1、 江西省高安中学 2015 届高考命题中心 英语试题 2 第一部分听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，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 1.5 分，共 7.5分） 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的 A、 B、 C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你将有 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 going to do tonight? A.Go to the park. B. Watch a movie. C
2、. Stay at home. 2. Who is ill? A.The man. B. The woman. C. The mans wife. 3. What is the man? A.A student. B. A teacher. C. A host. 4. Where does this conversation take place? A. In the office. B. In the hospital. C. At the barbers. 5. How would the woman like her steak? A. Rare. B. Medium. C. Well-
3、done. 第二节 （共 15 小题；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，你将有时间阅览室读各个小题，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 6 至 7 题。 6. How will the man go to Hongkong? A. By train. B. By air. C. By bus. 7. When will the man arrive in Hongkn
4、g? A. At 4:00pm. B. At 4:25 pm. C. At 6:25 pm. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。 8. Where does the man want to go? A. The post office. B. The shop. C. The bank. 9. Whats the date today? A. Match31. B. April 1. C. April 2. 10. What is the mans wifes nationality? A. Chinese. B. American. C. Canadian. 听第 8 段材料，回答
5、第 11 至 13 题。 11. Why does the man want to speak to Ms Collins? A. To talk about his accommodation situation. B. To talk about his department. C. To ask for leave. 12. What is Ms Collins doing most probably? A. Making a call. B. Having lunch. C. Having a meeting. 13. What will Ms Collins do before 6
6、pm. A. Meet the man. B. Call the man back. C. Go out with the woman. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。 14. How did the woman come here? A. By taxi. B. On foot. C. By bus. 15. Why did the woman get off work so late? A. She dealt with some letters. B. She sent some e-mails. C. She prepared some flies for her bo
7、ss. 16. What are the speakers going to do next? A. Have dinner. B. Watch a movie. C. Attend a party. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. When did the speaker meet the rest of his group members? A. On Friday evening. B. On Saturday morning. C. On Saturday afternoon,. 18. What is the relationship between Car
8、ole and Lynn? A. Classmates. B. Friends. C. Sisters. 19. What did the speaker think of this weekend? A. Exciting. B. Boring. C. Unpleasant. 20. What does the speaker mainly talk about? A. Outdoor sports at the Activity Center. B. His experience at the Activity Center. C. How to go rock-climbing and
9、caving. 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30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。 A The worlds richest man might seem to have it all， but Bill Gates has one regret The self-made billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages Speaking in his third Ask
10、 Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit(红迪网 )， the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French， Arabic or Chinese He said： “I took Latin and Greek in high school and got As and I guess it helps my vocabulary I keep hoping to get time to study one of theseprobably F
11、rench because it is the easiest I did Duolingo for a while but didnt keep it up ” Gates， who is worth $79 3 billion， praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese， “Mark Zuckerberg amazingly leamed Chinese and did a Q&A with Chinese stude
12、ntsunbelievable， isnt it?”he said This isnt the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language He also showed his habits at home and personal insights Last February, Gates said he likes to do the dishes himselfto his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wi
13、fe， Melinda， would likely want Samuel L Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(传记片 ) He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯 )28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time， he said he is pretty basic when it
14、 comes to so ending on clothes and food， but that he enjoys investing in shoes and racquets(球拍 )when he plays tennis When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way， the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break Dont stay up too late even if the book is really
15、 exciting You will regret it in the morning Pam still working on this problem， ”he said 21 Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A. Bill GatesRegret B. The Richest Billionaire C. An Interview with Bill Gates D. How Bill Gates Succeeded 22 The underlined part in Paragraph 8 ma
16、y actually mean that_ A. it is important to lay a good foundation of life B. he never cares about buying food and clothing C. food and clothing are basic needs for peoples life D. he doesnt spend much money on food and clothes 23 What advice did Bill Gates give? A. Avoid staying up too late B. Be a
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21、tion ahead of the application deadlines. Confirmation Having received your application, Global Exchange Education Center usually sends out an email confirmation for the booking within 2-5 working days. 25. The text is probably written for _. A. junior high graduates B. international students C. job
22、seekers D. language trainers 26. If you apply for both of the programs, the total application fees will be _. A. $120 B. $310 C. $250 D. $ 370 27. Which of the following is not necessarily included in applicants personal statement? A. Their purposes of taking the program B. Their expectations of the
23、 program. C. Their future practice of the program. D. Their feedbacks on the program. C Alibaba started taking the lead in China by connecting big Chinese manufacturers(制造商 ) with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, A allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibabas advant
24、age wasnt hard to judge: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its market attracts 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year and Alibaba is just the middleman. It encourages people to use its markets not charging small sellers a percentage of the sale.
