2014新课标II高考压轴卷

英 语

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）略

第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)

第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑.

A

Does a Tea Break Make You More Efficient?

China has been drinking tea since the time of Shennong, 5,000 years ago. Britain’s relationship with tea is much shorter, but tea enjoys pride of place as the UK’s national drink. According to the UK Tea Council, British people drink an average of three cups a day or a national total of 165 million cups every day.

With figures like these, it is no surprise that time spent taking tea affects the working day in Britain. A recent survey found that 24 minutes a day are lost to making, buying and drinking tea and coffee. That is, ￡400 a year is lost in working hours per employee, or 190 days over a lifetime. So, should employers be worried about this lost working time, or does the tea break make up in other ways?

One argument is that caffeine improves mental state: a drink of tea or coffee can make you active and focus on work.

Professor Rogers of the University of Bristol disagrees. After years of studying caffeine he sees nothing can prove that. “Workers would perform equally well if not drinking it at all,” he says. “But if they’re often drinking it and then go without, they’ll feel tired and won’t work well.”

Psychologist Cooper instead emphasizes the role tea breaks play in office life, and in building social relationships. “We need to make people more active and see other people. The tea break is one way of doing this,” says Cooper.

And Professor Rogers also points out the comfort effect of a hot drink: “We warm our hands on them on a cold day; they’re comforting and play a big role in our everyday life. Whatever the caffeine’s doing, I’d say these 24 minutes aren’t wasted.”

21. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Tea Breaks cannot make people more active at work.

B. British people drink more tea than people in other countries.

C. Tea break plays an important role in people’s life in Britain.

D. A lot of time has been wasted drinking tea in the working day.

22. We learn from a recent survey that in Britain _______.

A. ￡400 is lost in working hours for each person

B. tea breaks take up 24 minutes in a working day

C. people spends 190 days drinking tea and coffee each year

D. people drink 165 million cups in working hours every day

23. What’s Psychologist Coopers’ attitude towards tea break?

A. Doubtful. B. Uncertain. C. Negative. D. Positive.

B

I suddenly heard an elephant crying as though frightened Looking down I immediately recognized that something was wrong and ran down to the edge of the near bank There I saw Ma Shwe with her three-month-old calf struggling in the fast-rising water and it was a life-and-death struggle Her calf was floating and screaming with fear Ma Shwe was as near to the far bank as she could get, holding her whole body against the rushing water and keeping the calf pressed against her huge body . Every now and then the rushing water would sweep the calf a way.

There was a sudden rise in the water and the calf was washed clean over the mother’s body and was gone Ma Shwe turned quickly to reach it and pressed the calf with her head and trunk（象鼻）against the rocky bank Then with a huge effort she picked it up in her trunk and tried until she was able to place it on a narrow shelf of rock

Just at this moment she fell back into the river If she were carried down it would be certain death I knew as well as she did ,that there was one spot（地点）where she could get up the bank but it was on the other side from where she had put her calf

While I was wondering what I could do next I heard the sound of a mother’s love Ma Shwe had crossed the river and got up the bank and was making her way back as fast as she could roaring（吼叫）all the time but to her calf it was music.

24．The moment the author got down to the river bank he saw______.

A．the calf was about to fall into the river

B．Ma Shwe was placing the calf on the rock

C．the calf was washed away by the rising water

D．Ma Shwe was holding the calf against the rushing water

25．How did Ma Shwe manage to save her calf from the fast-flowing water?

A．By putting it on a safe spot

B．By pressing it against her body

C．By taking it away with her

D．By carrying it on her back

26．How did the calf feel about the mother elephant’s roaring?

A．It was a great comfort B．It was a sign of danger

C．It was a call for help D．It was a musical note

27．What can be the best title for the text?

A．A Mother’s Love B．A Brave Act

C．A Deadly River D．A Matter of Life and Death

C

It is possible to do many simple tricks with numbers. Here is one trick. It has seven steps.

First, write down your house number. For example, if your address is 73 Lemon Street, you would write down 73.

Next, double(翻一倍) it. In other words, multiply(乘) it by two. Then, add five to this doubled number. For example, if your address was 73and you doubled it, you would get 146. Then, if you added five, you’d get 151.

