2013～2014学年度苏锡常镇四市高三教学情况调研（二）英语 2014年5月 注意：本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。答案全部做在答题卡上。总分为120分。考试时间120分钟。
第一卷 （选择题，共85分）
第一部分：听力（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束后，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分，满分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 are the speakers talking about?
A. Plans for the weekend. B. The Great Wall. C. Shopping.
2. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. In a classroom. B. In a library. C. In a bookstore.
3. What are they talking about?
A. Who will pay for the lunch.
B. When they will have lunch.
C. What they will eat for lunch.
4. How many days will the man stay in the hotel?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.
5. Why didn’t Mary sleep well?
A. She had a headache.
B. She was suffering from a stomachache.
C. She couldn’t tolerate the noisy surroundings.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读每个小题，听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. What is wrong with Kathy?
A. She can’t get on well with her father.
B. She is worried about her classmate Don.
C. She is upset because she failed the exam.
7. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Mid-term exam. B. School education. C. Pressure from parents.
听下面一段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What does the woman like doing?
A. Doing her favorite sports.
B. Watching sports programs.
C. Meeting her favorite players.
9. What kind of sports did the woman use to do?
A. Basketball. B. Table tennis. C. Swimming.
10. What advice does the man give the woman?
A. To go in for sports. B. To practice Wushu. C. To swim a lot.
听下面一段材料，回答第11至13题。
What does the man think of working in a bank?
A. He doesn’t like the job.
B. He enjoys working in a bank.
C. He is not good at counting money.
What does the man prefer doing?
A. Teaching in a university.
B. Working as an assistant.
C. Going to a graduate school.
Who will possibly pay for the man’s living expenses?
A. The man himself.
B. The man’s father.
C. The man’s professor.
听下面一段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What did the man think of the cloning of humans?
A. Acceptable. B. Impossible. C. Unbearable.
15. Why are scientists studying cloning at present?
A. To reproduce a whole human being.
B. To see how the copy looks and acts.
C. To replace damaged parts of a body.
16. How did the woman get to know about the way to make new medicines?
A. From a magazine. B. From some scientists. C. From the man speaker. 听下面一段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.When did the train leave Glasgow last Thursday?
A. At 8:14 am. B. At 9:20 am. C. At 8:40 am.
18.What happened to the speaker?
A. He lost his luggage.
B. He missed his flight.
C. He was badly injured.
19.What does the speaker mainly complain about?
A. The train’s delay, poor service and no apology.
B. The rude manners of the crew and the high price of the ticket.
C. The delay of the train and poor-quality food of the restaurant.
20.What is the purpose of the tape-talk?
A. To comment on the restaurant on the train.
B. To give the reason why he missed his flight.
C. To urge the company to make up for his loss.
第二部分: 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从四个选项（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。
21. —Do you understand the film The Hobbit, the most amazing US-made one last year?
—______, but I am confused at many scenes.
A. Not a little B. Not a bit C. Just a bit D. No problem
22. I don’t like any humor in this serious speech because I can’t think of any circumstance ______ this would be beneficial or useful.
A. which B. whether C. where D. as
23. In China people believe in the saying “out of debt, out of pressure”; however in the west, it is just the ______ — when you are in debt, you are trustworthy and financially capable.
A. objective B. opposite C. contrary D. contradictory
24. —Has Nancy gone back to her home in the UK?
—Yes. She ______ here only for three days with her friend.
A. stayed B. had stayed C. has stayed D. is staying
25. Since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in 2012, his fans have been eagerly waiting for his new novels to ______.
A. come out B. turn out C. bring out D. go out
26. —______ bargaining is always such great fun?
—Usually people consider it a test to see who can stand their ground longer.
A. What is it that B. Why is it that C. What it is that D. Why it is that
27. One third of the Ukrainian population live in the eastern region near Russia and speak Russian, most of them ______ closer to Russia.
A. are feeling B. feel C. feeling D. are felt
28. The record about the massacre (大屠杀) is fairly clear and beyond dispute ______ those activities the Japanese soldiers were involved in.
A. in memory of B. with assistance of C. with respect to D. in place of
29. —Guess what! We’ll have a chance to visit our sister school in Denmark this summer! —How nice! You ________ a different culture then.
