2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（试题类型：A）
英 语(新课标山西卷)
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。第I卷1至10页，第II卷11至13页。 2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。 3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
4. 第I卷听力部分满分30分，不计入总分，考试成绩录取时提供给高校作参考。 5. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第I卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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称钟的时间来回答有关小题如阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.18. C. ￡9.15.
答案是 C。
1. What does the woman want to do? A. Find a place. B. Buy a map. 2. What will the man do for the woman? A. Repair her car. B. Give her a ride. 3. Who might Mr. Peterson be? A. A new professor. B. A department head. 4. What does the man think of the book? A. Quite difficult. B. Very interesting 5. What are the speakers talking about? A. Weather. B. Clothes. 第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
C. Get an address. C. Pick up her aunt. C. A company director. C. Too simple. C. News.
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，各小题将给出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6、7题。
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.
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。
8. When will the man be home from work? A. At 5:45. B. At 6:15. C. At 6:50. 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。 10. How will the speakers go to New York?
A. By air. B. By taxi. C. By bus. 11. Why are the speakers making the trip? A. For business. B. For shopping. C. For holiday. 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。
13. Where does this conversation probably take place?
A. In a restaurant. B. In an office. C. In a classroom. 14. Where does John do now? A. He’s a trainer. B. He’s a tour guide. C. He’s a college student. 15. How much can a new person earn for the first year? A. $10,500. B. $12,000. C. $15,000. 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
17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city? A. One year. B. Ten years. C. Eighteen years. 18. What is the speaker’s opinion on public transport? A. It’s comfortable. B. It’s time-saving. C. It’s cheap. 19. What is good about living in a small town? A. It’s safer. B. It’s healthier. C. It’s more convenient. 20. What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most? A. Busy. B. Colorful. C. Quiet. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60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 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 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 selected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will be exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in 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 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. 23. What type of writing is this text?
A. An exhibition guide. B. An art show review. 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 reached its 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 bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile 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 most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings 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 Americans’ 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, 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 Garden on September 1, 1914.
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” probably 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.