广雅中学2013届高三月考（3）
英语试题
满分：135分
I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30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。
Younger people are twice as likely to miss work through illness as their, older colleagues, according to a new survey.
Under-30s are more likely to 1 at home while suffering from colds and flu, allergies and intolerances than over-55s, figures showed. Younger people were also more 2 to take time off work due to stress, 3 and feeling run down, which the older group said would not be a reason to call in sick.
Almost one in five people aged 18 to 29 admitted they had 4 work because they were "too anxious", but 85 per cent of over-55s said they would only miss work if they were bedridden. The higher rates of illness in younger people could be explained by the impact of 5 lifestyles, the survey of 3,000 people suggested. Men and women aged 30 and under were more. likely to eat junk food like ready meals and takeaways than 6 people, and were half as likely to eat the five daily portions Of fruit and vegetables that experts 7 .
Older people also showed a more 8 outlook towards their wellbeing, with 59 per cent believing they are healthier than their parents compared with just 37 per cent of the younger group.
A number of under-30s reported that they often fall ill as a result of stress, with work-related pressures, money issues and relationship problems among the most common 9 .
In comtrast, fewer than a quarter of over-55s who 10 the survey said they often felt
11 due to stress at work. High levels of stress could cause 12 including irritability(急躁), tiredness, headaches and stomachaches, respondents said.
Peter Morton, the marketing manager of multivitamin manufacturer Multibionta, who 13 the survey, said: “Today’s fast-paced, work-hard and play-hard lifestyle appears to be taking its toll on the younger generation. A poor immune system caused by smoking, drinking and a/an
14 of nutritionally beneficial food, lends itself to people being more allergic to coughs and
15 which in turn leads to sick days.”
1. A. live B. stay C. lie D. work
2. A. relevant B. reluctant C. likely D. possible
3. A. tiredness B. pressure C. loneliness D. happiness
4. A. quitted B. refused C. delayed D. missed
5. A. unexpected B. unhealthy C. unbalanced D. unimportant
6. A. younger B. normal C. older D. ordinary
7. A. offer B. demand C. comment D. recommend
8. A. advanced B. positive C. negative D. objective
9. A. reasons B. causes C. excuses D. problems
10. A. replied to B. answered for C. carried out D. took up
11. A. dissatisfied B. worried C. unwell D. annoyed
12. A. feelings B. situations C. illnesses D. symptoms
13. A. conducted B. controlled C. studied D. explained
14. A. short B. need C. end D. lack
15. A. colds B. headaches C. diseases D. stomachaches
第二节语法填空（共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为16-25的相应位置。
A blind man is walking down the street with his seeing-eye dog one day. They come to a busy crossroads, and the dog, 16 (ignore) the high volume of traffic zooming by on the street, leads the blind man right out 17 the thick of traffic. This is followed by the noise
of tires 18 horns blaring as panicked drivers try 19 (desperate) not to run the pair down.
The blind man and the dog finally reach the 20 (safe) of the sidewalk on the other side of the street, and the blind man pulls a cookie out of his coat pocket, 21 he offers to the dog.
A passer-by, after 22 (observe) the near fatal incident, ca n’t control 23 amazement and says to the blind man, “24 on earth are you rewarding your dog with a cookie? He nearly got you killed!” The blind ma n turns partially in his direction and replies, “25 (find) out where his head is, so I can kick his ass.”
Ⅲ阅读（共两节，满分45分）
第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从26-45各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
THE Conservative Party leader David Cameron has become the new British prime minister. Labo r’s Gordon Brown, the forme PM, had to hold back the teats as he said his goodbyes outside of 10 Downing St. The 43-year-old Cameron is the youngest UK prime minister in almost 200 In Britai n’s May 6 parliamentary election,Camero n’s Conservative Party won the most seats,
but did not get a majority. After negotiations，a deal was struck between the Conservatives and the third-placed Liberal Democrats, and a governing coalition formed. The Labor Party came second in the election.
Cameron has grown from a shy primary school student with poor school reports into a famous political figure. He is reportedly a descendant of King William IV (1765-1837). Cameron studied at the elite Eton College, for centuries the school of choice for the nation’s wealthies people to send their male children to. He went on to Oxford University, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
Once at primary school, Cameron had the poorest school report in the class. At Eton,Cameron was a problem boy. In 1983, he allegedly（涉嫌）took drugs. He was punished, and ordered to copy 500 lines of Latin text. He recovered from the incident and worked harder.
Cameron was very active at Oxford. He captained the tennis team there. He was a member of a dining sociey, the Bullingdon Club, famous for its vandalism（恶意破坏行为）and drinking culture. After graduation, he entered politics.In 2001 Cameron became a member of Parliament and in 2005，at the age of 38,was elected the leader of the Conservative Party.
