广东高考英语试卷及答案

2013年高考英语试卷---- 广东卷（WORD）

I．语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a 1 in number. Human beings are born with this ability. 2 ，experiments show that many animals are, too. For example, many birds have good number sense. If a nest has four eggs and you remove one, the bird will not 3 .However, if you remove two, the bird 4 leaves. This means that the bird knows the 5 between two and three.

Another interesting experiment showed a bird's 6 number sense. A man was trying to take a photo of a crow (乌鸦) that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not 7 until the man left the tower. The man had an 8 . He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they did not 9 the bird. The crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The experiment was 10 with three men and then with four men. But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were 11 .It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were 12 able to fool the crow.

How good is a human's number sense? It's not very good. For example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a 13 group. But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are 14 fooled.

It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world, and that our human 15 is not much better than a crow's.

1. A. rise B. pattern C. change D. trend

2. A. Importantly B. Surprisingly C. Disappointedly D. Fortunately

3. A. survive B. care C. hatch D. notice

4. A. generally B. sincerely C. casually D. deliberately

5．A. distance B. range C. difference D. interval

6．A. amazing B. annoying C. satisfying D. disturbing

7. A. relax B. recover C. react D. return

8. A. appointment B. excuse C. idea D. explanation

9. A. fool B. hurt C. catch D. kill

10. A. reported B. repeated C. designed D. approved

11. A. confused B. gone C. tired D. drunk

12. A. gradually B. luckily C. strangely D. finally

13. A. single B. small C. local D. new

14. A. seldom B. temporarily C. merely D. often

15. A. sight B. nature C. ability D. belief

第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或者括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16~25的相应位置上。

One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen .Suddenly, he 16 (find)that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, ”Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much 17 too little.”

His son looked surprised.” I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, 18 not sav e a bit of money?”

“That would be a very 19 (reason)thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like outs,” Nick said.

Nick’s guests,20 had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy sale more cheaply if they could. Nick replied,” The only reason a man would sell sale 21 a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect 22 the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”

“But such a small thing couldn’t23 (possible) destroy a village.”

“In the beginning, there was only 24 very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little ,always 25 (think) that it was only small and not very important ,and look where we hav e ended up today.”

Ⅱ阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Imagination and fantasy can play an important role in achieving the things we fear. Children know this very well. Fred Epstein , in his book If I Make It to Five, tells a story he heard from one of friends about Tom, a four-year-old boy with a cancer in his back bone. He came through several operations and a lot of pain by mastering his imagination.

Tom loved to pretend, and he particularly loved to play superheroes, Dr Epstein explained that it was actually a brilliant way for his young mind to handle the terrifying and painful life he led.

The day before his third trip to the operating room, Tom was terribly afrai d.” Maybe I could go as Superman,” he whispered to his mom. Hearing this, the mother hesitated for a while. She had avoided buying the expensive costume(戏装)，finally she agreed.

The next day Tom appeared as the powerful Superman, showing off through the hospital halls and coolly waving his hand to the people greeting him along the way. And Tom, with the strength of his fantasy, successfully made it through the operation.

The power of imagination need not be reserved for children only. we all have the power to use our fantasies to attempt things we never thought possible to go through those things that seem impossible, and to achieve what we never believed we could, Just as Dr. Epstein puts it ,”If you can dream it, you can do it”

It doesn‘t mean that you should dress as a superhero for you next job interview. But, next time you are texted in a way that seems impossible, imagine what it would take to overcome it .Become the person you need to become to win over your challenge and do it in your mind first. So, let your imagination run wild, and dare to dream.

26. What do we know about Tom?

A. He was seriously ill

B. He was a dishonest boy.

C. He was crazy about magic

D. He was Dr. Epstein’s patient

27. What can be inferred about Tom’s mother?

A. She was a rich lady

B. She refused Tom’s request

C. She wanted Tom to be a superhero

D. She wanted to get Tom through the pain

28. When Tom went for the third operation, he .

A. pretended to be painful

B. acted like a superhero

C. appeared in poor spirits

D. argued with his mother

29. In the last paragraph, you are advised .

A. to go through some difficult tests

B. to wake up from your wild dreams

C. to become a powerful person in your mind

D. to wear expensive clothes for job interviews

30. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To tell us an interesting story.

B. To help us make right decisions.

C. To advise us to care about children.

D. To encourage us to use our imagination.

B

Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talen t, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.

However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most peo ple won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards.Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

31. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.

A. the reasons for success

B. the meaning of success

C. the standards of success

D. the importance of success

32. In Paragraph 2, the underlined word that refers to ______.

A. being good at something

B. setting a practical goal

C. putting in more time

D. succeeding in life

33. Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.

