绝密★启用前 试卷类型：B
2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(广东卷)
英语
本试卷共12页,三大题,满分135分.考试用时120分钟
注意事项：
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I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空
Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the . On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.
The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different to these problems. However, some approaches are more than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s . On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to their actions.
Psychologists say that is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should they have to say. Parents may their children when they are untidy but they should
also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.
1. A. natural B. strong C. guilty D. similar
2. A. interest B. argument C. link D. knowledge
3. A. noisy B. crowded C. messy D. locked
4. A. homework B. housework C. problem D. research
5. A. washing B. using C. dropping D. replacing
6. A. approaches B. contributions C. introductions D. attitudes
7. A. complex B. popular C. scientific D. successful
8. A. later B. deliberately C. seldom
9. A. behavior B. taste C. future
10. A. failures B. changes C. consequences
11. A. defend B. delay C. repeat
12. A. communication B. bond C. friendship
13. A. reply B. attend C. attach
14. A. hate B. scold C. frighten
15. A. loving B. observing C. understanding D. thoroughly D. nature D. thrills D. reconsider D. trust D. talk D. stop D. praising
第二节 语法填空（共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
Last year, my brother and I went to Miami for a vacation. Some of my friends who had had planned for months. When the day came, we were ready.
After our plane landed, we went to the hotel. We had made our reservation six （early）, but the man at the front desk said there had been a mistake. We 18_____（tell）that our rooms hadn’t been reserved for that week, 19_____ for the week after. I didn’t understand 20____ this would happen and my credit card had already been charged______ the reservation. What’s worse, the hotel had been fully booked. When we were wondering what to do, the manager came out. She was 22_____（surprise）helpful. She apologized for the mistake and gave us a spare VIP room on 23_____ top floor. We had never stayed in such an amazing room, and we weren’t charged extra.
The next day, my brother and I went to the beach 24____ we watched some people
play volleyball. We got a little_____（sunburn），but the day had been so relaxing that we didn’t mind.
阅读（共两节）
第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Samuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata（奏鸣曲）by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.
Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable .They say his ability is very rare, but Samuel doesn’t even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.
Samuel can’t understand why everyone is so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago, I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me ---I hear the notes and can bear them in mind---each and every note,” says Samuel.
Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional pianists can’t play it. Samuel says confidently,” It’s all about super memory---I guess I have that gift.”
However, Samuel’s ability to remember things doesn’t stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the story word for word.
Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn’t know what he wants to do in the future. For now, he is just happy to play beautiful music and continue his studies.
26. What is special about Samuel Osmond?
A. He has a gift for writing music.
B. He can write down the note he hears.
C. He is a top student at the law school.
D. He can play the musical piece he hears.
27. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. Samuel chose law against the wish of his parents.
B. Samuel planned to be a lawyer rather than a musician.
C. Samuel thinks of himself as a man of great musical ability.
D. Samuel studies law and music on the advice of his teachers.
28. Everyone around Samuel was surprised because he _________.
A. received a good early education in music
B. played the guitar and the piano perfectly
C. could play the piano without reading music
D. could play the guitar better than his father
29. What can we infer about Samuel in Paragraph 4?
A. He became famous during a special event at his college.
B. He is proud of his ability to remember things accurately.
C. He plays the piano better than many professional pianists.
D. He impressed the audience by playing all the musical pieces.
30. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. The Qualities of a Musician
B. The Story of a Musical Talent
C. The Importance of Early Education
D. The Relationship between Memory and Music.
B
It was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth (收费站). “I’m paying for myself, and for the six cars behind me,” she said with a smile, handing over seven tickets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, “Some lady up ahead already paid your fare.”
It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend’s refrigerator: “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” The phrase impressed her so much that she copied it down.
Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When it stayed on her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. “I thought it was beautiful,” she said, explaining why she’d taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters, “like a message from above.” Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much
that he put it up on the classroom wall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local news reporter. Alice put it in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didn’t know where it came from or what it really meant.
Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Marin. It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mind for days.
“Here’s the idea,” Anne says. “Anything you think there should be more of, do it randomly.” Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says, “
The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your fare paid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all great events, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours!
31. Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind her?
A. She knew the car drivers well.
B. She wanted to show kindness.
C. She hoped to please others.
D. She had seven tickets.
32. Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she .
A. thought it was beautifully written
B. wanted to know what it really meant
C. decided to write it on a warehouse wall
D. wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom
33. Who came up with the phrase according to the passage?
A. Judy Foreman.
B. Natalie Smith.
C. Alice Johnson.
D. Anne Herbert.
34. Which of the following statements is closest in the meaning to the underlined sentence above?
A. Kindness and violence can change the world.
B. Kindness and violence can affect one’s behavior.
C. Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves.
D. Kindness and violence can shape one’s character.
35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. People should practice random kindness to those in need.
B. People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others.
C. People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet.
D. People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver.
C
Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project.
I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.
Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.
After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me. Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and I returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever.
