广州市2013高考英语考前训练题有答案.doc

广州市2013届高三考前训练
英 语
本试卷共三大题, 满分135分。考试用时120分钟。
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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。
Some years ago, Houston airport faced a troubling customer-relations issue. Passengers were making a huge number of 1 about the long waits at baggage claim (行李提取处). In response, the airport managers 2 the number of baggage handlers. The plan worked: the average wait fell to eight minutes. But the complaints 3 despite the apparent success.
4 , the managers undertook a more careful, on-site analysis. They found that it took passengers a minute to walk from their 5 gates to baggage claim and seven more minutes to get their bags. Roughly 88 percent of their time, in other words, was spent standing around 6 waiting for their bags.
So the airport decided on a new approach: instead of reducing wait time, it 7 the arrival gates farther away from baggage claim area. Passengers now had to 8 six times longer to get their bags. Complaints dropped to near zero.
This story shows a general 9 : the experience of waiting is defined only partly by the actual length of the wait. Often the psychology of queuing is more 10 than the length of the wait itself. Occupied time (walking to baggage claim) feels 11 than unoccupied time (standing at baggage claim). Research on 12 has shown that, on average, people overestimate how long they’ve waited in a line by about 36 percent.
This is also why one finds mirrors next to lifts. The spread of high-rise buildings after World War II led to complaints about lift 13 . The motive behind the mirrors was 14 to the one used at the Houston airport: give people something to 15 their time, and the wait seems shorter. xK b1.Co m
1. A. suggestions B. questions C. complaints D. challenges
2. A. evaluated B. counted C. decreased D. increased
3. A. continued B. disappeared C. doubled D. changed
4. A. Annoyed B. Puzzled C. Discouraged D. Excited
5. A. exit B. landing C. arrival D. departure
6. A. uncomfortably B. aimlessly C. hopelessly D. impatiently
7. A. freed B. sent C. moved D. removed
8. A. wait B. walk C. waste D. sit
9. A. principle B. approach C. belief D. reason
10. A. scientific B. interesting C useful D. important
11. A. slower B. shorter C. more difficult D. more painful
12. A. figures B. baggage C. queuing D. standing
13. A. delays B. quality C. safety D. repairs
14. A. devoted B. superior C. familiar D. similar
15. A. take B. occupy C. use D. value

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使用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。
There was once a small boy who would never get dressed when his parents told him to, 16 would he wear what they wanted him to. He preferred unusual clothes, but above all, he liked taking his time. His parents were always in a rush, and wanted him to be much 17 (quick), but the boy didn't like this, 18 he would slow down even more.
One day, his parents got so angry when he refused to dress, that they told him to go out without any clothes at all. 19 (amuse), the boy followed his parents out of the door. He held a belief 20 nobody could do anything to him.
As the boy stood outside his house with nothing on, waiting for his parents’ car, along came the local pig farmer. The farmer, 21 was almost deaf, had very poor eyesight. Not only that, but also he 22 (forget) his glasses that day. When he saw the boy’s pink skin, he thought it was one of his pigs. Shouting and pushing, the farmer forced 23 into a pig cage.
The boy begged him to stop but the deaf farmer couldn’t hear.
When found by his parents, the terrified boy never again wanted to be mistaken 24 anything other than a human being. Now he’s the first 25 (get) dressed, and always looks neat.
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
The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare, if the findings of a study into children’s writing are anything to go by. Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found they were increasingly using American words such as garbage, trash can, sidewalk, candy, sneakers, soda, and flashlight.
The stories, written by pupils aged 7 to 13, show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. “Smart” is now often used for “clever” and “cranky” for “irritable”.
Television also has a powerful influence on children’s work, with Lady Gaga and Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names from TV cropping up repeatedly.
But pupils are let down by basic spelling, punctuation and grammar, according to the study by Oxford University Press (OUP), which looked at the entries to BBC Radio Two’s 500 Words” competition.
Children struggled to correctly spell simple words such as “does” and “clothes” and often failed to use the past tense correctly, frequently writing “rised” instead of “rose” or “thinked” instead of “thought”.
Researchers also found that punctuation was underused, especially semi-colons and speech marks. Some did not know how to use capital letters. However, exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35,171 examples in total, with some young writers using five at a time！
Popular US fiction such as the Twilight novels and films is thought to be fueling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling. Meanwhile, fears that texting was corrupting children’s written work were unfounded, they said, with youngsters only using text language when they were referring to a text message.
Samantha Armstrong from OUP said: “Perhaps we are catching a glimpse of the language of the future.” Chris Evans, whose radio show runs the competition, said the results were “fascinating”, adding: “Who’d have thought that Messi and Gaga would be some of the most used names?”

