1243839343湖北省荆州市普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（5月模拟）（A卷英语试题及答案

1、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。2. 选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2b铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。答在试题卷、草稿纸上无效。3. 完成句子和短文写作的作答：用用0.5毫米黑色墨水钢笔或签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。答在试题卷、草稿纸上无效。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

2、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. nates.b. jacks.c. the mans.2. where are the speakers going?a. the cinema.b. a restaurant.c. a shopping centre.3. what does the woman m

3、ean?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 didnt wait for mike.5. who is the woman speaking to?a. carl.b. dr. brown.c. mr. smith.第二节（共15小

4、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

5、7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. why isnt there a notice?a. the workmen forgot to put one up. b. john took it away just now. c. the headmaster thought it wasnt 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.

6、 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1

7、6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 s

8、wimming. 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 fou

9、r. 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，

10、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. category22. _ is an unreasonable dislike of a particular group of

11、 people or things, or a preference for one group of people or things over another. a. prejudice b. dimension c. complimentd. symptom23. 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

12、lovers , and a wide range of audience.a. approved b. assumedc. accumulated d. arrested24. 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. consultingb. negotiating c. promising d. reasoning25. built mainly o

13、n 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. subtle26. after years of learning chinese, i still cant understand everything , particularly in the rural areas. these are my most _m

14、oment-when i cant understand what people say.a. sceptical b. awesomec. optionald. awkward27. 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 off28. many outside the us co

15、ntinue 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,

16、saying that the trees had been painted too_.a. basically b. stiffly c. definitely d. originally30. 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

17、（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 fo

18、r 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

19、 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 ,

20、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 could

21、nt be real!i guiltily filled the paper sacks with what 45 needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man. “be here next week. youll 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 h

22、is 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. worry

23、ing b. boringc. confusingd. promising32. a. just b. evenc. ever d. also33. a. delicious b. necessaryc. simple d. ordinary34. a. information b. communicationc. introductiond. instruction35. a. physicalb. financialc. educationald. social36. a. trustedb. acceptedc. recognizedd. satisfied37. a. certainl

24、yb. originallyc. actually d. barely38. a. chanceb. stepc. decisiond. measure39. a. futureb. possibilityc. trapd. kindness40. a. appointedb. directedc. guidedd. requested41. a. thereforeb. besidesc. insteadd. however42. a. discoveredb. greetedc. remindedd. examined43. a. help b. enjoyc. behaved. seat

25、44. a. welcomeb. supplyc. assistanced. message45. a. mostly b. eventuallyc. absolutely d. accidentally46. a. leave outb. drop outc. run outd. get out47. a. interesting b. worthwhile c. mysterious d. astonishing48. a. usableb. additionalc. acceptabled. valuable49. a. recalledb. soughtc. identifiedd.

26、inspected50. a. althoughb. sincec. befored. 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。ain 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 o

27、verboard. 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. ive experienced both.” fearing he wouldnt make it home, he placed the note - dated june 11, 1998 - in a wine bottle and c

28、overed the bottle. “i included my geographical coordinates, so if anything happened to me, theyd 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

29、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 k

30、atherine ginn and her friend came across the bottle on a deserted beach in the bahamas. “alongside it theyd 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 couldnt b

31、elieve 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 some broken glass of his bottle placed in a tiny box as a specia

32、l souvenir. these special items now share pride of place among photos of peters atlantic voyage. “i cant express what this old letter means to me,” peter says. “it gives me a sense of hope and belief. its something special to share with my children as they grow up.”51. why did peter have the idea of

33、 a message bottle?a. he missed his family very much then.b. he hoped to share his experience with his family.c. he regretted taking a risk on the ocean.d. he thought he might lose his life on the voyage.52. as for the survival of the message bottle, peter _.a. felt very certain about itb. thought it

34、 had little chance of reaching landc. took a long time to search for itd. wrote a letter to katherine53. what can be inferred about the message bottle according to paragraph 3 and 4?a. katherine found it by chance on a crowded beach.b. it was 11 years before they came across it at sea.c. perhaps the

35、re was water in it when katherine found it.d. peter couldnt believe more that it was not damaged.54. from the passage, we can learn that _.a. this was peters first voyage in the atlanticb. peter spent eleven days in the atlanticc. without the life jacket, the bottle wouldnt have survivedd. katherine

36、 was a caring and careful personbits 4 am, and danilo c. dequina is already awake. holding a flashlight and a bucket, he is walking in the pre-dawn darkness along the shore of old poblacion beach in the town of maitum, sarangani, in the far south of the philippines. a few minutes later, he spots a p

37、atch of sand that appears to have been disturbed by a turtle. dequina studies the area carefully, figuring out where the eggs have been buried, and then starts digging slowly. after clearing away several centimeters of sand, he uncovers a large group of eggs, roughly the size of ping-pong balls. he

