2013届广东省名校最新高考英语冲刺卷(三)

2013届广东省名校最新高考英语冲刺卷（三）

I 语言知识及应用

一、完形填空

I always carry at least $3 in my car and also in my pocket. I save it for the first person who asked if I can “spare some ___1 __”. Smiling and making eye contact, I always ___2 __ very cheerfully with a comment like, “Yes, I would love to” or “It would be my pleasure”. And I give them the $3.

Then I ___3 __ it with my next $3 for the next person. I never spend this money myself. I honor the idea that it belongs to the ___4 __ of the next person who asks for it. Three dollars is a small ___5 __, yet it means a lot to the person who might only expect 25 cents, ___6 __ when delivered with respect to them.

I have also formed the habit of carrying ___7 __ I think the needy may be able to use. I carry hats, socks, gloves, and an umbrella. Recently, I put together some care packages for the homeless. It ___8 __ to me that things like band-aids, toothpaste, aspirin, combs, as well as food would be of use. I imagined that they would need things that are not easy to ___9 __, so I chose plastic or paper containers. The folks who ___10 __ them were delighted.

But I think it?s not just that I give them things that ___11 __. It?s that I see them for the beautiful ray of lights that they are. I think that they are ___12 __ expressions of God and that this is how they are at the current time, not who they are. I am ___13 __ to also give a hug and a smile with the money. And I always remember it is they who bless me with the ___14 __ to be kind! What a joy! I felt so good and proud of what I had done. See, that?s the added ___15 __ about completing acts of kindness—you feel fantastic!

1. A. time B. energy C. change D. space

2. A. represent B. explain C. show D. respond

3. A. select B. replace C. provide D. recall

4. A. business B. possession C. account D. position

5. A. price B. amount C. count D. total

6. A. seriously B. specially C. especially D. slightly

7. A. tools B. items C. clothes D. pictures

8. A. occurred B. pointed C. referred D. appealed

9. A. cut B. combine C. pull D. break

10. A. received B. accepted C. gave D. bought

11. A. uses B. minds C. cares D. matters

12. A. unique B. strange C. rare D. curious

13. A. sad B. regretful C. sure D. glad

14. A. time B. trial C. opportunity D. possibility

15. A. disadvantage B. bonds C. dream D. voice

二、语法填空

There was a young flower in the desert where all was dry and sad looking. It was growing ___16 __ itself, enjoying every day and saying to the sun, “___17 __ shall I be grown up?” And the sun would say, “Be patient! Each time I touch you, you will grow a little.” She was so ___18 __(please) because she would have a chance to bring ___19 __ (beautiful) to this corner of sand. And this is all ___20 __ she wanted to do—bring a little bit of beauty to this world.

But one day a hunter was coming by. He stepped on the flower. She was going to die and she felt so sad. ___21 __ because she was dying, but because she ___22 __ (have) no chance any more to bring a little bit of beauty to this corner of the desert.

The Great Spirit saw her, ___23 __ (think) that she should be living. So he reached down and touched ___24 __—and gave her ___25 __ second life.

Finally she grew up to be a beautiful flower. And this corner of the desert also became so beautiful because of the small flower.

II 阅读

一、阅读理解

A

When young Nerino was made chief of the tribe, everyone expected that—as was the custom on the island—he would direct his attention to fighting the great fiery-eyed beast, a horrible creature that had scared the tribespeople for centuries. Nerino had promised to kill the beast and, though he was a good fighter, he seemed no better than the others who had previously lost their lives in the attempt. The tribe reckoned that, as chief, he wouldn?t last much more than a year. However, nothing was done. Nerino didn?t train any fighters. When summer came—the time the monster attacked most frequently, engulfing(吞没) all in flames from his fiery eyes—all the tribe did was moving their village.

Everyone looked worryingly and insistently at Nerino. They demanded that he fight, that he do something. But Nerino simply said: “I shall defeat the beast, but now it is not the time.” And so the years passed by, and Nerino became an old man. And though they respected him as their chief, and his strategy of moving their village around the island had saved many lives, all the people believed he was a coward(胆小鬼).

Yet, just when no one expected it, Nerino finally called together a group of fighters. He announced this suddenly, without warning, on a cold winter night. Snow was rare on the island, but now it blanketed the ground, and the band of warriors(武士) had to march out barefoot, with frozen feet. They hurriedly climbed the volcano and, at the summit, they approached the monster?s cave. Nerino confidently entered, while his companions performed the usual death preparation practice, ready to leave this life…When they were all inside the cave they saw old Nerino standing over the beast. The monster was lying, curled up, on the ground, trembling and groaning, close to death. Nerino and his warriors easily took the creature prisoner.

