2013～2014学年度苏锡常镇四市高三教学情况调研（二）

英 语 2014年5月

注意：本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。答案全部做在答题卡上。总分为120分。考试时间120分钟。

第一卷 （选择题，共85分）

第一部分：听力（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What are the speakers talking about?A. Plans for the weekend. B. The Great Wall. C. Shopping.

2. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In a classroom. B. In a library. C. In a bookstore.

3. What are they talking about? A. Who will pay for the lunch. B. When they will have lunch. C. What they will eat for lunch.

4. How many days will the man stay in the hotel?A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.

5. Why didn’t Mary sleep well?A. She had a headache.B. She was suffering from a stomachache.C. She couldn’t tolerate the noisy surroundings.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读每个小题，听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What is wrong with Kathy?

A. She can’t get on well with her father.

B. She is worried about her classmate Don.C. She is upset because she failed the exam.

7. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Mid-term exam. B. School education. C. Pressure from parents.

听下面一段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What does the woman like doing?

A. Doing her favorite sports.

B. Watching sports programs.

C. Meeting her favorite players.

9. What kind of sports did the woman use to do?

A. Basketball. B. Table tennis. C. Swimming.

10. What advice does the man give the woman?

A. To go in for sports. B. To practice Wushu. C. To swim a lot.

听下面一段材料，回答第11至13题。

What does the man think of working in a bank?A. He doesn’t like the job.

B. He enjoys working in a bank.

C. He is not good at counting money.

What does the man prefer doing?A. Teaching in a university.

B. Working as an assistant.C. Going to a graduate school.

Who will possibly pay for the man’s living expenses?

A. The man himself.

B. The man’s father.C. The man’s professor. 听下面一段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What did the man think of the cloning of humans?

A. Acceptable. B. Impossible. C. Unbearable.

15. Why are scientists studying cloning at present?

A. To reproduce a whole human being.

B. To see how the copy looks and acts.

C. To replace damaged parts of a body.

16. How did the woman get to know about the way to make new medicines?

A. From a magazine. B. From some scientists. C. From the man speaker.

听下面一段材料，回答第17至20题。

When did the train leave Glasgow last Thursday?A. At 8:14 am. B. At 9:20 am. C. At 8:40 am.

What happened to the speaker?A. He lost his luggage.B. He missed his flight.C. He was badly injured.

What does the speaker mainly complain about?

A. The train’s delay, poor service and no apology.B. The rude manners of the crew and the high price of the ticket.C. The delay of the train and poor-quality food of the restaurant.

What is the purpose of the tape-talk?A. To comment on the restaurant on the train.B. To give the reason why he missed his flight.

C. To urge the company to make up for his loss.

第二部分: 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

从四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

—Do you understand the film The Hobbit, the most amazing US-made one last year?—______, but I am confused at many scenes.A. Not a little B. Not a bit C. Just a bit D. No problem

I don’t like any humor in this serious speech because I can’t think of any circumstance ______ this would be beneficial or useful.A. which B. whether C. where D. as

In China people believe in the saying “out of debt, out of pressure”; however in the west, it is just the ______ — when you are in debt, you are trustworthy and financially capable.A. objective B. opposite C. contrary D. contradictory

—Has Nancy gone back to her home in the UK?—Yes. She ______ here only for three days with her friend.A. stayed B. had stayed C. has stayed D. is staying

Since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in 2012, his fans have been eagerly waiting for his new novels to ______.

A. come out B. turn out C. bring out D. go out

—______ bargaining is always such great fun?—Usually people consider it a test to see who can stand their ground longer.A. What is it that B. Why is it that C. What it is that D. Why it is that

One third of the Ukrainian population live in the eastern region near Russia and speak Russian, most of them ______ closer to Russia.A. are feeling B. feel C. feeling D. are felt

The record about the massacre (大屠杀) is fairly clear and beyond dispute ______ those activities the Japanese soldiers were involved in.A. in memory of B. with assistance of C. with respect to D. in place of

—Guess what! We’ll have a chance to visit our sister school in Denmark this summer!—How nice! You ________ a different culture then.A. will have experienced B. have experiencedC. have been experiencing D. will be experiencing

Overloaded with work, school teachers now get far less sleep than they ______.A. shall B. should C. may D. might

Two professors at Harvard University published a study of 3,300 new graduates, looking at ______ their names had any bearing on their academic performance.A. that B. how C. why D. whether

—Did you attend the opening ceremony of The Voice of China last week?

