山东省文登市2014年高考冲刺英语试题及答案（二）

D

The island of Great Britain being small (compare the size of Australia), the natural place for holiday relaxation and enjoyment is extensive coastline, above all its southern and eastern coasts, and the favorite resort of the mass-population of industrial Lancashire, is on the north-west coast. Distant and little-inhabited area like Northern Scotland, are too remote for the development of large seaside resorts.

For most children, going to the seaside suggests a week or fortnight of freedom on the beach, ideally a sandy one providing enough opportunities for the construction of sandcastle, fishing in pool, paddling in shallow water or swimming in deep water. Their parents spend sunny days swimming in the sea and sunbathing on the beach. Not that the British sun can be relied on and the depressing sight of families wandering round the town in old –fashioned and under umbrellas is only too common. However, there are always shops with their tourist souvenirs, plenty of cafes and if the worst comes to the worst, the cinema to offer a refuge.

The average family is unlikely to seek accommodation in a hotel as they can stay more cheaply in a boarding-house. There are usually three or four-storeyed Victorian buildings, whose owners spend the summer season letting rooms to a number of couples or families and providing three cooked meals a day at what they describe as a reasonable price, with the hope that in this way they will add enough to their savings to see the winter through. Otherwise there are the camping sites for those who prefer self-catering.

Nowadays, even when an increasing number of people fly off to Mediterranean resorts where a well-developed suntan (晒黑) can be assured, or explore in comfort Swiss lakes and mountains or romantic Italian or Spanish cities, the British seaside is still the main attraction for families, especially those with younger children. As they queue for boats trips, cups of tea or ice-cream under gray skies and in dizzling rain, the parents are reliving (重温) their own childhood when time seemed endless, their own sandcastles the most splendid on the beach, the sea always blue and friendly and the sun always hot.

51. Children enjoy the seaside because ________.

A. their parents can live and play with them

B. they can buy what they want there

C. there are a variety of enjoyable ways of spending time there

D. they can learn how to build sandcastles, how to swim, etc.

52. The reason suggested for running a boarding-house is that ________.

A. people can live as where they live at home

B. people can cook what they are favorite

C. the owners provide three cooked meals a day at a reasonable price

D. the resulting additional income will ensure a living for several months

53. Many parents once played on the British beach and ________.

A. still have their happy memories of it

B. don’t want to have a holiday there

C. don’t want to take their children to have a holiday there.

D. want to build their own sandcastles the most splendid on the beach again

54. Nowadays more and more people fly off to Mediterranean resorts for ________.

A. an exploration of lakes in comfort B. a well-developed suntan

C. a well-equipped boarding-house D. a romantic party

55. Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A. It is suggested that as a form of holiday entertainment the cinema is the best place to go in bad weather.

B. A reason suggested in the first paragraph for the appeal of the English seaside is that it is an ideal place for children.

C. Northern Scotland is little-inhabited and remote.

D. Few people in Britain go abroad for holiday relaxation and enjoyment.

E

When Sally Ride was ten years old, she had no idea that she would some day grow up to be one of America’s first woman astronauts. In fact, if you had asked her then what wanted to be, she would have said, “ I want to play shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers.” Sally collected baseball cards by the boxful, and she knew the name and batting average (击球率)of every player in the National League.

But major league baseball didn’t seem much of a possibility for a girl, even an athletic one like Sally, so her father and mother talked her into taking tennis lessons when she was twelve. At first she hated to trade in her baseball bat for a tennis racket, but it wasn’t long before she started to win tournaments in her new sport. “ Tennis became much more fun when I started winning,” Sally remembers. Soon a row of trophies (奖牌)replaced her box of baseball cards, and tennis star Billie Jean King replaced Dodger shortstop Maury Wills as her sports idol.

Sally first became interested in the space program in 1962 when astronaut John Glenn orbited the earth in his Mercury space capsule. Sally was ten years old at the time, but she remembers the launch and the splashdown (掉落) as if they happened yesterday. The girl who used to memorize batting averages became a space fan. She quickly learned the name of every NASA astronaut(there were only eight of them in 1962), the date of every launch, and the name and number of every spacecraft from Freedom 7 to Skylab 3. She could tell you the speed of light (186,300 miles per second), the distance to the moon (238,860 miles), and the names of the three nearest stars( the Sun, Alpha Centauri, and Barnard’s Star).

By the time she was sixteen, Sally had decided to become an astrophysicist, a scientist who studies space. She had also become a nationally ranked tennis player. She remembers yawning(打哈欠) through an important tennis match on June 20, 1969, after staying up all night to watch Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. Sally lost the match.

As Sally got older, many of her friends started playing professional tennis. Some of them tried to talk her into quitting school to join them on the professional tennis circuit. But Sally said no. “ Black holes are more interesting to me than backhands,” she told them. Now she knows that she made the right choice, but in 1970 Sally had no way of knowing that NASA would open the space program to women.