On arriving back at the village, everyone wanted to hear about Nerino?s fight with the monster. Nerino began telling his story: “I never intended to fight against something so terrifying, and nor did I do so today. Did none of you notice that the beast would never attack during the worst days of winter? Or that, after an especially cold period, his fire was never very strong, nor his attacks very damaging? For many years I was waiting for a snow as heavy as this one. All along, we didn?t need fighters; we needed the cold.”

And so patience can be much more useful than action, even if it means you require the bravery to accept people treating you like a coward.

26. What does the underlined word “reckoned” mean in Paragraph 1?

A. Thought.

B. Announced.

C. Hoped.

D. Reminded.

27. We can learn from the passage that .

A. the beast never attacked during the winter

B. Nerino failed in his duty as a chief for the first year

C. the tribespeople thought little of all that Nerino did

D. it was many years before Nerino took the beast prisoner

28. What had the tribespeople thought of Nerino before he controlled the beast?

A. A careful person.

B. A considerate person.

C. A coward person.

D. A dishonest person.

29. Nerino brought the creature under his control finally mainly by his .

A. bravery and carefulness

B. cleverness and patience

C. kindness and flexibility

D. luck and strength

30. What is the message mainly expressed in the story?

A. Strike while the iron is hot.

B. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

C. Do as most men do and men will speak well of you.

D. Seeking a golden opportunity is better than doing it blindly.

B

Since the beginning of history, man has been attracted by the idea of living forever, of winning the fight against death and disease. So far, this has only remained a dream. Many people have wondered whether it would be possible to find a way to preserve human bodies, and what the best way would be.

It has long been known that meat of fruit can be kept fresh for long periods by freezing: in ancient China, for example, food was stored with ice to keep it fresh. This method could also be useful for preserving humans.

However, most living beings that exist under warm conditions die when frozen. This is because of the harmful effects of freezing ice crystals(晶体), which not only are larger than the volume(体积) of the water originally in the cells, but also from sharp cutting shapes that harm the cells.

In the 1940s Dr B.J. Luyet and a group of scientists in England were working on the problem of freezing cells without damaging them. Since the harm caused by ice crystals was the main cause of the damage, Luyet suggested removing some or all of the water from the cells before freezing them.

Using living cells from chicken, Luyet and his assistants discovered that they could partly dry the chicken cells, using a mixture of the white part of an egg and glycerin(丙三醇). Some success was obtained. The chicken cells were dried, frozen for a period of time, and then carefully unfrozen. Almost all the cells recovered when they reached normal temperatures.

Since then, the cooling of whole animals to a temperature far below freezing point for later unfreezing has become more of a possibility, and the glycerin method would probably be used to accomplish this. When this can be done completely and successfully, science will have moved much closer to its aim of freezing and storing incurable patients until the day they can be cured.

31. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Easy but practical ways to remove water from living cells.

B. The possibility of preserving human bodies by freezing.

C. The practice of preserving food by freezing.

D. The harmful effects of freezing.

32. The idea of freezing human bodies to preserve them .

A. has already been realized

B. was invented in ancient China

C. has its roots in the way of storing food

D. is widely accepted by the scientific world

33. According to the passage, freezing .

A. is harmful to living cells

B. is the best way of preserving food

C. reduces the volume of water in living cells

D. is a way of removing water from living cells

34. We can know from the passage that glycerin can be used to .

A. freeze living cells

B. unfreeze living cells

C. change the shapes of crystals

D. remove water from living cells

35. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. It is impossible to have whole animals frozen.

B. It remains unknown how to unfreeze frozen animals.

C. Freezing incurable patients for later treatment is still an idea.

D. The glycerin method has already been adopted to treat patients.

C

The decline in moral standards—which has long concerned social analysts—has at last caught the attention of average Americans. And Jean Bethke Elshtain, for one, is glad.

The fact that the ordinary citizens are now starting to think seriously about the nation?s moral climate, says this ethics(伦理学) professor at the University of Chicago, is reason to hope that new ideas will come forward to improve it.

But the challenge is not to be thought lowly of. Materialism and individualism in American society are the biggest barriers. “The thought that …I?m in it for me? has become deeply rooted in the national consciousness,” Ms Elshtain says.

Some of this can be said to be a result of the break-up of traditional communities(社区), in which neighbors looked out for one another, she says. With today?s great mobility and with so many couples working, those bonds have been weakened, replaced by a greater stress on self.

In a questionnaire carried out among Americans in 1996, loss of morality topped the list of the biggest problems facing the US and Elshtain says the public is correct to sense that: Data shows that Americans are struggling with problems unheard of in the 1950s, such as classroom violence and a high rate of births to unmarried mothers.

The desire for a higher moral standard is not a lament(挽歌) for some nonexistent “golden age”, Elshtain says, nor is it a wishful longing for a time that denied opportunities to women and minorities. Most people, in fact, favor the lessening of prejudice.

