山西英语高考历年试题及答案(2)
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TFK Extras
TIME For Kids has teamed up with a number of respected partners to bring you programs that will help inspire you and your students. Featuring games, contests and lively activity suggestions, our partner programs will add a wealth of possibilities to your classroom.
Penguin Group
Ordinary People Change The World!
Penguin Group and TFK have partnered together to help teachers show their students how they can make the world a better place. Based on the inspiring lives of historic figures including Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein, this fascinating program takes a look at the real life stories of ordinary young people who grew up to become extraordinary adults!
Download the classroom poster provided below.
Classroom Poster: You Can Be a Hero, too.
Star Wars Rebels
Join the Rebellion!
Experience the Disney XD show Star Wars Rebels to get your students excited about exploration, teamwork, and science. Inside the program’s student guide you’ll discover classroom resources, such as a board game, a word scramble, and facts about the moon and lunar eclipses (月蚀). Plus: Background about the Star Wars Rebels characters illustrates how teamwork can help students accomplish even the toughest missions. Download the student guide below.
TFK Extra: Join the Rebellion!
Ultimate Spiderman
Every Great Story Starts with a Hero!
TIME For Kids teamed up with the creators of Disney XD’s, Ultimate Spiderman, to encourage kids to take the initiative and become everyday heroes. This four page student magazine includes interesting tidbits (花边新闻) about the creation and evolution of the Marvel Comics super hero character Spider-Man, as well as facts of interesting real-life spiders. Students are also encouraged to solve a challenging “Spider-Cycle” maze (迷宫) and uncover a mystery clue hidden within a “Spider Search” puzzle.
TFK Extra: Every Great Story Starts with a Hero!
The Mysterious Island
Discover Your Island of Ideas!
TIME For Kids has partnered with the creators of the film The Mysterious Island to introduce creativity and imagination through the “Island of Ideas” program. The Teacher’s Guide provides discussion starters, in-class activities and four reproducibles (复制道具) that will help lead students on a discovery adventure. The poster front encourages students to solve mysterious clues that will lead them to the Ultimate Mysterious X. Students will enjoy uncovering the treasure of ideas that await them in this program.
Classroom Poster: Discover Your Island of Ideas!
70. Penguin Group and TFK have partnered together to ______.
A. show students the inspiring lives of historic figures
B. make the world a better place for teachers and students
C. provide teachers with some useful materials and information
D. help students know that ordinary people can change the world
71. To accomplish the exciting program Star Wars Rebels, students need to ______.
A. complete a tough mission B. have the spirit of rebellion
C. have the spirit of cooperation D. explore the moon and lunar eclipses
72. What’s the chief purpose of the magazine Ultimate Spiderman?
A. To encourage kids to learn about facts of interesting real-life spiders.
B. To activate kids to become everyday heroes in real life.
C. To tell interesting tidbits about the creation and evolution of Spider-Man.
D. To solve a challenging “Spider-Cycle” maze and uncover a mystery clue.
73. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Mysterious Island is a film made by TIME For Kids and its partner.
B. The “Island of Ideas” program aims to cultivate creativity and imagination.
C. Teacher’s Guide includes students’ discussions, activities and reproducibles.
D. Ultimate Mysterious X encourages students to uncover the treasure of ideas.
(C)
Mapping Antarctica
Antarctica was on the map long before anyone ever laid eyes on it. Nearly 2,400 years ago, ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle believed that a great continent must exist at the bottom of the world. They thought it was needed to balance out the continents at the top of the world. In the 1500s, mapmakers often included a fanciful continent they referred to as Terra Incognita (Latin for “unknown land”) at the bottom of their maps. But it was not until the 1800s ---- after explorers had sighted and set foot on Antarctica ---- that mapmakers got down to the business of really mapping the continent, which is one-and-a-half times the size of the U.S..
While the coastline could be mapped by ships sailing around the continent, it took airplanes ---- and later, satellites ---- to chart Antarctica’s vast interior (内陆). That job continues today. And it is a job that can still require a mapmaker, or cartographer, to put on boots and head out into the wild.
Cole Kelleher is familiar with that. He is a cartographer with the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC), which is based at the University of Minnesota and has a staff at McMurdo Station. PGC teamed up with Google to use the company’s Trekker technology to capture images of Antarctica for the Internet giant’s popular feature, Street View. A Trekker camera, which is the size of a basketball, is set about two feet above a backpack. The camera records images in all directions. “It weighs about 50 pounds. I was out for two and a half days, hiking 10 to 12 hours each day,” says Kelleher. It was hard work, but really an incredible experience.” According to Kelleher there are plans to use the technology to create educational apps for museums.
The PGC staff at McMurdo Station provides highly specialized mapmaking services for the U.S. Antarctic Program. For one project, Kelleher used satellite images to map huge cracks in the ice. That helped a team of researchers know whether they could safely approach their field camp on snowmobiles. Another recent project was to help recover a giant, high-tech helium (氦气) balloon used to carry scientific instruments high into the atmosphere. These balloons are launched in Antarctica because there is no danger that they will hurt anyone when they fall back down to Earth. Using satellite images, Kelleher and colleagues created maps of where the balloon could be found.
Antarctica may no longer be Terra Incognita, but it still holds countless mysteries. Cartographers and the maps they make will continue to be essential in helping scientists unlock those secrets.
