河北省衡水中学2014届高三下学期二调考试

英语试题

本试卷分为第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分

第一卷（选择题 共100分）

注意事项：

1．答第一卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。

2．每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。

第一部分：听力（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

第一节：（共5小题；每小题1.5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. When will the man be at the meeting?

A.7:30. B. 8:00. C.8:30.

2. What’s the woman’s attitude toward Frank’s complaint?

A. Angry. B. Understanding. C. Sad.

3.What does the woman say about the man’s injury?

A. It doesn’t look too painful.

B. He should go to the hospital.

C. He should keep it from getting infected.

4.What will John do?

A. Give up the trip.

B. Get to the airport at 8:00 a.m.

C. Give the woman a new schedule.

5.What’s the relationship between the speakers?

A. Classmates. B. Colleagues. C. Teacher and student.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6.Where are the swimming stations?

A. In the hall. B. In the gym. C. In the VIP rooms of the hotel.

7.For how many hours are the station open each day?

A. 12 hours. B. 13 hours. C. 15 hours.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.Why does the woman need to leave early?

A. To meet a friend. B. To have a job interview.

C. To talk to Prof. Sogard about her paper.

9. What is the woman most interested in right now?

A. Getting more experience.

B. Earning more money.

C. Helping others.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Where did the woman get the personality test questions?

A. From a magazine. B. From a psychology textbook. C. From the Internet.

11.Why does the man refuse to answer the question?

A. He had done it before.

B. He thinks it’s useless.

C. He has no time at the moment.

12. What was the woman’s major in college?

A. Accounting. B. Psychology. C. History.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does the man think about the spaghetti?

A. It’s not as good as most frozen food.

B. The price is a little high.

C. It’s more delicious than his own cooking.

14. How much does one serving cost?

A. About 2 dollars. B. About 4 dollars. C. About 6 dollars.

15.What does the woman offer to do for the man?

A. Give him a discount.

B. Give him another free sample.

C. Give him a bag of pasta for free.

16.What do we know about the man?

A. He didn’t have lunch.

B. He will buy some frozen pizzas.

C. He is from Italy.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.Why did the Spurs get fined?[来源:]

A. The team refused to play an important game.

B. Four of its players were taken out in the middle of a game.

C. The team sent home four players without telling anyone.

18.Who is NOT an NBA player?

A. Danny Green. B. Manu Ginobili. C. David Stern.

第二部分： 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

The Great Barn Adventure

One morning when I was 11, I explored the town’s abandoned round grain barn（谷仓）. I found a chained sliding door that was wide enough for me to pass through.

Inside, there was a heavy smell of dead mice in the dark. After my eyes adjusted, I noticed a shaft (升降机井) that rose all the way to the top of the barn. On one side was a one-man elevator with a long rope and roller.

I stepped onto the platform and gave the rope a drag and the elevator began sliding up the shaft, but stopped halfway. After a brief panic attack, I noticed holes in the wall at regular intervals, forming a ladder. For reasons known only to an 11-year-old, I decided it would be better to go up than down. So, with shaking hands, I began climbing the wall.

After what seemed like forever, I reached the top of the shaft. I stood up, dusted myself off and found absolutely nothing of interest. It was just an empty room with a ladder leading up to the roof. I climbed all the way up here for this? Then I noticed a fire extinguisher（灭火器）,which I’d always wanted to shoot off. So this was the chance of a lifetime. I tried it, and, much to my surprise, the thing worked! It shot out a thick cloud of powder that instantly filled the room. I couldn’t breathe. I was going to choke to death, and they’d probably never even find my body.

Luckily, I remembered the ladder to the roof. I climbed up, popped the straw roof and saw a bright blue sky.

I suddenly realized the dust and powder pouring out of the top could draw attention. So when the dust had settled, I climbed down and slipped out of the chained door. I’m not sure if I was more excited about being alive or about not being caught, but I ran all the way back home.