26. Which two parties formed the government coalition?
A. Liberal Democrat and Conservative.
B.Liberal Democrat and Labor
C．Labor and Conservative D．Labor and Democrat
27. In which year was Cameron most likely born?
A. 1969
B.1968
C.1967
D.1966
28. Which of the following statements about Cameron is WRONG?
A.He is the youngest prime minister in UK in almost 200 years.
B. He did not do well in school subjects when at primary school.
C.He graduated with a degree in 3 different fields.
D. He went through a drug incident but become worse.
29. What is the correct order of the following statements?
1. He was elected the leader of the Conservative Party.
2. He allegedly took drugs and was punished.
3. He becamea member of a dining society, the Bullingdon Club.
4. He became the new British prime minister.
A. 4,2,3,1
B. 3,2,4,l
C. 2,3,l,4
D. 1, 3,4,2
30. What is the best title for this passage?
A. Cameron a Difficult Kid
B.The New British PM
C. Oxford’s Best Student
D.The Conservative Beats the Labor
B
“NOW I just don’t believe that.”Surely all of us, at some point, have watched a movie and thought: It’s simply badly researched, or, the makers must think we’re idiots（白痴）．
Recently, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph ran a humorous piece on unconvincing tech moments from some top movies. Let’s see what all the fuss (激动) is about.
Telegraph writer Tom Chiver’s first example is from the end-of-the-world movie Independence Day, in which a characte comes up with a virus capable of destroying Windows,
t he computer system the alien spacecraft uses. “It’s a good thing they didn’t have Norton Antiv irus,” jokes Chivers.
It’s just one case of a movie that takes a lot of license with its science. Another one Chivers mentions is from Star Wars, where glowing beams of light traveling throuth space look very impressive. The problem is that in space there are no air particles (粒子) for the light to reflect off. In reality, they’d be invisible, which wouldn’t look so cool on the big screen.
Chiver’s second piece of Star Wars nonsense is the sound the fighters make in the movies: “the bellow (咆哮) of an elephant mixed with a car driving on a wet road”. But sound needs a medium (介质) to travel through, like air. In space,there wouldn’t actually be any sound at all.
Few people would deny that the mind-bending Matrix films make for great viewing, but for Chives,the science in the movies is a little silly.
And finally: as Chivers points out, DNA is not replaceable. But this bit of elementary genetice(遗传学) passed the makers of the 2002 Bond film Die Another Day by. In the film the villain (坏人) has “gene therapy (疗法)” to change his appearance and his DNA, which is completely impossible.
31. According to the passage,which of the following statement is true ?
A.Independence Day is about the independence of the United States.
B. The Daily Telegraph has published on unconvincing scenes in some movies.
C. Both Star Wars and Die Anothe Day are movies about space fights.
D. In the movie Die Another Day, it is impossible to change one’s DNA.
32. How many movies are mentioned in this passage?
A. Two.
B. Four.
C. Three.
D. Five.
33. The author develops the passage by the following skills_________.
A. giving a definition
B. listing numbers
C. making comparison
D.giving examples
34. According to this pessage, we can infer that the author’s attitude is______________.
A. negative
B. objective
C. subjective
D. supportive
35. This passage can probably appear in _______________.
A. a trvelling jounal
B. a science magazine
C. an encyclopedia
D. a movie magazine
C
When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim (心血来潮) I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein. The book’s main point was the necessity of listing short-, medium-, and long-term life goals, then categorizing
them in order of their importance, with the A group being the most important, the B group next, and the C the last, that listing under each goal specific activities designed to achieve them.
I still have that peperback book, now almost thirt y years old. And I’m sure I have that old list s omewhere buried in my papers, though I can’t find it. However, I do remember the A list I wanted to be a good man, have a good marriage and children, have good friends, make a successful political life, end w rite a great book. Whether I’m a good man is, of course, for God to judge. I know thai I am not as good as my strongest supporters believe or as I hope to become, nor as bad as my harshest critics assert. I have been graced beyond measure by my family life with Hillry and Chelsea. Like all families’ lives, ours is not perfect, but it has been wonderful Its flaws, as the whole world knows, are mostly mine, and its continuing promise is grounded in their love.
No person I know ever had more or better friends. Indeed, a strong case can be made that I rose to the presidency on the shoulders of my personal friends, the now legendary FOBs. My life in politics was a joy. I loved campaigns and loved governing, I always tried to keep things moving in the right d irection, to give more people a chance to live their dreams, to lift people’s spirits, and to bring them together. That's the way I kept score.
