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1、 2014海南省高考压轴卷 英 语 本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第I卷注意事项： 1在答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2选出每小题答案后，用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，再选涂其他答案标号，不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分听力（共两节，满分30 分） 略第二部分英语知识使用（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。AMr. Peter John
2、son, aged twentythree, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. He took the only escape routethrough the boot. Mr. Johnsons car had ended up in a ditch (沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent after he lost proper control on ice and hit
3、a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly，” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldnt force the doors open because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.” Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, f
4、irst tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn (笛) and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape. Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to g
5、et into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.” It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench (扳手) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minute
6、s passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally_it_gave,_but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and climbed up clear as the car filled up.” His hands and arms cut and bruised, Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby. Huddled in a blank
7、et, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch. 21Which of the following objects is the most important to Mr. Johnson?AThe hammer.BThe coin. CThe seat. DT
8、he horn. 22We know from the passage that _.AMr. Johnsons car stood on its boot as it fell downBMr. Johnsons car accident was partly due to the slippery roadCMr. Johnson struggled in the pouring mud as he unscrewed the back seatDMr. Johnson could not escape from the door because it was full of sweet
9、jam23“Finally it gave” in Paragraph 5 means that _.Aat last the wrench went brokenBthe chance was lost at the last minuteCthe lock came open after all his effortsDluckily the door was torn away in the end24What is the best title for this newspaper article?ADriver Escapes through Car Boot BThe Story
10、of Mr. Johnson, a Sweet SalesmanCThe Driver Survived a Terrible Car AccidentDCar Boot Can Serve as the Best Escape RouteBTalking plants might sound like characters in a fairy tale. But recent scientific studies have shown that plants communicate with each other and with other living things in a surp
11、rising number of ways. To understand them, scientists say, we just have to learn their language. Farmers are especially interested in what plants have to say.“Plants are able to communicate with all sorts of organisms (有机体). They can communicate with giant bacteria, with other plants and with insect
12、s. They do this chemically，” said Cahill, an Ecology Professor of the University of Alberta in Canada.Plant scientists are just beginning to understand this chemical “language”. Cahill says studies have shown, for example, that plants can evaluate conditions in their immediate environment and take a
13、ppropriate actions. Plants have an ability, for example, to signal pain or discomfort caused by anything from temperature extremes to an insect attack. Jack Schultz, a professor of chemical ecology at the University of Missouri, says when a plant senses that its being eaten, it cannot walk away from
14、 trouble; on the contrary, it will release a chemical vapor that alerts other plants nearby.“Their language is a chemical language, and it involves chemicals that move through the air that are easy to be changeable, and most of all are smells that we are familiar with，” Schultz explained.“All plants
15、 responded to the attack by changing their chemistry to defend themselves，” Schultz recalled. “But we were quite surprised to find that nearby plants also changed their chemistry to defend themselves, even though they were not part of the experiment.”Studies have also shown that plants under attack
16、release pleasant chemicals. Those chemicals attract friendly insects that attack the pests eating the plant.In the end, plants ability to communicate their needsand our ability to understand themcould help farmers reduce the use of poisonous chemicals, cut operating costs and limit damage to the environment.25The recent scien
