重庆市名校联盟2014级高三英语下学期联合考试试卷及答案
重庆市名校联盟2013~2014学年度下期高2014级联合考试
英 语 试 题
命题人：重庆市潼南中学校 袁静
英语测试卷共4页。满分120分，考试时间100分钟。
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一、单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. The world has become _____ much smaller place as a result of the revolution in _____ information technology over the years.
A. a; the B. the; the C. a; / D. the; /
2. The manager got to the company in a hurry, only to find that he ____ his laptop back at home.
A. would leave B. was leaving C. has left D. had left
3. I have no dreams _____ to have a happy life.
A. rather than B. more than C. other than D. less than
4. Uncle Li has just spent over one million Yuan on a house, _____ he believes is good value for the money.
A. what B. which C. that D. where
5. --- Thank you so much! How can I repay you for your kindness?
---_____ . It was nothing.
A. It depends B. Forget it C. Sounds great D. Never mind
6. --- Will Mr. Black go to the opening ceremony this weekend?
--- No, he has finally decided _____.
A. not B. not to go C. not to D. not to go to
7. It is well-known that atmosphere gets thinner and thinner ____ the height increases.
A. while B. when C. as D. with
8. My family wasn’t very rich and ____ some extra money, I had to take part-time jobs in my spare time.
A. to earn B. earning C. earned D. having earned
9. Breakfast _____ between 7:00 and 8:00, so we’d better get up early tomorrow morning.
A. serves B. has served C. is served D. will be served
10. “Genius” is a complicated concept, _____ many different factors.
A. involved B. involving C. to involve D. being involved
11. Whether dying patients be helped to end their lives is a tough moral question.
A. must B. should C. might D. would
12. I am sure we can help you solve the problem, ____ you tell us all the necessary information.
A. in case B. now that C. provided that D. in order that
13. --What’s your idea?
--My opinion is _____, ____ happens, we should not stop the reform.
A. when; what B. that; when C. that; whatever D. when; what
14. I’ve had enough of my neighbor. I’m going to ______ their noisy parties right now.
A. put an end to B. give way to C. look up to D. come up to
15. -- Are you going to see The Flowers of War by Zhang Yimou?
--- _______. It’s said to be too good a film to miss.
A. No problem! B. That’s for sure. C. Why me? D. Why bother?
二、完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
A
I have enjoyed stories about the kindness of strangers in Pittsburgh. Now I have one to share.
I set off one morning with my _16_to get a few groceries. I forgot the bags I _17_bring in order to take my own groceries, and on the way to the car, I _18_the necessary coins in the snow-covered grass.
We finally got our groceries, and waited patiently in a checkout line behind a _19_. I put all my groceries onto the conveyor belt. It was a busy morning there, and the next person put a lot of goods on the back of the belt behind me. I _20_then that my wallet was in my other coat pocket back at home and I was stuck with no way to pay, and no way to get out of the line 21 .
I told my daughter at that moment, “Daddy is _22_!”She was kind enough to offer, “No, you’re not; you’re my daddy!”
The woman in front_ 23_this and asked, “How much do you need? I have some money.” I told her I had no way to return the money, but she _24_paying for me. I couldn’t thank her enough. She_25_said, “It’s no problem; just pay it forward.”
Stories about the kindness of_26_may be common and frequent, _27_now I want to say thank you to the woman again. And I will pay it forward when I next get the opportunity.
16. A. son B. daughter C. dad D. mom
17. A. usually B. early C. carefully D. gladly
18. A. chose B. forgot C. dropped D. brought
19. A. man B. woman C. child D. student
20. A. believed B. realized C. thought D. guessed
21. A. luckily B. patiently C. easily D. quietly
22. A. stupid B. strange C. poor D. busy
23. A. discussed B. noticed C. experienced D. hated
24. A. insisted on B. laughed at C. called on D. planned for
25. A. nervously B. proudly C. simply D. excitedly
26. A. friends B. families C. strangers D. neighbors
27. A. and B. but C. until D. for
B
Greeting is an act of communication to make the presence accepted by each other. While greeting customs may_28_within a culture according to social position and relationship, they exist in all _29_ human cultures. Greeting can be expressed both in words and physically, and often have a _30_of the two.
The form of greeting _31_ social customs and relationship. Beyond the _32_ greeting, which may sometimes have a hand shake, facial expression, body language and eye contact can all tell what
_33_of greeting is expected.
Although hand shakes, hugs, bows, nods and nose rubbing are all acceptable greetings, the most common greeting in many_ 34_ is a kiss, or kisses on the cheek. For example, in France, two kisses are most __35__ and in Russia and Egypt, it is customary to kiss cheeks three times.
28. A. improve B. change C. keep D. disappear
29. A. known B. strange C. developed D. creative
30. A. construction B. description C. combination D. collection
31. A. belongs to B. depends on C. results from D. deals with
32. A. personal B. national C. unusual D. formal
33. A. type B. time C. meaning D. theme
34. A. seasons B. cultures C. companies D. fields
35. A. special B. ordinary C. common D. strange
三、阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面五篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
I came to study in the United States a year ago. Yet I did not know the real American society until I was injured in a car accident because after the accident I had to see a doctor and go to court.
