2014届广州市高三年级调研测试英语试卷

广州市2014届高三年级调研测试

英语

2014．01

I 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you give employees the right to telework, be careful! The very technology that enables working from home could be its value to your company. Although productivity may increase in the short term, working from home may prevent your teams from working While remote workers may indeed be happier, more carefree and n it’s good for their workers who are there to do it.

A healthy organization has a that allows the sharing of values and ideas and the of competitive spirit that allows a company to be flexible and creative.

However, working from home can fail to motivate remote workers in the same way as a/an company environment. As a result, companies — despite the increases in productivity and happiness that come with teleworking.

In work environments where co-workers socialize and have lunchtime chats, some real learning gets done. A lot of information takes place, which allows the very same workers to increase their to the organization. There is something about spending the time together, about sharing meals, about ideas, and about asking.

Magical or not, the fact remains that teleworking generally doesn’t work well. As technological change and marketplace pressures increase, companies need to become more flexible and creative, just to keep up.

Strange as it sounds, the very technology that made teleworking a real option is now requiring workers to remain in the

1. A. testing 3. A. attentive 4. A. workers 5. A. leader 6. A. sense 8. A. develop 9. A. official

B. destroying B. normally B. talkative B. rule

B. companies B. cost B. different B. survive B. regular

C. keeping C. formally C. health C. party C. way C. special C. suffer C. required

D. assessing D. separately D. sensitive D. family D. culture D. lack D. shared D. expand D. planned

2. A. effectively

C. productive

7. A. independent

10. A. exchange 11. A. availability 12. A. reasonable 13. A. discussing 14. A. varies 15. A. place

B. technology B. damage B. magical B. differs B. house

C. gap

D. search D. disappointment D. typical D. selling D. stops D. office

C. value

C. psychological C. welcoming C. accelerates C. distance

B. changing

第二节 语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。

Robert Burns is the most famous poet to write in Scots, the traditional language of Scotland. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland to a poor farming family, his parents made sure that he was well educated as a child. In 1783 he started composing poetry a traditional style using the Ayrshire dialect of Scots. These poems were well received (local) and in 1786 they were published in the volume, Poems, Chiefly, made him famous in Scotland overnight.

, his fame was not accompanied by money and he found necessary to return to farming. this also proved unprofitable, he entered government service in 1789.

He died at the age of 37 as a result of a weak heart, brought on by years of poor working conditions on the farm (date) back to his childhood. Within a short time of his death, money started pouring in from all over Scotland (support) his widow and children.

Today, his memory (celebrate) by Burns clubs across the world and his birthday is unofficial ―National Day‖ for Scots and those with Scottish ancestry, celebrated with Burns suppers.

II 阅读 (共两节，满分50分)

第一节 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Michael J. ―Crocodile Dundee‖ (also called Mick), played by Paul Hogan, is the main character in the fictional Crocodile Dundee film series consisting of Crocodile Dundee, Crocodile Dundee II, and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. The character is a crocodile hunter, hence the nickname.

In the first film, Crocodile Dundee, Mick is visited by a New York reporter, Sue Charlton, who travels to Australia to investigate a report she heard of a crocodile hunter, who had his leg bitten off by a crocodile in the outback. The hunter supposedly walked more than a hundred miles back to civilization and miraculously survived his injuries. However, by the time she meets him,

the story turns out to be a somewhat exaggerated legend where the ―bitten-off leg‖ turns out to be just being some bad scarring on his leg; a ―love bite‖―Crocodile Dundee‖, Sue continues with the story. They travel together out to where the incident occurred, and follow his route through the bush to the nearest hospital. Despite his old-fashioned views, the pair eventually become close, especially after Mick saves Sue from a crocodile attack.

Feeling there is still more to the story, Sue invites Mick back to New York with her, as his first trip to a city (or ―first trip anywhere,‖ as Dundee says). The rest of the film depicts Dundee as a ―fish out of water,‖ showing how, despite his expert knowledge of living outdoors, he knows little of city life. Mick meets Sue’s boyfriend, Richard, but they do not get along. By the end of the film, Mick is on his way home, lovesick, when Sue realizes she loves Mick, too, and not Richard. She r …… 此处隐藏：22210字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……