1、2014年高考模拟训练试题英语(五) 本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，共12页。满分150分。考试用时120分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。注意事项： 1答题前，考生务必用05毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名、座号、准考证号、县区和科类填写在答题卡和试卷规定的位置上。 2第I卷每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。 3第II卷必须用05毫米黑色签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应的位置，不能写在试卷上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不能使用涂改液、胶带纸、修正带。不按以上要求作答的答案无
2、效。第I卷(共105分)第一部分英语知识应用(共两节。满分55分)第一节单项选择(共l0小题；每小题15分，满分15分) 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。1Will you take part in the speech contest？ _ I have long been expecting such all activityANot at a11 BIts my pleasure CBut why? DThats for sure2The scientist spent years alone in the forest，_ by eating wild
3、fruit and small animalsAsurviving Bsurvived Cto survive Dhaving survived3Advertising can influence consumers moods，_ in turn，can influence consumersreactions to productsAthat Bwhich Cwhere Dwhen4Why not find a new job?Why should I? I _ as much，but I like what Im doingAdidnt earn Bdont earn Chadnt ea
4、rned Dhavent earned5The boy was so tired that he fell asleep _ his mother could take off his clothesAbefore Bafter Cwhile Dwhere 6 Is everyone here? Not yetLook，there _ the rest of our guests!Acome Bcomes Cis coming Dare coming7Mom，dont you think its OK to play once in a while _ it doesnt affect my
5、studies?Aeven if Bunless Cso that Das long as8. I _ have passed my examination easily，but I made too many stupid mistakesAmust Bwill Cshall Dcould9I will spend half of my holiday practicing English and _ half learning drawingAanother Bthe other Cothers Dother10We have just heard a warning on the rad
6、io _ a typhoon may be on its wayAwhat Bwhen Cwhich Dthat第二节完形填空(共两篇，满分40分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。第一篇(共10小题；每小题1分，满分l0分)A man was bitterly envious of his neighbourHe spent long hours in prayer，wanting to be 11 to his neighbour in every aspect of lifeOne night，God appea
7、red before him in a dream and said，“I am pleased with your 12 Ask for a gift13 your neighbour will get the same gift in double amount”He was glad but sad that his enemy would get a greater giftHe requested，“God，14 the sight in one of my eyes”With his single eye，he peeped at his neighbour but was 15
8、to see his neighbours sight was not lost! Confused，he 16 to God，“Why dont you keep your word?”God said，“Son，I always keep my word17 is not a gift，but a curseYou have the gift of sight in only one eye now，as asked by youBut your neighbour has sight in both of his eyesI 18 the gift” He suddenly 19 fro
9、m his dream and was sure that it was a message from GodEnglightened by the dream，he went to his neighbour and begged his pardon for thinking and acting 20 himThey embraced each other and were good friends thereafter11Acleverer Bprevious Cstronger Dsuperior12Aprayer Benvy Csorrow Dpity13AOtherwiee BB
10、ut CTherefore DBesides14Afinish Bcut Cmove Ddestroy 15Adelighted Bterrified Csurprised Dworried16Ablamed Bcomplained Cyelled Dhurried17ABlindness BEnvy CDisability DPromise18Arelieved Bawarded Ckept Ddoubled19Aawoke Bburst Ccried Dfrightened20Atowards Bfor Cagainst Don第二篇(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)The fam
11、ily had just movedThe young woman was feeling a little 21 It was Mothers Dayand 800 miles separated her from her parentsShe had called them that morning，and her mother had 22 how colorful their backyard was 23 spring had arrivedLater，she told her husband how she 24 those lilacs(丁香)in her parentsyard
12、“I know where we can find some，”he said“Get the 25 and come on”So off they wentSome time later，they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all roundThe young woman rushed up to the nearest 26 and buried her face in the flowersCarefully，she 27 someFinally，they returned to their car for the 28 homeTh
13、e woman sat smiling，surrounded by her 29 When they were near home，she shouted“stop”，got off quickly and 30 to a nearby nursing homeShe went to the end of the porch(门廊)，where a(n) 31 patient was sitting in her wheelchair，and put the flowers into her lapThe two 32 ，bursting into laughter now and thenL
14、ater the young woman turned and ran back to her 33 As the car pulled away，the woman in the wheelchair 34 with a smile，and held the lilacs 35 “Mom，”the kids asked，“ 36 did you give her our flowers?”“It is Mothers Day，and she seems so 37 while I have all of youAnd anyone would be 38 by flowers”This sa