“Moral decline will not be stopped until people find ways to resist the materialism in society,”she says. “Slowly, you recognize that the things that matters are those that can?t be bought.”

36. Professor Elshtain is pleased to see that Americans .

A. have adapted to a new set of moral standards

B. are longing for the return of the good old days

C. have realized the importance of material things

D. are aware of the lowering of their moral standards

37. The moral decline of American society is caused mainly by .

A. its rapidly growing wealth

B. the self-centeredness of individuals

C. the prejudice against women and minorities

D. thinking lowly of the influence of social changes

38. Which of the following characterizes the traditional communities?

A. Great mobility.

B. Stress on individual effort.

C. Concern for one?s neighbors.

D. Ever-weakening social bonds.

39. In the 1950s, classroom violence .

A. was something unheard of

B. attracted a lot of public attention

C. began to appear in analysts? data

D. was by no means a rare occurrence

40. According to Elshtain, the present moral decline may be provented .

A. when women and men enjoy equal rights

B. when people rid themselves of prejudice

C. if people can return to the “golden age”

D. if less stress is laid on material things

D

Bruce Alberts, the former President of the National Academies (USA), has now taken over as Editor-in-Chief of Science. Judging by his editorial in this week?s issue［Considering Science Education］there could by some interesting times ahead in the Science offeces.

Here?s part of what Bruce has to say about science education…

I consider science education to be critically important to both science and the world, and I shall frequently address this topic on this page. Let?s start with a big-picture view. The scientific enterprise has greatly advanced our understanding of the natural world and has thereby enabled the creation of countless medicines and useful devices. It has also led to behaviors that have improved lives. The public appreciates these practical benefits of science, and science and scientists are generally respected, even by those who are not familiar with how science works or what exactly it has discovered.

But society may less appreciate the advantage of having everyone acquire, as part of their formal education, the ways of thinking and behaving that are central to the practice of successful science: scientific habits of mind. These habits include a skeptical attitude toward established claims and a strong desire for logic and evidence. As famous astronomer Carl Sagan put it, science is our best detector. Individuals and societies clearly need a means to logically test the constant clever attempts to operate our purchasing and political decisions. They also need to challenge what is unreasonable, including the intolerance that led to so many regional and global conflicts.

So how does this relate to science education? Might it be possible to encourage, across the world, scientific habits of mind, so as to create more rational(理性的) societies everywhere? In principle, a major push of science education could provide the world with such an opportunity, but only if scientists, educators, and policy-makers redefine the goals of science education, beginning with college-level teaching. Rather than only conveying what science has discovered about the natural world, as is done now in most countries, a top priority should be to provide all students with the knowledge and practice of how to think like a scientist.

41. Which of the following is NOT included in the “scientific habits of mind” according to the passage?

A. A skeptical attitude toward established claims.

B. A strong desire for logic.

C. A strong desire for evidence.

D. A clever and active head.

42. What do the underlined words “such an opportunity” refer to in the last paragraph?

A. To create more rational societies everywhere.

B. To relate decision-making to science education.

C. To encourage science education around the world.

D. To set right goals of science education.

43. In Bruce Alberts? opinion, which is the most important in science education?

A. Offering all students enough practice to drill their mind.

B. Equipping all students with a thinking model of a scientist.

C. Telling students how science improves our life.

D. Advising all students to challenge the scientific achievements.

44. The following information about Bruce Alberts is correct EXCEPT .

A. he is the former President of the National Academies of the United States

B. he is Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Science at present

C. he is satisfied with the science education model in most countries

D. he will often deal with the topic of science education in editorial page of Science

45. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Bruce Alberts, a great science educator

B. Science education and world peace

C. The government and science education

D. Bruce Alberts? opinion on Science Education

二、信息匹配

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

首先请阅读下列景点的介绍：

A

The first carnation stamp was issued in the USA on August 23, 1969, one of four stamps issued in a setenant block to honor the 11th International Botanical Congress in Seattle, Washington. This was a six-cent stamp featuring an engraving of Cypripedium reginae, the Snowy Lady?s Slipper.

B

The orchid stamp(20-cent) was issued in Washington, DC on April 14, 1982, as part of the “State Birds and Flowers”set, issued in a setenant pane of 50. The only stamp of the fifty to feature an orchid was Minnesota, which boast the Snowy Lady?s Slipper(Cypripedium Reginae) as its state flower.

C

Another carnation stamp issued by the US is a somewhat fuzzy depiction of a Cypripedium, issued in NY on 7 February 2001 as part of a set of four flower stamps. The stamps are based on photos by Robert Peak, Winter Park, Florida.

D

The next two stamps(30-cent) were part of the “American Wildflowers”set, issued in Columbus, Ohio on July 24, 1992 as a setenant sheet of 50. The set features stylized drawings and is labeled with only the common names of the flowers. The two roses are: the Yellow Ladies and White Princess.

