五校联考

2014学年第二学期高三英语五校联合质量调研试卷

考生注意：

1. 考试时间120分钟，试卷满分150分。

2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（第1-9页）和第Ⅱ卷（第10页），

全卷共10页。所有答題必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。

第I卷

I. Listening Comprehension Part A Short Conversations

Directions: In Part A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. The newsstand. 2. A. A sportsman.

B. The hair salon. B. A doctor.

C. The grocery store. C. A news reporter.

D. The bookstore. D. A game designer.

3. A. She didn’t teach class today. C. She usually talks quietly. B. She didn’t collect the homework.

D. She usually assigns homework. B. He has tasted the chocolate pudding. D. He doesn’t want any chocolate pudding.

4. A. Chocolate pudding is his favorite food. C. There is no more chocolate pudding left.

5. A. She disagrees with the man. B. She doesn’t enjoy boring speeches. C. She wonders how long the speech will be. D. She doesn’t think highly of the speaker. 6. A. She has just sold all the texts. C. She’s no longer interested in science.

B. She has kept some science texts. D. She gave away the latest texts.

7. A. She’d like to talk to Larry about the problem. B. Larry should get along well with his brother.

C. It’s necessary for Larry to apologize to his brother.

D. Larry’s brother may be partly responsible for the problem. 8. A. Still live in the dormitory. C. Ask for a reduction in her rent.

B. Find out the cost of living in the dormitory. D. Move into an apartment with a roommate. B. She’ll consider the man’s invitation. D. She is willing to accept the invitation.

9. A. She has no time to work in a garden. C. She doesn’t want to join the club.

10. A. The woman will have to take more than seven courses.

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B. The woman shouldn’t have attended so many courses. C. His current schedule is also very demanding.

D. The woman is likely to graduate early with this schedule.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. They used to be shorter. C. They are lighter now.

B. They used to be made by machine. D. They are made of wood now.

12. A. It can stop the board going far when they fall off. B. It helps to keep them warm in cold water. C. It enables their feet to stick to the board. D. It can increase the pleasure of surfing. 13. A. A brief introduction to a sport. C. The origin of a professional sport

B. Essential objects for surfing. D. How to surf skillfully in waves.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. It is produced in small quantities. C. It is served mainly in McDonald’s.

B. It is sold at a lower price. D. It is grown from cows alone.

15. A. The land and the water system have been polluted seriously. B. Not enough meat has been produced to meet people’s needs. C. Much land has been used up for animals and their food. D. It has consumed fewer and fewer natural resources. 16. A. Steaks and hamburgers. C. The food crisis in the future.

B. Animal rights. D. Lab-grown meat.

Section C

Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

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Client’s Information Name: Birth Date: Current Job: Educational Background: Working Experience: Major concern when choosing a new job: James Peterson 17 , 1983 A program writer in a software company A 18 degree 19 years 20 Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. What is the woman reading? Where did ice age people live? A fascinating article on 21 of the Ice Age. They lived in 22 rather than in caves. How did ice age people stay ? They faced their homes towards the south. warm? ? They heated their homes by 23 on the floor. What conclusion can be drawn They are 24 than people used to think. about ice age people?

II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A

Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(A)

Lots of people love buying clothes and Gucci is one of the most famous fashion houses in the world. It was started in Italy in 1921 by a man named Guccio Gucci. He was a designer who had a small shop in Florence 25.__________ (specialize) in leather bags and suitcases. The shop was 26.__________ beginning of the family business and by 1953 Guccio’s four sons, Aldo, Ugo, Vasco and Rodolfo were all working for the company. When Guccio died in 1953, his 27.__________ (old) son Aldo became the head of Gucci and took the Gucci label to America, while Rodolfo managed the Italian side of the business. But Aldo’s son, Paolo, made plans to start his own company called Paolo Gucci. When Aldo discovered this, he sacked Paolo and made 28.__________ impossible for his son to start his own fashion business. So angry was Paolo 29.__________ he told the Italian police his father wasn’t paying enough tax. Aldo 30. __________ (send) to prison for a year and a day. After Aldo died in 1990, his nephew, Maurizio, became the head of Gucci. Unfortunately, Maurizio wasn’t a very good businessman and the company lost $60 million in 1991, 31.__________ became the worst year in Gucci’s history.