15、tisfied the kids，but not the husbandThe next day he 39 some young lilacs around their yard I was the husbandNow，every May，our yard is full of lilacsEvery Mothers Day our kids 40 purple lilacsAnd every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman21AmovedBworried Cangry Ddepressed22A1earned Bima
16、gined Cmentioned Drealized23Anow that Bso that Cas if Deven if24Amissed Bgrew Cwatered Dshowed25.Acars Bkids Cclothes D1ilacs26Abush Bhill Cyard Ddoor27Abought Bpicked Cset D. raised28Abreak Bholiday Ctrip Ddinner29Afriends Bmemory Cflowers Dhonor30Aresponded Bpointed Cdrove Dhurried31A1oving Belder
17、ly Cserious Dsensitive32Ahesitated Bwaited Csat Dchatted33Afamily Bmother Cpath Dhome34Anodded Bwaved C1eft Dcontinued35Asadly Bpolitely Cquickly Dtightly36Awhy Bwhen Chow Dwhere37Aquiet Bconfused Calone Dpatient38Acalmed Bpersuaded CdisappointedDcheered39Aarranged Bdried Cplanted Dhid40Afind Bgathe
18、r Creceive Dbuy第二部分阅读理解(共25小题；每小题2分满分50分)阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AIn Singapore，most of us love window-shopping while some others enjoy having a picnic at East Coast Park or Changi Beach on sunny daysSingaporeans are never bothered by the occasional thunderstormHowever，we know
19、that if it rains for long continuous periods，there will be more serious effectsJust recently the main shopping street of Orchard Road was flooded and some part of Bukit Timah was impassable(不能通行的)to trafficPeople reacted by writing in to the newspaper to complain about this! We forget that other cou
20、ntries suffer much worse effects.Elsewhere，heavy tropical(热带的)storms often result in floods that ruin crops especially in Thailand and MalaysiaThis in turn usually means that the price of rice and vegetables here in Singapore will rise because we import these products from themIf there is a typhoon
21、or tsunami，thousands of lives are lost tooThis happened in Indonesia and Phuket in Thailand in 2004 and It serves to remind us of how Mother Nature can cause great damageWeather patterns in general have changed dramatically in recent yearsScientists believe that global warming and the resulting melt
22、ing of the polar ice-cap has caused the level of the ocean to riseThis in turn causes flooding of low-lying areas in countries where the land is rather flat and some parts of which is below water levelIt is believed that human activities have caused Mother Nature to show her extreme anger，so it is n
23、ow important that we really work together to cut down on harmful activities，for example，illegal logging(伐木)or irresponsible forest-burning to clear land for farming41From Paragraph 1，we can see that most Singaporeans love _Amaking complaints Bgoing out for picnicsCdoing window-shopping Dtraveling al
24、ong the coast42What will happen in Singapore if there are floods in its neighboring countries?AHeavy tropical storms will follow shortlyBThe price of rice and vegetables will go upCMany people will write in to the newspaperDMore rice and vegetables will be imported43The underlined word“it”in Paragra
25、ph 2 refers to _Athe arrival of heavy tropical storms Bthe import of rice and vegetablesCthe rising price of rice and vegetables Dthe loss of lives in natural disasters44Whats the right order of the following events?aglobal warming bthe rise in ocean levelcharmful human activities dthe flooding of l
26、ow-lying areasethe melting of the polar ice-capAcaebd BacebdCcabed Ddacbe45What should we do in order not to make Mother Nature angry?AClear more land for farming BReduce harmful human activitiesCBring down the price of foodDImprove the quality of weatherBAs the new semester begins，millions of colle
27、ge students across the country are trying hard to remember how best to write a paper-or，more likely，how best to delay that paperProcrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from itThey can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space，eating snacks，surfing
28、 the Internet，watching videos and looking at their pretty peers sitting around them，who，most likely，are doing nothing eitherParalyzed by their habit to procrastinate，they write micro blogs about their fears，asking their online friends if they sometimes have the same issueBut this does nothing to sol
29、ve their problemsAccording to a recent report by the BBC，95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of the worlds population are procrastinators，complicating their lives with their continual delaying of tasksProcrastinators like to find excuses to justify their behavior，but BBC colu
