郑州市2014年高中毕业班级第三次质量预测英语试题卷

2014年5月6日

　　本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。第I卷包括第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节，第II卷包括第三部分的第二节和第四部分。考试时间120分钟，满分150分（听力成绩算作参考分）。考生应首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答，在试卷上作答无效。交卷时只交答题卡。

第I卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）略

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

　　　第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

　　Saturday was my husband's birthday, but we spent most of the time in the car. We were driving to Phoenix for the weekend to celebrate his birthday and see the Warriors play the Suns.

　　My husband is a lucky man. Not only has he lived to see another birthday, but he doesn't mind driving 200 miles to see an NBA basketball game.

　　In the car, his cellphone kept ringing with birthday greetings from family and friends. He put them all on the speakerphone so he could drive with both hands and I could listen in even though it wasn't my birthday.

　　Meanwhile, on the CD player, the Reverend Al Green began to sing Love and Happiness. A little good music makes a bad road better.

　　Four hours later, we checked into a hotel, got dinner and sat out on a rooftop feeling glad to be alive.

　　We had a great weekend we ate too much, slept too little and the Warriors, well, they lost. But still, it was all worth the drive.

　　On the way home, I started thinking about birthdays. In our family, we celebrate four in January, four in February, and all the others throughout the year. Mine is next week.

　　If I'm lucky, like my husband, I'll get cards and calls and maybe a few videos. I don't need presents any more. When you've seen as many birthdays as I've seen, the only gift you truly want is to see one more.

　　Birthdays are the mile markers on the road of life. They tell us how far we've come, but not how far we've yet to go.

　　Life is a journey more than a destination. What matters is whom we choose as traveling companions, and how often we get to sit back and enjoy the ride.

21. What helps to make their long drive to Phoenix better?

　　A. The phone calls from their friends.          B. The beautiful views along the road.

　　C. The music played on their CD player. D. The desire to celebrate a nice birthday.

22. What kind of birthday gift does the author really want?

　　A. A live NBA game. B. A wish to live another year.

　　C. Calls and cards from friends. D. Videos from friends and family.

23. What is the major lesson that the author took from the journey?

　　A. Taking a long drive is a great way to celebrate a birthday.

　　B. A meaningful life is like a journey with a clear destination.

　　C. People should learn to appreciate life together with their loved ones.

　　D. People shouldn't rest on what they have but try to make new achievements.

24. What could be the best tide for this passage?

　　A. A Birthday Journey B. My Lucky Husband

　　C. Driving to See a Basketball Game D. Mile Markers on the Road of life

B

　　The way people in the US travel to and from work have changed a lot in the last fifty years. Before die Second World War, most people lived in the town or the city where they worked. Almost everyone either walked to work or used a good inexpensive transportation system. Many of these systems were electrified and ran on tracks, so they used very little energy.

　　After 1945, the US government built many new roads and highways. People moved farther and farther from the cities where they worked because they could drive their cars on these new roads from their suburban homes to work in the city. Some of the big car makers also bought the electrified transportation systems and destroyed them. As people stopped using public transportation, cities spent less money fixing old buses and trains or buying new ones. Public transportation got worse and worse.

　　In the late 1960s, people found out that the increase in the use of cars led to many problems. There were always too many cars for the highway system, and terrible traffic problems developed. People were spending hours in traffic jams getting to and from work every day. In addition, the air in many cities became dirty because of pollution from millions of cars, and many people died in traffic accidents. As people began to get worried about how the use of cars was hurting the environment, cities began to spend more money on public transportation again, so fewer people would have to drive cars.

　　When gas became very expensive in the mid-1970s, the number of people taking public transportation began to increase. It's terribly expensive to build new public transportation systems, so it's very difficult to make big changes in the way people travel. However, an increase in the use of public transportation has begun.

25. Why did some car companies buy and destroy public transportation systems?

　　A. The systems were slower than cars.

　　B. The systems were too old to be fixed.

　　C. They were trying to build better ones.

　　D. They wanted to sell more of their products.

26. Why did cities begin to spend more money on public transportation in the late 1960s?

　　A. To change people's way of traveling.

　　B. To improve the living conditions.

　　C. To build a new transportation system.

　　D. To control the increasing number of cars.

27. It can be inferred from the passage that the author seems to favor           .

　　A. gas cars B. buses and trains C. bicycles D. electric cars
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