2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试
英语（全国Ⅱ卷）
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，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。听完每段对话后，你都有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。 【A】1. What does the woman want to do?
A. Find a place.
B. Buy a map.
C. Get an address.
【B】2. What will the man do for the woman?
A. Repair her car. B. Give her a ride. C. Pick up her aunt. 【C】3. Who might Mr. Peterson be?
A. A new professor. B. A department head. C. A company director. 【B】4. What does the man think of the book?
A. Quite difficult.
B. Very interesting. C. Too simple.
【A】5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Weather.
B. Clothes. C. News.
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，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
【B】6. Why is Harry unwilling to join the woman?
A. He has a pain in his knee. B. He wants to watch TV. C. He is too lazy.
【C】7. What will the woman probably do next?
A. Stay at home.
B. Take Harry to hospital.
C. Do some exercise. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
【A】8. When will the man be home from work?
A. At 5:45.
B. At 6:15. C. At 6:50.
【C】9. Where will the speakers go?
A. The Green House Cinema B. The New State Cinema. C. The UME Cinema.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
【A】10. How will the speakers go to New York?
A. By air.
B. By taxi. C. By bus.
【A】11. Why are the speakers making the trip?
A. For business. B. For shopping. C. For holiday. 【C】12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Driver and passenger. B. Husband and wife. C. Fellow workers. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
【B】13. Where does this conversation probably take place?
A. In a restaurant. B. In an office. C. In a classroom. 【C】14. What does John do now?
A. He’s a trainer. B. He’s a tour guide. C. He’s a college student. 【A】15. How much can a new person earn for the first year?
A. $10,500. B. $12,000. C. $15,000. 【C】16. How many people will the woman hire?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Two. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
【B】17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city?
A. One year. B. Ten years. C. Eighteen years. 【C】18. What is the speaker’s opinion on public transport?
A. It’s comfortable. B. It’s time-saving. 【A】19. What is good about living in a small town?
A. It’s safer. B. It’s healthier. C. It’s more convenient.
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C. It’s cheap.
【B】20. What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most?
A. Busy. B. Colourful. C. Quiet. 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。
A
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organised again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way. 【B】21. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?
A. Go shopping.
B. Find a house. D. Take a vacation.
C. Join his family.
【C】22. The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from _______.
A. a friend of his family B. a Sydney policeman C. a letter in his papers D. a stranger in Sydney【D】23. What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?
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A. Showed. C. Delivered.
B. Sent out.
D. Gave back.
【C】24. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. From India to Australia B. Living in a New Country C. Turning Trash to Treasure D. In Search of New Friends
B
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot “greener” toward the environment. “We didn’t know at that time that there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it,” says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA.
But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement. Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots. Americans are taking part in the movement. “The understanding has increased many, many times,” says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor from Wisconsin, who thought up the first Earth Day.
According to US government reports, emissions(排放) from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.3 million tons a year to 5.5 million tons. The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9. Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place. A kind of “green thinking” has become part of practices.
Great improvement has been achieved. In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs; today in 1995 there are about 6,600. Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.
Twenty-five years ago, there were hardly any education programs for environment. Today, it’s hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program. “Until we do that, nothing else will change!” says Bruce Anderson.
【C】25. According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about _______.
A. the social movement
B. recycling techniques D. the importance of Earth Day
C. environmental problems
【A】26. Where does the support for environmental protection mainly come from?
A. The grass-roots level. C. Government officials.
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B. The business circle.D. University professors.
【D】27. What have Americans achieved in environmental protection?
A. They have cut car emissions to the lowest. B. They have settled their environmental problems. C. They have lowered their CO levels in forty cities. D. They have reduced pollution through effective measures.
【A】28. What is especially important for environmental protection according to the last
paragraph?
A. Education.
C
One of the latest trends（趋势) in American childcare is Chinese au pairs. Au Pair in Stamford, Conn, for example, has got increasing numbers of requests for Chinese au pairs from zero to around 4,000 since 2004. And that’s true all across the country.
“I thought it would be very useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age,” Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year-old son. “I would at least like to give him the chance to use the language in the future.” After only six months of being cared for by a 25-year-old woman from China, the boy can already understand basic Chinese daily expressions, his dad says.
Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for an au pair from China: She didn’t want her children to miss out on their roots. “Because I am Chinese, my husband and I wanted the children to keep exposed to (接触）the language and culture,” she says.
“Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom,” says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of children. “But parents must understand that just one year with an au pair is unlikely to produce wonders. Complete mastery demands continued learning until the age of 10 or 12.”
The popularity of au pairs from China has been strengthened by the increasing numbers of American parents who want their children to learn Chinese. It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years. 【D】29. What does the term “au pair” in the text mean?
B. Planning. D. CO reduction.
C. Green living.
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2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 英语(全国Ⅱ卷)