30、mnist Rowan Pelling says they are all wrongMany procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressurePelling says this is nonsense，as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on timeShe says the behavior of procrastinators often makes
31、 them feel flustered and ashamed，inconveniences others，and annoys loved onesFortunately，social seientists have made tireless efforts to understand this behavioral shortcoming and offer strategies to control itPiers Steel，a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation，believes
32、 humankind is“designed”to procrastinateNevertheless，he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at handThe first one is obvious：Break the task down into small pieces and work your way through them methodicallyThe second is clever：Give a trusted friend a sum of money and tell them that
33、if you dont complete the task you have undertaken by a specific time，they can keep it or donate it to a cause you hate.46What does the underlined word“Procrastination” in the second paragraph refer to?AA bad habit of putting work or tasks offBA thief who steals time and money in college.CA college s
34、tudent who learns nothingDA study way of doing nothing in the library.47Which of the following statements is true according to the text?ACollege students can have their papers written if they delay themBMany students dont know what to do in the libraryCStudents cant solve their procrastination by wr
35、iting micro blogsD20of the procrastinators make their life complicated48According to Rowan Pelling，we can learn that procrastinators _.Acan find reasonable excuses for their behaviorBare able to work best under pressureCare more likely to avoid mistakes at workDmay upset themselves and their loved o
36、nes more frequently49Which of the following may Piers Steel support?AHuman beings are not born to be procrastinators BComplete your tasks or work step by stepCGive your trusted friend money and ask him to help you finish your tasksDYou cant control procrastination but you can avoid it50Whatshe best
37、title of the text?AWho steals my time? BThe solutions to procrastinationCIll do it tomorrow，I swear!DDont do nothing!CMany years ago，a French naturalist，the Count de Buffon，wrote some books about natural historyThe books were a great success even though some critics did not like themSome critics sai
38、d，“Count Buffon is more of a poet than a scientist”Thomas Jefferson did not like what the Count had said about the natural wonders of the New WorldIt seemed to Jefferson that the Count had spoken of natural wonders in America as if they were unimportantThis troubled Thomas JeffersonHe too was a natu
39、ralist，as well as a farmer，inventor，historian，writer and politicianHe had seen the natural wonders of EuropeTo him，they were no more important than those of the New WorldIn 1788，Thomas Jefferson wrote about his home state，VirginiaWhile writing，he thought of its natural beauty and then of the words o
40、f the Count de BuffonAt that momentJefferson created a new wordbelittleHe said“The Count de Buffon believes that nature belittles her productions on this side of the Atlantic”Noah Webster，the American word expert，liked this wordHe put it in this English language dictionary in 1806，“Belittleto make s
41、mall，unimportant”Americans had already accepted Jeffersons word and started to use itIn 1797，the Independent Chronicle newspaper used the word to describe a politician the paper supported“He is an honorable man，”the paper wrote，“so let the opposition try to belittle him as much as they please”In 187
42、2，a famous American word expert decided that the time had come to kill this wordHe said，“Belittle has no chance of becoming EnglishAnd as more critical writers of America，like those of Britain，feel no need of it，the sooner it is forgotten，the better”This expert failed to kill the wordTodaybelittle i
43、s used where the English language is spoken51Why did Thomas Jefferson disagree with the Count de Buffon?AThe Count said something silly about the AtlanticBThe Count wasnt a true scientist in natural historyCThe Count was a poet from a different countryDThe Count belittled the natural wonders in Amer