74. From the passage, we can infer that Antarctic was on the map in the 1500s when ______.
A. mapmakers knew it was much larger than the U.S.
B. Aristotle named the continent Terra Incognita
C. no one had ever seen or been to the continent
D. it was such an interesting continent as was often referred to
75. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. It needs much work for the mapmakers to head out into the wild.
B. The interior can only be mapped by planes and satellites.
C. It is relatively easy to map Antarctica’s coastline by ships.
D. Antarctic is a vast but still mysterious continent.
76. The Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) works with Google initially ______.
A. to capture images of Antarctica for Street View
B. to test the company’s Trekker technology
C. to create educational apps for museums
D. to hike for an incredible experience
77. The fourth paragraph mainly talks about ______.
A. satellite images which are used to map huge cracks in the ice
B. a high-tech helium balloon for carrying scientific instruments
C. how to safely approach the researchers’ field camp and the balloon
D. the specialized mapmaking services provided by the PGC staff
Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
When did you last visit a shopping mall? In many places, the answer would be “last weekend.” Some people go even more often. Why? Shopping malls offer goods and services all in one place: food, clothing, things for their houses, entertainment, even medical services. So, are they one of the highlights of modern civilization? Environmental activists would say no and would go even further, arguing that consumer behavior is causing a huge environmental disaster. They cause consumers’ ignorance of the side effect of their shopping ---- urban sprawl (蔓延).
Social scientists agree that patterns of development have changed the landscape a lot. Before 1950, most people lived in towns or cities and either walked to work or took public transportation. Only very wealthy people had automobiles. Farmers lived in rural areas or far-away villages and came into town only when they needed things they couldn’t produce themselves. If you stared at the landscape you would see towns surrounded by the countryside.
Now automobiles become affordable and people are quick to make use of them. Ambitious workers could live in suburbs, just outside cities, which have started to grow rapidly. As long as there is lots of cheap land there, no one pays much attention to the usage of that land. Malls, fast food restaurants, cinemas, and such spread out in large, flat buildings. These one-storey buildings and their parking lots take up too much space. Many farmers think they are better off selling their land than growing crops. No one has realized once the land is built up in urban sprawl, the good farming land will be ruined forever. There is no way to preserve it.
Only in recent years have people come to miss the old way of life as they have looked into the problems of unconditional growth. Now people realize that urban sprawl has come with serious environmental problems. The bad effects that sprawl brings about include air and water pollution, loss of agricultural land, traffic jams, and so on. Many scholars think it’s time to analyze the problems better so we can develop proper policies to control further sprawl. Some think the best way to do is to educate citizens.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS)
78. What does the underlined word “They” refer to in the first paragraph?
79. In the past, farmers in the countryside only went to towns or cities to ______.
80. Besides the mobility made possible by automobiles, what other two factors have led to the unconditional growth?
81. Now people come to realize the importance of protecting environment and dealing with the serious problem brought about by ______.
第II卷(共47分)
I. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1、说服她不再网购是没有任何作用的。(It)
2、自苹果6问世以来，就再没有其他手机对我更有吸引力了。(appeal)
3、人口的老龄化问题十分严峻，成了全球各国政府都头疼不已的问题。(so …that…)
4、从顾客的肢体语言，这个售货员就能知道他想买什么，这让那位顾客十分惊讶。(amaze)
5、沿外滩一路缓步走来，你可以欣赏到从19世纪到21世纪的各种不同风格的欧式建筑。(range)
II. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in over 120 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
寒假临近，你的朋友正在计划寒假出游。他现在有两个选择难以决定：哈尔滨看雪、泰国看海。请你从经济、风景、人文、出行方式等方面进行比较，给出建议，并阐述理由。
注意：作文中不得出现你本人的姓名、班级及学校等真实信息。
山西英语高考历年试题参考答案
第 I 卷 (共103分)
I. Listening Comprehension
1-5: ABCDB 6-10: BCDDC
11-12: CAB 14-16: DCA
17. Rosemary 18. Saturday 19. 514 0318 20. Italian
21. Christmas Food Show 22.in another world 23.electricity 24.customers and sales
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
25. themselves 26. which 27. have been 28. stepping 29. such as 30. unless 31. can 32. that
33. understanding 34. were expected 35. gained 36. what 37. to use
38. because 39. The 40. more effective
41. D 42. I 43. B 44. F 45. C 46. A 47. K 48. H 49. E 50. J
III. Reading Comprehension
51-55: BADCA 56-60: DBCAD 61-65: BCADB
66-69: CBDA 70-73: DCBA 74-77: CBAD
78. Shopping malls
79. buy things they couldn’t produce themselves
80. Cheap land / Wrong (Wasteful) land usage and farmers’ selling their (farming) land.
81. (further) urban sprawl
第II卷(共47分)
I. Translation
1. It is no use persuading her not to do online shopping / shop online any more.
2. Since iPhone 6 came out / came into the market / was released, no other cell-phones / mobile phones have appealed to me more / have appealed more to me.
3. The aging population problem is so severe / serious that it becomes a universal / global big headache for the governments worldwide.
4. From the customer’s body language, the shop assistant can exactly know what he wants to buy, which amazes the customer very much / makes the customer very much amazed.
5. Walking slowly along the Bund, you can appreciate all kinds of European architecture / buildings of different styles, ranging from the 19th century to the 21st century.
II. Guided Writing
(略)