E

On October 15, 1998, there was a stamp depicting orchids included in the set of four Christmas wreaths, issued in Christmas, MI. They were issued in a pane of 20 and in vending booklets of 15 and 20 (32-cent). The set includes the Chill Pepper wreath, the Victorian, the Evergreen, and the Tropical wreaths.

F

On March 5, 1984, a set of four(20-cent) stamps were issued as a setenant block in conjunction with the 11th World Orchid Conference in Miami. This “Native Carnations of North America” set includes: Arethusa bulbosa, Calypso bulbosa, Cleistes divaricata and Cypripedium calceolus.

以下是集邮者的收集意向信息，请把它们与邮票的基本信息匹配起来。

46. Frankling?s son is a stamp collector. Next Sunday is his son?s birthday. He wants to send a set of stamps about flower as his birthday present. His son is only 10 years old and he hopes the

stamp has the common names of these flowers.

47. Wade likes collecting plant stamps and plans to hold an exhibition about the category of carnation. Recently, he heard of people selling a series of stamps about native plants of North America and wants to buy a set.

48. Kobe is a botanical expert, and also a stamp lover. He is studying the development of botany recently. He would like to collect stamps to honor the development process.

49. O?Neil would like to collect some valuable stamps, especially those published in special festivals. He thinks stamps issued in these days have more value-added potential.

50. Battier is a university student and likes to collect stamps in extra-curricular time. He wants to collect some stamps about state flowers or birds.

III 写作

第一节基础写作

以下是一则你所在的班级关于城市内是否可以饲养宠物的讨论的主要内容。

写作内容：

请根据下表所提供的信息，介绍讨论情况。

支持方反对方你的观点

1. 安慰孤独老人

2. 增添生活情趣使生活更加丰富多彩1. 造成环境污染

2. 可能携带疾病，制造噪音

甚至做出伤人的事

……

写作要求：只能使用5个句子表达全部内容（给出部分不计入总句数）。

评分标准：句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。

Recently we have had a heated discussion on whether people should keep pets at home in cities. _________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ 第二节读写任务

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。

A school reporter of the Broadcasting Station interviewed three students from 309 at random for their comments on the candidate, David, for Chairman of the Students? Union.

Stanley said, “As the smartest student in our class, David usually scores the highest marks in the Chinese and mathematics exams. His homework is always done to a very high standard so our teachers ask us to follow his example. We all admire his intelligence. He spends at least three hours every day reviewing his lessons. His diligence really deserves our admiration.”

McGrady said, “He is always so willing to help others that he makes sure the classroom is kept clean and assists the teacher in handing out and collecting the students? books and homework. When a student is absent from school he will call and tell them what they have missed.”

Bruce said, “David teaches us the sense of co-operation. Although he?s very clever he is still willing to listen to others? opinions and take their suggestions. When we do group work in class we all want to be in his group because he always does his share of the work and is easy to get along with.”

写作内容：

1、以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。

2、以约120个词就David在同学中的印象谈谈你的看法，内容包括：

（1）你对同学们评价意见的看法；

（2）以你或其他同班同学和David之间的经历来说明其中的一点看法。

写作要求：

1、作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，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。

评分标准：概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。

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2013届广东省名校最新高考英语冲刺卷（三）

参考答案

I 语言知识及应用

一、完形填空

1—15 CDBBB CBADA DADCB

二、语法填空

16.by 17. When 18. pleased 19. beauty 20. that

21. Not 22. would have 23. thinking 24. her 25. a

II 阅读

一、阅读理解

26—45 ADCBD BCADC DBCAD DABCD

二、信息匹配

46—50 DFAEB

III 写作

第一节基础写作

Recently we have had a heated discussion on whether people should keep pets at home in cities. ①Some students think it?s a good idea to keep pets because old people who live alone at home can get some comfort from pets. ②Besides, getting along well with animals will make our life interesting and colorful. ③On the contrary, some students are against the idea, saying if too many people keep pets at home, it is bad for the environment. ④What is worse, pets, which are considered disease-carrying animals, may make too much noise and even attack people.

⑤I like animal, so I don?t think it is bad to keep pets at home, but we must take some measures to prevent them from polluting our environment.

第二节读写任务

Three students are being interviewed to give comments on David for his application for Chairman of the Students? Union. David is thought highly of in his classmates? eyes.

I can?t agree more with my classmates. Honestly speaking, it is just because of all his good characters such as being hard-working, helpful and co-operative that he has become so much received by all of us.

I still remember at the beginning of this school year I was in a traffic accident and that required me to be in hospital for over two months. This situation caused me great concern as I feared I would fall far behind my classmates in my study. Thanks to David, he came to visit me every day, and patiently explained to me all the lessons our class had gone through each day. By the time I was well enough to return to school I was up-to-date in all areas of my study.