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2015年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（模拟）

英 语

★祝考试顺利★

注意事项：

1. 考生在答题前请认真阅读注意事项及各题答题要求，务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、考号填或涂在答题卡上指定的区域内。

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4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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. Whose bag is the smallest?

A. Nate’s. B. Jack’s. C. The man’s.

2. Where are the speakers going?

A. The cinema. B. A restaurant. C. A shopping centre.

3. What does the woman mean?

A. She is praising the man.

B. She is blaming the man.

C. She can understand why the man is late.

4. Why does the woman feel bad?

A. They left half an hour earlier.

B. They were late for the match.

C. They didn’t wait for Mike.

5. Who is the woman speaking to?

A. Carl. B. Dr. Brown. C. Mr. Smith.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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. What did the man want to book?

A. A plane ticket. B. A train ticket. C. A ship ticket.

7. What day is it today?

A. Saturday. B. Friday. C. Sunday.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why isn’t there a notice?

A. The workmen forgot to put one up.

B. John took it away just now.

C. The headmaster thought it wasn’t necessary.

9. How does the woman feel?

A. Annoyed. B. Excited. C. Worried.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A letter of application. B. A job interview. C. Education and family.

11. According to the woman, what should the man begin with?

A. His work experience.

B. Something about his family.

C. His education at school.

12. Which part does the woman think is the best?

A. The beginning. B. The second part. C. The last part.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where did the woman grow up?

A. In London. B. In Paris. C. In Italy.

14. What does the woman like best about her city?

A. The friendly citizens. B. The good facilities. C. The beautiful scenery.

15. What does the woman usually do in her spare time?

A. She usually goes hiking.

B. She usually goes swimming.

C. She usually goes shopping.

16. What is the man, probably?

A. A professor. B. A host. C. A reporter.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where was Zhang Ailing born?

A. In London. B. In Hong Kong. C. In Shanghai.

18. When did Zhang Ailing begin to show her great talent for literature?

A. At the age of four. B. In secondary school. C. At university.

19. Which university did Zhang Ailing attend?

A. The University of London.

B. The University of Hong Kong.

C. Peking University.

20. When did Zhang Ailing die?

A. In 1943. B. In 1975. C. In 1995.

第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

从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。

21.When you come across a new word , you should learn to guess the meaning of the word according to the ________ clues , which may be in the sentence that comes before the word.

A. criterion B. caption C. context D. category

22. ________ is an unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people or things, or a preference for one group of people or things over another.

A. Prejudice B. Dimension C. Compliment D. Symptom

23. Since the day it was founded , the Venus Orchestra , known as the “the most beautiful orchestra in the world ”, has _________ the attention of professional critics , music lovers , and a wide range of audience.

A. approved B. assumed C. accumulated D. arrested

24. It is some time since the two parties came into conflict with each other , and now leaders of both sides are _________ a settlement of the dispute.

A. consulting B. negotiating C. promising D. reasoning

25. Built mainly on natural resources , the prosperity of the city was _______ and its economy almost collapsed when coal prices began to fall in 2012.

A. sensitive B. flexible C. fragile D. subtle

26. After years of learning Chinese, I still can’t understand everything , particularly in the rural areas. These are my most ______moment---when I can’t understand what people say.

A. sceptical B. awesome C. optional D. awkward

27. Our plane delayed taking off as we ran into a storm. We were ________ for several hours at the airport, waiting for the storm to clear up.

A. figured out B. built up C. held up D. taken off

28. Many outside the US continue to see the country as one of opportunities , and despite being in a tough economic position , research shows many young Americans would ________it as well.

A. submit to B. contribute to C. object to D. subscribe to

29. Contrary to my expectation, the teacher was by no means satisfied with my works, saying that the trees had been painted too________.

A. basically B. stiffly C. definitely D. originally

30. Most of the educators are ________ providing more freedom to the teenagers, believing that it may make them more creative and independent.

