2014年高考英语天津卷含答案

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2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试

英语（天津卷）

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

【C】1. Give me a chance, I’ll give you a wonderful surprise.

A. if

B. or

C. and

D. while

【B】2. —OK, I’ll fix your computer right now.

—Oh, take your time. .

A. I can’t stand it

B. I’m in no hurry

C. That’s a great idea

D. It’s not my cup of tea

【A】3. Wind is now the world’s fastest growing of power.

A. source

B. sense

C. result

D. root

【D】4. you start eating in a healthier way, weight control will become much easier.

A. Unless

B. Although

C. Before

D. Once

【A】5. Anxiously, she took the dress out of the package and tried it on, only it didn’t fit.

A. to find

B. found

C. finding

D. having found 【B】6. the school, the village has a clinic, which was also built with government support.

A. In reply to

B. In addition to

C. In charge of

D. In place of 【C】7. Clearly and thoughtfully , the book inspires confidence in students who wish to seek their own answers.

A. writing

B. to write

C. written

D. being written 【A】8. Life is like ocean; Only strong-willed can reach the other shore.

A. an; the

B. the; a

C. the; /

D. /; a

【B】9. My parents always great importance to my getting a good education.

A. have

B. attach

C. accept

D. pay

【A】10. —How long have you been learning English?

—About four months.

— ! Your English is so good.

A. You can’t be serious

B. You got it

C. I couldn’t agree more

D. I’m stuck

【C】11. We won’t start the work until all the preparations .

A. are being made

B. will be made

C. have been made

D. had been made 【B】12. English is a language shared by several diverse cultures, uses it differently.

A. all of which

B. each of which

C. all of them

D. each of them 【D】13. The two countries are going to meet to some barriers to trade between them.

A. make up

B. use up

C. turn down

D. break down 【A】14. I think impresses me about his painting is the colours he uses.

A. what

B. that

C. which

D. who

【D】15. the morning train, he would not have been late for the meeting.

A. Did he catch

B. Should he catch

C. Has he caught

D. Had he caught 第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

One night, when I was eight, my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to 16 me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done 17 and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to 18 your friends. Would you say yes to your teacher?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me 19 for the rest of the nights I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the 20 decisions adults had to make.

For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d 21 wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her 22 and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.

During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large 23 apartment, I became 24 how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then 25 I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on 26 family and work. 27 difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you make

the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a 28 attitude.

Back home, I 29 myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she 30 to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be 31 . I learnt how to take care of myself and set high but achievable 32 .

My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the 33 has really taught me. Sacrifices 34 in the end. The separation between us has proved to be a 35 for me. 【B】16. A. attract B. promote C. surprise D. praise

【C】17. A. little B. much C. well D. wrong

【A】18. A. leave B. refuse C. contact D. forgive

【C】19. A. explaining B. sleeping C. wondering D. regretting 【D】20. A. poor B. timely C. final D. tough

【A】21. A. eagerly B. politely C. nervously D. curiously 【B】22. A. patience B. presence C. intelligence D. influence 【C】23. A. comfortable B. expensive C. empty D. modern

【B】24. A. interested in B. aware of C. doubtful about D. satisfied with 【D】25. A. when B. where C. which D. that

【B】26. A. abandoning B. balancing C. comparing D. mixing

【C】27. A. Depending on B. Supplied with C. Faced with D. Insisting on

【C】28. A. different B. friendly C. positive D. general

【D】29. A. criticized B. informed C. warned D. reminded 【A】30. A. managed B. offered C. attempted D. expected 【C】31. A. grateful B. energetic C. independent D. practical 【D】32. A. examples B. limits C. rules D. goals

【B】33. A. question B. experience C. history D. occasion 【A】34. A. pay off B. come back C. run out D. turn up

【A】35. A. blessing B. gathering C. failure D. pleasure

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

A Guide to the University

Food

The TWU Cafeteria is open 7 am to 8 pm. It serves snacks(小吃), drinks, ice cream bars and meals. You can pay with cash or your ID cards. You can add meal money to your ID cards at the Front Desk. Even if you do not buy your food in the cafeteria, you can use the tables to eat your lunch, to have meetings and to study.

If you are on campus in the evening or late at night, you can buy snacks, fast food, and drinks in the Lower Café located in the bottom level of the Gouglas Centre. This area is often used for entertainment such as concerts, games or TV watching.

