2006年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试（一）
英 语（2）
本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共10页，满分为120分。考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将答题卡试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡上。并在答题卡右上角的“试室号”和“座位号”栏填写试室号、座位号，将相应的试室号、座位号信息点涂黑。
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的答案标号涂黑，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，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
SECTION I LISTENING （60 points）
Part A Listening Comprehension (12 items, 2 points for each)
Direction: In this part of the test, you will hear four conversations and monologues. After each conversation or monologue, you will hear several questions. After you hear a question, read the four possible answers and choose the best one. Then blacken the letter corresponding to your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. You have 10 seconds for each question. The conversations, monologues and questions will be read only ONCE.
Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation.
1. A. Eggs.
B. Diets.
C. Protein.
D. Exercises.
2. A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
D. Four.
3. A. One week.
B. One month.
C. Two days.
D. Three days.
Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation.
4. A. He's been seeing a doctor.
B. He has been getting ill.
C. He's been moving out of town.
D. He’s been worried about his phone bill.
5. A. Too hot.
B. Too cold.
C. Too rainy.
D. Too changeable.
6. A. Take an umbrella with him.
B. Use the weather service.
C. Put on more heavy clothes.
D. Call the woman in the morning.
Questions 7 to 9 are based on the following conversation.
7. A. She needs some information.
B. She wants packing materials.
C. She is checking her package.
D. She is moving to California.
8. A. The next day.
B. On Saturday.
C. In three days.
D. In one week.
9. A. Regular delivery service.
B. Overnight express service.
C. Same-day delivery service.
D. Priority delivery service.
Questions 10 to 12 are based on the following monologue.
10. A. A school teacher.
B. A bus driver.
C. A kind presenter.
D. A tour guide.
11 A. To explore a new place.
B. To take some pictures.
C. To do some sightseeing.
D. To watch beautiful birds.
12. A. On a tourist bus.
B. At Victoria Park.
C. On a mountain.
D. Beside a lake.
Part B Listening for Information (10 items, 2 points for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a monolugue and a piece of news, which will be read twice. After you hear each, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Blanks 13 through 18 are based on the following monologue.
| Facility | Location | Hours | Items provided |
| Dining | 1st floor | 13 _____________ | Food |
| Gym and Recreational Hall | 14 _____________ | 10 am to 10 pm | Treadmills, 15 _____________ ping-pong tables and pool table |
| 16 _____________ | 2nd floor | 17 _____________ | 18 _____________, microwave, oven, stove |
Blanks 19 through 22 are based on the following news.
| The Government plans to give (19) $ __________ to assist the farmers. This money was to be spent on improving Sydney’s (20) __________ but has now been re-allocated. Australia has experienced its worst drought in (21) __________. Farmers say that the money will not help them because it comes (22) __________. |
Part C Dictation (3 items, 16 points)
Directions: In this part of the test, you are required to write out the missing parts of the passage. You’ll hear the passage read three times. The first reading is for you to understand the meaning. In the second reading, there will be a pause after each sentence to be dictated. One minute is given for you to write down each sentence. The third reading is for you to check your work. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
When my interest shifted from space to the sea, I
never expected it would cause such confusion among my friends, yet I can
understand their feelings. (23)________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
a sudden switch of interest to the depth of the sea seems peculiar.To explain, I’d like to share my reasons behind this unusual change of mind. The first reason I give is an economic one. Underwater exploration is so much cheaper than space flight. (24)__________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
On the other hand, the diving
suit and a set of basic tools needed for diving can be bought for 120 dollars.
My second argument is more philosophical. The ocean, surprisingly enough, has
many things in common with space. (25)___________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________. For
example, the first space suits were closely modelled on deep-sea diving suits. Furthermore,
the feelings and the emotions experienced by a man beneath the sea will be much
like those experienced by a man beyond the atmosphere.
SECTION II READING (40 points)
Part A Reading Comprehension (15 items, 2 points for each item)
Directions: In this part of the test, you will read three passages. For each passage there are five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you’ve just read. Blacken the letter corresponding to your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
TEXT A
Being left-handed, I feel an immediate, if slight, fellowship with any stranger whom I identify as left-handed. We are in a minority of about one tenth of the world’s population. Though I cannot claim to have been much inconvenienced by my left-handedness, let alone persecuted for it, there are countries where children who show a preference for using their left hand are cajoled or forced by adults into using their right.
