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注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分；满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
2. 考生作答时，将答案写在答题卡上，在本试题卷上做答无效。考试结束后，将本试题卷和答．．．．．．．．．．题卡一并交回。
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。
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English
World language
Once people dreamed of a language that everybody in the world could understand. Now, for the first time in human history, perhaps there is one—English. It is the official language in more than 50 countries and 250－300 million speak it as a second language. Some say that half the world will be speaking it in the year 2050.
Difficult to master?
English is not the easiest language to learn—most of its common verbs are irregular and it has a large vocabulary—at least 200，000 words are in common use. Its pronunciation and written form are also very different.
User－friendly
But some things make it easy—nouns don't have gender and verbs are less complicated than other languages. There is only one form to speak to someone directly—‘you’. Adjectives don't agree with nouns, and many nouns are often also verbs.
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English is everywhere
Some other languages may have more speakers, like Spanish or Mandarin. But English is used in many different areas. It is the language of transport: most airline pilots and air－traffic controllers use it. At sea a simple form of English is the international language of communication.
English for progress
It is also the first language of science, technology and education—an estimated 80 per cent of the information stored on the internet is in English and 90 per cent of schoolchildren in European countries study it as their first foreign language.
New words
Around 25，000 new words and expressions enter the English language every year. Do you know what a helicopterparent is？—a mother or father too involved in the life of their child. And what about a boomerangchild？—a young adult who returns to live with their parents for financial reasons.
The future of English
What is the future of English as a global language? Will another language ever replace it? Many think not—it is already too popular.
21. According to the text, how many people speak English as a second language?
A. Around 25，000 million. B. 250－300 million. C. At least 200，000 million. D. 90 million.
22. According to the text, why could English be used as a global language?
A. It has more speakers, compared with other languages. B. Adjectives agree with nouns.
C. It is the first language of science, technology and education. D. It is the easiest language to learn.
23. Which of the following words best describes the writer's attitude?
A. Objective. B. Subjective. C. Indifferent. D. Critical.
B
I am astonished at the way God knows when to send a special gift of encouragement at just the right time! It might be in a dream, a lost letter, a memory, or something found that we’d forgotten about.
My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. And summer after summer I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town where they lived. People knew
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everyone, their children, their pets, their ancestors.
Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting... she would make sandwiches and we’d have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them. She loved knitting sweaters as well as making beautiful quilts for her grandchildren. I remember the small thimble (顶针) she would place on her finger while doing her needlework.
A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. She’d never forgotten my birthday!
On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened made me feel as if she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow; it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam（缝）that I carefully opened, and, to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!
How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing it into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff（抖松）, to place on my bedspread（床罩）that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others I’d collected over the years. What a precious memory of a very special lady who, somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble into my pillow. I heated the kettle and made some tea, using my best china, as Grandma always did, and then enjoyed my tea and Grandma’s thimble. What a wonderful birthday that was! 24. In the author’s memory, what would her grandmother do? A. She would make sandwiches and hamburgers for her family. B. She would wear a thimble for needlework every day. C. She would make beautiful quilts for money. D. She would look after the flowers in the garden.
25. What does the underlined word, “it”, in Paragraph 4, refer to? A. The modern world’s fast-changing life. B. The fact that the grandmother had passed away. C. The author’s missing her grandmother. D. The love the author got from her grandmother. 26. How did the author feel when she found the thimble? A. Surprised.
B. Regretful.
C. Guilty.
D. Lonely.
27. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? A. Grandma’s Thimble B. Grandma’s Life Story
B. The Joy of Finding Something Lost C. The Importance of Putting Things Away
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C
ABC News: Parents who want to pick up their kids at school in one New Jersey district now can
submit to iris(虹膜) scans, as the technology that helps keep our nation’s airports and hotels safe begins to make its way further into American lives. When picking up a child, the adult provides a driver’s license and then submits to an eye scan. If the iris image camera recognizes his or her eyes, the door clicks open.
The Freehold Borough School District launched this
high-tech security system on Monday with funding from the Department of Justice as part of a study on the system’s effectiveness.
As many as four adults can be authorized to pick up each
child in the district, but in order to be authorized to come into school,
they will be asked to register with the district’s iris recognition security and visitor management system. At this point, the New Jersey program is not a must.
If someone tries to slip in behind an authorized person, the system causes an alarm and red flashing
lights in the front office. The entire process takes just seconds.
This kind of technology is already at work in airports around the country like Orlando International
Airport, where the program has been in operation since July. It has 12,000 subscribers who pay $79.95 for the convenience of submitting to iris scans rather than going through lengthy security checks.