Relaxation

The Globe, located in the bottom level of McMillan Hall, is available for relaxing, studying, cooking, and eating. Monthly activities are held here for all international students. Hours are 10 am to 10 pm, closed on Sundays.

Health

Located on the top floor of Douglas Hall, the Wellness Centre is committed to physical, emotional and social health. A doctor and nurse is available if you have health questions or need immediate medical help or personal advice. The cost of this is included in your medical insurance. Hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 pm.

Academic Support

All students have access to the Writing Centre on the upper floor of Douglas Hall. Here, qualified volunteers will work with you on written work, grammar, vocabulary, and other academic skills. You can sign up for an appointment on the sign-up sheet outside the door: two 30-minute appointments per week maximum. This service is free.

Transportation

The TWU Express is a shuttle(班车) service. The shuttle transports students between campus and the shopping centre, leaving from the Mattson Centre. Operation hours are between 9 am and 3 pm, Saturdays only. Round trip fare is $1.

【C】36. What can you do in the TWU Cafeteria?

A. Do homework and watch TV.

B. Buy drinks and enjoy concerts.

C. Have meals and meet with friends.

D. Add money to your ID and play chess.

【A】37. Where and when can you cook your own food?

A. The Globe, Friday.

B. The Lower Café, Sunday.

C. The TWU Cafeteria, Friday.

D. The McMillan Hall, Sunday.

【D】38. The Guide tells us that the Wellness Centre .

A. is open six days a week

B. offers services free of charge

C. trains students in medical care

D. gives advice on mental health

【C】39. How can you seek help from the Writing Centre?

A. By applying online.

B. By calling the centre.

C. By filling in a sign-up form.

D. By going to the centre directly.

【D】40. What is the function of TWU Express?

A. To carry students to the lecture halls.

B. To provide students with campus tours.

C. To take students to the Mattson Centre.

D. To transport students to and from the stores.

B

A world-famous Canadian author, Margaret Atwood, has created the world’s first long-distance signing device(装置), the LongPen.

After many tiring booking-signing tours from city to city, Atwood thought there must be a better way to do them. She hired some technical experts and started her own company in 2004. Together they designed the LongPen. Here’s how it works: The author writes a personal message and signature on a computer tablet(手写板) using a special pen. On the receiving end, in another city, a robotic arm fitted with a regular pen signs the book. The author and fan can talk with each other via webcams(网络摄像机) and computer screens.

Work on the LongPen began in Atwood’s basement(地下室). At first, they had no idea it would be as hard as it turned out to be. The device went through several versions, including one that actually had smoke coming out of it. The inventing finally completed, test runs were made in Ottawa, and the LongPen was officially launched at the 2006 London Book Fair. From here, Atwood conducted two transatlantic book signings of her latest book for fans in Toronto and New York City.

The LongPen produces a unique signature each time because it copies the movement of the author in real time. It has several other potential applications. It could increase credit card security and allow people to sign contracts from another province. The video exchange between signer and receiver can be recorded on DVD for proof when legal documents are used.

“It’s really fun,” said the owner of a bookstore, who was present for one of the test runs.

“Obviously you can’t shake hands with the author but there are chances for a connection that you don’t get from a regular book signing.”

The response to the invention hasn’t been all favorable. Atwood has received criticism from authors who think she is trying to end book tours. But she said, “It will be possible to go to places that you never got sent to before because the publishers couldn’t afford it.”

【D】41. Why did Atwood decide to invent the LongPen?

A. To set up her own company.

B. To win herself greater popularity.

C. To write her books in a new way.

D. To make book signings less tiring. 【B】42. How does the LongPen work?

A. It copies the author’s signature and prints it on a book.

B. It signs a book while receiving the author’s signature.

C. The webcam sends the author’s signature to another city.

D. The fan uses it to copy the author’s signature himself.

【C】43. What do we know about the invention of the LongPen?

A. It has been completed but not put into use.

B. The basement caught fire by accident.

C. Some versions failed before its test run.

D. The designers were well-prepared for the difficulty.

【B】44. How could the LongPen be used in the future?

A. To draft legal documents.

B. To improve credit card security.

C. To keep a record of the author’s ideas.

D. To allow author and fan to exchange videos.

【A】45. What could be inferred from Paragraphs 5 and 6?