36. What do we know about the author?
A. His university education focused on the theoretical knowledge.
B. His dream at university was to become a volunteer.
C. He took pride in having contributed to the world.
D. He felt honored to study English literature.
37.
A. discussed his decision with his family.
B. asked previous volunteers about voluntary work
C. attended special training to perform difficult tasks
D. felt sad about having to leave his family and friends
A. participated in many discussions
B. went through challenging survival tests
C. wrote quite a few paper on voluntary work
D. faced strong competition from other candidates
39. On arrival at the village, the author was A. asked to lead a farming team
B. sent to teach in a schoolhouse
C. received warmly by local villagers
D. arranged to live in a separate house.
40. What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria?
A. He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture
B. He had learned to communicate in the local language.
C. He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home.
D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students.
D
Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way -- by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.
Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes — about 60,000 in total — fell
into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study.
As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand. They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.
41. The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______________.
A. fitting rooms
B. trading fairs
C. business talks
D. group meetings
42. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _____________.
A. what caused the shipping accident
B. when and where the shoes went missing
C. whether it was all right to use their shoes
D. how much they lost in the shipping accident
43. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?
A. By collecting information from beachcombers.
B. By studying the shoes found by beachcomber.
C. By searching the web for ocean currents models.
D. By researching ocean currents data in the library.
44. Ebbesmeyer is most famous for ___________________.
A. traveling widely the coastal cities of the world
B. making records for any lost objects on the sea
C. running a global currents research association
D. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea
45. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A. To call people's attention to ocean pollution.
B. To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.
C. To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.
D. To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.
第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息，请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先请阅读某大学提供给学生的项目信息：
46. I grow up in a very big family. My parents have raised twelve kids and I am their first-born. It has been my duty to help my mom take care of my brothers and sisters. To handle them, often I have to organize an outdoor activity, like a softball game. I must say that I have the potential to work as an instructor.
47. Last year, my dog got crippled after losing the fight to my neighbor’s bulldog. I rinsed its wound with some lotion and tied its leg with a stick. I had him take medicine every day for a full month. Finally he recovered. I think I can help the elderly and the disabled as well. I feel so good when I can offer help.
48. I am a film buff. A big fan of Antonio Banderas. He is so wild and charming. Because of him, I fell in love with Spain. The Latin dance and the bullfight are really exciting. Oh, if
only I could stay in Spain as an exchange student! I would be learning Spanish so well that I can watch a Spanish film with the dubbing.
49. I had the experience of working as a social worker in Switzerland last summer. I love the country and its people. There are great mountains for climbers and the local people are so nice to strangers. I helped the kids with their English. My teaching skills improved greatly during my stay. Now I’m well prepared to work as a language instructor.
50. I spent my gap year traveling all over Africa last year. It was definitely an eye- opening experience. The exotic clothes and tribal dances of the people really fascinated me. But I was most amazed by the wildlife there. I really took great pleasure in watching those animals hunting their prey. You know, I specialize in zoology, and I’m a good observer. III 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 基础习作
你接受一项写作任务，要为当地英语晚报写一篇报道。
［写作内容］
请根据以下信息写一篇英文报道，内容包括：
＊ 同年同月同日生的人：time twin
［写作要求］
只能用5个句子表达全部内容
［评分标准］
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
第二节 读写任务（共1小题；满分25分）
阅读下面短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Oseola McCarty spent more than 75 years washing and ironing other people’s clothes. As a laundrywoman, she was paid only a few dollars each time. Certainly nobody would
consider her rich, so they were all amazed when Miss McCarty decided to donate $ 150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi.
The money was in fact her life savings. She could save such a large amount of money because she lived a very simple life. She never learned to drive, and when she wanted to go somewhere, she just walked. She never flew to anywhere till the donation（捐助），and in 50 years she had been out of the South only once. The house in which she lived was also a rather modest one her last uncle left her. Only after she became known in America did she begin to travel all over the country. Since then, she had been the subject of many interviews and articles and was even invited to the White House.
Her donation was for students who clearly needed financial help. She herself left school in the sixth grade and had never married or had children. She said to the reporters that the idea of helping somebody’s child go to college gave her much pleasure.