A. work makes one feel pain

B. one tends to enjoy his work

C. one gives up his work easily

D. it takes a lot of time to succeed

34. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. Successful people like to show their great skills.

B. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.

C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.

D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.

35. What is the main theme of the passage?

A. Having a goal is vital to success.

B. Being good is different from being great.

C. One cannot succeed without time and practice.

D. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.

C

One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England，an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me. "This boy has lost his family," he wrote. "He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm very worried about him. Can you help?”

I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically

The first two times we met, David didn't say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children's drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon一in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.

Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?

"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering.” Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.

"Ifs your turn," he said.

After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.

Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one----without any words----can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.

36. When he first met the author, David .

A. felt a little excited

B. walked energetically

C. looked a little nervous

D. showed up with his teacher

37. As a psychologist, the author .

A. was ready to listen to David

B. was skeptical about psychology

C. was able to describe David's problem

D. was sure of handling David's problem 38．David enjoyed being with the author because he________.

A. wanted to ask the author for advice

B. need to share sorrow with the author

C. liked the children’s drawings in the office

D. bear the author many times in the chess game 39．What can be inferred about David?

A．He recovered after months of treatment. B．He liked biking before he lost his family.

C．He went into university soon after starting to talk. D．He got friends in school before he met the author.

40．What made David change?

A. His teacher’s help.

B. The author’s friendship.

C. His exchange of letters with the author.

D. he author’s silent communication with him.

D

While Jennifer was at house taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor（监控器）a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.

Using a web camera equipped in Jennifer’s Los Angeles apartment, the moni tor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was locked — remotely — to prevent Internet searches, and her

typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? Or was she slowing down?

In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. The technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid — t hat students haven’t just searched the Internet to get the right answers.

Although online classes have existed for more than a decade ，the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of "open online courses." Private colleges，public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field . spending millions of dollars to attract potential students，while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.

Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular Among them are programs that check students’ identities using personal information, such as the telephone number they once used.

Other programs can produce unique exam by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test question are answered at the same speed as easy ones ,As in many university classes ,term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.

41. Why was Jennifer watched in an online exam?

A. To correct her typing mistakes.

B. To find her secrets in the room.

C. To prevent her from slowing down.

D. To keep her from dishonest behaviors.

42. The underlined expression cutting edge in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. advanced technique

B. sharpening tool

C. effective rule

D. dividing line

43. For internet universities, exams and diplomas will be valid if _____.

A. they can attract potential students

B. they can defeat academic cheating

C. they offer students online help

D. they offer many online courses

44. Some programs can find out possible cheaters by _____.

A. checking the question answering speed

B. producing a large number of question

C. scanning the Internet test question

D. giving difficult test question

45. Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

A. The Advantages of Online Exams

B. The High-tech Methods in Online Courses

C. The Fight against Cheating in Online Education

D. The War against the Booming of Online Education

第二节信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息，请在答题卡上将对应题号的乡音选项字母涂黑。

首先请阅读下列杂志上的广告内容：

A

B

C

D

E

F

46.以下是读者为了获取相关广告详细信息的电子邮件，请匹配内容与邮件。

Send To

Subject Information Booklet Request

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am a journalist working for a local agency. Since I need to travel a lot, I do care about durability when choosing power supply for my digital cameras. Could you kindly email the information booklet of your products to me? Your timely reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Tom Brown

47.

Dear Sir or Madam,

My family is new in the town. After settling down, we started looking for a family car. Your new model Beetle Convertible looks so cool. I think your detailed information booklet may help us know more about this model. Please kindly send it to my email address: thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Jack Smith

48.

Dear Sir or Madam,

My Beetle Convertible is insured with ING insurance company. The insurance will expire next month. The offer introduced in your advertisement sounds attractive to me. I want to know more about your service. Please kindly email me a relevant information booklet. Your timely reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Mary Smith

49.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I don’t enjoy my new job as a depart ment manager since I find it hard to communicate with and motivate my team members. Hopefully, your diploma course can provide me with professional training on administrative and communicative skills. I look forward to receiving your information booklet and application forms as soon as possible. Please send them to me at

Best regards,

Jimmy Smith

50.

Dear Sir or Madam,

My family is new in the town. Worrying about community safety, I prefer to secure my house with new technology. Your product sounds like the right choice for me. Could you kindly send your information booklet to my email address: ? Your timely reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Peter White

Ⅲ写作（共两节，满分40分）21世纪教育网

第一节基础写作（共1题；满分15分）

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