2014新课标Ⅱ高考压轴卷英语试题和答案

2014新课标II高考压轴卷

英语

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）略

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

Does a Tea Break Make You More Efficient?

China has been drinking tea since the time of Shennong, 5,000 years ago. Britain‟s relationship with tea is much shorter, but tea enjoys pride of place as the UK‟s national drink. According to the UK Tea Council, British people drink an average of three cups a day or a national total of 165 million cups every day.

With figures like these, it is no surprise that time spent taking tea affects the working day in Britain. A recent survey found that 24 minutes a day are lost to making, buying and drinking tea and coffee. That is, £400 a year is lost in working hours per employee, or 190 days over a lifetime. So, should employers be worried about this lost working time, or does the tea break make up in other ways?

One argument is that caffeine improves mental state: a drink of tea or coffee can make you active and focus on work.

Professor Rogers of the University of Bristol disagrees. After years of studying caffeine he sees nothing can prove that. “Workers would perform equally well if not drinking it at all,” he says. “But if they‟re often drinking it and then go without, they‟ll feel tired and won‟t work well.” Psychologist Cooper instead emphasizes the role tea breaks play in office life, and in building social relationships. “We need to make people more active and see other people. The tea break is one way of doing this,” says Cooper.

And Professor Rogers also points out the comfort effect of a hot drink: “We warm our hands on

them on a cold day; they‟re comforting and play a big role in our everyday life. Whatever the caffeine‟s doing, I‟d say these 24 minutes aren‟t wasted.”

21. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Tea Breaks cannot make people more active at work.

B. British people drink more tea than people in other countries.

C. Tea break plays an important role in people‟s life in Britain.

D. A lot of time has been wasted drinking tea in the working day.

22. We learn from a recent survey that in Britain _______.

A. £400 is lost in working hours for each person

B. tea breaks take up 24 minutes in a working day

C. people spends 190 days drinking tea and coffee each year

D. people drink 165 million cups in working hours every day

23. What‟s Psychologist Coopers‟ attitude towards tea break?

A. Doubtful.

B. Uncertain.

C. Negative.

D. Positive.

B

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There was a sudden rise in the water and the calf was washed clean over the mother‟s body and was gone Ma Shwe turned quickly to reach it and pressed the calf with her head and trunk（象鼻）against the rocky bank Then with a huge effort she picked it up in her trunk and tried until she was able to place it on a narrow shelf of rock

Just at this moment she fell back into the river If she were carried down it would be certain death I knew as well as she did ,that there was one spot（地点）where she could get up the bank but it was on the other side from where she had put her calf

While I was wondering what I could do next I heard the sound of a mother‟s love Ma Shwe had