[写作内容]
1. 用约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2. 用约120个词就Miss McCarty的捐助谈谈你的想法，内容包括：
（1） 你如何看待她的捐助行为；
（2） 你认为她的捐助对受惠学生有哪些影响；
（3） 如果你自己要捐助，你会选择哪个群体并陈述理由。
[写作要求]
1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得
直接引用原文的句子。
2. 作文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
2014年广东高考英语试卷参考答案及解析
1. D逻辑推断 根据第一句的difficult 和本句的again和not easy 可推断出是similar的感觉。
2. B逻辑推断 根据第一句Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers 可知父母和孩子之间有争执（argument）,或者根据后面的句型On the one hand, parents go mad over…On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience 也可知。
3. C 词语复现 根据后面的clothes thrown on the floor可知，messy(凌乱的)与clothes thrown on the floor(衣服被乱扔在地上)是上下义复现。
4. B 词语同现 与messy(凌乱的)、clothes thrown on the floor(衣服被乱扔在地上)具有相关性的词，应当是housework。
5. C 词语复现/逻辑推断 将此空the towel in the bathroom与前面的clothes thrown on the floor(衣服被乱扔在地上)对比，可知，drop 与throw 是近义词复现。或者与后面的not cleaning up their room是并列的关系，即把毛巾丢在浴室。
6. A 词语复现 比较have different 与后面的However， some approaches, 可以确定approaches是原词复现。
7. D 词语复现 根据第10个空后面的better 可知一些方面更成功（successful）, successful与better 是近义词复现。本题容易错选C scientific “科学的”，scientific 和中文的形容词“科学的”的意义不一样，英语的纯粹是指“科学领域的”。
8. A 逻辑推断 yell（大声叫喊） at …for their untidiness(凌乱)，but 稍后（later）又为他们整理房间，这样的父母才会有更少的机会改变他们的行为（have fewer chances of changing their children’s behavior），即几乎无法改变他们的行为。
B. deliberately 故意地 C. seldom很少 D. thoroughly彻底地
9. A 词语复现 behavior与上文的throw clothes, drop the towel, not clean up their room 是上下义复现。
10. C词语复现 根据后面的例子（解释说明的作用）teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator可知让孩子体验自己的行为的后果（consequences）会做得更好，consequences（结果）与don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator是上下义复现。D. thrills狂喜，激动
11. D 逻辑推理 因为不帮助父母购物的孩子在冰箱找不到他们最喜爱的饮料，所以他们被迫重新考虑(reconsider)他们的actions. A. defend保卫，防守
12. A词语复现 本空句在句首，是本段的主题句，根据后面的句子，特别是Communication is a two-way process.可知，属于原词复现。
13. D 词语复现/词语同现 talk to 与后面的say 是同义词复现。或者talk to 与lend an ear to（倾听）的意思相对，是词语同现。
14. B 词语复现 根据第5空的句子parents blame them for the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room可知，scold与blame 是同义词复现。
15. C 逻辑推断 上文提到沟通，沟通是为了相互理解，只有通过倾听和相互理解父母与孩子之间的问题才能得到解决。
20. why/ how
how“如何发生这样的事情”也是可以的。
25. sunburnt/ sunburned got 是系动词，后面加表语，所以用形容词sunburnt/ sunburned作表语。
本文是记叙文，介绍有音乐天才的Samuel Osmond。
26. D 细节理解题。由第一段中的However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them可知选D。顺便提醒，有however或but的地方往往是出题的地方，可以注意哟。
27. B 细节理解题。由第二段最后两句 “Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents,but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music”可知选B，Samuel按照父母的意愿是想做律师的，而不是做音乐家。因按父母的意愿是学法律，按老师的建议学音乐，故D错。
28. C 综合细节题。由第三段最一句Samuel can’t understand why everyone is so surprised和第三四句 “I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me ---I hear the notes and can bear them in mind---each and every note”可知，他不用看音符就能演奏钢琴，故选C。
29. B 推理判断题。由第四段最后一句Samuel says confidently, “It’s all about super memory---I guess I have that gift.”可推出，选B。
30. B 主旨大意题。每段都有Samuel，全文都是说学法津的Samuel有音乐天才。
31. B 细节推断题。第一段说Natalie Smith 为其后面的六辆车交费，第二段交等了其中的原因，是她看到的 “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty”这句话给了她深刻印象，由此推断，她是受这句话的启发，“想给他人施恩”，故选B。
32. A 细节理解题。由第三段第三句“I thought it was beautiful,” she said, explaining why she’d taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters可知，选A。选项B文中无信息支持，无中生有；选项C“决定将其写在仓库墙上”与文中“看到离家很远的一个仓库墙上看到这句话”意义不同，张冠李戴；虽然文中有她老公将其写在教室的墙上，但并不是她要他写的，更不是她抄写这句话的目的，与事实不符。
33. D 细节理解题。本题是问“谁想出这句话来的”，由第四段中的 “It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper”可知，是Anne Herbert想出这句话来的。可用排除法，Natalie Smith是在朋友的冰霜上看到的，Judy Foreman是在仓库的墙上抄下来的，Alice Johnson是从她女儿那得知的，她女儿是因为Judy Foreman的老公将此句写在教室的墙上而得知的，故不是这三个人想出来的。
34. C 词义猜测题。推断词、短语或句子意思，需结合上下文去理解。本段中先是Anne Herbert解释她想出的那句话意为：你认为(生活中或世界上)应该多一些存在的事，那么你就随意去做这样的事。接说着她想象中的这类事包括“给破旧教室粉墙”“在穷人区的厨房里留下热饭”等善举。那么该段结尾的话“善举和暴力一样可以在它们自己的基础上建立起来”，其真正的含义是什么呢？再看看接下来这一段，特别是第一句“随意的善举是可以传播或蔓延”，可知“善举同暴力一样是可以自我繁衍的”，故选C。
35. B 推理判断题。由最后一段的第一和第二句可以推知：受到恩惠的人很可能会施惠于他人，将恩惠传播下去。
本文作者叙述的是自己申请叫做灯塔计划的志愿者工作的过程和被选作志愿者后去阿布加附近的一个小村庄工作的经历，这段经历让作者学到了许多，改变了人生。
36. A 细节理解题。由第一段第二句 “My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical”可知，作者的大学教育注重的是理解知识，选A。
37. A 推理判断题。由第二段最后一句In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family(总之，我并不是轻易决定申请灯塔计划的，我的家人也一样不是轻易决定的)和第三段首句Eventually, however, I won the support of my family(然而，最后我赢得了家人的赞同)可以推断出，作者是同家人讨论商量过的。
