四川省乐山市2014届高三第二次调查研究考试

绝密★启用前【考试时间：2014年2月27日下午3：00—5：00】四川省乐山市2014届第二次调查研究考试英语本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题），第Ⅰ卷1页至8页，第Ⅱ卷9至10页。

考生作答时，须将答案答在答题卡上，在本试题卷、草稿纸上答题无效。

满分150分。

考试时间120分钟。

考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第Ⅰ卷(选择题共90分)注意事项：1. 必须使用2B铅笔将答案标号填涂在答题卡上对应题目标号的位置上。

2. 第Ⅰ卷共两部分，共计90分。

第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，共40分）—__________, I’m afraid. This may be the only day everyone is available.A. Not likelyB. Not exactlyC. Not nearlyD. Not really2. You can’t predict anything. Often things don’t _____ as you expect.A. run outB. break outC. work outD. put out3. _____ you are unable to deal with it, perhaps we should ask someone else for help.A. WhileB. SinceC. AlthoughD. Unless4. —Is this the first time you _____ Guilin?—No. But the first time I ______ here, the city wasn’t as beautiful as it is now.A. visited; cameB. visited; have comeC. have visited; have comeD. have visited; came5. —The boy in our geography group isn’t working very hard. We are supposed to be part of a team.—Wow! You _____ be pretty annoyed.A. mustB. canC. mayD. will6. Many experts stick to the view _____ teacher development is the key to the education quality.A. whichB. thatC. whereD. what7. Which sport coats the most _____ training facilities, player’s personal equipment and uniform?A. in terms ofB. in place ofC. by way ofD. by means of8. _____ in 1884, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was one of the first novels in the US Written in common, everyday language.A. Being publishedB. Having publishedC. PublishedD. To be published9. —Why didn’t Tom give you one of his paintings?—I didn’t want one, but he would have given me one if I _____.A. didB. wouldC. hadD. will10. Nowadays _____ certain limit should be set on _____ use of cars to reduce air pollution.A. / ; theB. a; theC. the; /D. the; the第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

I must share a heartwarming experience I enjoyed this week, both as a parent and a human being.For several nights this week Emma came home from school 11 . There is a young boy in her class called Jake who is quite over weighted. As you might expect, he is the 12 of many jokes. She also 13 that he had no school supplies as his family could not 14 him. He is asking to borrow paper 15 , which just gives kids even more 16 to pick on（刁难）him.One night we sat together and discussed the situation 17 . We made a plan for Emma to 18 a conversation with Jake and for her to ask Jake what he 19 for supplies.The next day Emma spent some time with Jake and really came to 20 that this young man had a heart of gold, but 21 was able to show it 22 he was always on the defensive. Emma asked Jake if he needed supplies and if he could make a 23 for her, for she would bring in 24 supplies that she had at home for him. Emma told him she would help, and he felt most 25 .That evening Emma and I went to the store where we bought some other things for Jake because Emma said he also needed a new pencil box and a schoolbag. The next day, I picked up Emma after school. Emma was all 26 because Jake loved all the supplies we brought to him!This was a great 27 for my daughter. I encourage all the youth of this world to keep hearts 28 and never be afraid to show some acts of 29 to those in need. As for Jake …I saw him walking home yesterday with his new back pack. It was a good feeling to know we had made a 30 in his life!11. A. excited B. upset C. puzzled D. guilty12. A. target B. limit C. purpose D. bargain13. A. complained B. blamed C. doubted D. mentioned14. A. find B. afford C. send D. pick15. A. constantly B. quietly C. unfriendly D. immediately16. A. power B. trouble C. reason D. time17. A. on purpose B. in person C. in detail D. as follows18. A. encourage B. imagine C. predict D. determine19. A. prepared B. needed C. begged D. intended20. A. wonder B. figure C. prove D. realize21. A. nearly B. rarely C. mainly D. always22. A. unless B. thus C. because D. so23. A. form B. copy C. plan D. list24. A. extra B. used C. private D. enough25. A. grateful B. lucky C. moody D. patient26. fears B. tears C. smiles D. cries27. A. chance B. experience C. challenge D. moment28. A. broken B. beating C. sinking D. open29. A. justice B. politeness C. kindness D. dependence30. A. sense B. difference C. choice D. decision第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节阅读下列短文，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。

