2013高考英语模拟试卷（二）
南通中学王德红
第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节：单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
1. In the early morning all of the students stood at the top of the mountain to ________ east of the city, watching ________ burning sun rising.
A. the; a
B. 不填; a
C. the; the
D. the; 不填
2. —The book our teacher recommended is interesting, isn’t it?
—Yes, but I don’t think ________ likes to read it.
A. anybody
B. nobody
C. everybody
D. somebody
3. —How can my daughter develop her interest in literature?
—You should ______ her to classical literary works.
盆底肌肉A. devote
B. apply
C. expo
D. recommend
4. —Have you made any plan for the coming Spring Festival?
—I don’t mind what to do ________ there’s less homework from the teachers and more pocket money from my parents．
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A. as long as
B. as far as
C. in ca
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D. for fear
5. —Miss Brown is very busy, isn’t she?
—So she is. She has ________ greater responsibilities since she was promoted.
A. taken off
B. taken after
C. taken in
D. taken on
6. —Jack, you must have noticed the student who broke the window.
—I’m sorry. I ________ attentively.
A. studied
B. was studying
C. am studying
D. would study
7. It is beyond my understanding that many adults ________ be so crazy about Harry Potter.
A. will
B. can
C. would
D. should
8. —I remember you were a talented painter at college. Can you paint a picture for us?
—Sorry, I ________ pictures for years.
A. don’t paint
B. wasn’t painting
C. haven’t painted炸杏鲍菇
D. hadn’t painted
9. The old couple got up just before sunri, as they often do, ________ along the beach and get some fresh air.
A. walked
B. to walk
C. walking
D. walk
10. —When did the young man save you?
—January 1st, 2000, the first day of the new century, ________ I can never forget.
A. when
B. which
C. that
D. where
11. —It’s reported that as many as 150 miners died in the accident.
—Unbelievable. If only the miner owners ________ enough attention to the safety measures!
A. paid
B. pay
C. would pay
D. had paid
12. —I’ll ask the teacher about the attributive clau. I’m very puzzled about it.
—That’s just ________ most of our classmates have doubt.
A. what
B. where
C. why
D. how
13. —What do you think of the new car?
—It burns more fuel, but ________ all things into consideration, it is still a good car.
A. taken
网名昵称B. to take
C. taking
D. having taken
14. —Sammy should have been warned of the storm.
—________, but she wouldn’t listen to me.
A. So she had
B. So had she
C. So was she
D. So she was
15. —I should say it was a bit difficult to ttle into a new company at first.
—________! Everyone was helpful and I loved it from the very beginning.
A. Never mind
B. By all means
C. Not at all
D. That’s right
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A Law of Successful Living
I am impresd by an incident that happened during Ignacy Paderewski’s career. The famous Polish pianist 16 to play a concert organized by two Stanford University students 17 their w ay through school. Paderewski’s manager said they would have to 18 the artist a fee of $2,000. The boys agreed and 19 the concert was held.
Though the two student promoters worked hard, they took in only $1,600. 20 , they told Paderewski of their 21 and handed him the $1,600 with a note promising to pay him the 22 of $400. But the artist tore up the 23 and g ave them back the $1,600. “Take your 24 out of this,” he said, “and then give yourlves each 10% of what’s left for your work, and let me have the rest.”
Years later, Paderewski was faced with 25 the people of his war-ravaged Poland. Amazingly, even before a 26 was made, thousands of tons of food were nt to Poland by the United States.
Paderewski later traveled to Paris to 27 Herbert Hoover, who headed up the US relief effort. “That’s all right, Mr. Paderewski,”said Hoover, “I knew that the need was 28 . And besides, though you may not 29 it, I was one of the two college students whom you 30 helped when I was in need.”
The story illustrates a law of 31 living: sooner or later we will 32 what we sow. Paderewski reaped a harvest of 33 he had sown years before. Tho who sow love will eventually reap 34 . Tho who sow goodness will reap even more. Tho who sow fear and mistrust will reap an 35 harvest later.
It’s a basic law of successful living. And powerful enough to change a life.
16. A. agreed B. intended C. refud D. dreamed
17. A. feeling B. struggling C. making D. working
18. A. charge B. guarantee C. offer D. donate
19. A. immediately B. publicly C. eventually D. grandly
20. A. Discouraged B. Excited C. Exhausted D. Puzzled
21. A. hobbies B. ideas C. abilities D. efforts
22. A. balance B. amount C. total D. quantity
23. A. bid B. letter C. note D. book
24. A. earnings B. expens C. awards D. benefits
25. A. educating B. protecting C. saving D. feeding
26. A. request B. choice C. decision D. promi
27. A. visit B. thank C. treat D. entertain
28. A. universal B. personal C. great D. basic玩魔方的好处
29. A. make B. guess C. get D. remember
30. A. generously B. unwillingly C. cretly D. anxiously
31. A. meaningful B. successful C. uful D. helpful
32. A. collect B. win C. expect D. harvest
33. A. fear B. hate C. kindness D. happiness
34. A. love B. marriage C. romance D. beauty
35. A. unexpected B. unnecessary C. unwanted D. unnatural
第二部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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There are plenty of creams etc. on the market that help you look younger, but today, Dr Oz is going to show how some people are actually living longer.
“We are going to talk about extreme life extension,” he says. “I am talking in details about allowing us to go into our cond century of life with the energy that you have when you are a young person.”