38、picks them up and puts them in the bucket. dequina carries the eggs to his hatchery (孵卵所), some 50 meters away from the seashore. the hatchery is really just a sandy patch of land under the coconut trees enclosed by a black fence. it is here that he buries the turtle eggs he has collected. today, de

39、quina scoops a hole, puts the eggs in it, and covers them with sand. after 45 to 70 days, the eggs will hatch. dequina will then carry the hatchlings to the shore, and release them into the sea. he admits to feeling sorrow as he sets the hatchlings free - most are hunted down by natural predators, a

40、nd just one percent survive to adulthood. according to the philippine department of environment and natural resources (denr), eight species of sea turtles face extinction, including four that come to the shores of sarangani to lay their eggs - the hawksbill, olive ridley, loggerhead and green turtle

41、s. after learning about their plight (困境), dequina attended a denr training session on turtle conservation and decided to take action. he helped the local government to set up the pawikan nesting sanctuary next to his house in 2003. the hatchery drew the attention of the locals. “they started to cha

42、nge their attitudes towards sea turtles,” 52-year-old dequina says. “if they see turtle eggs, they will either bring them to me or inform me of the nesting places.” over the past ten years, more than 3,000 hatchlings have been released to the ocean. 55. dequina walks along the shore to _. a. release

43、 small turtles b. bury turtle eggs deeper c. look for newly laid turtle eggs d. clear away trash from the seaside 56. when dequina finds turtle eggs along the shore, he will _.a. put them into the sea instantly b. just bury themc. pick them up and put them in the bucketd. take them and go to his hou

44、se57. what is the attitude of local people toward dequinas efforts? a. doubtful.b. disappointed. c. opposed. d. supportive. 58. what do we learn from the passage? a. dequina feels sad when he releases hatchlings. b. dequina has worked for the hatchery for six years. c. the hatchery is far from dequi

45、nas house. d. the hatchery mainly protects injured turtles.c about five years ago, an american electrical engineer named scott brusaw and his wife julie came up with the idea of putting solar panels (控制板) on the ground rather than the roof. then they began to develop the solar roadway. the solar roa

46、dway is an intelligent road that provides clean renewable energy using power from the sun while providing safer driving conditions, along with power and data delivery. they predict that the solar roadway will pay for itself through the generation of electricity along with other forms of income and t

47、hat the same money that is being used to build and resurface current roads can be used to build the solar roadways.each solar road panel measures roughly 4 meters by 4 meters and contains a microprocessor (微处理器) that monitors and controls the panel, while communicating with neighboring panels and th

48、e vehicles traveling overhead. the inventors suggest that this provides a communications device every 4 meters on every road which could be used for example to warn drivers of cars which are moving across a centre line and various other speed control problems. the top of the solar road panels is mad

49、e of super-strong glass that would offer vehicles the tractions (抓地力) they need.according to the inventors, the solar roadway creates and carries clean renewable electricity and therefore electric vehicles can be recharged at any conveniently located rest stop, or at any business that has paved sola

50、r road panels in their parking lots.the inventors say their solar roadway has many functions and advantages from main roads to driveways, parking lots, bike paths, sidewalks and runways. the federal highway administration has given brusaw 100,000 to develop the invention and brusaw hopes to build a

51、smart-road parking lot in the coming spring . 59. in the inventors opinion, the solar roadway _ .a. is too expensive to build at presentb. costs no more money than current roadsc. can provide as many data as present computersd. will bring them a large sum of money60. the underlined word “they” in pa

52、ragraph 2 refers to .a. the panelsb. the inventorsc. the researchersd. the vehicles 61. it can be inferred from the text that _.a. the solar roadway has already been put into useb. 100,000 is only enough to build a smart-road parking lotc. the solar roadway is not available for gas-powered carsd. fu

53、ture electric vehicles can be charged anytime and anywhere62. what can be the best title for the text?a. solar-powered smart road of the futureb. the great changes on the roadwayc. the influence the solar roadway has on peopled. the solar roada much faster roaddhigh-quality customer service is preac

54、hed (宣扬) by many, but actually keeping customers happy is easier said than done.shoppers seldom complain to the manager or owner of a retail store, but instead will alert their friends, relatives, co-workers, strangersand anyone who will listen.store managers are often the last to hear complaints, a

55、nd often find out only when their regular customers decide to frequent their competitors, according to a study jointly conducted by verde group and wharton school.“storytelling hurts retailers and entertains consumers,” said paula courtney, president of the verde group. “the store loses the customer

56、, but the shopper must also find a replacement.”on average, every unhappy customer will complain to at least four others, and will no longer visit the specific store. for every dissatisfied customer, a store will lose up to three more due to negative review. the resulting “snowball effect” can be disastrous to retailers.according to the research, shoppers who purchased clothing encountered