2015年新课标高考英语全国卷II（最后一模）英语

本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

注意事项：

1. 答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上，认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡的指定位置上。

2. 选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂,如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案的标号；非选择题答案使用0. 5毫米的黑色中性（签字）笔或碳素笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。

3. 请按照题号在各题的答题区域(黑色线框)内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。

4. 保持卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。

第 I 卷

第一部分： 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

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. What does the man probably do?

A. A shop assistant. B. A policeman. C. A postman.

2. How old is the man's daughter?

A. Six months old. B. One year old. C. Two years old.

3. When did the woman plan to go to Spain?

A. In spring. B. In summer. C. In autumn.

4. Where will the speakers go first?

A. A restaurant. B. A cinema. C. A hospital.

5. What does the man think of the lecture?

A. It was interesting.

B. It was far beyond his understanding.

C. It was long but easy to understand.

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 does the man usually do at home?

A. Do the washing-up. B. Wash clothes. C. Clean the car.

7. What does the man promise to do at last?

A. Do all the housework from next weekend.

B. Clean the kitchen after cooking.

C. Prepare meals every day.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How long will the man most probably rent the bike?

A. From 7:00 am to 5:00 pm.

B. From 9:00 am to 7:00 pm.

C. From 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

9. What will happen if the man brings the bike back after 7:00 pm?

A. He has to pay for the helmet.

B. He can't get the 50 dollars back.

C. He has to pay 50 dollars' extra money.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why is the woman a bit nervous?

A. She is afraid of getting up late.

B. She is a newcomer to the school.

C. She isn’t ready for the coming exam.

11. What must the students do before morning reading?

A. Hand in homework.

B. Do morning exercises.

C. Go to the teacher’s office.

12. What can the students do if they feel hungry?

A. Ask the teacher for some food.

B. Have something to eat in class.

C. Eat something during the break.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where is the woman going first?

A. Bergner’s. B. Penny’s. C. Lisa’s.

14. When should the woman have called Helen?

A.At 3:45. B.At 4:15. C.At 4:45.

15. What’s the man’s telephone number?

A.61199621. B.61299621. C.61299622.

16. What’s the relationship between the man and the woman?

A. Husband and wife. B. Boss and employee. C. Friends.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What kind of English lessons does the speaker recommend?

A. Examination skills. B. Reading and writing. C. Listening and speaking.

18. How can a learner take the lessons when he is not online?

A. By using the downloaded sound files.

B. By making conversations with others.

C. By reviewing words, phrases and idioms.

19. What is mentioned as an advantage of the speaker’s online course?

A. It helps learners to make friends.

B. It offers learners better study methods.

C. It improves learners’ listening and speaking skills quickly.

20. What is the speaker’s idea about learning English?

A. Being confident in learning.

B. Learning English little by little.

C. Having clear learning goals.

第二部分： 阅读理解（共20小题;每小题2分，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

Do successful businessmen need an office? Increasingly the answer seems to be no.

Chris Ward, author of the book Out of Office explains how President Barack Obama’s first inauguration (就职) speech was written by 27-year-old Jon Favreau sitting in Starbucks (星巴克); how Richard Tait, creator of Cranium, started the board game in a coffee shop; how Michael Acton Smith invented the children’s virtual world Moshi Monsters in his local Caffè Nero; and how JK Rowling, the novelist behind Harry Potter, believes a café is the best place to write.

It is a convincing view, and for basic start-ups it makes much more sense to work from home and public spaces such as cafés than renting an expensive office. Offices are hard to find, costly to decorate and involve much tiring administration. Moreover, by staying independent you avoid the misery（痛苦） of a daily commute(往返上下班), which for many is the worst part of a job.

Thanks to mobile communications, WiFi and cloud storage, together with the increasing heavy-duty equipment such as photocopiers, fax machines and desktop PCs, the traditional office is becoming redundant(多余的) for many sorts of organizations and workers. Of course, factory managers, surgeons, chefs and industrial chemists are still tied to special locations. But many of us – from software engineers and copywriters to architects and fashion designers – can operate almost anywhere. That freedom, and a willingness to adapt, can make one’s career more enjoyable and, sometimes, more efficient.