Owing to advances in technology and rearch on how diet affects the aging process, Dr Oz says it might be possible for some people to live to e their 120th birthday.
There’s one man in Oprah’s audience who Dr Oz says may become the first man in history to live to be 150 years old. Joe Cordell is one of thousands around the world who believe they’ve found the key to an extreme long lif e—calorie restriction leads to a longer, healthier life.
At 59 Joe weighs 130 pounds. He may not look like a person who needs to count calories, but as part of his life extension program, he inspects every mouthful of food that pass through his system.
Every day for the past ven years, Joe has limited himlf to about 1,950 calories.
He believes that by eating less and restricting his caloric intake, he will trigger a genetic switch that s
lows the aging process.
Joe doesn’t remove food from his diet. Instead, the then 52-year-old father fills up on natural fruits, vegetables and lean proteins (瘦蛋白) that are packed with necessary vitamins and nutrients. “Whenever you are thinking about calorie restricti on, you should continually think about getting the most nutritional amount per calorie,” Joe says.
In keeping with this principle, Joe starts every morning with three apples…but he only eats the peels. “Most of the fiber is in the peel, and more importantl y, most of the nutrients are in the peel,” he says.
“It is important to eat some nuts with breakfast so that you do take in some fat, some healthy fats,” he says. “I think it helps the absorption of the nutrients, and it is very filling.”
For lunch, Joe usually eats a large salad, loaded with vegetables. At dinnertime, he and his family enjoy lean meat or fish and more vegetables.
When Joe started practicing calorie restriction, he weighed 175 pounds. Since then, he has lost 45 pounds, and he says he hasn’t had a cold in ven years. Though he is in his “golden years”,
rearchers studying Joe say he has the body of a 20-year-old athlete.关于春节的
36. According to Joe, the appropriate fat intake may help ________.
A. people lo weight
B. feel always full
C. the absorption of the nutrients
D. people to live longer
37. What can we learn about Joe since he started the calorie restriction program?
A. Joe counts the amount of every meal
B. Joe has never had a cold
C. Joe eats three apples every morning
D. Joe has a large salad with vegetables for dinner
38. The underlined word “trigger” in paragraph 7 can probably be replaced by ________.
A. turn on
B. break down
C. take up
D. cut off
39. According to the passage, the extreme life extension refers to ________.
A. living very long even sick
B. how to make people lead a happy life
C. living long and having a healthy body
D. how to arrange our foods every day
Award-winning author Emma Donoghue’s latest book, Room, is a
unique and amazing story about a boy’s experience living in a small,
windowless room with his mother. The 11’ x 11’ space between the
walls of the room is actually all the boy knows becau he was born
there and has never left. Room will horrify, surpri, sadden, and
finally delight yo u. Attracted from the start, readers of all sorts won’t
want to put Room down.
◆First published in the U. S. in September 2010
◆Publisher: Little Brown
◆321 pages
Literary master Ian McEwan returns with Solor, a novel about a
Nobel prize-winning physicist. The physicist’s personal life is in a
mess as his fifth marriage breaks, but this time he actually loves his
wife and wants to make things better. Solar is a funny story,
completely unusual and as good as anything the writer has ever
written.
◆Published in March 2010
◆Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
◆304 pages
One Day by David Nicholls was an international bestller before
it was relead in the U. S. in June. Although it is well written and
funny at times, don’t be fooled—this isn’t a good-feeling romantic
comedy. If you decide to read it, be prepared for some heavy
moments.
◆Published in the U.S. in June 2010
◆Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
◆437 pages
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett is the first book in a new trilogy
(three books) that will take readers through the major events of the
twentieth century by following five families. In Fall of Giants, most of
the action centers on World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution.
Although Fall of Giants is more than 1,000 pages and has many
characters, the story is remarkably connected.
◆Published in September 2010
◆Publisher: Dutton
◆1,008 pages
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40. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?
A. Ian McEwan once won the Nobel Prize.
B. Fall of Giants is mostly t in wars.
C. One day is written by David Nicholls.
D. Solar is a funny story about a physicist.
41. We can know from the text that ________.
A. the main character of Room has a wide range of knowledge
B. Solar is the only book that Ian McEwan has ever written
C. all the four books were not published in the same month
D. One Day is a funny romantic comedy that lls very well
42. We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. the sixth of Ian McEwan’s marriages broke
B. Room by Emma Donoghue has a happy ending
C. the publisher of One Day is Little Brown
D. Dutton and Ken P’ollett are both publishers
C
Believe it or not, living near the beach may come with an extra special perk: better health. A new study analyzed information from more than 48 million people in the Great Britain and found that the nearer they lived to the coast, the more likely the people were to report good health with the past year.
Living near the coast may be associated with better health becau the aside environment reduces stress and pressure, the rearchers said. They pointed to another British study that found that people who had taken trips to the coast experienced more feelings of happiness, calmness and relaxation than tho who had just visited urban parks or green spaces.
The difference from living near the coast was relatively small. But a small effect, when applied to an entire population, can have a substantial impact on public health, said the study rearcher Ben Wheeler of Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in Exeter, England.
However, it’s far too s oon to advi people to hit the beach all of a sudden to improve their health, Wheeler said. The study only found an association, not a cau-effect link, and it’s possible that other factors could also account for the result. For instance, it could be that people who are wealthier, and therefore healthier, are more able to move to desired locations such as the coast,