（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）AAre you unhappy right now? That’s probably because you don’t live Down Under(澳大利亚的别称). For the third year in a row, Australia has topped the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD经济合作与发展组织) Better Life Index.The annual index ranks developed nations based on how satisfied residents are with their lives, taking into consideration criteria (标准) such as jobs, income, environment and health.Australia kept the top spot for the third year running, ahead of Sweden—also known for its high living standards and robust economy—and Canada, a rival resource-exporting nation that, like Australia, has obtained the benefits of increasing Asian demand for raw materials."It's the quality of life that one can enjoy here," said Gaurav Chawla, 27, a careers adviser who moved to Sydney from New Delhi seven years ago. "It's more secure here, cleaner, less cars on the road and less pollution."Australia's high rank in the OECD index—based on data from the United Nations, individual governments and other sources—is largely due to its economy, the world’s 12th largest. The nation mostly avoided the economic woes afflicting much of the developed world after the financial crisis and has expanded for 21 years straight without a recession. Unemployment stood at lower than six percent as of April, compared with 12.1% in the euro zone.The country is also enjoying a tourist boom, in part because of an influx(汇集) of Chinese and American visitors, who are flocking there despite record-high exchange rates.With everything taken into account, Australians ranked their life-satisfaction at 7.2 out of 10, according to the study. The average, meanwhile, was 6.6.Tha t’s not to say everything is all cheery Down Under though. The country faces declining consumer confidence amid a rise in the country’s high cost of living. Australians also rank pretty poorly in work-life balance, with more than 14% of the population working very long hours —5% higher than the average. And there’s always the occasional kangaroo attack.31. The OECD came up with the Better Life Index after _____.A. assessing developed nations’ annual economic growthB. considering which developed nation has the brightest prospectsC. looking into which developed nation has the highest living standardsD. surveying how satisfied residents are with their lives in developed nations32. It’s implied in the article that Australia _____.A. has benefited from increasing Asian demand for natural resourcesB. has the fewest economic difficulties among all developed nationsC. is very likely to continue to top the index nest yearD. slightly defeated Sweden to top the index33. What contribute to Australia’s high rank in the index?①That the country has seen continuous growth for 21 years.②That the country was barely affected by the financial crisis.③That the country has seen a boom in tourism.④That the country has the lowest crime rate in the world.A. ①②B. ②③C. ①②③D. ②③④34. What might make an Australian unhappy?A. The Australian dollar’s high exchange rate.B. A rising cost of living.C. Poor work-life balance.D. Both B and C.BWhen the Hong Kong school year began in September, tutor Tony Chow arranged to have his face painted on the sides of double-decker buses to raise his profile. For many of Chow’s students, the advertisements may be the closest they’ll ever get to him.The 30-year-old teaches English grammar to thousands of secondary school students, who attend his after-school lessons or watch video replays of them at Modern Education’s 14 branches.Chow is a celebrity tutor in Hong Kong, where there’s big money to be made offering extracurricular lessons to parents desperately seeking an edge for their children preparing for the city’s intense public entrance exam for university.Recent global student rankings highlighted the city’s cut-throat academic atmosphere. Hong Kong teens, along with their counterparts in Shanghai, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, dominated a list compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.Hong Kong has taken extracurricular lessons to a new level in recent years, with the majority of students attending the city’s nearly 1,000 tutorial centers. These centers use flashy marketing, dressing their tutors in miniskirts and high heels or leather jackets to make them look like pop stars. Advertisements for these “tutor kings” and “tutor queens” are displayed on giant roadside billboards, on the sides of shopping malls and on newspaper front pages.Facebook profiles, YouTube videos and other social media are also part of the aggressive marketing strategies. “Every night after they finish their classes I will send them messages through WeChat,” said Chow. After all, he said, “the most powerful tool is word of mouth among students.”Many of these celebrity tutors promise students they can help them do well in the entrance exam. Chow and others promise, for example, that they will help students learn keywords that many believe examiners award points for when used in written answers.Hong Kong’s tutorial industry is worth $260 million a year, according to a report by research firm Synovate. The industry has made some tutors