So, to repeat the first three steps, write down your house number, double it, and add five.

Fourth, multiply this number by 50. In our example here, if you multiply 151 by 50, you’ll get 7550.

The fifth step is to add your age to this total. For example, if you’re 26years old, you should add 26 to this total. In our example here, the result would be 7550 plus 26, you’ll get 7576.

Sixth, you have to add the number of days in a year, which is 365. In our example here, 365 added to 7576 is 7941.

The seventh and final step is this: subtract(减) 615 from the number that you have. In our example, 7941 minus 615 is 7326.

The result here, 7-3-2-6, is the trick. The first part of the number is the address and the last part of the number is the age of the person. That is, 73is the address that we started with, and 26is the age that we used.

If you follow these seven steps with any address and the age of any person. You will get the same result.

28. According to the trick, what number can you get if you are 16 years old and your house number is 85？

A. 1685 B. 8516 C. 8165 D. 1658

29. How can your age number appear at the last part of the result?

A. It’s really a trick.

B. By taking all the steps except Step1 and Step 2.

C. By taking Step 6and Step 7.

D. By taking all the steps.

30. What’s the secret of the trick?

A. It’s impossible to know.

B. By taking Step 2 and Step 4, we get the formula(公式)：your address number ×2×50.

C. By taking all the steps except 1 and 2, we get the formula: 5×50+your age number+365－615=your age number.

D. Both B and C.

31. Is it possible for us to design another program of getting the same result？

A. No, it’s impossible to find out another way.

B. No problem.

C. I’m not sure.

D. It’s nothing but a trick.

D

It was a Sunday and the heavy storm had lasted all night. The morning after the storm, though, was beautiful: blue skies, warm air and a calm, inviting sea touching the shore gently.

My father realized it was a good day for fishing and invited my sister and me to go with him. I was only 14 and fishing had never been my thing, but I decided to go all the same. I’m so glad I did.

On the road to the harbour we could see the terrible destruction on the coast, but the harbour itself was in fairly good shape. After all，it was protected by the arms of a bay that had only one tiny channel to the sea. As we got on board, we noticed two big humps(脊背) in the distance.

On approaching them, we saw it was a mother whale with her baby. We couldn’t believe it ——there aren’t any whales along the coast here. The storm must have driven them across the ocean into the bay, in which the still water was so badly polluted that nothing could survive.

The little baby whale——actually as big as our boat——was obviously stuck and could not move. The mother dived under the water and came up suddenly, making big whirlpools(漩涡) and waves. “She’s trying to help her baby, but on the wrong side,” my father said. At this point, my father moved our boat in a semicircle to the other side and, heading the boat towards the baby whale, pushed it gently. With our several gentle pushes the big hump turned over and disappeared under water. Then it swam up right beside its mum. They struggled in their desperate attempts to escape but missed the exit and started heading in the wrong direction. We hurried up to the whales and tried to lead them towards the bay channel. Slowly, they let us lead them, some-times rising from the water right beside us to breathe——and to give us a trusting look with those huge eyes. Once they hit their first part of clean water flowing straight from the sea, the mum gave us a wave with her tail and off they swam into the distance.

In the excitement it had felt like only a few minutes, but we had been with those wonderful animals for almost an hour and a half. That was the simple and lasting beauty of the day, Nearly four decades later, I still look back fondly to that golden day at sea.

32. The author says “I’m so glad I did.”(in Para.2)because __________.

A. he witnessed the whole process of fishing B. he enjoyed the beauty of the calm sea

C. he experienced the rescue of the whales D. he spent the weekend with his family

33. The harbour survived the storm owing to____________.

A. the shape of the harbour B. the arms of the bay

C. the still water in the channel D. the long coast line

34. The mother whale failed to help her baby because__________.

A. she had stayed in the polluted water for too long

B. the whirlpools she had made were not big enough

C. she had no other whales around to turn to for help

D. the waves pushed her baby in the wrong direction

35. What is the theme of the story?

A. Saving lives brings people a sense of happiness

B. Fishing provides excitement for children

C. It’s necessary to live in harmony with animals

D. It’s vital to protect the environment

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空