the operator warned him not to 22 the house. But Huggons said, “There is no way I am going to listen to Sibson 23 and die in that fire.”“Anyone there?” Huggons called out. Then he heard “Help! Im trapped!” coming from the second floor balcony（阳台）. He entered the house, but soon had to run back to catch his 24 .After one more 25 inside the house, Huggons gave up and 26 around back.The wind parted the smoke just 27 for him to catch sight of Sibson. But there was no way to get to him. He 28 the flashlight into the woods and noticed a ladder. He took it over to the balcony and 29 Sibson down just as the second floor of the house fell off.Sibson is still 30 when he tells the story, “I was alone that night,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Huggons.”11. A. beforeB. whileC. sinceD. until12. A. onB. inC. throughD. over13. A. hideB. waitC. checkD. escape14. A. movedB. gaveC. wentD. exploded15. A. safeB. worriedC. gladD. tired16. A. burnedB. stoppedC. shockedD. covered17. A. besideB. offC. acrossD. along18. A. limitedB. falseC. fruitlessD. regretful19. A. struckB. missedC. touchedD. passed20. A. coatB. keyC. basinD. phone21. A. noiseB. roadC. smokeD. danger22. A. searchB. enterC. leaveD. damage23. A. callB. rollC. screamD. sigh24. A. breathB. attentionC. ladderD. flashlight25. A. stayB. chanceC. thoughtD. attempt26. A. climbedB. circledC. lookedD. jumped27. A. clearB. openC. enoughD. fit28. A. ledB. putC. droveD. shone29. A. persuadedB. kickedC. pulledD. forced30. A. nervousB. surprisedC. proudD. thankful第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）AOn a hill 600 feet above the surrounding land, we watch the lines of rain move across the scene, the moon rise over the hills, and the stars appear in the sky. The views invite a long look from a comfortable chair in front of the wooden house.Every window in our wooden house has a view, and the forest and lakes seldom look the same as the hour before. Each look reminds us where we are.There is space for our three boys to play outside, to shoot arrows, collect tree seeds, build earth houses and climb trees.Our kids have learned the names of the trees and with the names have come familiarity and appreciation. As they tell all who show even a passing interest, maple makes the best fighting sticks and white pines are the best climbing trees.The air is clean and fresh. The water from the well has a pleasant taste, and it is perhaps the healthiest water our kids will ever drink. Though they have one glass a day of juice and the rest is water, they never say anything against that.The seasons change just outside the door. We watch maples turn every shade of yellow and red in the fall and note the poplars putting out the first green leaves of spring. The rainbow smelt fills the local stream as the ice gradually disappears, and the wood frogs start to sing in pools after being frozen for the winter. A family of bird rules our skies and flies over the lake.31. What can be learned from Paragraph 2?A. The scenes are colorful and changeable.B. There are many windows in the wooden house.C. The views remind us that we are in a wooden house.D. The lakes outside the windows are quite different in color.32. By mentioning the names of the trees, the author aims to show that .A. the kids like playing in treesB. the kids are very familiar with treesC. the kids have learned much knowledgeD. the kids find trees useful learning tools33. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?A. The change of seasons is easily felt.B. The seasons make the scenes change.C. The weather often changes in the forest.D. The door is a good position to enjoy changing seasons.34. What is the main purpose of the author writing the text?A. To describe the beauty of the scene around the house.B. To introduce her childrens happy life in the forest.C. To show that living in the forest is healthful.D. To share the joy of living in the nature.BHere is your best chance to travel around the UK in 2012: More than 200 B&Bs (bed & breakfast) across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are selected to offer you amazing services for your stay at their lowest prices! Dont miss it. Just collect the vouchers（活动券）in our B&B Daily printed from 01/ 04/ 2012 to 07/ 04/ 2012 and book the stays for your travel following the terms and conditions below: The offer includes a room for the night and a breakfast the next morning. The offer is of two kinds: 20 per room, per night, valid（有效的） during stay period of 02/ 04/ 201231/ 05/ 2012 and then again 01/ 08/ 201231/ 10/ 2012; 35 per room, per night, valid during stay period of 01/ 06/ 201231/ 08/ 2012. The offer is valid for a basic twin or double room only. The stay must be booked directly with the chosen B&Bs before 28/ 04/ 2012. 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What right do the B&Bs reserve?A. To charge extra 10 for booking with no vouchers.B. To refuse bookings for guests under the age of 18.C. To charge at full price for stays not confirmed.D. To request extra charges as tips.38. By taking up the offer, the voucher holders can choose to .A. book either a basic twin or double room at the chosen B&BsB. have lunch or evening meal without paying extra moneyC. use the B&B offer together with other offersD. book the stays through B&B DailyCI left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didnt think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55, 000 words.It takes confidence to make a new start- theres a dark period in-between where youre neither one thing nor the other. Youre out for dinner and people ask what you do, and youre too ashamed to say, “Well, I m writing a novel, but Im not quite sure if Im going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.Then I met an agent（代理商） who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book dealthat publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luckof fate, really. When you set out to do something different, theres no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisherto be a published writeris unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）. 39. