韶关市2014届高三调研考试

韶关市2014届高三调研考试 英 语

本试卷共10页，三大题，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。 注意事项：

1、答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号填写在答题卷指定的位置上。

2、选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案信息点涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。

3、非选择题必须用黑色钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应的位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4、考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卷一并交回。 Ⅰ 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Freshmen are always fearful when learning they are to live with a roommate of a different race assigned by the computer casually. They are full of __1__ at the uncertainties. Now several studies have found that __2__ a room with a man of another race is a mixture of hope and fear. It decreases __3__ and forces students to make friends with those of different races, meanwhile causes more conflicts.

An Ohio State University study found that black students living with a white roommate saw higher _4__ success at college. Sam Boakye — the only black student on his freshman year floor — said “if you’re __5__ by whites, you have something to prove like a good score in study.”

However, researchers also observed __6__ in this case. According to two recent studies, compared with two white roommates, roommates of different _7 may experience such big conflicts that one has to move out and live __8__.

Grace Kao, a professor at Penn said she was not __9__ by the findings. In her opinion, this may be the first time that some of these students have __10__ with someone of a different race.”

At Penn, students are not asked to mention race when applying for their 11 . In this way, students are thrown together __12__.

“In the past two years, I’ve experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students,” said one Penn resident advisor (RA). To give a better picture, she __13__ that some conflicts provided more multicultural acceptance, but some showed unpleasant differences. Besides, these conflicts have also occurred among roommates of the __14__ race.

Kao said it was __15__ to conclude from any one of the above studies, saying scientists must study more students’ background characteristics. 1. A. disappointment B. expectation C. worry D. ambition 2. A. decorating B. sharing C. managing D. renting 3. A. prejudice B. expense C. dependence D. understanding 4. A. athletic B. economic C. social D. academic

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

A. controlled A. practices A. positions A. angrily A. surprised A. played A. account A. randomly A. approved A. same

A. unsuccessful

B. surrounded B. chances B. nations B. separately B. satisfied B. lived

B. scholarship B. secretly B. argued B. friendly B. unnecessary

C. attacked[来源:学

D. blamed

#科#网Z#X#X#K] C. changes D. problems C. races D. majors C. closely D. happily C. confused D. convinced C. worked D. learned C. housing D. course C. forcefully D. terribly C. added D. adopted C. competitive D. peaceful C. unscientific D. unusual

第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为16—25的相应位置上。 Now many singers and bands have little to do with good music. They know little about __16_ good music means. What is the cause?

Most of these singers so far 17 (see) music as a “job” because it is a good source of making money. And if you have a good 18 (appear) and also original or expensive cloth es to show off at your concerts then your voice is not 19 important as it should be. The public will prefer to admire more the most interesting parts of your body and even forget that you are there __20 (show) your music skills, not your dancing, which is important too, but not at such a high level.

Therefore, many young girls on TV choose to wear the most provocative (挑逗性的) clothes to catch attention, but when it comes to singing they are in 21 complete mess and one doesn’t need to have an ear __22__ music to notice their lack of talent.

However, the young generation should understand talent and a good voice matter more in their musical career. All the bands 23 have little to do with good music fail to be viewed as __24 (succeed) on stage. If a young man has a great voice and wants to become a singer, he should take some special courses in this area, because they will help 25__ improve singing abilities.

Ⅱ 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A

In the late summer of 2004, days before I was to move to a city in China, to teach English for a year, I spoke to an acquaintance who had spent a few years in the country.

“Holidays are hard,” he said. “But strangely, not so much Christmas. Christmas isn’t that bad. It’s Thanksgiving that’s hard.”

At the time, surviving the holidays was the least of my worries. I was moving to a country where I didn’t speak the language, understand the culture, or know the history, in order to do a job that I

had never done and didn’t know how to do. And not only that, I was going to a city that I hadn’t even heard of, and could find no information about online. Other than that, I was completely equipped.

Within a couple of months, the euphoria of being in China had worn off, and I found myself settling into a routine. I taught two hour-long classes of 15 and 16-year-olds, and, because I assigned no homework and rarely gave out tests, spent the afternoons either reading or making a halfhearted attempt to learn Chinese.

When Thanksgiving came around, I decided it’d be easiest if I just ignored it. In China, this isn’t difficult; unlike Christmas, which many Chinese people cerebrate with decorations, music, and festivities, Thanksgiving slips past unnoticed — it’s just another Thursday.

And so it was. As I sat on my sofa, however, watching another film from the James Bond box set I bought for $12 at a local shop, I felt a sense of shame. What was I doing? It was Thanksgiving, damn it. I needed to have a proper Thanksgiving dinner.

There was only one problem. As in most small Chinese cities, there’s no turkey, or cranberry sauce, or stuffing, yams, pumpkin pie, or anything else. In fact, in the entire city of 700,000 people, there was exactly one restaurant whose food even resembled, at a distance, Thanksgiv ing fare.

Kentucky Fried Chicken. And so that’s where I headed.

26. Before beginning his teaching in a Chinese city, the writer _________. A. made few preparations

B. little expected the hardships

C. turned to one friend for information

D. was full of curiosity [来源:学科网]

27. The underlined word “euphoria” in the 3rd paragraph probably means ___________. A. pleasure B. worries C. satisfaction D. hope

28. From the passage we can know that the writer usually spent a day by __________. A. watching films from the James Bond box

B. learning Chinese with passion in the afternoons C. giving two-hour lessons for teenagers

D. occasionally marking the students’ homework

29. KFC became the writer’s final choice on Thanksgiv ing Day because ________. A. it s food was a bit similar to Thanksgiving dish B. its atmosphere was suitable for foreigners in China C. Western holidays were less attractive to Chinese D. Turkey or related food was not available in China 30. The purpose of the passage is ________

A. to explain a foreigner’s dull work experience B. to describe a foreigner’s lonely Thanksgiving Day C. to prove a foreigner’s wrong cultural concept D. to present some hard problems for a foreigner B

Drunken driving — sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national epidemic (流行病). Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are

killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past ten years.

A drunken driver is usually referred to as one with 0.10-blood alcohol content or roughly three beer glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken killing has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially concerning young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.

Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend (逆转潮流) in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.[来源:学科网]

Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests in many areas already, to a marked drop in accidents, some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously drunk” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.

As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national ban of alcohol that began in 1919, which President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forgot that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption (腐败) and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.

31. What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey? A. Young drivers were usually bad.

B. Drivers should not be allowed to drink.

C. Some drivers didn’t surprise the legal drinking age. D. The legal drinking age should be raised.

32. The underlined word “lenient” in the first paragraph means _____. A. serious B. cruel C. merciful D. determined

33. Which of the following statements best shows the writer’s opinion of drunken driving? A. It is difficult to solve this problem. B. It may lead to organized crime.

C. The new laws can stop heavy drinking D. There should be no bars to serve drinks.

34. In America, the number of people killed by drunken drivers on average is _________. A. 3 per day B. 250,000 over the last 10 years C. 72 each day D. less than 500 each week

35. Drunken driving has become a major national problem because _________. A. drinking is America’s socially accepted habit B. most Americans drink quite a lot

C. not many people realized the severe subsequences caused by heavy drinking D. publicity did not pay much attention to road accidents C

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