A. Atwood doesn’t mean to end book tours.

B. Critics think the LongPen is of little use.

C. Bookstore owners don’t support the LongPen.

D. Publishers dislike the LongPen for its high cost.

C

“Dad,” I say one day, “let’s take a trip. Why don’t you fly and meet me?”

My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his

thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall

in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

“What’s our first stop?” asks my father.

“What time is it?”

“Still don’t have a watch?”

Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(花岗岩), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of a little boy.

“Unbelievable,” he says. “How was this done?”

A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.

We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?

No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.

The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

“Did you ever travel with your dad?” I ask.

“Only once,” he says. “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other — but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”

The last sentence—it’s probably the same thing I’d say about my father. And what I’d want my child to say about me.

In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I’ve never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize—and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.

Weeks after our trip, I call my father.

“The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says. “We’ve got to take another trip like that sometime. ”

I tell him I’ve decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch. 【C】46. We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father .

A. followed the fashion

B. got bored with his job

C. was unhappy with the author’s lifestyle

D. liked the author’s collection of stamps 【D】47. What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?

A. His father is interested in sculpture.

B. His father is as innocent as a little boy.

C. He should learn sculpture in the future.

D. He should pursue a specific aim in life. 【B】48. From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author .

A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather

B. comes to understand what parental love means

C. learns how to communicate with his father

D. hopes to give whatever he can to his father

【D】49. What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?

A. The call solves their disagreements.

B. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer.

C. They decide to learn photography together.

D. They begin to change their attitudes to life.

【C】50. What could be the best title for the passage?

A. Love Nature, Love Life

B. A Son Lost in Adventure

C. A Journey with Dad

D. The Art of Travel

D

People aren’t walking any more—if they can figure out a way to avoid it.

I felt superior about this matter until the other day I took my car to mail a small parcel. The journey is a matter of 281 steps. But I used the car. And I wasn’t in any hurry, either. I had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorosis.

It is an illness to which I had thought myself immune(免疫的), for I was bred in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. At that time, we regarded 25 miles as a good day’s walk and the ability to cover such a distance in ten hours as sign of strength and skill. It did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. And the effect was lasting. When I was 45 years old I raced — and beat — a teenage football player the 168 steps up the Statue of Liberty.

Such enterprises today are regarded by many middle-aged persons as bad for the heart. But a well-known British physician, Sir Adolphe Abrahams, pointed out recently that hearts and bodies need proper exercise. A person who avoids exercise is more likely to have illnesses than one who

exercises regularly. And walking is an ideal form of exercise — the most familiar and natural of all.

It was Henry Thoreau who showed mankind the richness of going on foot. The man walking can learn the trees, flower, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world. He cannot learn in a car.

The car is a convenient means of transport, but we have made it our way of life. Many people don’t dare to approach Nature any more; to them the world they were born to enjoy is all threat. To them security is a steel river thundering on a concrete road. And much of their thinking takes place while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.

I say that the green of forests is the mind’s best light. And none but the man on foot can evaluate what is basic and everlasting.

【C】51. What is the national sickness?

A. Walking too much.

B. Traveling too much.

C. Driving cars too much.

D. Climbing stairs too much.

【A】52. What was life like when the author was young?

A. People usually went around on foot.

B. People often walked 25 miles a day.

C. People used to climb the Statue of Liberty.

D. People considered a ten-hour walk as a hardship.

【B】53. The author mentions Henry Thoreau to prove that .

A. middle-aged people like getting back to nature

B. walking in nature helps enrich one’s mind

C. people need regular exercise to keep fit

D. going on foot prevents heart disease

【A】54. What is compared to “a steel river” in Paragraph 6?

A. A queue of cars.

B. A ray of traffic light.

C. A flash of lightning.

D. A stream of people.

【D】55. What is the author’s intention of writing this passage?

A. To tell people to reflect more on life.

B. To recommend people to give up driving.

C. To advise people to do outdoor activities.

D. To encourage people to return to walking.

第Ⅱ卷

第三部分：写作

第一节：阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

阅读短文，按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

Last December, Doris Low turned 90. Once a week she still drives to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind(CNIB) in Toronto, where she helps transform literature into braille(盲文) to bring the power of story and knowledge to the hearts and minds of blind readers. She has been volunteering her time and talents to such enterprises for more than 40 years.

