河北省衡水中學(xué)高三下學(xué)期二調(diào)考試英語試題及答案

1、20132014學(xué)年度第二學(xué)期高三年級二調(diào)考試英語試卷本試卷分為第一卷（選擇題）和第二卷（非選擇題）兩部分第一卷（選擇題 共100分）注意事項(xiàng)：1答第一卷前，考生務(wù)必將自己的姓名、考號、考試科目用鉛筆涂寫在答題卡上。2每小題選出答案后，用鉛筆把答題卡上對應(yīng)題目的答案標(biāo)號涂黑。如需改動，用橡皮擦干凈后，再選涂其它答案標(biāo)號。第一部分：聽力（共20小題；每小題1.5分，共30分）第一節(jié)：（共5小題；每小題1.5分）聽下面5段對話，每段對話后有一個小題，從題中所給的a、b、c三個選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍

2、。1. when will the man be at the meeting?a.7:30. b. 8:00.c.8:30.2. whats the womans attitude toward franks complaint? a. angry. b. understanding. c. sad.3.what does the woman say about the mans injury? a. it doesnt look too painful. b. he should go to the hospital. c. he should keep it from getting i

3、nfected.4.what will john do? a. give up the trip. b. get to the airport at 8:00 a.m. c. give the woman a new schedule.5.whats the relationship between the speakers? a. classmates. b. colleagues. c. teacher and student.第二節(jié)（共15小題；每小題1.5分）聽下面5段對話或獨(dú)白。每段對話或獨(dú)白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的a、b、c三個選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話

4、或獨(dú)白前，你將有時間閱讀各個小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨(dú)白讀兩遍。聽第6段材料，回答第6、7題。6.where are the swimming stations? a. in the hall. b. in the gym. c. in the vip rooms of the hotel.7.for how many hours are the station open each day? a. 12 hours. b. 13 hours. c. 15 hours.聽第7段材料，回答第8、9題。8.why does the woman need t

5、o leave early? a. to meet a friend. b. to have a job interview. c. to talk to prof. sogard about her paper.9. what is the woman most interested in right now? a. getting more experience. b. earning more money. c. helping others.聽第8段材料，回答第10至12題。10.where did the woman get the personality test question

6、s? a. from a magazine. b. from a psychology textbook.c. from the internet.11.why does the man refuse to answer the question? a. he had done it before. b. he thinks its useless. c. he has no time at the moment.12. what was the womans major in college? a. accounting. b. psychology. c. history.聽第9段材料，回

7、答第13至16題。13. what does the man think about the spaghetti? a. its not as good as most frozen food. b. the price is a little high. c. its more delicious than his own cooking.14. how much does one serving cost? a. about 2 dollars. b. about 4 dollars. c. about 6 dollars.15.what does the woman offer to d

8、o for the man? a. give him a discount. b. give him another free sample. c. give him a bag of pasta for free.16.what do we know about the man?a. he didnt have lunch. b. he will buy some frozen pizzas.c. he is from italy.聽第10段材料，回答第17至20題。17.why did the spurs get fined? a. the team refused to play an

9、important game. b. four of its players were taken out in the middle of a game. c. the team sent home four players without telling anyone.18.who is not an nba player? a. danny green. b. manu ginobili. c. david stern.19. what did david stern say about the spurs? a. they played very dirty. b. they were

10、 not being fair to the fans. c. they were very rude on the court.20. what did the nba journalists say about the situation? a. the coach should try to get the fine reduced. b. the coach wasnt satisfied with the unfair timetable. c. the coach wanted to scare the miami heat.第二部分： 閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分

11、）閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項(xiàng)（a、b、c和d）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 athe great barn adventureone morning when i was 11, i explored the towns abandoned round grain barn（谷倉）. i found a chained sliding door that was wide enough for me to pass through.inside, there was a heavy smell of dead mice in the dark. after my eyes adjusted, i

12、 noticed a shaft (升降機(jī)井) that rose all the way to the top of the barn. on one side was a one-man elevator with a long rope and roller.i stepped onto the platform and gave the rope a drag and the elevator began sliding up the shaft, but stopped halfway. after a brief panic attack, i noticed holes in t

13、he wall at regular intervals, forming a ladder. for reasons known only to an 11-year-old, i decided it would be better to go up than down. so, with shaking hands, i began climbing the wall.after what seemed like forever, i reached the top of the shaft. i stood up, dusted myself off and found absolut

14、ely nothing of interest. it was just an empty room with a ladder leading up to the roof. i climbed all the way up here for this? then i noticed a fire extinguisher（滅火器）,which id always wanted to shoot off. so this was the chance of a lifetime. i tried it, and, much to my surprise, the thing worked!

