2014年广东高考英语试卷A卷 - 图文

A. She had seven tickets.

B. She hoped to please others. D. She knew the car drivers well.

C. She wanted to show kindness.

32. Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she ______.

A. thought it was beautifully written

B. wanted to know what it really meant C. decided to write it on a warehouse wall

33. Who came up with the phrase according to the passage?

A. Judy Foreman

34. Which of the following statements is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence above?

A. Kindness and violence can change the world. B. Kindness and violence can affect one’s behavior. C. Kindness and violence can shape one’s character. D. Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves.

35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. People should practice random kindness to those in need. B. People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others. C. People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet. D. People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver.

C

Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project.

I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.

Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.

D. wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom

B. Anne Herbert C. Alice Johnson D. Natalie Smith

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After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me.

Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange o unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and I returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever. 36. What do we know about the author?

A. He felt honored to study English literature.

B. He took pride in having contributed to the world. C. His dream at university was to become a volunteer.

37. According to Paragraph 2, it is most likely that the author .

A. discussed his decision with his family

B. asked previous volunteers about voluntary work C. attending special training to perform difficult tasks D. felt sad about having to leave his family and friends

38. In his application for the volunteer job, the author ________.

A. participate in many discussions

B. went through challenging survival tests C. wrote quite a few papers on voluntary work

39. On arrival at the village, the author was .

A. Asked to lead a farming team

40. What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria?

A. He had learned to communicate in the local language. B. He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture. C. He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home. D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students.

D

Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流). Most do it using

D. His university education focused on theoretical knowledge.

D. faced strong competition from other candidates

B. sent to teach in a schoolhouse D. arranged to live in a separate house

C. received warmly by local villagers

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satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way---by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.

Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes---about 60,000 in total---fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn’t. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.

The Pacific Northwest is one of the world’s best areas for beachcombing (海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1,600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study.

As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand. They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves. 41. The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. trading fairs

42. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out ______.

A. what caused the shipping accident

43. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?

A. by collecting information from beachcombers. B. by studying the shoes found by beachcombers. C. by searching the web for ocean currents models. D. by researching ocean currents data in the library.

44. Ebbesmeyer is most famous for _____.

A. running a global currents research association B. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea C. traveling widely the coastal cities of the world

B. fitting rooms C. business talks D. group meetings

B. when and where the shoes went missing

C. whether it was alright to use their shoes D. how much they lost in the shipping accident

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D. making records for any lost objects on the sea

45. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

A. To call people’s attention to ocean pollution. B. To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean. C. To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents. D. To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.

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46. I grow up in a very big family. My parents have raised twelve kids and I am their first-born. It has been my duty to help my mom take care of my brothers and sisters. To handle them,

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