英 语

本试卷共12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座号、班别填写在非选择题答题卷的密封线内。但选择题答题卡必须用2B铅笔填涂。

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4．考生必须保持答题卡和答题卷的整洁。

I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空(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。

I helped them make some fresh lemonade and brought out some additional?? 12? to help clean cars．Passers-by were?? 13?? and one even shouted back to them saying “God Bless You, my kids…” One of them even tried giving them 5 dollars, which they refused．A pretty heartwarming?? 14?? !

I feel blessed by being?? 15?? by such wonderful and loving souls．

1．A．drying B．washing C．repairing D．decorating

2．A．warm B．hot C．cold D．cool

3．A．worried B．popular C．confused D．difficult

4．A．challenged B．expected C．invited D．encouraged

5．A．creative B．ready C．difficult D．familiar

6．A．picture B．idea C．board D．car

7．A．theme B．trouble C．secret D．purpose

8．A．order B．duty C．imagination D．need

9．A．important B．disappointing C．hopeful D．natural

10．A．matter B．mean C．belong D．refer

11．A．relax B．try C．help D．smile

12．A．rags B．food C．money D．fruit

13．A．interested B．bored? C．amazed D．frightened

14．A．scenery B．scene C．story D．view

15．A．supported B．understood C．refused D．surrounded

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分l5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标号为16—25的相应位置上。

A baby is in danger and its mother is crazy with worry. This is something anyone can relate to, even though we are talking about a mother elephant that has been separated 16? her child.

A video capturing(捕捉) the reunion between the elephant and her 8-month-old baby in Kenya was one of the 17? ?(impressive) scenes in 2012. The baby fell inside 18? man-made hole and was unable to climb out, according to a video released by the Amboseli Trust for Elephants. Despite the best efforts of her desperate mother, the baby seemed helpless 19? ? a team of conservation workers rushed to help. They had to chase the overprotective mother away first, so that 20? ? could get close enough to rescue the baby. They 21? ? (struggle) to pull the baby out with ropes and a vehicle.

22? ?(lucky), the workers managed to pull the baby to safety. 23? ? followed was a touching scene. As soon as the baby was freed, it ran away across the plain. In the 24? ? (distant), the cries of her mother could be heard as she came running from the opposite direction. The two were reunited, 25? (hug) each other with their trunks. hugging

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

If you were walking around a supermarket and saw a woman with a shaved head, a ring through her nose, a tattoo（纹身）design on her arm and she has a small child in her shopping?trolley, what would your opinion be? Do you think this kind of body decoration is attractive or ugly? Different people have different ideas. The following are some examples of body decoration from around the world.

In many parts of?Africa, it is thought that an attractive girl should have really shinny skin.

On Bali, a little island in?Indonesia, they believe that a beautiful woman or handsome man must have perfectly straight, flat teeth. The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal. So when a girl or boy becomes a teenager, he or she is taken to a special person in their village who will file off teeth points to make them smooth and flat. There is no anesthetic（麻药）and this tooth filing is really painful. It is a kind of test. If you can stand it without screaming or crying too much, then you are thought ready to become an adult.

In?Myanmar, there is a small group of people who are called the “Papaung”. They believe that a woman can only be really beautiful if she has a long neck. I mean a VERY long neck. Now you might think that you are either born with a long or short neck and that there’s nothing whatever you can do about it. But you would be wrong! At around the age of 5, a Papaung girl has heavy metal rings fitted around her neck, tightly between the chin and shoulders. Each year more rings are added and very, very slowly their weight pushes the shoulders down, in this way making the neck look longer. A Papaung woman will wear her neck rings all her life, never once taking them off.

So now I’m sure you will all agree that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful.

B

A few months ago as I wandered through my parents’ house, the same house I grew up in, I had a sudden, scary realization. When my parents bought the house, in 1982, they were only two years older than I am now. I tried to imagine myself in two years, ready to settle down and buy the house I’d still be living in almost 30 years later.

It seemed ridiculous. On a practical level, there’s no way I could afford to buy a house anytime soon. More importantly, I wouldn’t want to. I’m not sure where I’ll be living in two years, or what kind of job I’ll have. And I don’t think I’ll be ready to settle down and stay in one place.

So this is probably the generation gap that divides my friends and me from our parents. When our parents were our age, they’d gotten their education, chosen a career, and were starting to settle into responsible adult lives.

My friends and I – “Generation Y” – still aren’t sure what we want to do with our lives. Whatever we end up doing, we want to make sure we’re happy doing it. We’d rather take risks first, try out different jobs, and move from one city to another until we find our favorite place. We’d rather spend our money on travel than put it in a savings account.

This casual attitude toward responsibility has caused some critics to call my generation “arrogant”, “impatient”, and “overprotected”. Some of these complaints have a point. As children we were encouraged to succeed in school, but also to have fun. We grew up in a world full of technological innovation: cell phones, the Internet, instant messaging, and video games.

Our parents looked to rise vertically(垂直的)--starting at the bottom of the ladder and slowly making their way to the top, on the same track, often for the same company. That doesn’t apply to my generation.

Because of that, it may take us longer than our parents to arrive at responsible, stable adulthood. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In our desire to find satisfaction, we will work harder, strive for ways to keep life interesting, and gain a broader set of experiences and knowledge than our parents’ generation did.

By Ariel Lewiton

34. What can we conclude from the article?

A. The author wrote this article so that others would be able to understand her generation better.

B. Growing up in a hi-tech world makes “Generation Y” feel insecure about relationships.

C. “Generation Y” people don’t want to grow up and love to be taken care of by their parents.

D. The author is envious of her parents enjoying a big house at her age.

35. What is the main theme of the article?

A. The sudden realization of growing up.

B. Criticisms of the young generation.

C. A comparison between lifestyles of generations.

D. The factors that have changed the young generation.

C

Believe it or not, optical illusion(视错觉) can cut highway crashes.

Japan is a case in point. It has reduced car crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons(人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.

Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.

Too great speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all serious traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related risks are the greatest curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges. Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars(水平杆)painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.

Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.

36. The passage mainly discusses ________.

A. a new type of optical illusion

B. a new pattern for painting highways

C. a new way of training drivers

D. a new way of highway speed control

37. On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that ________.

A. they should avoid speed-related danger

B. they should slow down their speed

C. they are driving in the wrong side

D. they are coming near to the speed limit

38. Compared with straight, horizontal bars, what is the advantage of chevrons?

A. They will have a longer effect on drivers B. They can cut road accidents in half

C. They will look more attractive D. They can keep drivers awake

39. The American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety plans to ________.

A. repeat the Japanese road patterns

B. change the road signs across the country

C. replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons

D. try out the Japanese method in certain areas

40. What does the author say about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?

A. They are suitable only on broad roads.

B.