44、ica 52We can infer that Jefferson created the word“belittle”out of his _Aanger Bexcitement Ckindness Dresponsibility53From the text we can know that _Aall critics thought little of the Count de BuffonBEurope has better wonders than the New WorldCthe word“belittle”survived from disagreementsDword exp
45、erts can change the future of a new word54Which of the following is true of the word“belittle”?AIt is gradually accepted by people BIt was invented by the Count de BuffonCIt was used to describe natureDThe Independent Chronicle made it popular55What is the main idea of the text?AHow the word“belittl
46、e”came into being BThe argument about natural wondersCEvery word has a long history behindDNoah Webster supported Jeffersons ideaDResearchers have developed new software using smart phonesGPS and imaging abilities that determine the exact location of distant objects as well as monitor the speed and
47、direction of moving objectsThe software could eventually allow smart phone-armed soldiers to target the location of their enemiesOn the home front，the software could be used by everyone，including golfers judging distance to the green and biologists documenting the location of a rare animal without d
48、isturbing it“The great advantage of a Smartphone is that it provides so many tools in a single，readily available，relatively inexpensive package，”said Qia Wang，a doctoral student who led the development of the software“For example，on the battlefield，a soldier needs a rangefinder，compass，GPS and other
49、 tools to get information before calling in an air strikeWith our software，the soldier can have all those instruments in one device that can be purchased off the shelfWhen that soldier returns from War，she can use the same Software to protect her family by clocking a speeder near her childrens schoo
50、l and catching the criminal on video”Wang and his colleagues developed their software to locate and track：Targets of known sizewhen the size of the target is knowna single image is enough to pinpoint the targets locationTargets of unknown sizeIf the exact size of a target is unknown，the software use
51、s two images to triangulate the location of the targetMoving targetsBy taking a short video of a moving target，the smartphone software can calculate how fast the target is moving and in what direction it is going.“Currently，our software is limited by the physical abilities of smartphone hardware，but
52、 the devices are improving rapidly，”Wang said“We expect that improvements in GPS accuracy，battery life and camera resolution will allow our software to make even more accurate observations”56From Paragraph 1 we can know that the new software can_.Adetermine the speed of moving objects B1ocate object
53、s in the distance exactlyCdefend soldiers against their enemies Dhelp biologists protect rare animal57The example given by Qia Wang is meant to _.Amake an advertisement Bdescribe the software brieflyCshow the benefits of the software Dpresent the functions of smartphones58How does the software calcu
54、late the speed of a moving object?ABy taking a short video BBy locating its position.CBy taking a single imageDBy measuring real-life size.59Whats Qia Wangs attitude towards the future of the software?ACasual BOptimistic CCautiousDFlexible60What is the best title of the text?AQia Wang，a Talented Doc
55、toral StudentBUse Smartphones to Their Full PotentialCTargeting and Tracking With Smartphones DSmartphone-armed Soldiers on the BattlefieldEHow far would you be willing to go to satisfy your need to know? Far enough to find out your possibility of dying from a terrible disease? These days thats more
56、 than an academic question，as Tracy Smith reports in our Cover Story.There are now more than a thousand genetic(基因的)tests，for everything from baldness to breast cancer，and the list is growingQuestion is do you really want to know what might eventually kill you? For instance，Nobel Prize-winning scien
57、tist James Watson，one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup, is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimer(老年痴呆症)“If I tell you that you have an increased risk of getting a terrible disease，that could weigh on your mind and make you anxious，through w
58、hich you see the rest of your 1ife as you wait for that disease to hit youIt could really mess you up”Said DrRobert Green，a Harvard geneticist.“Every ache and pain，”Smith suggested，could be understood as“the beginning of the e nd”“Thats rightIf you ever worried you were at risk for Alzheimers diseas