15、it shot out a thick cloud of powder that instantly filled the room. i couldnt breathe. i was going to choke to death, and theyd probably never even find my body.luckily, i remembered the ladder to the roof. i climbed up, popped the straw roof and saw a bright blue sky. i suddenly realized the dust a

16、nd powder pouring out of the top could draw attention. so when the dust had settled, i climbed down and slipped out of the chained door. im not sure if i was more excited about being alive or about not being caught, but i ran all the way back home. 21. when the author got inside the barn, he _.a. no

17、ticed a man on the elevatorb. opened the chained sliding doorc. saw many dead mice in the darkd. found a shaft leading to the top22. which of the following is the right order of the authors adventure?a. the elevator stopped halfway.b. he entered the round grain barn.c. he climbed to the top of the s

18、haft.d. he found a fire extinguisher and shot it off.a. b-a-c-d b. a-c-b-d c. c-a-d-b d. b-c-a-d23. after getting out of the chained door, the author might feel _.a. inspired b. relieved c. surprised d. disappointed24. from the passage, we can learn that the author was probably a boy full of _.a. pa

19、ssions b. dreams c. curiosity d. imagination bevening workshopsoptional evening workshops will be held at small restaurants or other meeting places near the conference hotel. meals and other costs are not included but are also optional. locations will be announced at the conference site. workshops a

20、re very loosely organized and most represent discussions that have been held at society for economic botany (seb) meetings over a series of years. workshop 1: student networkdatewednesday evening, feb. 5thchairshugo de boer and arika virapongsesponsorsociety for economic botanydescriptionstudent mem

21、bers of the seb hold a networking mixer each year in order to meet each other and to become familiar with a variety of educational programs and faculty advisors(大學(xué)指導(dǎo)老師). faculty members who are part of training programs are encouraged to join the mixer to meet and talk with students.workshop 2: bota

22、nical film making date wednesday evening, feb. 5thchair david strauchsponsor university of hawaiidescription digital film making is a particularly useful tool of linking cultural information to recognizable plants. this workshop is aimed towards increasing the quality of material recorded by giving

23、participants greater control over the medium. we will cover technical aspects (e.g. camera settings, audio), technical aspects (framing, lighting, focus), and some ways of presenting the material. experienced filmmakers are encouraged to attend, and participants are welcome to bring their own camera

24、 equipment. workshop 3: collections for botany collections development and managementdatefriday evening, feb. 7th chairjan salick sponsorsociety for economic botany descriptionseb is a network of researchers who have been developing standards for the development of collections of artifacts, plant sa

25、mples and related materials. participants discuss successes, problems, and funding sources for solving management issues. 25. one of the purposes of a networking mixer held each year is to _. a. provide students with greater control over the media b. link cultural information to recognizable plants

26、c. help the students to deal with most of the environment issues d. help the students to be familiar with educational programs26. which of the following is true according to the poster? a. evening workshops will be held at small restaurants with meals included. b. participants have more than one opt

27、ion on feb.5th than another night. c. workshops have nothing to do with the discussions held at seb meetings. d. faculty advisers can join the mixer without training experience.27. you are a college student, interested in plants and good at taking tv pictures. which of the evening workshops is most

28、suitable for you? a. botanical film making.b. collections for botany. c. student network.d. society for economic botany.cthe extraordinary eastgate building in harare, zimbabwes capital city, is said to be the only one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles as the termite mound(

29、白蟻堆). architect mick pearce used precisely the same strategy when designing the eastgate building, which has no air-conditioning and almost no heating. the buildingthe countrys largest commercial and shopping complexuses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building of its size. the eastgat

30、es owners saved $3.5 million on a $36 million building because an air-conditioning equipment didnt have to be imported.the complex is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed atrium(天井) open to the air. fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow it upstairs through hol

31、low spaces under the floors and from there into each office through baseboard vents(通風(fēng)口). as it rises and warms, it is drawn out via ceiling vents and finally exists through forty-eight brick chimneys. during summers cool nights, big fans blow air through the building seven times an hour to cool the

32、 empty floors. by day, smaller fans blow two changes of air an hour through the building, to circulate the air which has been in contact with the cool floors. for winter days, there are small heaters in the vents. this is all possible only because harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless s

