广东省肇庆市中小学教学质量评估2014—2015学年第一学期统一检测试题高 二 英 语

本试卷共8页，满分135分．考试用时120分钟.

注意事项：

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I、语言知识及运用 （共两节，满分45分）

第一节：完型填空（共15小题，每小题2分，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。

Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft employees are traveling by train to a conference. The Microsoft engineers each buy tickets but the Apple engineers buy only a 1 ticket.

“How are three people going to travel on only one 2 ?” asks a Microsoft employee. “Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Apple engineer.

They all board the train. The Microsoft employees take their 3 but all three Apple engineers cram(拥挤) into a restroom and close the door behind them.

4 after the train has departed, the conductor comes around 5 tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.” The door opens just a crack and an arm 6 , ticket in hand. The 7 takes it and moves on. The Microsoft employees see this and agree it is quite a 8 idea.

So after the conference, the Microsoft employees decide to 9 the Apple engineers (as they always do) on the return trip and save some 10 . When they get to the station, they buy one ticket. To their 11 , the Apple engineers don’t buy any ticket at all.

“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one 12 Microsoft employee. “Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Apple engineer.

When they board the train, the Microsoft employees cram into a 13 and the Apple engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Soon one of the Apple engineers

14 his restroom and walks over to where the Microsoft employees are 15 .

He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please...”

1．A. cheap

B. single

C. return

D. special



2．A. ticket

B. route

C. means

D. railroad



3．A. routes

B. chances

C. turns

D. seats



4．A. Directly

B. Shortly

C. Nearly

D. Quickly



5．A. examining

B. receiving

C. collecting

D. delivering



6．A. appears

B. sticks

C. holds

D. rises



7．A. employee

B. policeman

C. conductor

D. engineer



8．A. strange

B. foolish

C. awful

D. clever



9．A. learn

B. copy

C. accept

D. watch



10．A. money

B. time

C. energy

D. space



11．A. excitement

B. agreement

C. disappointment

D. astonishment



12．A. touched

B. puzzled

C. frightened

D. delighted



13．A. bedroom

B. sitting-room

C. restroom

D. dining-room



14．A. enters

B. crosses

C. leaves

D. reaches



15．A. hiding

B. sitting

C. traveling

D. enjoying





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所给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。

Control, fear, doubt and anger, these are the deadly killers of the human race. We hurt 16

by feeling these emotions and we hurt others by directing these emotions at them.

17 what would happen if we could selflessly and 18 (gentle) direct unconditional love to whomever we meet? We’d certainly help ourselves. Why do we let other people hurt us? Because we put expectations on them, expectations we ourselves 19 (fail) to live up to with others. Look at children. We still love our children when they disappoint us. Why not our workmates, teachers, friends and most of all partners? It’s because we put conditions on 20 we give out.

Many of us bought a present or did a job expecting something 21 return. But if you want to help someone just because you want to, no other reason 22 just because you want to—that is showing love. You can help 23 old lady with her groceries and it feels good so why not with everything else? When you learn that 24 (give) love without expectation is the purest of all faith, then and only then, you will be on the road 25 really knowing yourself. And knowing yourself can really help you conquer “control, fear, doubt and anger”.

II、阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下面几篇短文，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

People aren’t walking any more—if they can figure out a way to avoid it.

I felt superior about this matter until the other day I took my car to mail a small parcel. The journey is a matter of 281 steps. But I used the car. And I wasn’t in any hurry, either, I had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorists.

It is an illness to which I had thought myself immune (免疫的)for I was bred in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. At that time, we regarded 25 miles as good day’s walk and the ability to cover such a distance in ten hours as sign of strength and skill. It did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. And the effect was lasting. When I was 45 years old I raced—and beat—a teenage football player the 168 steps up the Statue of Liberty.

Such enterprises today are regarded by many middle-aged persons as bad for the heart. But a well-known British physician, Sir Adolphe Abrahams, pointed out recently that hearts and bodies need proper exercise. A person who avoids exercise is more likely to have illnesses than one who exercises regularly. And walking is an ideal form of exercise—the most familiar and natural of all.

It was Henry Thoreau who showed mankind the richness of going on foot. The man walking can learn the trees, flowers, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living. He cannot learn in a car.

The car is a convenient means of transport, but we have made it our way of life. Many people don’t dare to approach nature any more; to them the world they were born to enjoy is all threat. To them security is a steel river thundering on a correct road. And much of their thinking takes place while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.

I say that the green of forests is the mind’s best light. And none but the man on foot can evaluate what is basic and everlasting.

26. What is the national sickness?

A. Walking too much B. Travelling too much

C. Driving cars too much D. Climbing stairs too much

27. What was life like when the author was young?

A. People usually went around on foot.

B. People often walked 25 miles a day.

C. People used to climb the Statue of Liberty.

D. People considered a ten-hour walk as a hardship.

28. The author mentions Henry Thoreau to prove that __________.

A. middle-aged people like getting back to nature

B. walking in nature helps enrich one’s mind

C. people need regular exercise to keep fit

D. going on foot prevents heart disease

29. What is compared to “a steel river” in Paragraph 6?

A. A queue of cars. B. A ray of traffic light.

C. A flash of lightning. D. A stream of people.

30. What’s the author’s intention of writing this passage?

A. To tell people to reflect more on life. B. To recommend people to give up driving.

C. To advice people to do outdoor activities. D. To encourage people to return to walking.

B

Alibaba started taking the lead in China, simply enough, by connecting big Chinese manufacturers(制造商)with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba.com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its marketplaces attract 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year—and Alibaba is just the middleman. It encourages people to use its markets—not charging small sellers a percentage of the sale.

If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing almost a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else my wife wanted. “You’re looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ” my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.

Alibaba’s original business-to-business model now is secondary to consumer buying. Chinese retail（零售）buying makes up 80% of Alibaba’s profit, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things you’ll ever find. TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.

What I have a hard time explaining to friends and family back in the U.S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shopping—big-box retailers especially —in favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.

I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how extensive the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shopping. I’m not even a big buyer, because I need friends to help me search the Chinese-language site. When I was searching my purchase history on my Chinese teacher’s iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine.

31. Alibaba’s advantage mainly lies in ___________.

A. its big size B. its business-to-business service

C. its not charging small sellers D. its low price

32. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage?

A. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites

B. Alibaba will continue to develop.

C. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.

D. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers.

33. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. a new store B. Alibaba C. a business D. a foreign website

34. What can be inferred from the passage?