After the accident，my roommate called a doctor for me. I was very grateful and determined to repay him one day. But the next day, he asked me to pay him $200 for what he had done. I was astonished. He had good reason to charge me, he said. And if I wanted to collect money from the person who was responsible for my injury, I’d have to have a good lawyer. And only a good doctor can help me get a good lawyer .Now that he had helped me find a good doctor, it was only fair that I should pay him.
But every day I went to see the doctor, I had to wait about 50 minutes. He would see two or three patients at the same time, and often stop treating one so as to see another. Yet he charged me $115 each time. The final examination report consisted of ten lines, and it cost me $215.
My lawyer was all smiles the first time we met. But after that he avoided seeing me at all. He knew very well the other party was responsible for the accident, yet he hardly did anything. He simply waited to collect his money. He was so irresponsible that I didn’t want to hire him. And he made me pay him $770.
Now I had to act as my own lawyer. Due to my inexperience, I told the insurance company the date I was leaving America. Knowing that, they played for time and I left without getting a cent.
36. The author’s roommate offered to help him because________.
A. he showed sympathy to the author
B. he knew the author should find a good doctor
C. he knew the author needed his help
D. he thought it was a chance to make some money
37. A good doctor is necessary for the author to __________.
A. find out the person responsible for the accident
B. recover totally from the injury
C. eventually make the responsible party pay for his injury
D. be treated fairly before he leaves America
38. Both the doctor and the lawyer in this passage are __________.
A. helpful B. professional C. money-maker D. selfish
39. What conclusion can you draw from the story?
A. One cannot be too careful while driving a car.
B. People value money most in the US.
C. Finding lawyers is something very common in America.
D. Having some selfless friends is more important than other things in the US.
B
As computers become more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly depending on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the computer too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more.
Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a computer as early as primary school. And computer dependence is more wide-spread among university students. Almost all their homework and essays are typed on a computer.
All the students interviewed say they usually use a computer.
It"s faster and easier to correct if using a computer. And that"s why computers are being applied more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in computers increasingly, problems appear.
'When I"m writing with a pen, I find I often can"t remember how to write a character, though I feel I’m familiar with it.'
'I"m not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper.'
Many students don"t feel this is something to worry about. Now that it"s more convenient and quick to write on a computer, why bother to handwrite?
Many educators think differently. Shi Liwei, the headmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said “Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic(审美的) value. But those characters typed with computer keyboards only have their practical value. All the artistic beauty of the characters is lost. And Handwriting contains the writer’s emotion. Through one’s handwriting, people can get to know one’s thinking and personality. Beautiful writing will give people a better first impression of them.”
To encourage students to handwrite more, many primary schools in Beijing have made writing classes compulsory and in universities, some professors are asking students to turn in their homework and essays written by hand.
40 .The students interviewed prefer to write using a computer mainly because______.
A. they are usually asked to e-mail their homework and Essays
B. they can correct the mistakes they make quickly and conveniently
C. they find it not easy to remember how to write a character
D. computers have become popular in China
41. Which of the following statements is NOT the advantages of handwriting?
A. Handwriting contains the writer"s emotion.
B. The writer’s thinking and personality are shown in his or her handwriting.
C. Handwriting can impress people well and build up one’s self-confidence.
D. Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic value.
42. The underlined expression “taking stock in” (Paragraph 4) probably means_____.
A. getting bored with B. getting dependent on
C. becoming crazy about D. getting curious about
43. We can draw the conclusion from the passage that_______.
A. more and more students will give up writing on a computer
B. writing by hand will give way to typing by computer one day
C. more and more students will pay attention to handwriting
D. the typing article better expresses one’s emotion and quality
C
The Erie Canal was the first important national waterway built in the US. It crossed New York from Buffalo on Lake Erie Troy to Albany on the Hudson River. It joined the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. The canal served as a route over which industrial goods could flow into the west, and materials could pour into the east. The Erie Canal helped New York develop into the nation’s largest city.
The building of the canal was paid for entirely by the state of New York. It cost {CONTENT}nbsp;7,143,789, but it soon gained its price many times over. Between 1825, when the canal was opened, and 1882, when toll charges(过运河费) were stopped, the state collected $121,461,891.
For a hundred years before the Erie was built, people had been talking about a canal which could join the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The man who planned the Erie Canal and carried the plan through was De Witt Clinton. Those who were against the canal laughingly called it “Clinton’s Ditch(沟)”. Clinton talked and wrote about the canal and drew up plans for it. He and Governor Morris went to Washington in 1812 to ask for help for the canal, but they were unsuccessful.
Clinton became governor of New York in 1817, and shortly afterwards, on July 4,1817, broke ground for the canal in Rome, N.Y. The first part of the canal was completed in 1820. As the canal grew, towns along its course developed fast. The length of the canal is 363 miles.
