1、1河北省衡水重点中学 2015 届高三上学期四调考试英语试题第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 60 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 3 分，满分 45 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。AHere are a few of our favorite entries so far in our “Your Life: The Readers Digest Version“ contest* After reading these, head over to Face book and sublimit your own st
2、ory a-bout a special moment or lesson that shaped your life“Theres Always a John“By Darla BoydMy first flare of teaching, there was a kick named John in my class John was cliff cult to contra and he nearly drove me crazyWhile talking about him one day, an old teacher put his handle obi only shoulder
3、 and said, “There will always be a John Your job is to loam Lo discover what makes him different act help him galaxy better“ The next year, there was in-deco antler JohnIn thelast 20 years, Ive learnedly to enjoy all the kids like JohnThat advice taught me that there is something to appreciate in ev
4、eryone“An Farley Key Lesson“By Elaine WestBefore I began my first treaching job, ray mother, a teacher of 30 years, gave me avie） special gift, five simple words thathave had an effect on my entire life: /make friends with the janitor （门卫）, Her w-wisdom taught me the respect for all types of charact
5、ers and continue to enrich my life to this dayJust five little words but what an impact they can have when you take them to heart“ Raising Mommy “By Jan DavisBeing a moldier can always present challenges ankle rewardsSomeone told me earl in my parenting career that “Children will teach you everyhang
6、 you need to know“Being a mother is being raisedOur children become our advisersTheir dreams become our profess- sores, as we are taking notes carefully The councils of their laughter acne smiles on their faces are a greatrework to us or bring us great joy rehear tears romance us thatit is okay tof
7、ail, wipe the tears away and try again21What dill the old teacher mean by saying “There will lavas be a John“ 9AThere are always difficult students like JohnBJohn will always be an ordinary studentCIt is important to change JohnDJohn is a very common name22What did Elaine Wests mother advise her to
8、dosADont treat succulents chifervently 2BTake care of janitorsCRespect people from different backgroundsDDont judge people by appearance23Which of the following would Jan Davis roust probably agree withalAA mother should be given more careBA mother improves herself greatly in parentingCBeing a mothe
9、r has more challenges than rewardsDChildren should realize the dreams of their parents 24The text is most probably a（n）Anotice inviting contributionsBintroduction to a contestCad for three new booksDposter about a lectureBMy first day of high school was like any other first day: registering? finding
10、 new classmates, meeting new teachers, and seeking new friendsDuring lunch, I ran into my first snag （因难） of the day At the coining loll, as the checkout （付款处） lady asked for ray money, I realized that I had forge）tiff? me fooleryWhen I told her about it, I heard a voice behind meI turned trounce an
11、d there stood a teacher telling her he wild pay for my lunchHe told me his name-3 MrPete Walker, and said, “If you get a chance, you should take my history class“ I recognize his name, and told him I was in his class later that dayMr.Walker befriend me on the very first clay of school at a very cruc
12、ial time of the day-lunch !He always told us we should do more than we ever thoughthe pushes us to clod all things betterHe coached many sports, and sponsored many after-c-lass a（trinitiesIf we were interested in something, he would find a Nays）T to expose us to it hy inviting speakers, taking us on
13、 field trips, or obtaining information for usTwo years later, my junior year in school was clicking along nicely when one day I wayS riding my motorcycle and I was hit by a car I spent six days in hospital ankle was at home in bed for two weeks before returning to schoolMrWalker stopped by the hospi
14、tal each clay with my work from me teachers OnceI was at home, he would bring my work tooAfter high school, I attended the United States Army Airborne School in Fort I3enning, GeorgiaI knew my parents woolly be there the day I graduates, but they brought an unsex- pecked guestrhea came across MrWalk
15、er at lunch several days before and told him I was about to graduateHis visit, however, was not a surprise to me25At the dining hall,Athe lady didnt want to charge the author for his lunchBthe author knew Mr Walker was right behind himCMr Walker didnt know the author was his studentDthe author decid
16、ed to invite MrWalker to lunch26The story in Paragraph 4 showed that MrWalker wasAcaring BstrictCskilled Dlearned327What happened on the authors graduation day?AHis parents met MrWalker by chanceBHis family invited MrWalker to lunchCMrWalker brought an unexpected guestDHis parents came together with