36. Who is the author of the how-to book the author has mentioned in the passage?
A. Fobs
B. Chelsea
C. Hillary
D. Alan Lakein.
37. Where can you probably find such a passage?
A. Story-books.
B. Fiction stories.
C. Autobiography.
D. Daily newspapers.
38. Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The author was young when he graduated from a law school.
B. The author always tried to prevent things going wrong.
C. The author is sure that he has still got that old list of goals.
D.The author did not like being a leader of any kind.
39. The underlined word“assert” in the second paragraph has the closest meaning to that of______
A. understand
B. claim
C. support
D. judge
40. Why do you think the author wrote this passage?
A. He wrote it for literature because he likes reading.
B. He wrote it because he wanted to be president.
C. He wrote it to draw a brief conclusion of his life and principles of politics.
D. He wrote it just to make a complaint about those who did not support him.
D
Last year a single letter written by Albert Einstein was sold for more than $400,000. But could an e-mall printout or an electronic file reach similar heights? That’s the question facing
those who deal in the literary artifacts.(手工艺品) of public figures, as they struggle to work out how to do business in the electronic world where information can be copied and spread out more easily than ever before.
“Booksellers, collectors and libraries are already trading in digital, objects,” Joan Winterkorn, an antiquarian and the bookseller Bernard Quaritch told people present at the Digital Lives conference at the British Library earlier this week. When Emory University Library bought author Salman Rushdie’s archives (档案) in 2006, it received a desktop computer, three laptops, a hard drive and a smart phone along with his paper files. And the writer John Updike, who died last month, started using computers in the 1980s, Winterkom pointed out, so his “papers” will include a big store of electronic documents.
So far, however, digital archives have been traded as just a small part of a larger, mainly paper-based archive, and to date the paper parts have largely driven the highest prices. Indeed, no one is quite sure how much the digital documentes of a historical figure are worth.
“I don’t feel the same way about the printout of an e-mail as I do a letter,”said Gabriel Heaton, a literary manuscript specialist, adding that more real digital objects were easier for auctioneers (拍卖商) to price and sell. “What about a laptop?For example, the one used by JK Rowling to write Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in an Edinburgh cafe has real value,”he said, “because she used it,”Even if the hard drive had been cloned by a library, the artifact w ould still he valuable. Barack Obama’s Blackberry will likely make some collectors very happy in future.
Although some auctioneers and booksellers suggested that digital archives would end up being valued at levels close to their paper ones, Gordon Bell, from Microsoft Research, suggested that prices should actually fall to almost nothing. “Once it’s been copied and spread out the value is gone. It’s just a piece of memory.”
41. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. The passages talks about the value of some antiques.
B.The passage tells us how important the digital archives are.
C. The passage reveals how people think about the paper-based archives.
D. The passage mainly deals with different attitudes toward the value of both paper-based
and digital archives.
42. According the passage, which one of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Booksellers and collectors refuse to sell and buy digital objects.
B. Digital archives are more popular in trading than paper-based ones.
C. In Gabriel Heaton’s opinion, an old computer used by a famous writer can be valuable.
D. Paper-based archives can not be sold at high prices.
43. The underlined word “antiquarian” in the second paragraph most probably refers to someone ________
A. that studies economy
B. that studies ancient and historical items
C. that studies human history
D. that studies computers
44. What does the underlined “it” in the 4th paragraph refer to?
A. The Cafe JK Rowling used to go to.
B. One of JK Rowling’s laptops.
C. The book of Harry Potter.
D. Philosopher’s Stone.
45. The attitudes towards digital archives are__________.
A. the same
B. various
C. opposite
D. neutral
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相应选项字母涂黑。（选E请同时填涂AB，选F请同时填涂CD）
首先请阅读下列插图及提示性文字：
A.
Future mail is another type of mail emerging as a new business. It is a
way to be in memory of an important event. Future mail lets you send
messages to yourself and have them delivered on any date and time you
choose. Use future mail to send yourself reminders, notes, or any
information you want to have in the future.
B.
EMS stands for express mail service. EMS is a top speed international
mail service for sending up to 30kg of documents and other goods simply
and conveniently to over 120 countries and territories worldwide. For
example, if you went to deliver some emergency documents to Japan as
soon as possible,you can use this kind of service.
C.
Donation At the beginning of the year, five provinces and cities in
southwest China had a persistent drought. On April 14, an earthquake of
magnitude. 7.1 struck Y ushu County Qinghai Province. In front of the
natural disasters, people across the country worked closely together, donated
money and goods, took great efforts to help the people in the disaster areas
out of crises.
D.
Low-carbon lifestyle is a Way of protecting our environment. We can
make use of solar energy, wind energy and other renewable energy in our
daily life to reduce carbon emissions and build a resource-saving and
environment-friendly society. It is better to go to work on foot or by bike.