An iris scan is said to be more accurate than a fingerprint because it records 240 unique details—far
more than the seven to twenty-four details that are analyzed in fingerprints. The chances of being misidentified by an iris scan are about one in 1.2 million and just one in 1.44 trillion if you scan both eyes.
Phil Meara, the Freehold District official, said that although it was expensive, the program would help
schools across the country move into a new frontier in child protection. “This is all part of a larger emphasis, here in New Jersey, on school safety,” he said. “We chose this school because we were looking for a typical slightly urban school to launch the system.”
Meara applied for a $369,000 grant on behalf of the school district and had the eye scanners installed
in two grammar schools and one middle school. So far, 300 of the nearly 1,500 individuals available to pick up a student from school have registered for the eye scan system.
28. Why does the Freehold Borough School District adopt the eye scan security system?
A. To ensure the school safety and efficiency of picking up children. B. To encourage more students to register in New Jersey urban schools. C. To test the effectiveness of school security and management system.
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D. To collect the information of the children and their beloved parents.
29. What’s the advantage of the eye scan system over fingerprints?
A. Having many more subscribers throughout the country. B. Authorizing the adults to pick up children more flexibly. C. Attracting parents in a larger proportion to register for it. D. Making almost no mistakes in identifying the authorized.
30. How does Phil Meara help to protect the safety of children?
A. By asking people to register with the security system. B. By applying for grant to install eye scanners in schools. C. By asking the department of justice to fund this program. D. By turning to Orlando International Airport for help.
31. What is the best title of this passage?
A. Parents Favor the Eye Scan System B. Security Management Needs Improving. C. High Technology Comes to School D. Iris Scanners are Invented in the Country.
D
The battle for women’s right to vote
One hundred years ago, British women were given the vote for the first time. How did it come about? The first appeals for women’s right to vote in Britain date from the early 19th century. In 1818, in his Plan of Parliamentary Reform, Jeremy Bentham insisted that women should be given the vote. Women at the time had no political rights at all– they were deemed to be represented by their husbands or fathers. The old arguments prevailed. Women, it was said, were mentally less able than men; their “natural sphere” was in the home; they were unable to fight for their country, and thus undeserving of full rights; moreover, they simply didn’t want the vote. This was at least partly true. “I have never felt the want of a vote,” declared Florence Nightingale in 1867, while Queen Victoria condemned the “mad, wicked folly of women’s rights”. Even George Eliot was reluctant to back the cause.
It wasn’t until the second half of the 19th century that the first campaigning women’s groups were formed. Initially they focused on the lack of education, employment opportunities and legal rights for women (married women, at the time, had no independent legal standing); but the question of the vote gradually became central to their demands – both symbolically, as a recognition of women’s rights, and practically, as a means of improving women’s lives.
However, the women’s campaigning was still a subject of debate. While most historians agree that the campaigns were initially very effective in mobilizing women and highlighting injustices, a series of mass
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processions followed; more than 250,000 women protested in Hyde Park in 1908. Many were arrested and ill-treated; prisoners who went on hunger strike were brutally force-fed. Over time they became steadily more militant – smashing shop windows, setting fire to letter boxes, libraries and even homes. The PM, Herbert Asquith, an opponent of women’s votes, was attacked with a dog whip. Such use of violence was thought, certainly at the time, to have been unfavorable.
With the sacrifices of the First World War strengthening support for widening the right to vote generally, women suspended campaigning. More than a million women were newly employed outside the home --in munitions (军需品) factories, engineering works. Crucially, Asquith was replaced as PM by David Lloyd George, a supporter of votes for women. The Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced by the coalition government and passed by a majority of 385 to 55, gaining the Royal Assent on 6 February 1918. Women over 30, who were householders or married to one, or university graduates, were given the vote.
32. Which of the following is NOT the reason why women were not qualified to vote? A. Women were supposed to do housework and serve their husbands. B. Women were too weak to fight against enemies. C. Women had already enjoyed many political rights. D. Women were not as intelligent as men.
33. According to the passage, why did women’s campaigning arouse debate? A. Because it failed to mobilize women and emphasize injustices. B. Because women were put in prison and abused during the protest. C. Because most women didn’t want the vote.
D. Because all the emotional behaviors were regarded as improper. 34. The word “militant” (in Line 5, Para.4) probably refers to ______________. A. imposing.
B. extreme.
C. negative.
D. obedient.
35. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Women stopped protesting for their vote because they were offered more job opportunities. B. The PM, Herbert Asquith, an opponent of women’s votes, committed suicide.