21. When the author got inside the barn, he _______.

A. noticed a man on the elevator

B. opened the chained sliding door

C. saw many dead mice in the dark

D. found a shaft leading to the top

22. Which of the following is the right order of the author’s adventure?

a. The elevator stopped halfway.

b. He entered the round grain barn.

c. He climbed to the top of the shaft.

d. He found a fire extinguisher and shot it off.

A. b-a-c-d B. a-c-b-d C. c-a-d-b D. b-c-a-d

23. After getting out of the chained door, the author might feel _______.

A. inspired B. relieved C. surprised D. disappointed

24.. From the passage, we can learn that the author was probably a boy full of _______.

A. passions B. dreams C. curiosity D. imagination

B

Evening Workshops



Optional evening workshops will be held at small restaurants or other meeting places near the conference hotel. Meals and other costs are not included but are also optional. Locations will be announced at the conference site. Workshops are very loosely organized and most represent discussions that have been held at Society for Economic Botany (SEB) meetings over a series of years.



Workshop 1: Student Network



Date

Wednesday evening, Feb. 5th



Chairs

Hugo de Boer and Arika Virapongse



Sponsor

Society for Economic Botany



Description

Student members of the SEB hold a networking mixer each year in order to meet each other and to become familiar with a variety of educational programs and faculty advisors(大学指导老师). Faculty members who are part of training programs are encouraged to join the mixer to meet and talk with students.



Workshop 2: Botanical Film Making



Date

Wednesday evening, Feb. 5th



Chair

David Strauch



Sponsor

University of Hawaii



Description

Digital film making is a particularly useful tool of linking cultural information to recognizable plants. This workshop is aimed towards increasing the quality of material recorded by giving participants greater control over the medium. We will cover technical aspects (e.g. camera settings, audio), technical aspects (framing, lighting, focus), and some ways of presenting the material. Experienced filmmakers are encouraged to attend, and participants are welcome to bring their own camera equipment.



Workshop 3: Collections for Botany

— Collections Development and Management



Date

Friday evening, Feb. 7th



Chair

Jan Salick



Sponsor

Society for Economic Botany



Description

SEB is a network of researchers who have been developing standards for the development of collections of artifacts, plant samples and related materials. Participants discuss successes, problems, and funding sources for solving management issues.





25. One of the purposes of a networking mixer held each year is to ________.

A. provide students with greater control over the media

B. link cultural information to recognizable plants

C. help the students to deal with most of the environment issues

D. help the students to be familiar with educational programs

26. Which of the following is true according to the poster?

A. Evening workshops will be held at small restaurants with meals included.

B. Participants have more than one option on Feb.5th than another night.

C. Workshops have nothing to do with the discussions held at SEB meetings.

D. Faculty advisers can join the mixer without training experience.

27. You are a college student, interested in plants and good at taking TV pictures. Which of the Evening Workshops is most suitable for you?

A. Botanical Film Making. B. Collections for Botany.

C. Student Network. D. Society for Economic Botany.

C

The extraordinary Eastgate Building in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, is said to be the only one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles as the termite mound(白蚁堆).

Architect Mick Pearce used precisely the same strategy when designing the Eastgate Building, which has no air-conditioning and almost no heating. The building—the country’s largest commercial and shopping complex—uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building of its size. The Eastgate’s owners saved $3.5 million on a $36 million building because an air-conditioning equipment didn’t have to be imported.

The complex is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed atrium(天井) open to the air. Fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow it upstairs through hollow spaces under the floors and from there into each office through baseboard vents(通风口). As it rises and warms, it is drawn out via ceiling vents and finally exists through forty-eight brick chimneys.

During summer’s cool nights, big fans blow air through the building seven times an hour to cool the empty floors. By day, smaller fans blow two changes of air an hour through the building, to circulate the air which has been in contact with the cool floors. For winter days, there are small heaters in the vents.

This is all possible only because Harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless skies, little dampness and rapid temperature changes—days as warm as 31℃ commonly drop to 14℃ at night. “You couldn’t do this in New York, with its hot summers and cold winters,” Pearce said.

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