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?A. I was waiting for good fortune.B. I was trying to find an admirable job.C. I was being aimless about a suitable job.D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.40. The author decided to write a novel .A. to finish the writing courseB. to realize her own dreamC. to satisfy readers wishD. to earn more money41. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?A. DisturbedB. Ashamed.C. Confident.D. Uncertain.42. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?A. It pays to stick to ones goal.B. Hard work can lead to success.C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.DIn a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX. “Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses,” Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the plan.MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes materials from more than 2, 000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people who complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program.The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120, 000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source edX platform.“Fasten your seatbelts,” Hockfield said.Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit（非盈利的）organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.43. According to this text, edX is .A. a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWareB. a free computer program by MIT and HarvardC. a Harvard-MIT platform of free online coursesD. a free program online for universities worldwide44. What is said about online education in the text?A. Universities have been trying online courses.B. About 2, 000 online courses have been offered.C. Over 100 million people have finished courses online.D. Stanford and Yale together have courses similar to edX.45. The underlined part in the text probably means “ ”.A. Get ready for the difficultiesB. Get ready for this educational changeC. Get prepared to complete the online coursesD. Get prepared to make materials for the edX courses46. What can be said about MITx according to the text?A. It is first offered as part of the edX learning program.B. It is another free MIT-Harvard online learning program.C. It is a standard to recognize online learners achievement.D. It is a new kind of free online course of Harvard and MIT.EPlants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say.Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.“Predicting species reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology,” said the researchers of several U. S. universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1, 634 species. It found that some experiments had underestimated the speed of flowering 8.5 times and leafing by 4 times.“Across all species, the experiments under-predicted the speed of the advancefor both leafing and floweringthat results from temperature increases,” the study said.The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change, it said.Plants are necessary for life on the Earth. They are the base of the food chain, using photosynthesis to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. They let out oxygen which is needed by nearly every organism on the planet.Scientists believe the worlds average temperature has risen by about 0.8 since 1900, and nearly 0.2 every ten years since 1979.So far, efforts to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to prevent the Earth heating up beyond 2 this centurya point scientists say will bring the danger of a changeable climate in which weather extremes are common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and rising sea levels.47. What is the key information the author wants to give in Paragraph 1?A. Plants reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystems.B. The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists expectation.C. Climate change leads to the change of food production patterns.D. Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.48. We can learn from the study published on the Nature website that .A. plants flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafingB. there are 1, 634 plant species on the four continentsC. scientists should improve the design of the experimentsD. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change49. Scientists pay special attention to the study of plants because .A. they can prove the climate change clearlyB. they are very important in the food chainsC. they play a leading role in reducing global warmingD. they are growing and flowering much faster than before50. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs about the worlds temperature?A. It has risen nearly 0.2 since 1979.B. Its change will lead to weather extremes.C. It is 0.8 higher in 1979 than that of 1900.D. It needs to be controlled within 2 in this century.第二节 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多余选项。（共5小题：每小题2分，满分10分） What seems to be the problem? 51 . How long have you been like this? 52 . Yes. I also feel lightheaded. Can you think of anything you ate Saturday that might have caused it? All I can think of is the fish I had. It didnt taste quite right. 53 Now Ill give you some medicine. Take it and you should be feeling better soon. 54 I also suggest that you follow a special diet. 55 You should stick to eating lighter foods.A. Whats that?B. That might be it.C. Thank you, doctor.D. Any other problems?E. I have a running nose.F. Have you seen a doctor?G. I have a terrible stomachache.第卷（非选择题 共60分）注意事项：1. 必须使用0.5毫米黑色墨迹签字笔在答题卡上题目所指是的答案区域内作答。答在试题卷上无效。2. 第卷共计50分）第三部分 写作（共三节 共50分）第一节 阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题（请注意问题后的词数要求。）In the spring of 2013, Carly Zalenskis eyes were filled with tears as the dusty bus ran down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. The 14-year-old girl and her family had traveled by plane from Canton, Ohio, to Ho Chi Minh City and then by bus deep into the Mekong Delta. Now, as they approached the village, hundreds of cheering schoolchildren lined the entrance to the Hoa Lac School, a two-story concrete building that Carly had raised money for.Carly started helping others when she was eight, handing out Thanksgiving baskets at church to families in need. It was a snowy day, and she saw that one girl was wearing a pair of broken shoes and others didnt have warm coats. The next November, she went door-to-door a