2014年高考英语试题及答案Word版精校版(新课标I卷)

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,

回答第

10

至

12

题。

10. How will the speaker go to New York?

A. By air.

B. By taxi.

C.

By bus.

11. Why are the speakers making the trip?

A. For business.

B. For shopping.

C. For holiday.

12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Driver and passenger

B. Husband and wife.

C. Fellow workers.

听第

9

段材料

,

回答第

13

至

16

题。

13. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. In a restaurant. B. In an office. C. In a classroom.

14. What does John do now?

A. He

’

s a trainer. B. He

’

s a tour guide.

C. He

’

s a college student.

15. How much can a new person earn for the first year?

A. $$10,500.

B. $$ 12,000.

C. $$ 15,000.

16. How many people will the woman hire?

A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.

听第

10

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1 7

至

20

题。

17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city?

A. One year.

B. Ten years.

C. Eighteen years.

18. What is the speaker

’

s opinion on public transport?

A. It

’

s comfortable.

B. It

’

s time-saving.

C. It

’

s cheap.

19. What is good about living in a small town?

A. It

’

s safer.

B. It

’

s healthier. C. I

t’

s more convenient.

20. What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most?

A. Busy.

B. Colourful

C. Quiet.

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60

分）

第一节

（ 共

15

小题

;

每小题

3

分，满分

45

分）

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

题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge

Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!

The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity

Challenge. The challenge invites , even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to

create

artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their

world.

Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem

that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing

should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue,

Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honor at a

special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21

st

. Guest speakers will also present prizes to

the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will exhibited and

prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in celebration and brunch

will be served.

Between March 10

th

and March 15h, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing

ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related

information are available at :http:// .

21. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?

A. School students.

B. Cambridge locals.

C. CSF winners.

D. MIT artists.

22. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?

A. On February 8

th

.

B. On March 10

th

.

C. On March 15

th

D. On April 21

st

.

23. What type of writing is this text?

A .An exhibition guide.

B. An art show review.

C. An announcement.

D. An official report.

B

Passenger pigeons (

旅鸽

)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable

numbers.

Written accounts from the 18

th

and 19

th

centuries described flocks (

群

)so large that they

the

sky for

hours.

It was calculated that when it population reached its highest point ,they were more than

3billlion

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passenger pigeons

—

a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the

United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when

their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles

(about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.

Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds

were

most abundant, people believed there was an ever- lasting supply and killed them by the

thousands,

Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled

to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to

large cities and sold in restaurants.

By the closing decades of the 19

th

century ,the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons

nested had

been damaged by American’s need for wood, which scattered (

驱散

) the flocks and forced the

birds to

go farther north, where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the

great flocks

were gone, never to be seen again.

In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by

then,

no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wi pigeon in the

United

States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time , a few birds survived under

human

care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden

on

September 1, 1914.

24. In the 18

th

and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons____.

A. were the biggest bird in the world

B. lived mainly in the south of America

C. did great harm to the natural environment

D. were the largest bird population in the Us

25. The underlined word “ undoing” probably refers to the pigeons’ ____.

A. escape

B. ruin

C. liberation

D. evolution

26. What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?

A. To seek pleasure.

B. To save other birds.

C. To make money.

D. To protect crops.

27. What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?

A. It was ignored by the public.

B.

It was declared too late.

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C. It was unfair.

D. It was strict.

C

A typical lion tamer

（驯兽师）

in people

’

s mind is an entertainer holding a whip(

鞭

) at a

chair. The whip gets all of the attention, but it

’

s mostly for show. In reality, it

’

the chair that does

the important work. When a lion tamer holds a chair n front of the lion

’

s face, the lion tries to

focus

on

all

four

legs

of

the

chair

at

the

same

time.

With

its

focus

divided,

the

lion

becomes

confused

and

is

unsure

about

what

to

do

next.

When

faced

with

so

many

options,

the

lion

chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.

How often do you find yourself in the same position as

the lion? How often do you have

something you want to achieve (e.g. lose weight., start a business, travel more)

—

only to end up

confused by all of the options in front of you and never make progress?

This

upsets

me

to

no

end

because

while

all

the

experts

are

busy

debating

about

which

option

is

been

the

people

who

want

to

improve

their

lives

are

left

confused

by

all

of

the

conflicting information. The end result is that we feel like we cant

’

focus or that we

’

re focused on

the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we

could be improving.

It

doesn’t

have

to

be

that

way.

Anytime

you

find

the

world

waving

a

chair

in

your

face,

remember this: All you need to do is focus on one thing,. You just need to get started. Starting

before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people. If you have somewhere you want

to go, something you want to accomplish, someone you want to become

…

take immediate action.

If you

’

re clear about where you want to go, the rest of the world will either help you get there or

get out of the way.

28. Why does the lion tamer use a chair?

A. To trick the lion.

B. To show off his skills.

C. To get ready for a fight.

D. To entertain

the audience.

29. In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair?

A. They feel puzzled over choices.

B. They hold on to the wrong things.

C. They find it hard to make changes.

D. They have to do something for show

30. What is the author

’

s attitude towards the expert mentioned in Paragraph3?

A. Tolerant.

B. Doubtful.

C. Respectful.

D. Supportive.

31. When the world is

“

waving a chair in your face

”

, you

’

re advised to _____

A. wait for a better chance

B. break your old habits

C. make a quick decision

D. ask for clear guidance

D.

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As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and

Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages

spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United

Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations _UNESCO

and National Geographic among them

—

have for many years been documenting dying languages

and the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the

languages and

oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently

published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and

Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in

Nepal.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks

to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India , Nepal,

Bhutan, and China . But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear

without record.

At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including

photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes

—

which had remained unstudied and were

badly in need of care and protection.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded

–

the Digital Himalaya Project and

the World Oral Literature Project __Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for

the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from

whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely

available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with

speech communities.

32. Many scholars are making efforts to ______.

A. promote global languages

B. rescue disappearing languages

C. search for language communities

D. set up language research organizations.

33. What does

“

that tradition

’

in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

A. Having full records of the languages

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