A. in charge of B. in search of C. in favor of D. in place of

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。

Times were tough in our household. My husband was out of work and there was no sign of anything 31 for him. In addition to going to nursing school full-time, I was working three part-time jobs 32 to put food on the table for our family of five.

After a rather 33 meal one night, I answered the ringing phone. With no 34 , a voice asked,“Do you need food? Come to my place and I can help you.” Directions followed and he hung up the phone. No in-depth conversation or queries as to our 35 situation. It was up to us to decide whether we 36 a voice on the telephone.

I was desperate. With 37 food in the cabinet and no prospect of a job for my husband, I had to take a 38 , swallow my pride, and accept the strange offer. Was there a 39 ? When I uneasily got to a ranch home as 40 ,I found there was no car in the garage. 41 , lined up in orderly rows were tables filled with varieties of food. A craggy（轮廓分明有皱纹的）gentleman 42 me, not much different than our phone conversation! “Look around. If you see what you want, 43 yourself.”He handed me paper bags and turned to another new arrival, passing along the same 44 .This couldn’t be real!

I guiltily filled the paper sacks with what 45 needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man. “Be here next week. You’ll 46 of the food by then” was his reply.

Then I learned the thing. Widowed and retired, he wanted to do something 47 in his golden years to fill his time. Daily, he drove his pickup truck and begged for 48 items and canned goods from local grocery stores and 49 folks like us who had fallen on hard times.

I never knew what our weekly menus would be 50 I had “shopped” in the garage, but I knew, with our bellies full, we could focus on paying necessary bills.

31. A. worrying B. boring C. confusing D. promising

32. A. just B. even C. ever D. also

33. A. delicious B. necessary C. simple D. ordinary

34. A. information B. communication C. introduction D. instruction

35. A. physical B. financial C. educational D. social

36. A. trusted B. accepted C. recognized D. satisfied

37. A. certainly B. originally C. actually D. barely

38. A. chance B. step C. decision D. measure

39. A. future B. possibility C. trap D. kindness

40. A. appointed B. directed C. guided D. requested

41. A. Therefore B. Besides C. Instead D. However

42. A. discovered B. greeted C. reminded D. examined

43. A. help B. enjoy C. behave D. seat

44. A. welcome B. supply C. assistance D. message

45. A. mostly B. eventually C. absolutely D. accidentally

46. A. leave out B. drop out C. run out D. get out

47. A. interesting B. worthwhile C. mysterious D. astonishing

48. A. usable B. additional C. acceptable D. valuable

49. A. recalled B. sought C. identified D. inspected

50. A. although B. since C. before D. until

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and preparing for the worst, Australian adventurer Peter Seiter wrote a farewell note to his family, put it in a bottle and threw it overboard. With a sense of bad feeling he wrote: “The ocean has a personality of its own. The place can be such a peaceful environment to be in, yet it can be frightfully violent. I’ve experienced both.” Fearing he wouldn’t make it home, he placed the note -- dated June 11, 1998 -- in a wine bottle and covered the bottle.

“I included my geographical coordinates, so if anything happened to me, they’d know my last place when I threw the bottle into the ocean,” says Peter, who was then sailing from the Azores in Portugal to New York and knew the Atlantic could be dangerous. He also included some money with his message, asking whoever found it to use the money to post the letter to his family.

Seventeen days later he reached his destination, having survived the dangerous seas, but he assumed his message in the bottle had not -- until it was found on shore, 11 years later!

Recently, American woman Katherine Ginn and her friend came across the bottle on a deserted beach in the Bahamas. “Alongside it they’d found a life jacket and, assuming the worst, opened the bottle and spent 24 hours drying it out so they could read my story and write to my family as I requested,” says Peter, 44. “I couldn’t believe it -- that after all these years my bottle had turned up with its contents, still undamaged.”

Overjoyed, he wrote to the pair, saying he was alive and living in Australia with his family.

Katherine posted him his letter, money and s