—Sorry! We ________ it, but we had a terrible traffic accident on our way.

A. must have attended B. must attend

C. could have attended D. could attend

The role of Chinese Dama in the economy has been over-estimated by some western media ______ their “gold rush” has had little influence on gold prices.A. so that B. but that C. now that D. in that

Never before _______ the famous ancient garden was just a stone’s throw away from the hotel, so out _______.

A. had they known; went all they B. they had known; went all they

C. had they known; they all went D. they had known; they all went

—I would appreciate it if you could forgive Lucy and be friendly to her as you used to.—______, if only she gave me a sincere apology.A. By all means B. By no means C. My pleasure D. It’s a pleasure

第三部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

As of Monday, Amy Carrickhoff’s video “Spoiled deer getting her bottle” was viewed more than 792,000 times and shared 9,600 times. In this heartwarming video, Carrickhoff stands outside her house in Oakridge, North Carolina, ___36___ for a deer she has named “Little Girl.” The deer comes out of the ___37___ and jumps on her. It hurries up the driveway and ___38___ Carrickhoff into the house, where it then sucks down a baby bottle of goat’s milk. When the ___39___ is gone, Carrickhoff wipes its mouth with a tissue.

While some animal lovers were touched by the obvious ___40___ Carrickhoff had with the deer, others felt she wasn’t doing the deer any ___41___. They said she was allowing the deer to get too ___42___ around humans and it could have been hit by a car, been shot by a hunter, or hurt someone. “You just gave this animal a death ___43___ — you also have put all your neighbors and their children at ___44___ of being attacked when this deer matures, and when it doesn’t get ___45___, it attacks someone,” one reader wrote.

Carrickhoff’s comment was that if she had known the video would get so many ___46___ she would have changed out of her gym clothes. As for the deer, ___47___, the update isn’t a happy one.

Little Girl continued coming back for bottles until around January 2011, when it moved onto ___48___ deer food, Carrickhoff said. “She walked off into the woods and we never saw her again,” she said. “We ___49___ those woods … we never found anything.”

Looking back, Carrickhoff said getting to know the deer was a special ___50___ that she wouldn’t regret.

Friends had brought Little Girl to Carrickhoff’s home because the woods in their backyard were protected, and the deer would be ___51___ from hunters. School children loved visiting the gentle creature, who would ___52___ them with its soft tongue and didn’t mind being ___53___.

Carrickhoff is confident that she didn’t over-domesticate (过度驯养) the animal. Even when Little Girl was bottle-fed, she lived in the woods and did “deer things”, Carrickhoff’s daughter said. The deer gave birth to a ___54___ of its own the following June, and toward the end, it wouldn’t come when it was called. It was becoming ___55___ again.

She and her husband got so attached to Little Girl that they don’t ever want to take care of another animal. “I just watch the videos and she kind of lives on,” she said.

A. hunting B. asking C. calling D. applying

A. house B. woods C. cage D. garage

A. walks B. takes C. follows D. watches

A. animal B. milk C. bottle D. time

A. appointment B. accommodation C. peace D. bond

A. favor B. harm C. service D. business

A. comfortable B. excited C. uneasy D. embarrassed

A. sentence B. punishment C. direction D. prediction

A. sight B. mercy C. moment D. risk

A. hunted B. fed C. respected D. welcomed

A. copies B. cheers C. attacks D. views

A. fortunately B. hopefully C. sadly D. doubtfully

A. sufficient B. rare C. regular D. favorite

A. protected B. watched C. entered D. combed

A. event B. experience C. incident D. accident

A. discouraged B. safe C. parted D. invisible

A. lift B. lick C. touch D. taste

A. cheated B. cared C. studied D. petted

A. sister B. brother C. baby D. beast

A. timid B. tamed C. wild D. natural

第四部分: 阅读理解 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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On 23rd December, 2013, Michael Schumacher — the famous Formula-One race car driver — received serious brain injuries after hitting his head on a rock while downhill skiing with his son. The accident happened during a family holiday in the French Alps. Although he was wearing a helmet, which broke apart on impact, the F1 celebrity was moving at speeds of up to 62 mph and skiing outside the off-piste safety demarcations (滑雪场地外的安全区). Doctors report