56. At the age of twelve, Sally Ride ________.

A. was interested in playing tennis B. was persuaded into taking tennis training

C. began to become interested in space D. decided to become an astrophysicist

57. Sally Ride lost the match on June, 1969 just because________.

A. she was tired

B. she couldn’t decide whether to be an astrophysicist

C. she couldn’t decide whether to take part in a professional tennis circuit

D. she wasn’t interested in tennis

58. From the story we know that Sally ________.

A. had been a professional baseball player

B. had never been a professional player

C. had never been a woman astrophysicist

D. wasn’t interested in space program

59. A capsule is ________.

A. the name of the neareast star

B. a place where the American astronauts and the crew work

C. a place where astronauts and the crew are trained

D. a container of the crew and astronauts detached(分离) from a rocket

60. Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A. According to the story, Sally Ride is a woman astrophysicist.

B. The ambition of becoming a woman astronaut was made in Sally’s childhood.

C. Freedom 7 and Skylab 3 are the names of the nearest stars.

D. Sally didn’t quit her schooling at the time as she knew sooner or later NASA would hire woman astronaut.

第II卷(共55分)

第三部分 书面表达(共三节，满分55分)

第一节 阅读表达(共5小题;每小题3分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求)。

[1] My high school, like many others, was extremely competitive not only in sports but also in academic subjects. The pressure of trying to get excellent grades while joining in extra-curricular activities could be great. Sometimes it seemed like I lived at school! When I was at home my time was spent doing homework. Some days I was so busy finishing a project that I could hardly see my families.

[2] I have a brother and a sister named Sally. She was nine years old. We used to see each other, but after I graduated from the primary school she attended, I saw her less and less. I tried to go to her gymnastic meets and soccer games, but I had my own play rehearsals(排练)and meetings.

[3] Then one day I came home, an empty house and I found a note from my mom. She was at my brother’s baseball game. However my sister was at her friend’s, and would be dropped off.

[4] At five o’clock I went to turn on the light on the front porch and saw my sister walking towards the door with her friend and her friend’s father. I heard them talking.

[5] “Is anyone at home?” the father asked.

[6] “Just my mean elder sister, Sara, and she’s probably in her room as usual,” my sister replied. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t even know who this man and my sister was making me sound like one of Cinderella’s wicked (可恶的)stepsisters. I opened the door, thanked the father for _______________, then shut the door and started to cry.

[7] To make a long story short, a huge fight followed that ended with me driving my sister to her room. But I realized that what was worse than the fight was that I really hadn’t been a good elder sister.

[8] I had lost track (路线，方向)of what was important, and what really mattered. I had been fallen into a whirlpool(漩涡)of pressure and competition, and it took my sister’s honest observation to show me that the grades I got didn’t matter to everyone---certainly not to her. All that matters to her is that I’m her elder sister, and that’s what matters to me, too.

61. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? ( no more than 10 words )

62. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 6 with proper words. ( no more than 5 words )

63. Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3.

64. How did Sally think of her sister? ( no more than 10 words )

65. What lesson did Sara learn from her sister in the last paragraph? ( no more than 10 words )

第二节　情景作文(共15分)

请你根据下面图画写一篇短文，描述其图画内容并简要谈谈你的看法。

注意：词数不超过60。

第三节　开放作文(共25分)

假设你是新华中学的学生李华，你的英国朋友Tom是英国孔子学院的学生。因为他对中国的文化非常感兴趣，所以与你约好今年到中国来过春节。 虽然你原打算邀请他到你家过春节，并作他的解说员与向导，但是你因有事而不能陪同。请根据以下要点给他写封信：

1. 表示歉意;

2. 失约的原因;

3. 你的建议与想法(到北京、到民俗村或到你朋友家等)。

注意：1. 词数：100-120;

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

Yours,

Li Hua

高三质量检测

英语参考答案与评分说明

13.11

第I卷 共95分

第一部分　英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节: 单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

01-05 BCCDC 06-10 BCDBD 11-15 AACBA

第二节 完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

16-20 ACBAB 21-25 DCDAB 26-30 CBAAC 31-35 DCBAD

第二部分 阅读理解(共25小题;每小题2分，满分50分)

36-40 ADBDB 41-45 ACDCA 46-50 DACAB 51-55 CDABC

56-60 BABDA

第II卷 共55分

第三部分：书面表达(共三节，满分55分)

第一节　阅读表达(共5小题;每小题3分，满分15分)

61. Sara had little time to communicate with her families.

62. bringing her home

63. However my sister was at her friend’s family and would be sent back home.

64. She only cared about her own things.

65. Love from family members is what really matters.

第二节　情景作文　共15分。

第三节　开放作文　共25分。

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