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1、第 1 页(共 10 页)2014 年全国统一高考英语试卷(新课标年全国统一高考英语试卷(新课标)第二部分第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分阅读理解(共两节,满分 60 分)分)第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 3 分,满分 45 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 Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!The Cambridge Science Festival(CSF)is pleased
2、 to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge.The challenge invites,even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity and how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture,write an
3、article,take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about.To enter the challenge,all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival,MIT Museum,265 Mass Avenue.Cambridge 02139 by Friday,February 8th.Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are se
4、lected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday,April 21st.Guest speaker will also present prizes to the students.Winning entries will be published in a book.Student entries will be exhibit and prizes will be given.Families of those who take part will be included in
5、the celebration and brunch will be served.Between March 10th and March 15th,each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration.The program guidelines and other related information are available at:http:/cambridgesciencefestival.org.21.Who can take
6、 part in the Curiosity Challenge?A.School students B.Cambridge locals C.CSF winners D.MIT artists 22.When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?A.On February 8th B.On March 10th C.On April 21st D.On March 15th 第 2 页(共 10 页)23.What type of writing is this text?A.An exhibition guide.B.An art show rev
7、iew.C.An announcement.D.An official report.B Passenger pigeons(旅 鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群)so large that they darkened the sky for hours.It was calculated that when its population reach its
8、highest point,there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States,making it perhaps the most abundant birds in the world.Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller,a flock believed to be 1 mile
9、wide and 320 miles(about 515 kilometers)long was seen near Cincinnati.Sadly,the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing.Where the birds were abundant,people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands.Commercial hunters attracted them to small cleari
10、ngs with grain,waited until pigeons had settled to feed,then threw large nets over them,taking hundreds at a time.The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.By the closing decades of the 19th century,the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by American
11、s need for wood,which scattered(驱散)the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north,where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline.Soon the great flocks were gone,never to be seen again.In 1897,the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons
12、,but by then,no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years.The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County,Ohio,in 1900.For a time,a few birds survived under human care.The last of them,known affectionately as Martha,died at the Cincinnati Zoological
13、Garden in September 1,1914.第 3 页(共 10 页)24.In the 18th and early 19th centuries,passenger pigeons .A.were the biggest bird in the world B.lived mainly in the south of America C.did great harm to the natural environment D.were the largest bird population in the US 25.The underlined word“undoing”proba
14、bly refers to the pigeons .A.escape B.ruin C.liberation D.evolution 26.What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?A.To seek pleasure B.To save other birds C.To make money D.To protect crops 27.What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?A.It was ignored by the public B.It w
15、as declared too late C.It was unfair D.It was strict C A typical lion tamer(驯兽师)in peoples mind is an entertainer holding a whip(鞭)and a chair.The whip gets all of the attention,but its mostly for show.In reality,its the chair that does the important work.When a lion tamer holds a chair in front of
16、the lions face,the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time.With its focus divided,the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next.When faced with so many options,the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.How often do y
17、ou find yourself in the same position as the lion?How often do you have something you want to achieve(e.g.lose weight,start a business,travel more)-only to end up confused by all of the options in front of you and never make progress?This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy de
18、bating about which option is best,the people who want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information.The end result is that we feel like we cant focus or that were focused on the wrong things,and so we take less action,make less 第 4 页(共 10 页)progress,and stay the same
19、 when we could be improving.It doesnt have to be that way.Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face,remember this:All you need to do is focus on one thing.You just need to get started.Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people.If you have somewhere you want
20、 to go,something you want to accomplish,someone you want to become take immediate action.If youre clear about where you want to go,the rest of the world will either help you get there or get out of the way.28.Why does the lion tamer use a chair?A.To show off his skills.B.To trick the lion.C.To get r
21、eady for a fight.D.To entertain the audience.29.In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair?A.They feel puzzled over choices.B.They hold on to the wrong things.C.They find it hard to make changed.D.They have to do something for show.30.What is the authors attitude towards the experts m
22、entioned in Paragraph 3?A.Tolerant B.Doubtful C.Respectful D.Supportive 31.When the world is“waving a chair in your face”,youre advised to .A.wait for a better chance B.break your old habits C.make a quick decision D.ask for clear guidance D As more and more people speak the global languages of Engl
23、ish,Chinese,Spanish,and Arabic,other languages are rapidly disappearing.In fact,half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century,according to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization(UNESCO).In an effort to prevent lan
24、guage loss,scholars from a number of organizations-UNESCO and National Geographic among them-have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.Mark Turin,a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University,who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the H
25、imalayas,is following in that 第 5 页(共 10 页)tradition.His recently published book,A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture,grows out of his experience living,looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.Documenting the Tangmi language and cultu
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