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2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试

英语能力测试

（会宁县第五中学5月份模拟考试）

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注意事项:

1.本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷和答题卡相应位置上。

2.回答第Ⅰ卷时，选出每小题答案后，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,写在本试卷上无效。

3.回答第Ⅱ卷时，将答案写在答题卡上.写在本试卷上无效。

4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第I卷

第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的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。

A

My first wife and I only had one child. It might have been nice to have more. I would have liked a son, but we just had Carmen.

I see her as my best friend. I think she always comes to me first if she has a problem. We have the same sense of humor and share many interests; except that she's crazy about animals, obsessed with them she has always had dogs, cats, and horses in her life.

We were closest when she was about four, which I think is a wonderful age for a child. That's when they need their parents most. But as soon as Carmen went to school, she seemed to grow up and grow apart from her family, and any father finds it difficult with a teenage daughter. She was very moody and had an odd group of friends. There was an endless stream of strange young men coming to our house. I remember once got annoyed with her in front of her friends and she didn't talk to me for days.

I've always wanted the best for her. We sent her to a good school, but she wasn't happy there. She left because she wanted to become an actress, so with my connections I got her into a drama school, but she didn't like that either. She worked for a while doing small roles in films, but she must have found it boring although she never really said why. She got married a few years ago, her husband's a vet. They must be happy because they work together, and she loves animals.

We have the same tastes in books and music. When she was younger, I used to take her to the opera that's my passion-but she can't have liked it very much because she hasn't come with me for years. I don't think she goes to the cinema or watches TV much. She might watch my films, but I don't know. It's not the kind of thing she talks to me about.

I'm very pleased to have Carmen. She's a good daughter, but I don't think she likes my new wife very much because she doesn't visit us very often. I'm looking forward to being a grandfather one day. I hope she'll have a son.

1. Which is TRUE about the author according to the passage?

A. He is disappointed with his first wife.

B. His daughter treats him as her best friend.

C. He and Carmen don't have much in common.

D. He doesn't seem to be an animal lover.

2. What does the author think of getting along with his daughter?

A. It's easier for him to get along with her when she was 4.

B. He couldn't take care of her after she went to school.

C. He tried very hard to get along well with her friends.

D. He once got very angry because she didn't talk to him.

3. By saying "wanted the best for her", the author means that_____.

A. he had done everything he could for Carmen

B. he was sad when Carmen wasn't happy at school

C. he never asked Carmen why she gave up drama

D. he was pleased that Carmen married her husband

4. What can be inferred about the author and Carmen from Paragraph 5?

A. They were both interested in books and music and opera.

B. The author greatly influenced her daughter's hobbies.

C. The author was probably a famous TV presenter.

D. The author didn't know much about Carmen's hobbies.

B

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she first met on a trip to Philadelphia. While it is certain that he was an important figure in her life, it is not clear that their relationship was romantic—she called him "my closest earthly friend."

By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences (书信来往) and read widely. She spent a great deal of this time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in state and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her brother, Austin, who attended law school and became an attorney (律师), lived next door with his wife, Susan Gilbert. Dickinson’s younger sister, Lavinia, also lived at home for her entire life in similar isolation. Lavinia and Austin were not only family, but intellectual companions for Dickinson during her lifetime.

While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955. Despite some unfavorable reviews and some skepticism during the late 19th and early 20th century as to Dickinson's literary techniques, she is now almost universally considered to be one of the most important American poets.

5. Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A. Emily Dickson never left her home.

B. Emily Dickinson spent many years in school.

C. “My closest earthly friend” was Emily Dickinson’s husband.

D. Reverend Charles Wadsworth had great influence on her and her poetry.

6. What can we know about Emily Dickinson’s family?

A. Her father was a lawyer.

B. Her brother was actively involved in politics.

C. Her sister was in close relationship with her.

D. Her siblings (兄弟姐妹) didn’t like her poetry.

7. According to the passage, what do we know about Emily Dickinson’s Poetry?

A. Love and death are two vital themes of her many poems.

B. A collection of poems was published during her lifetime.

C. Her poems appealed to the public of her era.

D. Her poems contain no titles.

8. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. Emily Dickinson’s life story

B. Emily Dickinson’s historical influence

C. Emily Dickinson’s artistic ambition

D. Emily Dickinson’s literary achievements

C

One baby born with a defective windpipe (气管缺陷) now has hope of breathing normally thanks to 3-D printing technology, NPR reported.

Garrett Peterson, now 18 months old, was born with tracheomalacia (气管软化), leaving him unable to breathe. The condition terrified his parents, who turned to specialist Dr. Glenn Green at the University of Michigan for a possible treatment.

Along with Scott Hollister, a biomedical engineer who runs the university’s 3-D printing lab, Green designed a device that can hold open Garrett’s windpipe until it’s strong enough to function independently. After taking a CT scan of Garrett’s windpipe to make a replica of it, they made the “splint” with a 3-D printer.

"It's like a protective shell that goes on the outside of the windpipe, and it allows the windpipe to be tacked to the inside of that shell to open it up directly," Green told NPR.

On January 31, Garrett had his surgery. Surgeon Dr. Richard Ohye opened up Garrett’s chest and saw that his windpipe had completely collapsed and one of his lungs was completely white — a condition Ohye had only seen in dead bodies. After eight hours of surgery and careful placement of a splint on either side of Garrett’s windpipe, it was time for the big test: What would happen when they let air flow through the windpipe into Garrett’s lungs?

Though he still remains in the hospital, Garrett has gotten stronger and needs less assistance breathing in the weeks since his surgery. ?His parents are overjoyed, saying he’s starting to act more interactive and alert.

As Garrett grows, the splint will expand and eventually dissolve in his body as his own windpipe strengthens enough to work independently.

3-D printing technology has allowed doctors to help patients in ways that they hope will continue to grow.

"We're talking about taking something like dust and converting it into body parts," Green said. "And we're able to do things that were never possible before."

9. What does the author mainly talk about in the passage?

A. The introduction of 3-D printing technology by medical workers.

B. The development of 3-D printing technology by engineers.

C. The use of 3-D printing technology in saving a baby.

D. The Potential of 3-D printing technology in surgery.

10. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. Garrett is out of hospital with the help of 3-D printing technology.

B. The splint will exist in Garrett’s body for ever.

C. It is difficult to operate the 3-D printer.

D. Garrett’s condition is critical.

11. The underlined word “splint” in the 3rd paragraph refers to ________.

A. A 3-D printer. B. A 3-D scanner.

C. A new building material. D. A device to expand the windpipe.

12. According to the passage, doctors’ attitude toward 3-D printing technology in medical care is ________.

A. positive B. negative C. unknown D. indifferent

D

“To be or not to be”．Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world．They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and woman．To be or not to be----to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely．A philosoph