extremely wealthy. The top tutors can be paid many times what a public school teacher earns. Modern Education’s highest paid tutor earns at least 16 million Hong Kong dollars ($2 million) a year, according to Synovate’s report.35. What can be inferred about Chow Iron from the first two paragraphs?A. He is the most famous tutor on Hong Kong.B. His lessons are sought after among students.C. He is the highest paid tutor in Hong Kong.D. He doesn’t like to be near students.36. What does the underlined word “cut-throat” probab ly mean?A. Incredible tough.B. Fiercely competitive.C. Properly organized.D. Harmlessly addictive.37. What makes the tutoring market in Hong Kong so profitable?A. Promises made by celebrity tutors.B. Declining standards at public schools.C. High-tech teaching equipment used by tutorial centers.D. Parents’ attempts to seek an edge for their children in the college entra nce exam.38. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?A. Teenage students in Hong Kong did better than their peers in most other countries on the OECD list.B. Tutors try to build celebrity image for themselves despite disapproval from tutorial centers.C. Word of mouth is very effective in marketing celebrity tutors.D. Top celebrity tutors make a lot more than public school teachers.C.au/stories/personalgrowth/Peas.shtmlA few weeks after the death of my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cutting open a bag of frozen peas and it slipped from my hands and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, rolled everywhere. I tried to use a broom, but with each swipe, the peas rolled across the kitchen, bounced off the wall on the other side and rolled in another direction.My mental state at the time was fragile. Losing a spouse is an unbearable pain. I got on my hands and knees and pulled them into a pile. I was half laughing and half crying as I collected them. It doesn’t take much for a person dealing with grief to break down.For the next week, every time I was in the kitchen, I would find a pea that had escaped my first cleanup. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean, and found a dozen or so petrified peas hidden underneath.At the time I found those few remaining peas, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful woman. After we married, I was reminded of those peas under the refrigerator. I realized my life had been like that bag of frozen peas. It shattered. My wife was gone. I was in a new city with a busy job and a son having trouble adjusting to his new surroundings and the loss of his mother. I was a bag of spilled, frozen peas. My life had come apart and scattered.When life gets you down, when everything you know comes apart, when you think you can never get through the tough times, remember, it is just a bag of scattered, frozen peas. The peas can be collected and life will move on. You will find all the peas. First the easy peas come together in a pile. You pick them up and start to move on. Later, you find the smaller, harder-to-find peas. When you pull all the peas together, life will be whole again.The life you know can be scattered at any time. You will move on, but how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, or will you pick them up one-by-one and put your life back together?How will you collect your peas?——Michael T. Smith39. How did the author feel when the peas rolled everywhere?A. AnnoyedB. AmusedC. ScaredD. Sad.40. The underlined word “fragile” is closest in meaning to _____.A. depressedB. strongC. flexibleD. sophisticated41. The author compares his life to the peas because _____.A. both can go in different directionsB. both are small things in a big worldC. both can be scattered and recovered againD. peas are separate just like he was separated from his wife42. Which of the following best describes the tone of the article?A. Encouraging.B. Questioning.C. Entertaining.D. Teasing.DWhy is reading classic literature good? Sure, it helps expand your vocabulary and improve your writing skills. But recent research has found that classic stories are also “rocket-boosters” (火箭助推器) to the brain.Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the Bard and other classical writers has a beneficial effect on the mind, catches the reader’s attention and triggers (引发) moments of self-reflection.Using scanners, the researchers monitored the brain activity of volunteers as they read works by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, T.S Eliot and others. They then “translated” the original texts into more “straightforward”, modern language and again monitored the readers’ brains as they read the words. Scans showed that the more “challenging” prose and poetry set off far more electrical activity in the brain than the more pedestrian versions.In one example, volunteers read a line from King Lear: “A father and a gracious(仁慈的) aged man: him have you madded. ”They then read a simpler version:“A father and a gracious aged man: him you have angry”.Shakespeare's use of the adjective “mad” as a verb sparkled a higher level of brain activity than the simple prose.The study went on to test how long the effect lasted. It found that the “peak” triggered by the unfamiliar word was