2014北京市高考压轴卷

英 语

第一部分：听力理解（共三节，30分）略

第二部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）

第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，共15分）

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

例：It’s so nice to hear from her again. ________, we last met more than thirty years ago.

A. What’s more B. That’s to say C. In other words D. Believe it or not

答案是D。

21.— Tom! Corey has broken the glass.

— ______. Such things happen.

A. What a pity B. No way

C. It doesn’t matter D. By no means

22.When you finish reading the book, you will have ________ better understanding of ________life.

A. a, the B. the, a C. /, the D. a, /

23.Volunteering,______ as a way of building character, is popular among young people.

A. seeing B. to see C. seen D. being seen

24.The meeting has been _____ until next week.

A. put forward B. put back C. put aside D. put away

25.In Obama’s inaugural speech he made the promise _______ the America would be more prosperous than ________ used to be.

A. that; what B. that; it

C. in which; it D. which; what

26.____________onto the ground and blacked out, Li Na _________the Australian Open Final.

A. Had she not fallen; could have won B. Did she not fall; could have won

C. If she hadn’t fallen; could win D. If she didn’t fall; could win

27.---Many people don’t think much of the movie.

---I think differently. In______ way, it is a very good film. And______ photographed scene is very beautiful.

A. a, a B. the, the C. a, / D. a, the

28.I really don’t know how to thank you, but for your help, I ______ my lost necklace.

A. couldn’t have found B. shouldn’t have found

C. wouldn’t have found D. needn’t have found

29.—Tom, how forgetful you are! I found you left your key in the keyhole this morning.

—Oh, dear! _______.

A. So had I B. So I had C. So did I D. So I did

30.My ipad looked just the same as Tom’s, but it cost his.

A. as much twice as B. twice as much as

C. much as twice as D. as twice much as

31.Once again I found myself standing at the crossroads, two paths ahead of me．

A． lain B．lying C． to lie D．lie

32.Miss White,_ smile is broad and warm, has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears．

A． whom B．who C．that D． whose

33.The president’s speech was ___ boring; it is , in fact, rather inspiring and interesting.

A. anything but B. nothing but C. no more D. all but

34.—May I go to play football with Dick now, Dad?

—No, you can’t go out ________ your work has not been done.

A. before B. until C. after D. as

35.Hey, look at your pale face; you must have stayed up late last night, ______?

A. have you B. haven’t you C. did you D. didn’t you

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，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。

You Are Going Places

One day I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work. I work at a local restaurant in town as a cashier, seater and waiter.

I went to work feeling 36 . And to make matters worse, I was busy that evening. It' s the same thing over and over again. 37 with customers who complain about their food and where they are 38 is too big or too small. Little things like that tend to 39 a lot of us 40 but we manage to deal with it.

Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows. It happened to be the very 41 near where I keep the dirty 42 in the boxes. Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables, customers leaving and coming in and 43 running all over the house, it was crazy． 44 these elderly women were watching 45 I was working to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers.

When they 46 their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen. They talked to me for a while about school, how I was doing, what 47 I was in and what I planned to do in the future.

48 they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a 49 and gentle voice, "You are going places. And that was it. They left the 50 and I had tears in my eyes, because they gave me 51_ to believe in myself．They 52 my spirit from being down and gave me a 53_ to keep on working hard.

People used to tell me that I couldn’t have a career in 54 until I had a degree. I'm now a co-anchor (联合主持人) of a student-produced television 55 . And the best thing is: I'm only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school.

36. A．tired B．excited C．up D．down

37．A．Dealing B．Helping C．Talking D．Meeting

38．A．sat B．seated C．laid D．seating

39．A．attract B．avoid C．adjust D．annoy

40．A．employees B．customers C．boss D．employers

41．A．table B．box C．spot D．kitchen

42．A．dishes B．rooms C．clothes D．chairs

43．A．men B．women C．servers D．people

44．A．And B．Otherwise C．But D．So

45．A．what B．how C．where D．why

46．A．finished． B．completed C．ordered D．got

47．A．place B．grade C．mark D．position

48．A．Before B．While C．As D．After

49．A．confident B．loud C．low D．pleasant

50．A．kitchen B．house C．restaurant D．table

51．A．ability B．courage C．imagination D．time

52．A．put down B．picked up C．took over D．pointed out

53．A．cause B．reason C．present D．permission

54．A．television B．government C．school D．restaurant

55．A．company B．station C．show D．Advertisement

第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，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

It gives me great pleasure today to say a few words in praise of a man we will all miss very much. To be honest, I can’t imagine we will do without him when he’s gone.

Bill Masters almost single–handed built up our sales force in the Houston area and developed the market position that we enjoy today. In only six years, he has brought the firm from a very low fifth position in the area sales to the point where we now outsell all but one of our competitors. Not only have we got 37 per cent of the market under Bill’s leadership; we are increasing our share with each passing month.

As you know, the company has moved Bill to northern California to work his sales magic in one of this company’s most competitive(竞争的) areas. But we know that if anyone can do it, Bill Masters can, and I know you all join me in wishing him the best of luck in his new work.

56. The speech was made _______.

A. at a welcome meeting

B. at the opening of a new school term

C. when somebody was leaving

D. when they had a new manager

57. How long did Masters worked there?

A.37 years B. less than 5 years

C. about six years D. since he began to work

58. When Bill started to work in Houston area, he had _______to help him.

A. many people B. nobody

C. about 37 people D. very few people

B

Frederic Mishkin, who's been a professor at Columbia Business School for almost 30 years, is good at solving problems and expressing ideas. Whether he's standing in front of a lecture hall or engaged in a casual conversation, his hands are always waving and pointing. When he was in graduate school, one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professor's office.

It turns out, however, that Mishkin's professor had it exactly wrong. Gesture doesn't prevent but promotes clear thought and speech. Research demonstrates that the movements we make with our hands when we talk form a kind of second language, adding information that's absent from our words. It's learning's secret code: Gesture reveals what we know. It reveals what we don't know. What's more, the agreement (or lack of agreement) between what our voices say and how our hands move offers a clue to our readiness to learn.

Manyof the studies establishing the importance of gesture to learning have been conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. "We change our minds by moving our hands," writes Goldin-Meadow in a review of this work. Particularly significant are what she calls "mismatches" between oral expression and physical gestures. A student might say that a heavier ball falls faster than a light one, for example, but make a gesture indicating that they fall at the same rate, which is correct. Such differences indicate that we're moving from one level of understanding to another. The thoughts expressed by hand motions are often our newest and most advanced ideas about the problem we're working on; we can't yet absorb these concepts into language, but we can capture them in movement.

Goldin-Meadow's more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to

learn, but that it actually helps to bring learning about. It does so in two ways. First, it elicits (引出) helpful behavior from others around us. Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to children's speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction. Parents and teachers apparently receive the signal that children are ready to learn, and they act on it by offering a greater variety of problem-solving techniques. The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning, bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts. A 2007 study by Susan Wagner Cook, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa, reported that third-graders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra (代数) were nearly three times more likely to remember what they'd learned than classmates who did not gesture.

59. According to Paragraph 1, Frederic Mishkin was asked to sit on his hands because __

A. he could litter express his ideas that way

B. he always pointed his finger at his professor

C. his professor did not like his gesturing

D. his gestures prevented his professor from thinking

60. How is gesturing important in acquiring knowledge?

A. It draws tasteful responses from others and increases learning speed.

B. It promotes second language learning and quickens thinking.

C. It provides significant