44. We can see that the Erie Canal ________.
A. joined the Great Lakes together
B. crossed New York from north to south
C. played an important part in developing New York City
D. was the first waterway built in the US
45. It can be inferred that ________ into the Atlantic Ocean.
A. the Great Lakes flow B. the Hudson River flows
C. Lake Erie flows D. the Erie Canal flows
46. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? ______
A. The Erie Canal brought profits of over $114, 000, 000.
B. It’s 363 miles from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
C. The West was more advanced than the East when the canal was built.
D. Many other states helped New York built the canal.
47. We can draw a conclusion that _______，according to the passage.
A. Clinton broke ground for the canal at both ends.
B. Clinton started building the canal before he became governor.
C. All parts of the canal were completed at the same time.
D. Construction of the canal took eight years.
D
Jack Andraka from Maryland won the grand prize at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. It is the largest high school science competition in the world. The Maryland teenager is the youngest winner of the $75,000 award，who was chosen from among 1,500 students in 70 countries.
Jack Andraka invented a test for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. He started to learn it after losing a close family friend to the disease. “I went on the Internet and I found that 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than a 2% chance of survival,” he says, “ and I was thinking, "That’s not right. We should be able to do something.’ ” He found that early discovery is important to increasing the chances of surviving the disease.
The Maryland teenager requested and received permission to work in a laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. There he developed a simple paper test, which can identify the disease in a single drop of blood. His test has proven correct 90% of the time. It also is 100 times more sensitive than other tests. “It costs three cents per test, and then also it takes only five minutes to run.” he said.
Jack’s success wouldn’t have been possible without Anirban Maitra, a professor at Johns Hopkins. He was the only person among the 200 researchers Jack contacted who showed interest in his project. “I was very surprised that this was a 15-year old boy who was writing this. I wanted to meet this clever young man and see what he wanted to talk about and so I called him over for an interview.”
Jack worked in Professor Maitra’s laboratory, completing his project in seven months. The government has given the Maryland teenager patent rights to the pancreatic cancer test. He is now talking with companies about developing the test into a simple product.
Whatever happens, the professor believes Jack Andraka’s name is one we will be hearing again over the next 10 to 20 years.
48. What made Jack Andraka research pancreatic cancer? _____
A. A high school task B. A professor’s encouragement
C. Losing a friend D. Doubts about the present test
49. We can infer from the text that Jack Andraka _____.
A. left a deep impression on Professor Maitra.
B. was thought highly of by companies.
C. got support from others easily.
D. wasn’t afraid of failure.
50. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests Jack Andraka will _____.
A. become rich B. make contributions continually
C. get a good job D. make products to treat cancer
51. What’s the best title for the test? _____
A. Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
B. Jack Andraka’s fights against cancer
C. Research on Pancreatic cancer
D. Teenage cancer research
E
Although man has known asbestos for many hundreds of years, it was not until 160 years ago that it was mined for the first time on the North American continent. H. W. Johns, owner of a New York City Supply Shop for roofers, was responsible for the opening of that first mine.
Mr. Johns was given a piece of asbestos which had been found in Italy. He experimented with the material and then showed its surprising powers to his customers. After putting on a pair of asbestos gloves, which looked much like ordinary work gloves, he took red-hot coals from the fireplace and played with them in his hands. How astonished the customers were to discover that he was not burned at all. You can well imagine that he had increasing business in asbestos roofing materials. However, because it was very expensive to transport them from Italy to the United States, Mr. Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home. This young man found great vein(岩脉), in the province of Quebec in Canada.
Ever since 1881 Quebec has led the world in the production of this unusual mineral, which is made up of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen. When it is mined, the asbestos is heavy, just as you would expect a mineral to be. When it is separated, a strange thing happens; the rock breaks down into fine, soft, soapy fibers.
Scientists do not know why the rock can be separated easily into threads, but they have found thousands of uses of this fireproof material, of the so-called “cloth of stone”.
52. Which title best expresses the main idea of this passage?
A. Asbestos mined in Canada B. Fireproof matter
C. A “wonder” mineral D. A new roofing material
53. Johns proved his ability as a salesman by_______.
A. going into roofing business B. carrying asbestos from Italy
C. sending a trained scientist D. showing the use of asbestos gloves
54. Which is the most important character of asbestos that the author wants to show us?
A. It is like thread. B. It feels soapy.
C. It burns easily. D. It is unusually heavy.
55. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage was to _______.
A. show the need for more scientists B. compare asbestos with other minerals
C. increase the sales of asbestos D. present facts about asbestos
四、写作（共两节，满分35分）
写作（一）满分15分。
请结合材料，按要求用英语写作，词数不少于60。
Life is like a mirror. You smile at it, and it smiles back at you.
要求：（1）就此材料发表你的感想，有明确的观点 。 （2）并举例说明。
写作（二）满分20分，词数不少于80。
现在中学生中存在一些学习和生活上的心理问题。请你用英语写一篇题为How to Be Mentally Healthy的短文。短文应包含以下内容：
1. 你认为中学生在学习和生活中有哪些心理问题？
2. 你觉得如何做才能解决这些心理问题？
重庆市名校联盟2014级高三英语下学期联合考试答案