The author of the book ‘Left-handedness? It’s a right mystery’, who is himself left-handed, decided to explore the biological and social meaning of left-handedness. Why does Man have a dominant hand at all? Is left-handedness inherited, or is it environmental? Why is left-handedness everywhere regarded as – well, sinister (evil in appearance)?
Readers should not be disappointed by the author’s weak attempts to be funny: he writes much better when he is simply relaying the scientific issues without his own explanation. In addition to the opinions of scientists, he seeks those of practitioners of fringe(边缘) activities such as palmistry(手相术) and graphology, and takes part in a left-handed golf game in Japan. These leave him none the wiser.
Even the scientists who study the question have not found the answer to why Man should show such marked right-sided dominance. Moreover, it is not yet certain whether Man is the only creature to do so.
One hypothesis is that left-handers differ genetically from right-handers. They have a slight tendency to certain mental illnesses and more of them suffer from physical or mental disability. But larger numbers of them are highly intelligent or especially gifted, so mankind needs a certain number, though, perhaps, not too many of them.
It is hardly surprising that there are no conclusive answers to a scientific question so complex. Left-handers will emerge from reading this with confirmation of what they always secretly believed: left-handers are superior to right-handers; while right-handers will appear glad that they belong to the majority.
26. Where would you most probably find this passage?
A. In a scientific report. B. In a dictionary.
C. In a travelogue. D. In a newspaper.
27. The writer of this passage feels close with the left-handers even if they are strangers because ______.
A. he is exploring the characteristics of left-handers
B. they all suffer the trouble of being left-handed
C. he is himself left-handed
D. he shows pity on the left-handers
28. The purpose of the book is to ______.
A. collect all the scientific and superstitious findings about left-handedness
B. explain the biological and social implication of left-handedness
C. find out why most people are right handed
D. prove that left-handers are superior to right-handers
29. Which statement is INCORRECT according to the passage?
A. Parents in some countries tend to discourage left-handedness.
B. Scientists failed to find out why most people are right-handed.
C. Other creatures might also be right-hand dominant.
D. Palmistry and graphology helped the writer a lot in solving the mystery.
30. After reading the book, ______.
A. everybody will be happy with being themselves
B. people will be surprised at the conclusion of the book
C. left-handers will be glad because they’re more gifted
D. right-handers will be glad because they’re more normal
TEXT B
Cooking – it sets us apart from the animals. We’ve moved on from the catch-it-eat-it custom and developed a more civilized way to consume nosh. We burn it, boil it and do everything we can to make sure it’s dead before putting it in our mouths.
None of us wants to put something alive and kicking down our throats. Nobody, that is, except proponents of living food. According to them, dead food has been robbed of vast amounts of goodness and is nowhere near as nutritious as food that’s ‘alive’.
Now, before we get carried away, these guys aren’t suggesting you eat beef that is still mooing (although they do claim you’d get more nutritional value if you did). No, the thrust of their argument is that we should consume more living vegetables.
There is a huge difference between raw food and living food, says Michael Bedar from the Tree of Life, an organization leading the way in what it calls spiritual nutrition. “Being fresh off the tree or vine is one part of living food,” he says. “It is still growing. Also, sprouted food (for example, Brussels sprouts) germinated(发芽) in water, is living up to the moment it is eaten.”
Nuts and seeds count, too. If you put them in the ground, they’ll start growing, so they are clearly alive. But what’s the benefit and what makes all this food so much more valuable than the rest? It’s a matter of rotting – a process that eradicates a host of goodies from your food and one that starts much earlier than you’d think.
Vegetables that were not picked on the day are considered raw rather than living. Sprouts and sauerkraut (white cabbage fermented in its own juice) are exceptions. Leaf vegetables – lettuce, cabbage and spinach – will be the least alive. These were cut from the root when picked and started dying immediately. Fruit is different, however. It stays alive and thus keeps its nutritional value longer than vegetables, in order to be able to disperse its seeds. This is a result of evolutionary necessity.