17、 MrWalker28What can we infer from the last sentence?AThe author had invited MrWalker to his graduation ceremonyBThe authors parents had informed him of MrWalkers visit CMrWalker had a very close relationship with his studentsDMrWalker went to visit the author frequentlyCFour schoolchildren from Belg
18、rade, England were out on their bikes on Wednesday evening Unexpectedly, they saw an elderly man grasping for breath （端息） in the streetThey tried to call the police and ambulance service, but their phones were not working, due to network problemsBefore the Polish man became unconscious, the children
19、 kept him calm while they flaged down （摺停）a passing driver The children used words they had picked up from their Polish classmates to translate the injured mans answers to the drivers questionsGary, 10, and his six - year - old sister, Lily, stayed with the man while Thymus and Own-en, both 11, led
20、the ambulance to the spot where he lay Soon the man was taken to hospitalThe fantastic four children who came to the aid of the elderly man deserve the highest respect for their quick - thinking and courage in an emergency situation They are a credit not only to themselves, but to their families and
21、 their schoolAnd it is great to be able to hear such a positive story about young peopleWhat is not so positive about this story is the fact that several adults apparently walked by without stopping to helpThis see ruing indifference to an emergency situation is a well noted phenomenon which psychol
22、ogists sometimes refer to as “the bystander effect“ Re- search suggests that when a group of people witness an emergency, people are likely to as- some that somebody else will intervene and they feel that the burden of responsibility is life- ted from their shouldersPerhaps the answer to this sortof
23、 tilings is to introduce a “ Good Samaritan“ law This already exists in France and places a legal responsibility on people who witness an emergent- cy situation to help out as long as they can do soThis certainly seems to remove any doubt about who bears the burden of responsibility for offaring ass
24、istance-everyone 29What can we learn about the elderly man?AHe spoke Polish with the children BHe fell from his bike and got injured CHe was taken to hospital by the driverDHe recovered consciousness in the street 30In Paragraph 3, the author mainlyAshows his great sympathy for the manBgives high pr
25、aise to the four childrenCoffers his special thanks to the driverDexpresses his anger at several adults431The underlined word “intervene“ in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to Abe curious Bgo on Cgive up Dget involved32In France, if an emergency happens to someone,Aoffering help to him is required
26、 by lawBpeople have the right to leave the sceneCothers must get permission before helping himDthe witnesses will be punished if the rescue failsDA three-mile-long fishhook-shaped piece of land in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, Tangier Island has always been a community set apart from the mainlandThe
27、se days, the islands 500-plus residents, who mossy use golf cars as transportation on the villages narrow roads and who dont allow the public consumption of alcohol, have managed to preserve their traditional cultureProbably the most striking example of their heritage is the islanders unique way of
28、speakingDavid LShores, a linguist （话言学家） who was boom on rangier Island, has found out the, reason why the speech of Tangier Island strikes outsiders as strangeAccording to Shorse, the dismantlers pronounce their vowels louder and longer, which causes common words to sound different when spoke by Ta
29、ngier nativesSome, scholars have said the natives of Tangier speak an old form of English that goes back to the time of Queen FElizabeth I Shores doesnt buy into that thirdly “Its not Eliza- be than English by any means,“ he says“ I doubt if anyone could trace it to that, because the varietyis of En
30、glish at that time were great“ Bruce Gordy, a Tangier native and a former teacher at the islands only school, has made a list of 350 strange expressions and words that he says are used and undertook only by the islandersBut Gordy clones think its the strange vocabulary that puzzles outsiders most wh
31、en hearing Tangier residents speak“I think what confuses them is the fact that we are talking backwards a lot,“ he saysHe offers an example“If somebodys stupid, you know what I say?“ Gordy says“ Im saying hes smart, but the way I say it makes everyone know Iran emphasizing hes stud-Both Gordy and Sh
32、ores believe Tangiers isolation （弧立）has led to the islanders un- usual way of speakingNow, the economy of Tangier Island is moving away from its tradition of crabbing anal fishing as the number of crabs and oysters in the bay declinesMore residents are finding work on tugboats（掩船）or looking for jobs