25、If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else
26、my wife wanted. “Youre looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ” my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began. Alibabas original business-to-business model now is second to consumer buying. Chinese retail(零售 ) buying makes up 80% of Alibabas prof
27、it, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items(物品 ) for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things youll ever find. TM is Alibabas other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices. What I have a hard time explaining to friends an
28、d family back in the U.S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shopping big-box retailers especially in favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao. I have
29、 a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how wide the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shipping. Im not even a big buyer, because I need friends to help me search the Chinese-language site. When I was searching my purchase history
30、 on my Chinese teachers iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine. 28. Alibabas advantage mainly lies in . A. its low price B. its big size C. its not charging small sellers D. its business-to-business service 29. What can
31、we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage? A. Alibaba will continue to develop. B. Alibaba stands out as the best online site. C. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers. D. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites. 30. What can be inferred from the passage? A.
32、 TM provides more profit than Taobao. B.The authors Chinese teacher is also an online purchase lover. C. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites. D. Alibabas business-to-business service earns more money than retail. 31. What is the passage mainly about? A. Shopping online in
33、 China is TaoBao. B. How the author purchases online in China. C. Shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping. D. Alibaba influences peoples daily purchase in China. D Its well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also “remember” things incorr
34、ectly, with damaging consequences in the classroom, courtroom, and other areas of life. Now, researchers show for the first time that bumblebees(大黄蜂 ) can be unreliable witnesses too. Bumblebees are rather clever animals, which explains why Chittka has been studying learning and memory in the insect
35、s for the last 20 years. Most times when people have studied memory in animals, errors in performance have been taken to mean that the animals failed to learn the task or perhaps learned it and then forgot. But what if animals can experience a more interesting type of memory failure? To find out, Ch
36、ittka first trained bumblebees to expect a reward when visiting a yellow artificial flower followed by one with black-and-white rings. During subsequent tests, bees were given a choice between three types of flowers. Two were the types theyd seen in the training before. The third had yellow-and-whit
37、e rings, representing a mixed-up version of the other two. Minutes after the training, the bees showed a clear preference for the flower that recently rewarded them. One or three days later, however, something very different happened when the bumblebees memory was put to the test. At first, the bees
38、 showed the same preference displayed in the earlier tests, but as the time went on, they began selecting the flower with yellow rings, even though theyd never actually seen that one in training before. Chittka says that insects make similar errors in the conjunction (结合 ) of long-term memories as h
39、umans do. The ability to extract (提取 ) common features between different events in the environment might come at the expense of remembering every detail correctly. In bees, with their limited brain capacity (容量 ), the pressure to store main features of several objects rather than each individual obj
40、ect might be much greater, compared with humans. 32. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? A. Human memory can fail sometimes. B. Bumblebees make false memories too. C. Humans are not as clever as bumblebees. D. Bumblebees have extraordinary memory. 33. Which of the followin
41、g is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “subsequent”? A. scientific B. accurate C. following D. exceptional 34. What does the test mentioned in Paragraph 4 tell us? A. Short-term memories serve the bees well. B. The yellow artificial flower appeals to the bees. C. Bumblebees like the flow
42、ers with yellow-and-white rings. D. Bees have remarkable abilities to distinguish colors. 35. We can infer from the passage that _. A. Chittka thinks that bumblebees failed to remember the color of the flowers B. Researchers have learned that bumblebees are unreliable animals C. There exist no simil
43、arities between the memory errors in humans and bees. D. It is less challenging for humans than bees to store main features of several objects. 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 How to stop sleeping in Class? Sleeping in class prevents you from paying attention
44、to the teacher as well as stops you from learning about the material that is being taught. It can also get you in trouble with your teachers. It is important to determine why you are falling asleep in class ant try to change the situation so that you are able to stay awake and pass all of your class
45、es. _36_ _37_ It is reported that teenagers may need more sleep than adults. Go to bed earlier and ,make sure you get as many hours of sleep as your body needs. This is a key to staying awake in class. If you are not tired, you are unlikely to fall asleep. Eat a healthy breakfast full of nutritious
46、foods. _38_ If you get hungry or tired in the middle of the day, try eating a healthy snack like a piece of fruit or some biscuits. Get involved during class. _39_ Taking notes, asking questions and otherwise getting involved in classroom activities and discussions will make you far less likely to d
47、oze off. _40_ If you have a medical condition that is causing you to fall asleep in class, it will need to be treated by a professional. Prescription drugs may also cause sleepiness as a side effect, so discuss any medicine you are taking with your doctor. A. Early to bed and early to rise. B. Enoug
48、h sleep helps a lot in your studies. C. Get a full nights sleep on school nights. D. It can provide you with enough protein to fuel your body. E. There are a number of different tricks you can use to try to stay awake. F. Contact your doctor in order to rule out medical conditions that can cause you to fall asleep. G. If you are actively engaged in the information the teacher is pressing, you are less likely to doze off. 第三部分英语