38. D 推理判断题。由第二段的第二句 “After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone”可推知，作者面临了与其他候选人的激烈竞争，故选D。选项A“参加了许多讨论”，文中无信息支持，是无中生有，应排除；选项B“经历了富有挑点性的生存测试”，特别是由survival可知，编者题利用了文中的只言片语(survive, test)，编造与文中不符的信息，迷惑考生，应排除；选项C“写了相当多的有关志愿者工作的论文”与文中“sent in all the paperwork needed for the application(呈送申请所需要的文书)”不符，应排除。
39. C 细节理解题。由第四段Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family可知，一到达这个村庄时，他受到村民的热情接待，故选C。文中信息具体，正确选项是对其概括。
40. A 推理判断题。由最后一段第一句all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did…and returned to the United States a different man (他当初觉得奇怪或不寻常的所有事现在都不再觉得奇怪了……回到美国已是另外一个人了)可知，作者已适应了当地习俗，与之前相比，作者变化相当大，由此推断，作者为了适应当地文化是不容易的，故选A。由though I did not get anywhere with the local language(虽然我没有学习当地语言并没有取得成效)可排除B(他学会了用当地语言进行交流)；选项C(在他回家前已经克服了所有的缺点)，文中既找不到任何信息依据，也
因all使得此种说法过于绝对，应排除；选项C(他被选为最受尊敬的老师)在文中没有信息支持，应排除。
本文是说明文，介绍了一种研究洋流的特别方式。
41. B 词义猜测题。由前面的so many shoes和后面的to try and match（匹配） left and right shoes to sell or wear，特别是sell，可知是建立交易市场（set up trading fairs），故选B。
42. C 细节理解题。由第二段二、三、四句 “He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment”可知，选C。
43. A细节理解题。由第三段第二句Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them (serious beachcombers) and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed及其后几句可知，选A，“通过海滩清理者收集信息”。
44. D 细节理解题。由第四段第一句Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean可知，选D。
45. C 写作目的题，也属主旨大意题。文章主题句在第一段，即However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way---by studying movements of random floating garbage，由此可知选C。
项目信息——大学生。
46. B 题中organize an outdoor activity, as an instructor与选项B中的organize sports activities and other outdoor pursuits, as an instructor相匹配。
47. C 题中I can help the elderly and the disabled与选项C中the physically and mentally handicapped, …the elderly相匹配。
48. D 题中if only I could stay in Spain ([欧洲]) as an exchange student与选项D中的studying at a foreign university in Europe相匹配。
49. F 题中I’m well prepared to work as a language instructor与F中的Language Teachers Abroad相匹配。
50. E 题中wildlife, I specialize in zoology, and I’m a good observer与monitoring wildlife相匹配。 Richard Avis, who was born on December1st, 1974, is a British man. With the purpose of understanding the meaning of successful life in different cultures, Richard, from 2011, began to seek time twins around the world. Due to the help of the local media, so far he has succeeded in finding 32 time twins, including 17 males and 15 females coming from 13 countries. In addition, their positions include government officials, athletes, drivers, teachers, artists and so on. Not only does Richard intend to find 40 time twins before his birthday but also he is going to write a book according to this experience.
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Oseola McCarty, an ordinary worker with a thrifty（节俭的） lifestyle, donated a great deal of money to a university, which aroused public attention and earned her widespread social recognition. In return, she received a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
Virtuous（贤惠） and warm-hearted, the lady concerned has donated a considerable amount of saving to help college students struggling with financial difficulties, thereby(从而) motivating people at any other corner of the world to participate in this affectionate（深厚感情的） activity.
From where I stand, not only will the lady’s generosity paint a very brilliant blue print for the future of those students in want of money, but also it will rekindle（重新点燃）their faith in life by convincing them that their life goal is elevating and worth trying.
Given the choice, I would make donations to those who still live under the bottom line of the modern living condition. Convincing arguments as follows can be made to support my stance. For one thing, generous and selfless dedication（奉献） may take indispensable（不可缺少的）assistance to them, . For another, just as an Indian old saying goes, “Roses in her hand; flavor in mine.” That is to say, great satisfaction would step slowly and gracefully（优雅地） in to the mercy-producers’souls as well.
To bring as many angel-like smiles as possible to our society, we should practice more beneficial performance by leading a thrifty life.