A. will have experienced B. have experienced
C. have been experiencing D. will be experiencing
30. Overloaded with work, school teachers now get far less sleep than they ______.
A. shall B. should C. may D. might
31. Two professors at Harvard University published a study of 3,300 new graduates, looking at ______ their names had any bearing on their academic performance.
A. that B. how C. why D. whether
32. —Did you attend the opening ceremony of The Voice of China last week?
—Sorry! We ________ it, but we had a terrible traffic accident on our way.
A. must have attended B. must attend
C. could have attended D. could attend
33. The role of Chinese Dama in the economy has been over-estimated by some western media ______ their “gold rush” has had little influence on gold prices.
A. so that B. but that C. now that D. in that
34. Never before _______ the famous ancient garden was just a stone’s throw away from the hotel, so out _______.
A. had they known; went all they B. they had known; went all they
C. had they known; they all went D. they had known; they all went
35. —I would appreciate it if you could forgive Lucy and be friendly to her as you used to.
—______, if only she gave me a sincere apology.
A. By all means B. By no means C. My pleasure D. It’s a pleasure
第三部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As of Monday, Amy Carrickhoff’s video “Spoiled deer getting her bottle” was viewed more than 792,000 times and shared 9,600 times. In this heartwarming video, Carrickhoff stands outside her house in Oakridge, North Carolina, ___36___ for a deer she has named “Little Girl.” The deer comes out of the ___37___ and jumps on her. It hurries up the driveway and ___38___ Carrickhoff into the house, where it then sucks down a baby bottle of goat’s milk. When the ___39___ is gone, Carrickhoff wipes its mouth with a tissue.
While some animal lovers were touched by the obvious ___40___ Carrickhoff had with the deer, others felt she wasn’t doing the deer any ___41___. They said she was allowing the deer to get too ___42___ around humans and it could have been hit by a car, been shot by a hunter, or hurt someone. “You just gave this animal a death ___43___ — you also have put all your neighbors and their children at ___44___ of being attacked when this deer matures, and when it doesn’t get ___45___, it attacks someone,” one reader wrote.
Carrickhoff’s comment was that if she had known the video would get so many ___46___ she would have changed out of her gym clothes. As for the deer, ___47___, the update isn’t a happy one.
Little Girl continued coming back for bottles until around January 2011, when it moved onto ___48___ deer food, Carrickhoff said. “She walked off into the woods and we never saw her again,” she said. “We ___49___ those woods … we never found anything.”
Looking back, Carrickhoff said getting to know the deer was a special ___50___ that she wouldn’t regret.
Friends had brought Little Girl to Carrickhoff’s home because the woods in their backyard were protected, and the deer would be ___51___ from hunters. School children loved visiting the gentle creature, who would ___52___ them with its soft tongue and didn’t mind being ___53___. Carrickhoff is confident that she didn’t over-domesticate (过度驯养) the animal. Even when Little Girl was bottle-fed, she lived in the woods and did “deer things”, Carrickhoff’s daughter said. The deer gave birth to a ___54___ of its own the following June, and toward the end, it wouldn’t come when it was called. It was becoming ___55___ again.
She and her husband got so attached to Little Girl that they don’t ever want to take care of another animal. “I just watch the videos and she kind of lives on,” she said.
36. A. hunting B. asking C. calling D. applying
37. A. house B. woods C. cage D. garage
38. A. walks B. takes C. follows D. watches
39. A. animal B. milk C. bottle D. time
40. A. appointment B. accommodation C. peace D. bond
41. A. favor B. harm C. service D. business
42. A. comfortable B. excited C. uneasy D. embarrassed
43. A. sentence B. punishment C. direction D. prediction
44. A. sight B. mercy C. moment D. risk
45. A. hunted B. fed C. respected D. welcomed
46. A. copies B. cheers C. attacks D. views
47. A. fortunately B. hopefully C. sadly D. doubtfully
48. A. sufficient B. rare C. regular D. favorite
49. A. protected B. watched C. entered D. combed
50. A. event B. experience C. incident D. accident
51. A. discouraged B. safe C. parted D. invisible
52. A. lift B. lick C. touch D. taste
53. A. cheated B. cared C. studied D. petted
54. A. sister B. brother C. baby D. beast
55. A. timid B. tamed C. wild D. natural
第四部分: 阅读理解 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
On 23rd December, 2013, Michael Schumacher — the famous Formula-One race car driver — received serious brain injuries after hitting his head on a rock while downhill skiing with his son. The accident happened during a family holiday in the French Alps. Although he was wearing a helmet, which broke apart on impact, the F1 celebrity was moving at speeds of up to 62 mph and skiing outside the off-piste safety demarcations (滑雪场地外的安全区). Doctors reported that he would have died on impact if he hadn’t been wearing a helmet. He has been in a coma (昏迷) since arriving at a nearby hospital where he was airlifted to from the site of the accident.