sustained (保持) onto the following phrases, suggesting the striking word had hooked the reader, with their mind “primed for more attention”.Scientists were able to study the brain activity as it responded to each word and record how it “lit up” as the readers encountered unusual words, surprising phrases or difficult sentence structure. This “lighting up” of the mind l asts longer, shifting the brain to a higher speed, encouraging further reading.The research also found that reading poetry, in particular, increases activity in the right hemisphere of the brain, helping the reader to reflect on their own experiences, which they compare with what they have read. This, according to the researchers, meant that the classic works were more useful than guide books.43. What does the underlined word “pedestrian” in the third paragraph probably mean?A. Written by unwell-known person.B. Dull and unimaginative.C. Lengthy and confusing.D. Shortened but meaningful.44. The researchers found that _____.A. people are often frustrated by difficult words and sentence structures in classic literatureB. Shakespeare’s works a re the best among all the classics to improve the brainC. people are more interested in what they are going to read when meeting unfamiliar wordsD. simplified versions of classic literature are harmful to the brain45. If a person wants to reflect on his own experiences, which of the following is best for him?A. Fairy tales.B. Detective stories.C. Modern prose.D. Classic poetry.46. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The researchers monitored the volunteers’ brain activity o nly when they were reading the originals.B. The volunteers had a higher lever of brain activity when encouraging the word “madded” used as verb.C. The mind’s lighting up only lasted fewer seconds when a person read difficult sentence structures.D. Th e volunteers’ brain activity became intense while they were doing some translations.EDoes your school have any problems with discipline? What happens when students step out of line? Here are some examples of bad behavior:●Playing truant (missing school without permission from parents).●Stealing, smoking, hitting, swearing, running, kissing.●Cheating in exams.●Calling a teacher or another pupil bad names.●Not doing homework.●Not listening or not paying attention in le ssons.●Wearing unsuitable clothes.Here are some of the ways that UK school children can be punished.●Exclusion: a pupil is asked to leave the school and not come back. The pupil has to find a new school or a different method of education.●Suspension:a pupil cannot enter the building or attend lessons until the school has a meeting about their situation. Suspension can last from one to 45days.The pupil is usually given work to do at home with a special teacher.●Detention: a pupil is asked to stay after school and work for30-60minutes before they can leave.●Lines: a pupil has to write a sentence many times (e.g.100or more) on a sheet of paper, e.g. “I must not shout in class.”Freya MacDonald, a 15-year-old pupil from Scotland, made the news when she refused to accept her school’s punishment. Her family says that she was given11detentions for small things such as having fizzy drinks in class and coming into school through a fire door.Freya says that repeated detentions disrupted (损害) her right to an education under Scottish law and made it difficult for her to learn. She refused to return until the school respected her civil rights. She wants the head－master and her teachers to sign a letter to promise this. Hundreds of schools in Scotland were told not to use detention as a punishment because of her legal action.Many UK schools now give parents a home/school contract, explaining their discipline and rules. Parents must sign this document to agree that they accept the school’s rules and discipline and th at they are responsible for their child’s behavior.47. What does the passage mainly tell us?A. How UK schools reform their school rules.B. How UK schools discipline and punish students.C. When common types of bad behavior appear in UK schools.D. Why an increasing number of pupils break school rules in the UK.48. What can we learn from the passage?A. Playing truant means using bad language.B. You can wear anything you want to school in the UK.C. If a child is suspended, they will miss schoolwork.D. Exclusion is the most serious punishment UK students can get at school.49. What did Freya do when the school gave her education?A. She used the law to argue for her civil right to an education.B. She forced her teachers to sign a letter agreeing to respect her civil rights.C. She asked her parents to talk her teachers into canceling the punishment.D. She argued that she hadn’t done anything wrong and refused to return to school.50. According to the passage, the home/school contract many UK schools give is used to _____.A. help parents learn more about their child’s performance at schoolB. make parents reach an agreement with the school about school rulesC. remind parents that it’s their duty to teach their children school rulesD. ask parents to be more responsible and show more care to their children第二节根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。