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绝密★启用前 试卷类型：B
2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(广东卷)
英语
本试卷共12页,三大题,满分135分.考试用时120分钟
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色笔迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔讲试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应的位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。
2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试题与答题卡一并交回。
I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空
Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the . On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.
The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different to these problems. However, some approaches are more than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s . On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to their actions.
Psychologists say that is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should they have to say. Parents may their children when they are untidy but they should
also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.
1. A. natural B. strong C. guilty D. similar
2. A. interest B. argument C. link D. knowledge
3. A. noisy B. crowded C. messy D. locked
4. A. homework B. housework C. problem D. research
5. A. washing B. using C. dropping D. replacing
6. A. approaches B. contributions C. introductions D. attitudes
7. A. complex B. popular C. scientific D. successful
8. A. later B. deliberately C. seldom
9. A. behavior B. taste C. future
10. A. failures B. changes C. consequences
11. A. defend B. delay C. repeat
12. A. communication B. bond C. friendship
13. A. reply B. attend C. attach
14. A. hate B. scold C. frighten
15. A. loving B. observing C. understanding D. thoroughly D. nature D. thrills D. reconsider D. trust D. talk D. stop D. praising
第二节 语法填空（共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
Last year, my brother and I went to Miami for a vacation. Some of my friends who had had planned for months. When the day came, we were ready.
After our plane landed, we went to the hotel. We had made our reservation six （early）, but the man at the front desk said there had been a mistake. We 18_____（tell）that our rooms hadn’t been reserved for that week, 19_____ for the week after. I didn’t understand 20____ this would happen and my credit card had already been charged______ the reservation. What’s worse, the hotel had been fully booked. When we were wondering what to do, the manager came out. She was 22_____（surprise）helpful. She apologized for the mistake and gave us a spare VIP room on 23_____ top floor. We had never stayed in such an amazing room, and we weren’t charged extra.
The next day, my brother and I went to the beach 24____ we watched some people
play volleyball. We got a little_____（sunburn），but the day had been so relaxing that we didn’t mind.
阅读（共两节）
第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Samuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata（奏鸣曲）by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.
Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable .They say his ability is very rare, but Samuel doesn’t even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.
Samuel can’t understand why everyone is so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago, I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me ---I hear the notes and can bear them in mind---each and every note,” says Samuel.
Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional pianists can’t play it. Samuel says confidently,” It’s all about super memory---I guess I have that gift.”
However, Samuel’s ability to remember things doesn’t stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the story word for word.
Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn’t know what he wants to do in the future. For now, he is just happy to play beautiful music and continue his studies.
26. What is special about Samuel Osmond?
A. He has a gift for writing music.
B. He can write down the note he hears.
C. He is a top student at the law school.
D. He can play the musical piece he hears.
27. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. Samuel chose law against the wish of his parents.
B. Samuel planned to be a lawyer rather than a musician.
C. Samuel thinks of himself as a man of great musical ability.
D. Samuel studies law and music on the advice of his teachers.
28. Everyone around Samuel was surprised because he _________.
A. received a good early education in music
B. played the guitar and the piano perfectly
C. could play the piano without reading music
D. could play the guitar better than his father
29. What can we infer about Samuel in Paragraph 4?
A. He became famous during a special event at his college.
B. He is proud of his ability to remember things accurately.
C. He plays the piano better than many professional pianists.
D. He impressed the audience by playing all the musical pieces.
30. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. The Qualities of a Musician
B. The Story of a Musical Talent
C. The Importance of Early Education
D. The Relationship between Memory and Music.
B
It was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth (收费站). “I’m paying for myself, and for the six cars behind me,” she said with a smile, handing over seven tickets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, “Some lady up ahead already paid your fare.”
It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend’s refrigerator: “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” The phrase impressed her so much that she copied it down.
Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When it stayed on her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. “I thought it was beautiful,” she said, explaining why she’d taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters, “like a message from above.” Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much
that he put it up on the classroom wall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local news reporter. Alice put it in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didn’t know where it came from or what it really meant.
Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Marin. It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mind for days.
“Here’s the idea,” Anne says. “Anything you think there should be more of, do it randomly.” Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says, “
The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your fare paid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all great events, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours!
31. Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind her?
A. She knew the car drivers well.
B. She wanted to show kindness.
C. She hoped to please others.
D. She had seven tickets.
32. Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she .
A. thought it was beautifully written
B. wanted to know what it really meant
C. decided to write it on a warehouse wall
D. wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom
33. Who came up with the phrase according to the passage?
A. Judy Foreman.
B. Natalie Smith.
C. Alice Johnson.
D. Anne Herbert.
34. Which of the following statements is closest in the meaning to the underlined sentence above?
A. Kindness and violence can change the world.
B. Kindness and violence can affect one’s behavior.
C. Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves.
D. Kindness and violence can shape one’s character.
35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. People should practice random kindness to those in need.
B. People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others.
C. People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet.
D. People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver.
C
Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project.
I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.
Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.
After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me. Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and I returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever.