E.
Open-collar workers These workers come from a variety of
backgrounds: lifelong entrepreneurs, homemakers, downsized workers,
graduate students, stay-at-horme parents, homebound disabled people and
retirees. But their goals are similar: to be their own bosses, work flexible
hours and devote their efforts to projects they love.
F.
Performance Art Performance art is a performance presented to
an audience; either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully
orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without
audience participation. It can be any situation that involves four basic
elements: time, space, the performes body, or presence in a medium, and
a relationship between performer and audience.
请阅读以下人物的信息，选择他们所做的事情。
46. Li Ming is a graduate from Art College, who like art very much, Recently he enjoys painting
his own body as a tree and presented himself if to anyone on the street.
47. Xiao Fang wrote a letter to her mother in advance to express her love to her mother for next
Mother’s day.
48. Wang Jun gets up at 6 o’clock every day. After breakfast he is fond of cycling to his office.
49. Writing is Zhang Qiang’s favorite. He can spend any time staying at home and writin g articles.
50. ZhouMing put 500 yuan into the donation box to help people in disaster areas.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分为40分）
第一节：基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）
英国的高中生在上大学之前可以选择外出一年体验生活，这一年被称为“gap year”。以下是对gap year的基本介绍。
做法：很多高中生会提前向大学提出申请保留学位，然后选择去外国做志愿者工作，同时周游各地，探索世界；
意义：这有助于学生成长，获取人生经验，并为大学做好准备；该举措深受中学生欢迎;
现状：由于未来的学费有可能剧增，今年有几千名中学生放弃申请gap year，而选择直接入学读书．
忧虑；专家认为，这会影响其未来求职。
写作内容：请根据以上概要写一篇短文，包括以下内容：
1．做法；2．意义；3．现状；4．忧虑。
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第二节读写任务（共l小题，满分25分）
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。
Let Kids Rule the School
A group of eight public high school students in Massachusetts, aged 15 to 17, designed and ran their own school within a school. They named their practice the Independent Project.
Their guidance counselor was their adviser, consulting with them when the group met an obstacle. Though they sought advice from English, math and science teachers, they were responsible for monitoring one another’s work. There were no grades, but at the end of the semester, the students wrote evaluations of their classmates. The students also designed their own curriculum（课程表）．
The project was a success. After returning to their conventional study, the students are h ighly motivated and are doing well. It’s proved that if students are given the opportunity to take control or contribute significantly to their own learning they will become more accomplished, more engaged and more knowledgeable.
[写作内容]
1．以约30词概括上文的主要内容。
2．以约120词对“学生自主管理学习”这一做法进行议论，内容包括；
(1)你或你的同学在学习过程中有这种类似的自主安排，相互监督的学习经历吗？
效果如何？
(2)你对这种学习方式的看法和意见。
[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。
参考答案
完形填空1-5 BCADB 6-10 CDBBA 11-15 CDADA
语法填空16. ignoring 17. into 18.and 19.desperately 20.safety 2l.which 22. observing 23.his 24. Why 25.To find
阅读理解:26-30 ACDCB 31-35 BCDBB 36-40 DCDBC 41-45 DCBBC 46-50 FADEC
基础写作：A possible version:
Taking a gap year before entering university is the dream of many high school graduates in the UK. during which they could do something interesting and meaningful, such as volunteering, travelling and discovering the world. Students may apply early and ask the university to hold their place when they take a gap year. Not only is it a valuable opportunity for them to grow up, but it helps gain life experience and become better prepared for college life. This year, however, thousands Of students have given up their gap year in order to go straight to university for the reason that tuition fees are increasing sharply next year. Some experts are anxious about the phenomenon due to the thought that it will bring about bad influences while those students are bunting for jobs.
任务型写作：Apossible version:
Independent Project was run by some students in Massachusetts where they arranged their own study and evaluated each other with the help of teachers. It proved the importance of students’ taking control of their own study.
Similar to their practice, my desk mate Jack and I tried to compete and cooperate at the beginning of Senior Three. We made our own plans, answered each other’s questions, and decided that once a week, we would gather and talk about our progress and obstacles in study. Sometimes we had to fight against the tight schedule and piles of homework, but we both agree it’s really helpful.
Judging from my painful experience and this successful one, I think letting students arrange and control their own study has both advantages and disadvantages. Obviously, it can greatly motivate the students who fall behind and lose their confidence to go on. It also provides much freedom for those accomplished ones not to be held back by regular curriculum. But we had to admit that students are not mature enough to know what is best for them.
Therefore, I suggest that students should be given more opportunities to take control of their own study based on the guidelines Provided by the experienced teachers. Only in the way can they be clear about their goals and keep their passion for study.