21. The second paragraph mainly wants to tell us__________.

A. Obama didn’t write his inauguration speech by himself

B. People don’t have to work in an office

C. A café is the best place to write

D. Many writers like to write in a coffee shop

22. Which of the following careers is tied to special locations?

A. Software engineers. B. Copywriters. C. Surgeons. D. Fashion designers.

23. The traditional office is becoming redundant due to the following EXCEPT_____.

A. mobile communications

B. WiFi and cloud storage

C. heavy-duty equipment

D. the misery of a daily commute

24. What can we infer from the text?

A. Many people hate commuting daily.

B. The tradition office will no longer exist.

C. Working in public places will reduce efficiency.

D. Chefs can work anywhere.

B

The ruins of Moore, Oklahoma, a town destructed for the fourth time in 14 years by a major tornado（龙卷风）, are a reminder that current building codes(规范) can’t do much to prevent property destruction and loss of life, especially when a powerful tornado cuts through town. But the total death number can be reduced when people take shelter in underground storm bunkers（碉堡）and hardened safe rooms.

The tornado that carved a path of destruction through Moore took 24 lives. Its winds were clocked at 400 kilometers per hour. With only 15 minutes’ warning, residents fled town or took refuge（避难）in the firmest corners of their homes. The luckiest were able to climb into shelters or move to safe rooms.

In Moore those rooms saved lives. But at two schools destroyed by Monday's tornado, no such shelter was available. Leslie Chapman Henderson is CEO of a non-profit group called the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes. She's an advocate for tornado safe rooms.

“The safe room is an interior（内部）room of the home that has been reinforced（加固）and tested to withstand high wind. In fact, we’ve already heard of stories of survival of people who were in safe rooms, either above or below ground,” she said.

Better storm forecasts give people more time to react. But they need someplace safe to go. Buildings can be built to resist strong winds, but not like those in the F-5 tornado that touched down in Moore. Chapman Henderson says even the building codes that do exist are not widely adopted or enforced.

As its residents prepare to rebuild, Moore’s mayor is pushing for an order to make safe rooms compulsory in all new construction. Similar proposals were made following each of the previous tornado strikes, but none were adopted.

25. According to Chapman Henderson, which of the following does she probably agree with?

A. Building codes make a difference in preventing property destruction.

B. If people take shelter in safe rooms, nobody will die.

C. It is urgent to build tornado safe rooms.

D. Safe rooms can be built only underground.

26. What can we infer from the text?

A. Moore has gone through tornado 4 times in total.

B. Chapman Henderson is Moore’s mayor.

C. Monday's tornado took 24 lives at two schools.

D. The Moore’s proposal might not be approved.

27. The underlined word “withstand ” in paragraph 4 probably means________.

A. oppose B. resist C. prevent D. defeat

C

Blind tasting is a very strange activity. Contrary to what many imagine, it has nothing to do with blindfolds. It involves tasting a wine without seeing the label and it can deliver shocking surprises. I tasted seven champagnes(香槟) blind with a group of professionals recently. There was a shock when they discovered the wine most of them preferred carried a label they regarded as their least favorite. That sort of result is especially common with champagne, the most image-driven rather than quality-driven wine of all. But it happens all the time when wine is tasted blind.

Because I’m interested in how wines really taste instead of how I think they should, I taste wine blind as often as I can, especially when assessing similar young wines. But blind tasting when you know absolutely nothing about the wine in front of you is something completely different. The most difficult Master of Wine exams include three sessions during which you have a dozen glasses in front of you and nothing more helpful than a printed exam paper asking you to identify (鉴定) each wine as closely as possible, and assess its quality.

Now that the MW is behind me, I taste wine completely blind only very rarely, and never in public. So my blind tastings these days are round the dinner table with good friends and once a year when I act as a judge, with Hugh Johnson, in the Oxford v Cambridge wine-tasting competition. This is the most extraord