Michael Schumacher grew up in frugal (简朴的) conditions and started what would become his remarkable professional career when his working class father — a bricklayer — built him a go-kart from where he started participating in competitions. He started his adult career racing for Formula Ford in 1988 and later raced for Formula One Ford, Ferrari, and Mercedes AMG. He holds numerous F1 world records including most race victories, fastest laps, and most races won in a single season. According to the Formula One website, he is “statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen”. Also notable are his contributions to charity, during the peak of his career he has given away more than 50 million Euros to a variety of charity organizations, most to help children around the world. Millions of Europeans and other fans around the world are holding their breath and waiting for information about his hopeful recovery. We wish him and his family the best.
56. Michael Schumacher is in a coma after ________.
A. crashing in an airlift accident
B. a Formula One Ford car crash
C. a skiing accident during his holiday
D. a bump onto a rock in a skiing race
57. What is a go-kart most likely to be?
A. A medical instrument.
B. A small car-racing field.
C. A racing-car driver’s safety helmet.
D. A small motor vehicle used for racing.
58. From the passage we can learn that Michael Schumacher ________.
A. is recovering quickly at the Alpine Hospital in France
B. gave all his money to charity during the height of his career
C. raced for Ferrari and Mercedes before becoming a celebrity
D. came from humble origins to become the greatest F1 driver ever
B
59. The newspaper’s special column is to inform the readers of ________.
A. some brief accounts of new computer games
B. some up-to-date information about entertainment
C. the introduction of some celebrities and their works
D. the introduction of catchy chorus and overall rock sound
60. We can infer from the Music that ________.
A. the last three years has witnessed Katy B going up to the world stage
B. the single Cruise that became a chart-topping hit was released in early 2013
C. the US country duo gained their popularity on the release of their debut album
D. in her debut album On a Mission Katy B sings club-friendly songs with real heart
61. Which of the following is true of the Games?
A. Toca Cars is enjoyed by children and adults alike.
B. Jet Car Stunts 2 was a hit in 2009 in the App Store.
C. Both of the games provide confidence for car racers.
D. Both games offer players chances to create new racing grounds.
C
A Korean wave is sweeping across China, with many Chinese women worshipping South Korean actors Kim Soo Hyun and Lee Min Ho as demigods (半神半人). Chinese netizens have always been divided over South Korean TV dramas, but there is no doubt that programs from the neighboring country are now enjoying a new round of popularity in China. And a big part of the credit for that goes to You Who Came From The Star, the South Korean TV series which is on the air now.
Top South Korean actors Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo Hyun recently earned a
popularity rating of 24.8 percent in their country, considered strong by Nielsen Korea. You Who Came From The Star and The Heirs have been subjects of hot online discussions throughout Asia. Besides, the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, read by the hero in You Who Came From The Star was a hard-to-get item on Amazon for a while. The two TV programs have several common elements: a tall, handsome, and rich hero who loves the heroine blindly and always protects her, and an equally handsome man madly in love with the same woman. Both programs portray the purity of love, which is expressed through a kiss or a warm hug. Perhaps that’s the secret of their success; perhaps people are still fascinated by Cinderella-type stories.
The growing wealth gap is a matter of social concern both in South Korea and China, and the challenges that young people face in their search for a better life might have prompted (激起) many ordinary girls to dream of marrying rich, caring men. This is precisely what the popular South Korean TV dramas portray. In fact, South Korean TV dramas are tailored to meet the market’s demands.
In contrast, Chinese TV screens are flooded by knock-off (山寨) or poorly made soap operas. There are too many Chinese TV dramas that are either of the stereotyped (刻板的) war theme or just blindly copy foreign programs. The lack of good stories has resulted in loads of TV series on time travel or fights in the harems (后宫) of Qing Dynasty emperors. These, in short, are the pain of Chinese TV productions.