59、e，then every time you cant find your car in the parking lot，you think the disease has started”DrGreen has been thinking about this issue for yearsHe led a study of people who wanted to know if they were at a higher genetic risk for AlzheimersIt was thought that people who got bad news would，for lack
60、 of a better medical term，freak outBut Green and his team found that there was “no significant difference”between how people handled good news and possibly the worst news of their livesIn fact，most people think they can handle itPeople who ask for the information usually can handle the information，g
61、ood or bad，said Green61The first paragraph is meant to _Aask some questions Bintroduce the topicCsatisfy readers，curiosity Ddescribe an academic fact62Which of the following is true of James Watson?AHe is strongly in favor of the present genetic tests.BHe is more likely to suffer from Alzheimers dis
62、easeCHe believes genetic mapping can help cure any disease.DHe doesnt want to know his chance of getting a disease63According to Paragraphs 3 and 4，if a person is at a higher genetic risk，it is _.Aadvisable not to let him know Bimpossible to hide his diseaseCbetter to inform him immediately Dnecessa
63、ry to remove his anxiety64The underlined part“freak out”in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to _.Abreak down Bdrop out Cleave off Dturn away65The study led by DrGreen indicates that people _.Aprefer to hear good news Btend to find out the truthCcan accept some bad news Dhave the right to be informe
64、d第卷(共45分)第三部分 书面表达(共两节，满分45分)第一节阅读表达(共5小题，每小题3分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题，然后将答案写到相应的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求)。1Your vocabulary refers to the words in a language you are familiar withYour active vocabulary contains the words you understand and use in speech and in print，and your passive vocabulary includes the wo
65、rds you do not use but understandAlthough children learn more new words than adults，the vocabulary of an adult is not fixed and can be increasedImprove your language skills with daily exposure to new words，their pronunciations and meanings2_The more often you read，the faster your vocabulary can grow
66、Choose reading material that is slightly above your level and keep a dictionary with you to look up words you do not know3Find a new word every dayIf you do not encounter an unfamiliar word in your daily reading，use your dictionary to search for one4Learn the correct definition and pronunciation for
67、 each new word you encounterPronunciation is as important as definition because in order to add a word to your active vocabulary，you must be able to use it in speech5Explain the meaning of the word so that you can connect it to something memorableUse imagery and personal relevance(关联)If you have jus
68、t learned that the word“obstinate”means stubborn and unyielding，think about the neighbor who will not lend you his carImagine him shaking his head，and think of him as obstinate in his refusal6Use your new word in speech and in writingTell a friend about your boss obstinately refusing to reschedule y
69、our vacation timeE-mail your sister about how your cat is obstinate about sleeping on your pillowThe first time you use a new word in speech it may seem clumsy and forced，but the more you use it，the more fluent you will become in its useSoon it will be a regular part of your active vocabulary7Tell e
70、veryone you are trying to increase your vocabularyEncourage them to ask you what your latest word is，or to ask for the definition of a new word you have usedThe more you explain the meaning of a word to someone，the more likely you are to remember it66What is the passage mainly about?(no more than 6
71、words)_67Whats the purpose of the example of the word“obstinate”in Paragraph 5?(no more than 20 words)_68Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words(no more than 4 words)_69What should we do if there is no unfamiliar word in our daily reading?(no more than 7 words)_ 70What does the underlined
72、 word“it”in Paragraph 4 probably refer to?(no more than 3 words)_第二节写作(满分30分)假设你是新华中学的高三毕业生李华，刚刚参加完高考。最近听说美籍华人李响出资帮助贫困大学生。请你根据以下要点写一封资助申请信。1个人情况介绍；2申请资助原因(家庭困难情况)；3资助款的使用及今后打算。注意：1词数：120150(开头已给出，不计入总词数)； 2可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。Dear MrLi， Im had to hear that you will help those who are lacking_in money in going to collegeIm writing to apply for it._Looking forward to your reply.Yours sincerely, Li Hua