‘University studies have shown that 32 minutes after being taken from the ground, a lettuce’s nutritional value decreases by half,’ says Brian Clement, a leading living foodie and director of the Hippocrates Health Institute. ‘Living food is far more abundant in hormones, oxygen, phytochemicals (disease-fighting compounds occurring naturally in plants) and enzymes, all of which have huge health benefits.’
So fresher food is better for you – hardly much controversy(争论) there. It’s when the living foodies start talking about biophoton fields and food energetics that doubtful eyebrows start to creep up.
31. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. Eat it – while it’s still alive
B. Living food – a way to more hormones
C. Eat it raw or cooked – it’s up to you
D. Dead or alive – food on the shelves
32. According to the passage, ______.
A. man is distinguished from animals in that he eats meat raw
B. catch-it-eat-it was man’s earliest civilized way to eat food
C. most people don’t like the idea of eating living food.
D. before man discovered ways to boil or burn food, they ate it raw
33. Supporters of living food believe that ______.
A. you should only eat food that is still alive
B. spinaches are a better choice than sprouts because of their green leaves
C. most vegetable quickly lose their nutritional value after being picked.
D. vegetables are more nutritious than meat because they’re alive
34. Which of the following shouldn’t be regarded as living food?
A. Day old sauerkraut B. Day old nuts
C. Day old fruit D. Day old cabbage
35. Which of the following claims made by living foodie is the author most suspicious（怀疑）
of?
A. Nuts and seeds are living food.
B. Living food is richer in food energetics.
C. Sprouts are living right up to the time they are eaten.
D. Sprouts are living right up to the time they are eaten.
TEXT C
There's a standard line in every speech an education secretary makes, in which teachers are told they are the backbone of the education system. And yet, whenever governments decide on a new direction for education policy, teachers seem to find themselves on the sidelines. Today, the government releases its latest education white paper; so we have decided to remove teachers from the sidelines and put them centre stage, by asking the 10 winners of the National Teaching Awards to say what they feel should be in the white paper. We will find out just how much overlap there is between teachers and the government – and you can judge whose vision you prefer.
Mike
Ullmann
Hockerill Anglo-European college, Bishop's Stortford
Guardian secondary teacher
As a director of a language college, I feel the white paper should give a clear undertaking that the government intends to rethink its decision to make modern languages an option in key stage 4. Some 75% of the world is bilingual and British children should all learn a language other than English, at least to the age of 16.
I believe the debate about the 11-18 curriculum should be raised again. Our college follows the international baccalaureate (secondary school examination system used in France and by many international schools) in the sixth form and students find the course both challenging and enriching. The white paper should promise to reconsider the whole question of a broad-based baccalaureate-type curriculum, not simply to fall more in line with the rest of Europe, but also because it produces better-rounded students more able to cope with the demands of higher education and work.
Finally, we need schools to put a much greater emphasis on being a global citizen and our responsibility to those living in the developing world.
Trevelyan
May
Loseley Fields Primary, Godalming, Surrey
Primary Teacher of the Year
More than anything, I would like the government to give schools the freedom to go off curriculum. I believe if you give children rich and varied opportunities, they will always surprise you. Last year at Sholing junior school, a pupil in year 6 suggested and partly organised a fashion show to raise money for tsunami victims. The children excelled and the benefits, in raising aspirations and confidence, of both pupils and staff, were enormous.
A positive approach to behaviour management and constructive feedback to pupils about their work is also important. Finding the balance between encouraging and challenging pupils requires great skill, but when achieved, the results are amazing. To quote Christopher Logue, 1968:
Come to the edge
We might fall!
Come to the edge
It's too high!
Come to the edge
And they came
and we pushed
And they flew.