The shooting for South Korean productions generally starts when the scripts (脚本)
are just one-third ready. Many popular productions have their own websites, where
scriptwriters post part of the finished scripts, inviting viewers to leave messages, discuss the plot and come up with suggestions for future events. This not only keeps viewers’ interest in the TV dramas alive, but also helps scriptwriters and directors make changes to the storylines to suit the audience’s demand.
Hopefully, the innovation-induced (创新引导的) success of South Korean TV
programs will prompt Chinese TV drama makers to think up new ideas and abandon their bad practice of copying foreign productions in order to attract more viewers at home, and possibly abroad.
62. The main point the author emphasizes in this passage is ________.
A. why Korean actors are more popular than Chinese actors
B. how the three Korean actors became famous around East Asia
C. what modern TV dramas need is not copying foreign programs but innovation
D. the Cinderella-type stories are an ever-lasting theme people are fascinated with
63. Which of the following best explains people’s favor for The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane?
A. The celebrity effect is powerful.
B. Drama stars are the best advertisements.
C. Rich and handsome heroes in dramas usually love reading.
D. A successful drama generally originates from a good novel.
64. According to the passage, the secret to Korean TV dramas’ being successful is that ________.
A. drama stars must be tall, rich and handsome or beautiful
B. scriptwriters should choose the appropriate themes for all viewers
C. drama producers have creative ideas to adapt to viewers’ interest and demand
D. people’s concerns such as wealth gap both in Korea and China are taken good care of
65. What does the last paragraph imply?
A. Abandoning copying foreign productions is the only way to attract viewers.
B. The Chinese TV drama makers should follow in the footsteps of the Koreans.
C. It’s hard to predict what the future TV dramas in China and Korea will be like.
D. A bright future of Chinese TV dramas can be expected prompted by the Koreans. D
Hacking our senses to boost learning power
Some schools are pumping music, noises and pleasant smells into the classroom to see if it improves exam results. Could it work? Why do songs stick in our heads? What does your school smell like? Is it noisy or peaceful?
It might not seem important, but a growing body of research suggests that smells and sounds can have an impact on learning, performance and creativity. Indeed, some head teachers have recently taken to broadcasting noises and pumping smells into their schools to see whether it can boost grades. Is there anything in it? And if so, what are the implications for the way we work and study?
There is certainly some well-established research to suggest that some noises can
have a harmful effect on learning. Numerous studies over the past 15 years have found that children attending schools under the flight paths of large airports fall behind in their exam results. Bridget Shield, a professor of acoustics (声学) at London South Bank University, and Julie Dockrell, from the Institute of Education, have been conducting studies on the effects of all sorts of noises, such as traffic and sirens (汽笛), as well as noise generated by the children themselves. When they recreated those particular sounds in an experimental setting while children completed various learning tasks, they found a significant negative effect on exam scores. “Everything points to a bad impact of the noise on children’s performance, in numeracy, in literacy, and in spelling,” says Shield. The noise seemed to have an especially harmful effect on children with special needs.
Whether background sounds are beneficial or not seems to depend on what kind of noise it is — and the volume. In a series of studies published last year, Ravi Mehta from the College of Business at Illinois and his colleagues tested people’s creativity while exposed to a soundtrack made up of background noises — such as coffee-shop chatter and construction-site drilling — at different volumes. They found that people were more creative when the background noises were played at a medium level than when volume was low. Loud background noise, however, damaged their creativity.
Many teachers all over the world already play music to students in class. Many are inspired by the belief that hearing music can boost IQ in later tasks, the so-called Mozart effect. While the evidence actually suggests it’s hard to say classical music boosts
brainpower, researchers do think pleasant sounds before a task can sometimes lift your mood and help you perform well, says Perham, who has done his own studies on the phenomenon. The key appears to be that you enjoy what you’re hearing. “If you like the music or you like the sound — even listening to a Stephen King novel — then you do better. It doesn’t matter about the music,” he says.
So, it seems that schools that choose to prevent disturbing noises and create
positive soundscapes could enhance the learning of their students, so long as they make careful choices. Yet this isn’t the only sense being used to affect learning. Special
educational needs students at Sydenham high school in London are being encouraged to revise different subjects in the presence of different smells — grapefruit scents for maths, lavender for French and spearmint for history.