33、kies, little dampness and rapid temperature changesdays as warm as 31 commonly drop to 14 at night. “you couldnt do this in new york, with its hot summers and cold winters,” pearce said. the engineering firm of ove arup&partners monitors daily temperatures. it is found that the temperature of the bu

34、ilding has generally stayed between 23 and 25, with the exception of the annual hot period just before the summer rains in october and three days in november, when a doorkeeper accidentally switched off the fans at night. and the air is freshfar more so than in air-conditioned buildings, where up to

35、 30% of the air is recycled. 28. why was eastgate cheaper to be built than a conventional building? a. it was designed in a smaller size. b. no air conditioners were fixed in. c. its heating system was less advanced.d. it used rather different building materials.29. what does “it” refer to in paragr

36、aph 3?a. fresh air from outside.b. heat in the building.c. hollow space.d. baseboard vent. 30. why would a building like eastgate not work efficiently in new york?a. new york has less clear skies as harare.b. its dampness affects the circulation of air.c. new york covers a larger area than harare.d.

37、 its temperature changes seasonally rather than daily.31. the data in the last paragraph suggests eastgates temperature control system_.a. allows a wide range of temperatures b. functions well for most of the yearc. can recycle up to 30% of the aird. works better in hot seasonsdmen are spending more

38、 and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like gordon ramsay and jamie oliver, according to a report from oxford university. the effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cooking a more manly picture, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and

39、 men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.according to the research by prof. jonatahn gershuny, who runs the centre for time research at oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.prof. gershuny said

40、, “the man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. there has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.”women, who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutesa great fall, but they still spend fa

41、r more time in the kitchen than men.some experts have named these men in aprons as “gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills to impress friends)”, who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of ramsay, oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as hugh fearnley-whittingsta

42、ll, marco pierre white and keith floyd. “i was married in 1974. when my father came to visit me a few weeks later, i was wearing an apron when i opened the door. he laughed,” said prof. gershuny. “that would never happen now.”two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three t

43、imes a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table. prof. gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a tablewith many “family meals” in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by family members. “the family

44、 meal has changed a lot, and few of us eatas i did when i was a childat least two meals a day together as a family. but it has survived in a different format.” 32. what is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?a. the improvement of cooks status.b. the influence of

45、popular female chefs.c. the change of females view on cooking.d. the development of sexual equality campaign.33. what does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?a. men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.b. women spend much less time on cooking than before.c. it will

46、 take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.d. there is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.34. how did prof. gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?a. it has become a thing of the past.b. it is very different from what it used to

47、be.c. it shouldnt be advocated in modern times.d. it is beneficial to the stability of the family.35. which is the best title for the passage?a. the changes of family mealsb. equality between men and womenc. cooking into a new trend for men d. cookinga thing of the past for womene 第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題2分，共10

48、分）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的七個選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。americans use many expressions with the word “dog”. people in the united states love their dogs and treat them well. 36 however, dogs without owners to care for them lead a different kind of life. the expression, to lead a dogs life, describes a person wh

49、o has an unhappy existence.some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. 37 they say that to be successful, a person has to work like a dog. this means they have to work very, very hard. such hard work can make people dog-tired. and, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.

50、38 this means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. to be successful, people often have to learn new skills. yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. they believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way

51、they do things. 39 people who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog. junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. mean dogs are often used to guard this property. they bark or attack people who try to enter the property. however, somet

52、imes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. we say his bark is worse than his bite.dog expressions are also used to describe the weather. the dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. a rainstorm may cool the weather. but we do not want it to rain too hard.

53、40 a. still, people say every dog has its day.b. we do not want it to rain cats and dogs.c. some people are compared to dogs in bad ways.d. dogs are their best friends and they are loyal to people.e. there are many other expressions waiting for you to explore.f. that means many people are competing

54、for the same things, like good jobs.g. they take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care.第三部分：語言知識運(yùn)用 完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，共30分） 閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從每題所給的a、b、c、d四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。every fast-food employee knows that the drive-through window is the worst posi

55、tion. the window sticks with constant ice; the roar of engines hurts your 41 ; your words are lost in the howling wind.on a 42 afternoon, everything changed.every once in a while, the sub-zero temperatures seal a 43 windows shut. drivers dont exactly enjoy having to stand outside in the cold, 44 the

56、ir orders into a speaker box, when they expect to drive through on their heated leather seats. in such cases, most customers tend to show their annoyance to the employees.this woman was 45 .“ill get the next cars 46 as well,” she said as she came up to the window to pay. she stood outside, 47 much snow on her hair. though she was obviously freezing, her bright 48 lit up her face like a fire