36. What do we know about the author?
A. His university education focused on the theoretical knowledge.
B. His dream at university was to become a volunteer.
C. He took pride in having contributed to the world.
D. He felt honored to study English literature.
37.
A. discussed his decision with his family.
B. asked previous volunteers about voluntary work
C. attended special training to perform difficult tasks
D. felt sad about having to leave his family and friends
A. participated in many discussions
B. went through challenging survival tests
C. wrote quite a few paper on voluntary work
D. faced strong competition from other candidates
39. On arrival at the village, the author was A. asked to lead a farming team
B. sent to teach in a schoolhouse
C. received warmly by local villagers
D. arranged to live in a separate house.
40. What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria?
A. He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture
B. He had learned to communicate in the local language.
C. He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home.
D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students.
D
Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way -- by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.
Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes — about 60,000 in total — fell
into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study.
As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand. They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.
41. The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______________.
A. fitting rooms
B. trading fairs
C. business talks
D. group meetings
42. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _____________.
A. what caused the shipping accident
B. when and where the shoes went missing
C. whether it was all right to use their shoes
D. how much they lost in the shipping accident
43. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?
A. By collecting information from beachcombers.
B. By studying the shoes found by beachcomber.
C. By searching the web for ocean currents models.
D. By researching ocean currents data in the library.
44. Ebbesmeyer is most famous for ___________________.
A. traveling widely the coastal cities of the world
B. making records for any lost objects on the sea
C. running a global currents research association
D. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea
45. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A. To call people's attention to ocean pollution.
B. To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.
C. To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.
D. To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.
第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息，请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先请阅读某大学提供给学生的项目信息：
46. I grow up in a very big family. My parents have raised twelve kids and I am their first-born. It has been my duty to help my mom take care of my brothers and sisters. To handle them, often I have to organize an outdoor activity, like a softball game. I must say that I have the potential to work as an instructor.
47. Last year, my dog got crippled after losing the fight to my neighbor’s bulldog. I rinsed its wound with some lotion and tied its leg with a stick. I had him take medicine every day for a full month. Finally he recovered. I think I can help the elderly and the disabled as well. I feel so good when I can offer help.
48. I am a film buff. A big fan of Antonio Banderas. He is so wild and charming. Because of him, I fell in love with Spain. The Latin dance and the bullfight are really exciting. Oh, if
only I could stay in Spain as an exchange student! I would be learning Spanish so well that I can watch a Spanish film with the dubbing.
49. I had the experience of working as a social worker in Switzerland last summer. I love the country and its people. There are great mountains for climbers and the local people are so nice to strangers. I helped the kids with their English. My teaching skills improved greatly during my stay. Now I’m well prepared to work as a language instructor.
50. I spent my gap year traveling all over Africa last year. It was definitely an eye- opening experience. The exotic clothes and tribal dances of the people really fascinated me. But I was most amazed by the wildlife there. I really took great pleasure in watching those animals hunting their prey. You know, I specialize in zoology, and I’m a good observer. III 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 基础习作
你接受一项写作任务，要为当地英语晚报写一篇报道。
［写作内容］
请根据以下信息写一篇英文报道，内容包括：
＊ 同年同月同日生的人：time twin
［写作要求］
只能用5个句子表达全部内容
［评分标准］
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
第二节 读写任务（共1小题；满分25分）
阅读下面短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Oseola McCarty spent more than 75 years washing and ironing other people’s clothes. As a laundrywoman, she was paid only a few dollars each time. Certainly nobody would
consider her rich, so they were all amazed when Miss McCarty decided to donate $ 150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi.
The money was in fact her life savings. She could save such a large amount of money because she lived a very simple life. She never learned to drive, and when she wanted to go somewhere, she just walked. She never flew to anywhere till the donation（捐助），and in 50 years she had been out of the South only once. The house in which she lived was also a rather modest one her last uncle left her. Only after she became known in America did she begin to travel all over the country. Since then, she had been the subject of many interviews and articles and was even invited to the White House.
Her donation was for students who clearly needed financial help. She herself left school in the sixth grade and had never married or had children. She said to the reporters that the idea of helping somebody’s child go to college gave her much pleasure.