33、 on the mainland“ Of course the sons and daughters went with their dad out crabbing You dont go with your dad on the tugboatThats not going to preserve Tangier culture, “Gordy says33According to the text, Tangier IslandAhas been discovered recentlyBis a fast developing x-pillage Cis a land of golf l
34、oversDhas a small population34In Shores opinion, the language the islanders speak5Acant be called English in factBis unique in its pronunciation systemCcan never be understood by outsidersDshares some similarities with Elizabethan English35Whats Gordys attitude towards the preservation of Tangier cu
35、lture?AConfident BSatisfied CConcerned DAngry 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 3 分，满分 15 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。Mongo American artists, or artists of the 20th century, Grandma Moses surely ranks among the most famous and recognizedGrandma Moses probably owes most of her legendary status to the f
36、act that her artwas exactly the opposite of what most critics considered fine artShe as cliff refit-she just didnt fit in with everyone else, But, thats also what makes her art so unique and appealingBorn in Greenwich, New York, in 1860, Anna Mary Robertson and her husband, Thomas Salmon Moses, rais
37、ed their family on a dairy farm in VirginiaThe eventually set- tiled in Eagle Bridge, New York, at the dawn of the 20th century 37 Due to arthritis（美节炎）, at the age of 76, her embroidered （刺绣的） pictures became too difficult to complete, so she switched to the medium of paint She continued in this me
38、thod for the rest of her 101 yearsLocal exhibits of her work soon gained popular appeal 38 ankle comfortable, homey themes attracted the public, from art detailers who had never before purchased a painting from an exhibition39 In McDonnell Farm Her self - taught style to the average citizen（1943）, f
39、or example, a group of children are dancing at the right, while all the other figures are busy with farm tasksDespite the fact that Anna Moses was painting throughout the Great Depression and the period of World War II, her art remained full of life and hopefulness 40_ AIn 1930, just three years aft
40、er the death of her husband, Anna Moses began creating me-broidered picturesBTo what does she owe this great fame?CHer favorite sulk objects were drawn from the world around her-prosperous farms and villagesDShe never sold a painting till she was 80EThere is no unhappiness or aging :in her paintings
41、FBy 1940 she was exhibiting her art in New York CityGThey celebrated her loath birthday in 1960第三部分完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 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选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。All of us live in an increasingly connected world I believe East and West will coexist 41 when each admits it n
42、eeds to learn from the other 42 side is betterWere all each others 43 and each others studentsMusic is just one example of thisSales of pianos are falling in the United States for the time being, but they are _ 44 quickly in China The human need for music is about a（ n） 45 for immortality （不朽） 46 th
43、ere is one person left on the earth, there will be 47 6Over the years I have 48 that being number one is not the only _ 49 a person should have There is no 50 that I am extremely proud of all I have 51 through my hard workThe only thing that always 52 me to overcome the difficulties was my 53 for mu
44、sic and my love for playing the piano 54 music is like breathing for meI cannot 55 the meaning of my life without musicAs I look heal I know that ray goals 56 he of music-the joy of making or listening to it I have foundation will ping 57 young people discover the powera foundation （墓金会） 58 _ educat
45、ion for musical training people from all over the worldMy provide sscholarships for _ 59 over the key board, I hope that the music I play As my own fingers 60 opens updoors and mindsThis is as important to me as being number one41Afast Bwell Cbadly Dbriefly42AAny of BNo one CEvery DEach43Afriends Bb
46、rothers Cteachers Drelatives44Arising Breducing Copening Dkeeping45Atry Border Chabit Ddesire46AAs long as BAs soon as CAs for DAs though47Alove Bhope Cmusic Ddream48Adoubted Blearned Cimagined Dinformed49Alest. Bhobby Cdecision Dgoal50Adenying Btelling Csaying Dtalking51Asaved Bachieved Cdevoted De
47、xpected52Aforbade Bforgave Chelped Dasked53Acelebration Bchoice Cpity Dpassion54ASelecting BReading CMaking DChanging55Aunderstand Bpredict Cconclude Dcreate56Aannoy Bimagine Cpretence Dinclude57Aset off Bset down Cset out Dset up58Asupport Bidentify Cdemand Dstress59Acurious Byoung Cdisabled Dpoor60Aswim Bhold Cfly Dstop第卷（非选择题共 50 分）第四部分写作（共三节，满分 50 分）第二节语法填空（共 10 小题；每水题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面材料，在空格处填入适当的内容（不多于 3 个单词）或使用括号中单词的正确形式 jAPEC 66 （establish ）in 1989, is short _ 67 Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera-1989,