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32.__________ (sell) all over the world, Gucci products are still popular with fashion hunters, but there are no members of the Gucci family in the successful company we know today.

(B)

Having a good speech prepared is only part of being a successful public speaker—you 33.__________ also get your message across in a clear and interesting way.

? Alter the volume of your voice. It can help to keep the audience alert and stress a point,

but 34.__________ (make) sure everyone can hear you comfortably at all times.

? Vary your pace. It will add interest to your speech: speaking quickly can make your

words more exciting, and speaking slowly or pausing can emphasise an idea. But don’t speak too quickly or too slowly 35. __________ __________ the audience can’t follow you or will get bored.

? Use stress to make spoken words and phrases clearer or give them importance. If you

speak 36.__________ stress, your audience will go to sleep! Too much stress, on the other hand, 37.__________ (sound) unnatural. Just stress the most important words in your speech.

? Speak with clarity. If you mumble (嘟嘟囔囔), your audience won’t understand you.

Pronounce the words and phrases in your speech clearly.

? Avoid 38.__________ (use) fillers as much as possible, such as “er”, “um” and “you

know”. If you need time to think, just pause.

Why not 39.__________ (record) yourself speaking? Listening to the recording is a great way to find out how well you perform and 40.__________ you need to improve on. Remember—practice makes perfect!

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. economical G. similar B. favored H. stored C. feasible I. technologies D. genuinely J. uses E. generously F. involved K. wonders

Big data could soon be stored in a very small package: DNA. A team of scientists has demonstrated that storing information in synthetic DNA could represent a(n) 41 approach to managing data in the long term, bumping aside the magnetic tape 42 by archivists (档案管理员) today.

The approach, published online January 23 in Nature, relies on 43 likely to become faster and cheaper, says biologist and engineer Drew Endy of Stanford University, who was not

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44 in the work.

Unlike record players, which are good only for playing music encoded on now-out-of-date vinyl discs (塑料唱片), machines that make and read DNA find 45 throughout science and always will. “Human beings are never going to stop caring about DNA,” says Endy. DNA is also tiny, lightweight, and can potentially remain undamaged for thousands of years if 46 in a dark, cool environment.

This new report comes on the heels of 47 research published last August in Science. The new research projects that, if the costs of making DNA continue to drop, the approach might be 48 for long-term storage in as little as 10 years. “It’s 49 exciting,” Endy says.

In the next decade, the approach could store information that needs to last for at least 50 years, such as government records or library texts. And who knows where it will go, 50 Goldman. Perhaps, he says, “when the cloud sucks things off your computer, it will be to store it as DNA.”

III. Reading Comprehension Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Is love really blind? Yes, it is, at least when it comes to 51 others, US researchers reported. College students who reported they were in love were less likely to 52 other attractive men or women, the team at the University of California Los Angeles and dating Web site eHarmony found.

“Feeling love for your 53 partner appears to make everybody else less attractive, and the emotion appears to enable you to push thoughts of that 54 other out of your mind,” said Gian Gonzaga of eHarmony, whose study is published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

“It’s almost like 55 puts blinders（眼罩）on people,” added Martie Haselton, an associate professor of psychology and communication studies at UCLA.

Gonzaga and Haselton asked 120 undergraduates in committed relationships to 56 photographs of attractive members of the opposite sex from an eHarmony Web site. The 57 were asked to choose the most attractive photos, and write an essay either about their current lover, or the 58 of their choice.

Those who wrote about their lovers were six times less likely to 59 that they thought of the attractive others than volunteers who wrote about the people on 60 photos.

And later asked to 61 the good-looking people in the pictures, the students who wrote about their lovers remembered fewer details about the physical appearance of the attractive 62 . “These people could remember the color of a shirt or whether the photo was taken in New

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