After working in the business world for a while, Low got fed up. So she turned to teaching at a technical school and later moved into the library.

Low’s mother liked reading. As her eyes began to fail, Low read to her. Then “hearing an advertisement encouraging people to learn braille, I decided to give it a try.” In 1973, she was certified as a braille transcriber(转译者) and began transcribing books as a volunteer for the CNIB library.

The job was strenuous — she could get to the end of a page, make a mistake on the last line, and have to do the whole thing again. For a number of years, Low also worked in the CNIB sound studio reading books onto tape. Three years ago, she took up proofreading(校对) at the CNIB’s word factory.

In April, during Volunteer Week, the CNIB recognized Low for her great contributions. Thanks to volunteers like Low, the CNIB library has got more than 80,000 accessible materials for people unable to read traditional print. “I can’t imagine how many readers of all ages have benefited from Doris’ contribution as a skilled volunteer through her rich voice and her high degree of accuracy in the hundreds of books she has brailled and proofread over the years — and she is still doing so,” said a CNIB official.

“For me,” said Low, “the CNIB is more than just a place to volunteer. Three things matter most in my life: a little play, a little work, a little love. I’ve found them all here.”

56. What does Low still do at the age of 90 at the CNIB? ( no more than 10 words)

She helps transform literature into braille (for blind readers/ the blind).

57. Why did Low learn braille? (no more than 15 words)

(Because) Her mother’s eyes began to fail and she heard an/ the advertisement.

58. What does the underlined word “strenuous” most probably mean?(1 word)

Difficult/Hard/Tiring/Tough.

59. What are Low’s contributions to the CNIB? (no more than 15 words)

She has brailled and proofread hundreds of books, and read books onto tape.

60. What do you think of Low? Give your reasons. (no more than 20 words)

Low is kind and helpful because she has devoted much time to transcribing books into braille as a volunteer. Or: Low is a kind-hearted lady with a positive attitude toward life because she takes delight in helping others.

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

61.

假设你是晨光中学高二（1）班的班长李津，得知美国学生Chris作为交换生，下学期将到你班学习。请你根据以下提示，给他写封邮件：

（1）表示欢迎；

（2）介绍与本地生活相关的信息（如气候、饮食等）；

（3）介绍本班情况；

（4）希望Chris做哪些事情，以增进中美学生之间的了解和友谊。

注意：

（1）请勿提及与考生相关的真实信息；

（2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实，行文连贯；

（3）词数不少于100；开头已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：

交换生exchange student

Dear Chris,

I’m Li Jin, monitor of Class One, Grade Eleven.

Yours,

Li Jin

【参考范文1】

Dear Chris,

I’m Li Jin, monitor of Class One, Grade Eleven. I have heard that you are to come to our school as an exchange student, and I, on behalf of our class, welcome you warmly and sincerely. Now, I’d like to introduce some details about the weather, food and our class.

The weather in fall is very pleasant. It is neither too hot nor too cold, and neither too dry nor too humid. The temperature here is at about 20℃.Moreover, the food in Tianjin is delicious, including the Eight Great Bowls and the Four Great Stews, and some snacks such as Goubuli, a kind of steamed bun. I am sure you will enjoy them. Our class is a very warm family. There are 55 students in our class, containing 30 boys and 25 girls. You will find it easy to join us since we all want to make friends with you. Then, you needn’t worry about the life here, because the girls and boys in our class are very friendly and helpful. Whenever you get in trouble, they are ready to lend their hand to you. At last, I personally advise you to learn some basic Chinese to communicate with local people, and it is much easier for you to get on with teachers and classmates by speaking Chinese.

We are looking forward to seeing you.

Yours,

Li Jin 【参考范文2】

Dear Chris,

I’m Li Jin，monitor of Class One，Grade Eleven. I’m delighted to hear that you will come to our school as an exchange student next term. I feel it an honor for us to study with you. Now I have something to tell you.

Firstly, with the climate changing, you should prepare enough clothes. Then it is different kinds of foods and snacks that give you the chance to experience abundant Chinese food culture. In addition, every student can be in harmony with foreign friends, which makes it easy for you to get along with them.

Finally, we can do whatever we can to help you, but you must get prepared to meet all kinds of difficulties. During your stay here, I hope you can tell us more about American culture. Only in this way can we spend these days together happily.

Yours,

Li Jin