C. The first campaigning women groups were formed originally for the sake of legal rights. D. All women can enjoy their right to vote since the introduction of People Act. 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白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Sleep and Teens--Biology and Behavior
How much sleep do teens need? And how much sleep are they realistically getting? Based on current data, most teens need about 9-plus hours to have the best or most suitable sleep night. 36
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Many factors combine to decrease sleep in adolescents. We can think in general of two major factors: biological, the brain processes that regulate the amount and timing of sleep, and behavior, all the psychological, parental, societal, cultural features of teen’s life.
__37 These changes lay the ground work for the biological night to occur later during the teen years than before. Circadian Rhythms (daily biological clock) seems to slow down as young people progress through the middle school years. At the same time, the sleep pressure system appears to change in a way that makes it easier to stay awake longer, though without changing the amount of sleep that is needed.
Moreover, many teens have a \"technological playground\" in their bedrooms: television, computer with 24/7 Internet access, telephones, electronic game stations, MP3 players, and so forth. These technologies provide instant and constant contact with peers. Societal and media pressure to consume these technologies is now higher than ever. Yet society also requires that teens go to school at a time of day that is at odds with their biological and social lives. So we see teens turn to caffeine, late-night Internet and cramming in activity after activity as a means to keep awake. __38 . Problems emerge for lack of sleep. 39 For some, grades begin to suffer as they struggle to keep awake during class and while doing homework. And others may simply feel moody, never knowing how to feel or do their best. Worse still, many teens suffer from both physical and mental illness.
___40 The earlier teens can start this good sleep habit, the easier it will be for them to stay healthy, happy and smart.
A. Sleep experts recommend teens keep consistent sleep and wake schedule B. Teens may schedule sleep like any other daily activity and make sleep a priority C. Then they are trapped into a terrible situation where they would never get enough sleep D. The sleep-wake bio-regulatory factors appear to change significantly during adolescence E. Some teenagers struggle to wake up in the morning, often resulting in late or missed school F. Teens may be driven to things that can wake them up because they'll fall asleep if they do not G. However, it is indicated that most teens fall short of this goal, many by a considerable amount.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳
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选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Raynor Winn and her husband Moth became homeless due to their wrong investment. Their savings had been 41 to pay lawyers’ fees. To make matters worse, Moth was diagnosed（诊断）with a 42 disease. There was no 43 , only pain relief.
Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a 44 journey, as they caught sight of an old hikers’(徒步旅行者）guide.
This was a long journey of unaccustomed hardship and 45 recovery. When leaving home, Raynor and Moth had just ￡320 in the bank. They planned to keep the 46 low by living on boiled noodles, with the 47 hamburger shop treat.
Wild camping is 48 in England. To avoid being caught, the Winns had to get their tent up 49 and packed it away early in the morning. The Winns soon discovered that daily hiking in their 50s is a lot 50 than they remember it was in their 20s. Raynor 51 all over and desired a bath. Moth, meanwhile, after an initial 52 , found his symptoms were strangely 53 by their daily tiring journey.
54 , the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they thought had 55 forever. ＂Our hair was fried and falling out, nails broken, clothes 56 to a thread, but we were alive.＂
During the journey, Raynor began a career as a nature writer. She writes, ＂ 57 had taken every material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a(n) 58 written book. It had also given me a 59 , either to leave that page 60 or to keep writing the story with hope. I chose hope.＂ 41. A. drawn up 42. A. mild 43. A. cure 44. A. business 45. A. expected 46. A. budget 47. A. frequent
B. used up B. common B. luck B. walking B. frightening B. revenue B. occasional B. lawful B. early
C. backed up C. preventable C. care C. bus C. disappointing C. compensation C. abundant C. attractive C. late
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D. kept up D. serious D. promise D. rail D. surprising D. allowance D. constant D. illegal D. slowly
48. A. unpopular 49. A. soon
50. A. harder 51. A. rolled 52. A. struggle
B. easier B. bled
C. cheaper C. ached C. excitement C. reduced
D. funnier D. trembled D. research D. increased D. Consequently D. lost D. ironed D. Homelessness D. originally D. break D. missing
B. progress B. controlled B. Eventually B. kept B. washed B. Hiking B. partly B. reward B. full
53. A. developed 54. A. Initially
C. Temporarily C. wounded C. worn
55. A. gained 56. A. sewn 57. A. Doctors 58. A. well 59. A. choice 60. A. loose
C. Lawyers C. neatly C. promise C. blank
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第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。
Easter Island, or Rapu Nui, as is known ___61___ (local), is home to several hundred ancient human statues.