36. The writer’s intention in writing this article is to ______.
A. give the government more reference for their latest education white paper
B. draw the government’s attention to the teachers’ ideas about education in the future
C. criticize the latest education white paper produced by the government
D. persuade the readers to accept the current education white paper
37. According to Mike Ullmann, ______.
A. modern language learning shouldn’t be optional until key stage 4
B. the pupils shouldn’t stop learning a foreign language until they are at least 16
C. the international baccalaureate is not a practical exam system
D. a broader curriculum is only helpful for better-rounded students
38. Mr Mike Ullmann suggests that schools should focus more on______.
A. Education in the rest of Europe
B. teaching more languages
C. keeping students off drugs
D. people’s international responsibilities
39. Using the example of a pupil at Sholing Junior School, Trevelyan May wanted to show _______.
A. how creative pupils can be if given the chance and space
B. that the pupils could gain confidence from the fashion show
C. that the fashion show was beyond the teachers’ expectation
D. that the pupils were very concerned about the tsunami victims
40. What do the underlined pronouns refer to respectively in the quotation of Christopher Logue?
A. pupils … pupils … teachers B. teachers … pupils … teachers
C. pupils … teachers … pupils D. teachers … pupils … pupils
Part B Meaning Guessing (5 items, 1 point for each item)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five sentences taken from the above three passages. For each sentence there is an underlined word, which might be unfamiliar to you. You are required to choose its most appropriate Chinese equivalent from A, B, C and D. Blacken the letter corresponding to your answer on the Answer Sheet.
41. Why does Man have a dominant hand at all?
A. 占优势的 B. 受支配的 C. 统治的 D. 永远的
42. He seeks those of practitioners of fringe activities such as palmistry and graphology, and takes part in a left-handed golf game in Japan.
A. 面相学 B. 风水学 C. 笔迹学 D. 骨骼学
43. It’s a matter of rotting – a process that eradicates a host of goodies from your food and starts much earlier than you’d think.
A. 防止 B. 破坏 C. 辐射 D. 妨碍
44. Living food is far more abundant in hormones, oxygen, phytochemicals (disease-fighting compounds occurring naturally in plants) and enzymes.
A. 充分的 B. 富裕的 C. 无约束的 D. 丰富的
45. I feel the white paper should give a clear undertaking that the government intends to rethink its decision to make modern languages an option in key stage 4.
A. 事业 B. 任务 C. 承诺 D. 否决
Part C Vocabulary in Context (5 items, 1 point for each item)
Directions: In this part of the test, eight words have been selected from the above three passages to make up the following WORD LIST. There are five incomplete sentences. You are required to choose from the WORD LIST one appropriate word that can fill in the blank of each sentence. On the ANSWER SHEET, blacken the letter corresponding to your answer . Each word can only be used ONCE.
WORD LIST
A. cajoled B. inherited C. practitioners D. proponents
E. foodies F. bilingual G. aspirations H. constructive
46. The ______ of breakfast wouldn’t like the fact that it makes no difference to adults’ performance whether they have breakfast or not.
A B C D E F G H
47. They seemed to be in great need of ______ comments on their proposal.
A B C D E F G H
48. We don’t share the same_______. He wants to get rich but I want to help people.
A B C D E F G H
49. The salesman ______ the woman into buying a large number of things she would never use.
A B C D E F G H
50. As the city becomes more international, we should produce more ______ TV programs to meet the needs of the audiences.
A B C D E F G H
SECTION III WRITING (20 points)
Directions: In this part of the test, you are required to write an English composition of 200-300 words according to the following requirements. Write your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
作文标题：自定
写作要求： 1. 仔细阅读短文C，简要概括Trevelyan May对于孩子教育问题的观点。
2. 围绕“如何教育孩子”这一主题，发表你自己的看法，或通过实际的例证表述你的看法。
3. 作文必须主题明确，结构合理，内容连贯，语言规范。
2006年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试（一）
英 语（2）
参考答案
SECTION I LISTENING
Part A Listening Comprehension
1. B 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.D 6.B
7.A 8.B 9.D 10. D 11.C 12.A
Part B Listening for Information
13. 7 am – 12 pm/ midnight 14. basement 15. weight sets 16. kitchen 17. 24 hours 18. refrigerator
19.two hundred and fifty million dollars / 250 000 000
20.road system
21.over fifty years
22.too late
Part C Dictation
23. As I have been writing and talking about space flight for the best part of 20 years,
24. The first round-trip ticket to the moon will cost at least 10 million dollars according to some experts.
25. Survival in either environment requires the use of mechanical aids, and these aids are often similar in design.
SECTION II READING
Part A Reading Comprehension
26.D 27.C 28.B 29.D 30.A
31.A 32.C 33.C 34.D 35.B
36.B 37.B 38.D 39.A 40.A
Part B Meaning Guessing
41.A 42.C 43.B 44.D 45.C
Part C Vocabulary in Context
46.D 47.H 48.G 49.A 50.F