江苏省扬州中学2014届高三上学期期末考试英语试题

   

---The manager finally agreed to our new marketing proposals.
---It never occurred to me          you could succeed in persuading him to change his mind.

A case of suspected food poisoning in New York has led to 6 high school students          to hospital.

  

--- Do you remember the first time you          with a foreigner?
--- Not really, but I remember it was in a KFC.

On 5 December 2013, China Central Bank prohibited financial institutions from handling Bitcoin transactions,  _____  to regulate the virtual currency.

  

   

--- We had          really smoggy December this year.
--- I can’t remember          winter when air was polluted so severely.

---With the country’s pension fund gap becoming wider than ever, retirement age should be postponed immediately.
---Easier said than done.          we take all factors into account, we shall be faced with some other social problems.

   

---Could you help me take care of my pet dog on the 19th?
--- I’m afraid I’m not          that day.

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following methods can be adopted to make electricity from sunlight EXCEPT        .

Why was the application of thermoelectric materials a failure in the past?

Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
  

What do we learn about social media from the first Q and A?

Which of the following is appropriate about using social media?

According to the passage, how would you make it known that you have won a scholarship to Harvard?

Why did the woman cry when seeing her son had broken the azalea bush?

The writer wanted to hide in the mountain cave probably for the reason of        .

We can infer from the passage that the writer expressed love to her husband in that        .

What does the writer mainly focus on when writing this passage?

The underlined word scald in paragraph six probably means        .

According to the passage, all the following share roughly the same CO2 emissions yearly EXCEPT        .

Which of the following is WRONG according to the passage?

Which of the following is the standard of a comfortable water temperature for washing hands?

If you want to read stories of this kind afterwards, which of the following magazines will you probably subscribe to?

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只写一个单词。
Problem: On the scale of problems, “pictures of food on the Internet” is firmly first-world. And that is almost certainly a too-generous definition of “problem.” When it comes to photographing and putting your dinner on line, I say live and let live, you know? Maybe your salad was particularly inviting and pleasing that night, and I, too, have spent many an hour clicking “random” on Smitten Kitchen and salivating（流口水）.
But I assume if you’re making the effort to arrange your food artfully and preserve its memory in a digital archive, you must... like food. And want it to taste good. A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology suggests that spending time focusing on images of food makes the food itself less satisfying.
Methodology: The researchers assumed that imagining enjoying something might lead to satiation -- the feeling that makes the second piece of cake taste not-quite-as-good as the first. To test this, they had some people participate in two experiments that they were told were separate -- one in which they rated how appetizing different photos of food looked, and one in which they ate some peanuts and rated how much they enjoyed them.
A separate group of people did the same experiment again, but in the photo-rating portion, some were asked to rate how appetizing the food was or to choose a preference between two foods, and some were asked to rate the brightness of the photo itself.
Results: The more photos of food people looked at, the less they enjoyed the peanuts -- if they were looking at photos of salty food. People who looked carefully at images of sweets enjoyed the peanuts more, suggesting that imagination causes satiation only if you’re imagining a similar food. In the second experiment, participants who focused on the brightness of the photos were able to enjoy the peanuts more than those who were thinking about the deliciousness of foods while they looked at the images.
Implications: You’ll probably enjoy your food more if you don’t take a picture of it, or scroll through images of cookies at work and then eat one when you get home. This also has potential implications for advertisers, who may unknowingly be giving away satiation for free when they show images of chicken wings or whatever in front of us all day long. But luckily the study provides a hint: Try not to think about the food’s taste while you take a photo -- just focus on your composition.
  

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The crowd at the airport moved forward like waves. The passengers had been waiting for a couple of hours for an airline employee to open the door leading to the plane outside. No one was in a good mood. An old man got trapped in the middle of the rush. Suddenly, he fell down, his head hitting the concrete floor, with blood gushing from his forehead. He appeared to be unconscious. Everyone rushed past him, except for Dana. She called for help.
A minute later, a young airline employee showed up. Hardly looking at the old man, she told Dana to get aboard her plane. She said the old man would be okay, and walked away.
Dana screamed for help. An airport supervisor appeared. He told Dana to get on the plane. Dana said that she was not moving until an ambulance arrived. The supervisor said her plane would leave without her. Dana said that she didn’t care.
An ambulance and two doctors finally arrived. The paramedics said that the man would be okay, but he would need stitches（缝线）. They put him into the ambulance and drove off.
On her way out to the plane, which was still refueling, Dana saw the employee who had ignored the old man. The employee said, “You’re lucky the plane didn’t leave without you.”
“The plane?” Dana asked. “Who cares about the plane? How could you be so cold? That was an old man; he could have been your grandfather! How would you like it if everyone just stepped over your grandfather and went on their way?”
【写作内容】
1.以约30词概括上文的主要内容；
2.以约120词谈谈你阅读了该故事后的感受，内容包括：
(1) 当时在场的人是怎样的一种心理？
(2) 如果你当时也在场，你将如何处理？
(3) 你对整个事件作如何评价？
【写作要求】
1.在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。