After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians(波利尼西亚人), it remained _____62 _____(abandon) for centuries. All the energy and resources that went into the statues , some of ______63_____ are ten metres tall and weigh over 7,000 kilos , came from the Island itself . Yet when Dutch explorers landed in 1722, they met a Stone Age culture. The statues _____64______（carve）with stone tools, then transported for many kilometers, without the use of animals or wheels, to large stone platforms. There was a doubt ______ 65_____ the identity of the statues’ builders until well into the ______66_____ (twenty) century. Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer, ______ 67______(think) the statues had been created by the people from Peru. Swiss author Erich Daniken believed they were built by aliens. Modern science has proved _____68_____ the statues’ builders were Polynesians, but not proved how they moved their creations. Local legend believes that the statues walked there themselves, _____
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69______researchers have tended to assume the ancestors dragged the statues there somehow, _____ 70______ (use) ropes and logs.
第四部分 写作（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
Some people live to climb the highest mountains. Some people live only dreaming about it while others live to avoid ever climbing at all. But one thing is certain, all people encounter mountains in their life.
When I was a little girl, my family moved to a tiny town at the bottom of a big mountain. One day after school, while exploring the green woods of this magnificent mountain, I almost fell on a set of stairs. What could these steps lead to? Curiosity got the best of me as I knew it would be starting to get dark soon. I started climbing up those strangely mysterious steps.
I climbed and climbed. There was nothing but just green bushes and these steps. I had to reach the top! But it was now getting real dark. If I kept going I might not be able to see my way back. My mom would be worried sick if I didn’t come home soon. So I ran back home almost in the dark while trying not to get too scared.
Anxiously I went to bed dreaming about what I would find at the top of this magical mountain. Could there be a castle up there? Maybe I would find a monster(怪物). Maybe I was taking the risk of never coming back home. Or, maybe all I would find was absolutely nothing! But something inside me was going to climb that mountain at all cost. I could hardly wait to try this adventure again.
Now we live in a world surrounded by the \"can’t do\" attitudes. We all fall down. We all have doubts and regrets. Still we must climb and dream about what’s at the top of our mountain. Monsters may appear or the night will fall. But never ever give up on your dream! Never let anyone tell you, \"You can’t.\" Dream big and climb high!
71. What made the author start to climb up the stairs to the mountain top? (no more than 5 words)
72. Why did the author hurry back home without reaching the top of the mountain? Give two reasons. (no more than 15 words)
73. How would you describe the author in terms of personalities according to Paragraph 4? (no more than 10 words)
74. How do you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph? (no more than 5 words)
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75. What’s your attitude towards the \"mountain\" in your life? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，介绍你在一月份观看月全食的完整过程，并
以“ A Memorable Experience”为题，给校刊“英语角”写一篇英文稿件。 词数不少于 60。 提示词： 月全食 a total lunar eclipse
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参考答案
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）
21-23 BCA 24-27 DCAA 28-31 ADBC 32-35 CDBA 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 36-40 GDC EA
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 41-45 BDABD 46-50 ABDCA 51-55 CACBD 56-60 CDBAC
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第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
61. locally 62 abandoned 63 which 64 were carved 65 about 66. twentieth 67 thought 68 that 69 while 70 using 第四部分 写作（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 71．Curiosity made her do so.
Or:The desire to explore.
72．Because it was getting dark，and she didn’t want her mother to worry about her.
Or:Because she was seared，and might not be able to find her/the way back home. 73．She had rich imagination and she was brave.
Or:She was a brave and determined girl with rich imagination. Or:She was imaginative and determined，and she dared to explore. Or:She was imaginative，adventurous and determined. 74．We all sometimes fail.
Or:We face failure/defeat/hardships/challenges in life.
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Or:There are difficulties/barriers/obstacles in life. Or:We run into trouble sometimes. Or:We have trouble in life.
75．I will try to reach my goal because I want to live an exciting life.
Or:I will try to reach/get to the top of the“mountain”because I want to be successful in life. 第二节 书面表达（满分25分） 例文：
A Memorable Experience
I was really lucky to witness a total lunar eclipse in January, a rare occurrence and natural wonder.
More importantly, I’ ve developed an interest in astronomy ever since.
One day, I was watching TV with my parents when I learned a total lunar eclipse would occur the next
week. The photos of previous occasions in the news report fueled my curiosity. To have a better
understanding, I attended a professional lecture about the eclipse at the weekend in the community library,listening to an explicit introduction. Back at home, I searched online for more relevant information.
Finally came the big moment. Excited and amazed, I watched the eclipse with my parents and neighbors.We took photos with cellphones or cameras to record this breathtaking scene. The next day, my classmates and I shared our photos shot from different angles, having a lot of fun.
What a wonderful experience! I admired a magical beauty and accumulated astronomical knowledge.
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