[写作内容]
1. 用约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2. 用约120个词就Miss McCarty的捐助谈谈你的想法，内容包括：
（1） 你如何看待她的捐助行为；
（2） 你认为她的捐助对受惠学生有哪些影响；
（3） 如果你自己要捐助，你会选择哪个群体并陈述理由。
[写作要求]
1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得
直接引用原文的句子。
2. 作文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
2014年广东高考英语试卷参考答案及解析
1. D逻辑推断 根据第一句的difficult 和本句的again和not easy 可推断出是similar的感觉。
2. B逻辑推断 根据第一句Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers 可知父母和孩子之间有争执（argument）,或者根据后面的句型On the one hand, parents go mad over…On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience 也可知。
3. C 词语复现 根据后面的clothes thrown on the floor可知，messy(凌乱的)与clothes thrown on the floor(衣服被乱扔在地上)是上下义复现。
4. B 词语同现 与messy(凌乱的)、clothes thrown on the floor(衣服被乱扔在地上)具有相关性的词，应当是housework。
5. C 词语复现/逻辑推断 将此空the towel in the bathroom与前面的clothes thrown on the floor(衣服被乱扔在地上)对比，可知，drop 与throw 是近义词复现。或者与后面的not cleaning up their room是并列的关系，即把毛巾丢在浴室。
6. A 词语复现 比较have different 与后面的However， some approaches, 可以确定approaches是原词复现。
7. D 词语复现 根据第10个空后面的better 可知一些方面更成功（successful）, successful与better 是近义词复现。本题容易错选C scientific “科学的”，scientific 和中文的形容词“科学的”的意义不一样，英语的纯粹是指“科学领域的”。
8. A 逻辑推断 yell（大声叫喊） at …for their untidiness(凌乱)，but 稍后（later）又为他们整理房间，这样的父母才会有更少的机会改变他们的行为（have fewer chances of changing their children’s behavior），即几乎无法改变他们的行为。
B. deliberately 故意地 C. seldom很少 D. thoroughly彻底地
9. A 词语复现 behavior与上文的throw clothes, drop the towel, not clean up their room 是上下义复现。
10. C词语复现 根据后面的例子（解释说明的作用）teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator可知让孩子体验自己的行为的后果（consequences）会做得更好，consequences（结果）与don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator是上下义复现。D. thrills狂喜，激动
11. D 逻辑推理 因为不帮助父母购物的孩子在冰箱找不到他们最喜爱的饮料，所以他们被迫重新考虑(reconsider)他们的actions. A. defend保卫，防守
12. A词语复现 本空句在句首，是本段的主题句，根据后面的句子，特别是Communication is a two-way process.可知，属于原词复现。
13. D 词语复现/词语同现 talk to 与后面的say 是同义词复现。或者talk to 与lend an ear to（倾听）的意思相对，是词语同现。
14. B 词语复现 根据第5空的句子parents blame them for the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room可知，scold与blame 是同义词复现。
15. C 逻辑推断 上文提到沟通，沟通是为了相互理解，只有通过倾听和相互理解父母与孩子之间的问题才能得到解决。
20. why/ how
how“如何发生这样的事情”也是可以的。
25. sunburnt/ sunburned got 是系动词，后面加表语，所以用形容词sunburnt/ sunburned作表语。
本文是记叙文，介绍有音乐天才的Samuel Osmond。
26. D 细节理解题。由第一段中的However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them可知选D。顺便提醒，有however或but的地方往往是出题的地方，可以注意哟。
27. B 细节理解题。由第二段最后两句 “Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents,but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music”可知选B，Samuel按照父母的意愿是想做律师的，而不是做音乐家。因按父母的意愿是学法律，按老师的建议学音乐，故D错。
28. C 综合细节题。由第三段最一句Samuel can’t understand why everyone is so surprised和第三四句 “I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me ---I hear the notes and can bear them in mind---each and every note”可知，他不用看音符就能演奏钢琴，故选C。
29. B 推理判断题。由第四段最后一句Samuel says confidently, “It’s all about super memory---I guess I have that gift.”可推出，选B。
30. B 主旨大意题。每段都有Samuel，全文都是说学法津的Samuel有音乐天才。
31. B 细节推断题。第一段说Natalie Smith 为其后面的六辆车交费，第二段交等了其中的原因，是她看到的 “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty”这句话给了她深刻印象，由此推断，她是受这句话的启发，“想给他人施恩”，故选B。
32. A 细节理解题。由第三段第三句“I thought it was beautiful,” she said, explaining why she’d taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters可知，选A。选项B文中无信息支持，无中生有；选项C“决定将其写在仓库墙上”与文中“看到离家很远的一个仓库墙上看到这句话”意义不同，张冠李戴；虽然文中有她老公将其写在教室的墙上，但并不是她要他写的，更不是她抄写这句话的目的，与事实不符。
33. D 细节理解题。本题是问“谁想出这句话来的”，由第四段中的 “It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper”可知，是Anne Herbert想出这句话来的。可用排除法，Natalie Smith是在朋友的冰霜上看到的，Judy Foreman是在仓库的墙上抄下来的，Alice Johnson是从她女儿那得知的，她女儿是因为Judy Foreman的老公将此句写在教室的墙上而得知的，故不是这三个人想出来的。
34. C 词义猜测题。推断词、短语或句子意思，需结合上下文去理解。本段中先是Anne Herbert解释她想出的那句话意为：你认为(生活中或世界上)应该多一些存在的事，那么你就随意去做这样的事。接说着她想象中的这类事包括“给破旧教室粉墙”“在穷人区的厨房里留下热饭”等善举。那么该段结尾的话“善举和暴力一样可以在它们自己的基础上建立起来”，其真正的含义是什么呢？再看看接下来这一段，特别是第一句“随意的善举是可以传播或蔓延”，可知“善举同暴力一样是可以自我繁衍的”，故选C。
35. B 推理判断题。由最后一段的第一和第二句可以推知：受到恩惠的人很可能会施惠于他人，将恩惠传播下去。
本文作者叙述的是自己申请叫做灯塔计划的志愿者工作的过程和被选作志愿者后去阿布加附近的一个小村庄工作的经历，这段经历让作者学到了许多，改变了人生。
36. A 细节理解题。由第一段第二句 “My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical”可知，作者的大学教育注重的是理解知识，选A。
37. A 推理判断题。由第二段最后一句In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family(总之，我并不是轻易决定申请灯塔计划的，我的家人也一样不是轻易决定的)和第三段首句Eventually, however, I won the support of my family(然而，最后我赢得了家人的赞同)可以推断出，作者是同家人讨论商量过的。
