温馨提示：手机用户请点击下方“原网页”或“电脑版”进行查看本文，效果最佳！
第二节  (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The guy who tried to edit English
The English vocabulary is not only huge, it is also full of words that mean practically the same thing. Get, obtain, acquire. Shine, gleam, glow, sparkle.   36  
That was the thinking of a British writer named C.K. Ogden, who in the 1930s promoted a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English.   37  
Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete.   38   Because any verbal (动词的) idea could be expressed with a small number of “operators”— words like come, go, take, have, make, be and do — Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal” and forget is “go from memory.”
Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English, and he encouraged the BBC to use it.   39   Roosevelt, who expressed mild interest, joked that Churchill’s famous speech about offering his “blood, toil, tears and sweat” to his country wouldn’t have been so exciting if he “had been able to offer the British people only blood, work, eye water and face water, which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words.”
  40   Churchill didn’t use it either. When seeking to express ourselves, we don’t necessarily need fewer words; we need the right words. So it’s our benefit to have a large supply of words on hand.
A. Do we really need them all?
B. How many words are there in English?
C. Ogden himself didn’t actually use Basic English.
D. Plenty of seeming basic words did not make the list at all.
E. He also tried to persuade President Franklin Roosevelt to promote it.
F. He believed it would make the language more efficient and easier to learn.
G. Despite attention from world leaders, Basic English never got as far as expected.
 
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其  大意，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Many sports players have not only accomplished incredible acts of athleticism(运动能力), but also unbelievable acts of sportsmanship. There were some  41  examples in 2014, and I have  42  two that inspired me.
One example of sportsmanship took place in the Sochi Olympics. Russian Anton Gafarov was hobbling(蹒跚而行) along the track, far  43  the rest of the skiers. One of his skis(滑雪板) was broken. He had tried to  44  with the damaged equipment. Canadian ski coach Justin Wadsworth was the only one who had a(n)  45 . Wadsworth didn’t want Gafarov to finish slowly, hobbling across the line. He wanted him to finish with  46 . The Canadian skiers were already out of the race, giving Wadsworth two  47 : Leave Gafarov to hobble across the line on one ski, or give him the spare one. Wadsworth gave him the extra ski,  48  Gafarov to get second place in the quarter-finals.  49 , he came in sixth in the semi-finals. It was Wadsworth who helped Gafarov  50  his Olympic dream.
The other example took place in the 2014 World Cup quarter-final match between Brazil and Colombia. The game had just ended. Brazil had won, 2-1. Brazil was  51  on the sidelines, cheering and having a good time. Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez had just had his World Cup dream   高考英语模拟试题库  http://www.17xuexiba.com/yy/