66. The four questions in the first paragraph are meant to ________.
A. create some sense of humour to please the readers
B. provide the most frequently asked questions in schools nowadays
C. hold the readers’ attention and arouse their curiosity to go on reading
D. declare the purpose of the article: to try to offer key to those questions
67. What does the conclusion of the studies of noise conducted by Bridget Shield and Julie Dockrell suggest?
A. Peaceful music plays an active role in students’ learning.
B. Not all noises have a negative impact on children’s performance.
C. We should create for school children a more peaceful environment.
D. Children with special needs might be exposed to some particular sounds.
68. Ravi Mehta’s experiment indicates that ________.
A. students’ creativity improves in a quiet environment
B. we may play some Mozart music while students are learning
C. a proper volume of background noises does improve creativity
D. noise of coffee-shop chatter is better than that of construction-site drilling
69. Towards the positive impact of appropriate background sound and smell on students’ learning and creativity, the author’s attitude is ________.
A. ambiguous B. doubtful C. negative D. supportive
70. Which of the following is most likely to follow up the research findings?
A. Experts’ research into other senses that can improve students’ grades.
B. More successful examples of boosting learning power by using music.
C. Suggestions for pumping lots of pleasant smells into school campuses.
D. Debates on whether noises can really have positive effect on students’ performance. 第二卷（非选择题，共35分）
第五部分：任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填上一个最恰当的单词。注意：请将答案写在答题纸上。
Talking to friends on WeChat, Wang Chenchen’s mood changes according to her friends’ replies. Long sentences are always heartwarming and happy emoticons indicate the other person’s good spirits. But one word replies like “OK”, “Oh” or “hehe” quickly kill the mood.
Over-reliance on online communication is causing division between people and social anxiety in this digital era. With social media bringing people closer together than ever before, a new set of online language norms also appears.
Connected or separated
Wang Chenchen, 20, an English major at the University of International Business and Economics says, “I tend to judge my friends by the quality and speed with which they comment on my updates on Weibo or WeChat.”
But to Chen Jie, 21, a biological engineering major at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wang’s evaluation system is problematic. “Everyone has their lifestyle and a certain way of using social media,” says Chen, who is always busy working in the laboratory and hardly has time for social media.
Ge Yan, a professor of communication at Shanghai Jiaotong University, says social media is causing fragmentation (碎片化) of communication. “People tend to judge their surroundings by the information available,” says Ge. “They also evaluate their friendships and others’ lifestyles based on fragmented pieces of information with which they construct a so-called reality.”
Need for emotion
According to Ge, such superficial communication helps encourage more interaction between people, but in terms of building solid interpersonal relationships it causes more harm than good. An online survey on Sina Weibo last month shows, “hehe” was the top conversation killer in 2013. “The words people hate all have one thing in common — a lack of emotion,” says Ge.
Zhang Wei, a professor of linguistics at Renmin University of China, thinks that
such short expressions carry so little emotion that they separate people. Chatting online cannot convey the same emotions as communication in real life. This makes it difficult to understand the other person’s true intentions. “That’s why I always suggest talking face to face to resolve problems,” says Zhang. “Unfortunately the reality is that most people spend less time talking to each other in this way.”
Anxiety and insecurity
Zhang further explains that the reason why people’s mood is strongly affected by such unemotional words when communicating online is rooted in social anxiety. People feel insecure because of all kinds of pressures. It’s like a vicious circle — “Less time for face-to-face communication leads to more online communication, but online expressions of emotion are too changeable to provide the comfort needed,” says Zhang. “As a result, people become more anxious.”
第六部分：书面表达（满分25分）
下图表为近几年中美两国电子商务发展比较及其将来几年的发展趋势。请根据图表信息，以 “E-commerce, an ever-increasing trend in China”为题，为某英语报写一篇稿子，内容须包括：
1、图表主要信息（用30个左右英语单词描述）；
2、中国电子商务增长的原因（经济稳步增长，人民收入提高，人口大于美国，网上购物方
便）；
3、你的观点（可从保护和规范电子商务市场谈起）。
注意：
1、词数150左右，开头已经给出，但不计入词数；
2、作文中不得提及你所在的学校及本人姓名。
3、参考词汇：cybercrime网络犯罪；phishing网络钓鱼
E-Commerce Sales and Growth 2008-2016
(China vs US)
E-commerce, an ever-increasing trend in China
The chart shows China’s e-commerce sales started with only 20 billion USD in 2008, and
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