38. D 推理判断题。由第二段的第二句 “After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone”可推知，作者面临了与其他候选人的激烈竞争，故选D。选项A“参加了许多讨论”，文中无信息支持，是无中生有，应排除；选项B“经历了富有挑点性的生存测试”，特别是由survival可知，编者题利用了文中的只言片语(survive, test)，编造与文中不符的信息，迷惑考生，应排除；选项C“写了相当多的有关志愿者工作的论文”与文中“sent in all the paperwork needed for the application(呈送申请所需要的文书)”不符，应排除。
39. C 细节理解题。由第四段Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family可知，一到达这个村庄时，他受到村民的热情接待，故选C。文中信息具体，正确选项是对其概括。
40. A 推理判断题。由最后一段第一句all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did…and returned to the United States a different man (他当初觉得奇怪或不寻常的所有事现在都不再觉得奇怪了……回到美国已是另外一个人了)可知，作者已适应了当地习俗，与之前相比，作者变化相当大，由此推断，作者为了适应当地文化是不容易的，故选A。由though I did not get anywhere with the local language(虽然我没有学习当地语言并没有取得成效)可排除B(他学会了用当地语言进行交流)；选项C(在他回家前已经克服了所有的缺点)，文中既找不到任何信息依据，也
因all使得此种说法过于绝对，应排除；选项C(他被选为最受尊敬的老师)在文中没有信息支持，应排除。
本文是说明文，介绍了一种研究洋流的特别方式。
41. B 词义猜测题。由前面的so many shoes和后面的to try and match（匹配） left and right shoes to sell or wear，特别是sell，可知是建立交易市场（set up trading fairs），故选B。
42. C 细节理解题。由第二段二、三、四句 “He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment”可知，选C。
43. A细节理解题。由第三段第二句Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them (serious beachcombers) and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed及其后几句可知，选A，“通过海滩清理者收集信息”。
44. D 细节理解题。由第四段第一句Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean可知，选D。
45. C 写作目的题，也属主旨大意题。文章主题句在第一段，即However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way---by studying movements of random floating garbage，由此可知选C。
项目信息——大学生。
46. B 题中organize an outdoor activity, as an instructor与选项B中的organize sports activities and other outdoor pursuits, as an instructor相匹配。
47. C 题中I can help the elderly and the disabled与选项C中the physically and mentally handicapped, …the elderly相匹配。
48. D 题中if only I could stay in Spain ([欧洲]) as an exchange student与选项D中的studying at a foreign university in Europe相匹配。
49. F 题中I’m well prepared to work as a language instructor与F中的Language Teachers Abroad相匹配。
50. E 题中wildlife, I specialize in zoology, and I’m a good observer与monitoring wildlife相匹配。 Richard Avis, who was born on December1st, 1974, is a British man. With the purpose of understanding the meaning of successful life in different cultures, Richard, from 2011, began to seek time twins around the world. Due to the help of the local media, so far he has succeeded in finding 32 time twins, including 17 males and 15 females coming from 13 countries. In addition, their positions include government officials, athletes, drivers, teachers, artists and so on. Not only does Richard intend to find 40 time twins before his birthday but also he is going to write a book according to this experience.
读写任务参考范文：
Oseola McCarty, an ordinary worker with a thrifty（节俭的） lifestyle, donated a great deal of money to a university, which aroused public attention and earned her widespread social recognition. In return, she received a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
Virtuous（贤惠） and warm-hearted, the lady concerned has donated a considerable amount of saving to help college students struggling with financial difficulties, thereby(从而) motivating people at any other corner of the world to participate in this affectionate（深厚感情的） activity.
From where I stand, not only will the lady’s generosity paint a very brilliant blue print for the future of those students in want of money, but also it will rekindle（重新点燃）their faith in life by convincing them that their life goal is elevating and worth trying.
Given the choice, I would make donations to those who still live under the bottom line of the modern living condition. Convincing arguments as follows can be made to support my stance. For one thing, generous and selfless dedication（奉献） may take indispensable（不可缺少的）assistance to them, . For another, just as an Indian old saying goes, “Roses in her hand; flavor in mine.” That is to say, great satisfaction would step slowly and gracefully（优雅地） in to the mercy-producers’souls as well.
To bring as many angel-like smiles as possible to our society, we should practice more beneficial performance by leading a thrifty life.
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