广东省广州市2014届高三调研测试英语试题及答案

广州市2014届高三年级调研测试

英语

本试卷共10页, 三大题, 满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

1.答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号

填写在答题卡上，并用2B铅笔在答题卡上的相应位置填涂考生号。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。

2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需

改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。

3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相

应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。

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 1 its value to your company. Although productivity may increase in the short term, working from home may prevent your teams from working 2 .

While remote workers may indeed be happier, more carefree and 3 , that doesn’t mean it’s good for their 4 . A company is more than just the work that needs to be done, plus the workers who are there to do it.

A healthy organization has a 5 that allows the sharing of values and ideas and the 6 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 7 company environment. As a result, companies 8 —despite the increases in productivity and happiness that come with teleworking.

In work environments where co-workers socialize and have 9 lunchtime chats, some real learning gets done. A lot of information 10 takes place, which allows the very same workers to increase their 11 to the organization. There is something 12 about spending the time together, about sharing meals, about 13 ideas, and about asking.

Magical or not, the fact remains that teleworking generally doesn’t work well. As technological change 14 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 15 .

1. A. testing B. destroying C. keeping D. assessing

2. A. effectively B. normally C. formally D. separately

3. A. attentive B. talkative C. productive D. sensitive

4. A. workers B. companies C. health D. family

5. A. leader B. rule C. party D. culture

6. A. sense B. cost C. way D. lack

7. A. independent B. different C. special D. shared

8. A. develop B. survive C. suffer D. expand

9. A. official B. regular C. required D. planned

10. A. exchange B. technology C. gap D. search

11. A. availability B. damage C. value D. disappointment

12. A. reasonable B. magical C. psychological D. typical

13. A. discussing B. changing C. welcoming D. selling

14. A. varies B. differs C. accelerates D. stops

15. A. place B. house C. distance D. office

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 16 a traditional style using the Ayrshire dialect of Scots. These poems were well received 17 (local) and in 1786 they were published in the volume, Poems, Chiefly,18 made him famous in Scotland overnight.

19 , his fame was not accompanied by money and he found 20 necessary to return to farming. 21 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 22 (date) back to his childhood. Within a short time of his death, money started pouring in from all over Scotland 23 (support) his widow and children.

Today, his memory 24 (celebrate) by Burns clubs across the world and his birthday is 25 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