26. According to the passage, which of the following is an example of British English?
A. sneakers B. fairy cakes C. tuxedo D. cranky
27. Which of the following was NOT frequently found in the pupils’ stories?
A. Text message language.
B. A variety of Americanisms.
C. Overuse of exclamation marks.
D. Names of famous TV stars.
28. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Lionel Messi is now the most famous footballer in Britain.
B. American movies and books are increasingly popular in Britain.
C. The national writing competition is organised by Oxford University Press.
D. Written English is more influenced by classical literature than popular US culture.
29. The underlined phrase “unfounded” in Paragraph 7 probably means _________.
A. unbearable B. unnoticeable C. not found D. not based on facts
30. The passage is intended to _________.
A. show that British children have spellings and grammar abilities
B. share the experience about how to teach written English in a correct way
C. discuss the noticeable changes and evolution of written English in Britain
D. criticize the influence of popular US culture on British children’s language use
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B
Bissel is a small village of the West Sahara. It lies next to a l.5-square-kilometer oasis（绿洲）, from where three days and nights are generally required to go out of the desert. However, before Ken Levin discovered it in 1926, none of the Bissel villagers had ever walked out of the desert. Reportedly, they were not unwilling to leave this barren land. Many had previously tried but failed, always somehow finding themselves back at the oasis after several days of trying to walk out.
When interviewed by Ken Levin, an expert at the British Royal College of Sciences, the villagers explained that no matter which direction they walked it always brought them back to the village.
Why couldn’t the Bissel villagers walk out of the desert? Levin was very puzzled. He had, by himself, managed to walk north from the village and reach the nearest town in three and a half days. He decided to carry out an experiment to solve the mystery. He and a Bissel villager called Argutel, would walk out of the desert together. They prepared enough water for a half-a-month journey and two camels. But this time Ken Levin didn't bring his compass. Levin would follow Argutel.
Ten days later, they had walked for about 500 miles but were still in the desert. On the 11th morning, an oasis came into their view. They were back at Bissel. Levin now understood why the Bissel people couldn’t escape the desert. They had no knowledge of the North Star, which had for centuries provided sailors and other travelers with a point of direction. In the desert, if a person goes forward relying only on their senses, they will not be able to travel in a straight line. Rather they will travel in a very large circle and eventually track back to where they began. Levin explained to Argutel the function of the North Star and said, “As long as you rest in the daytime and walk towards the brightest star at night, you would be able to walk out of the desert.” Argutel did as he was told. Three days later, he came to the edge of the desert.
Now in the West Sahara, Bissel has become a bright pearl, where tens of thousands of tourists come every year. Argutel’s bronze statue stands in the center of the town. On its base are the words: __________________________________.

31. Villagers in Bissel had never walked beyond the desert because ________.
A. they had no method to find their way out
B. they were discouraged by their failures
C. they had a fear of the outside world
D. they had no desire to leave the oasis
32. Ken Levin asked Argutel to walk to the north in order to ________.
A. see how far away Bissel was to the edge of the desert
B. prove that people could walk out of the desert
C. tell people not to walk in circles
D. show Argutel was a great person
33. According to the passage, Ken Levin ________.
A. knew Argutel before he came to the village
B. came to Bissel to do experiments on behalf of his college
C. became the first man to walk out of the desert from Bissel Village
D. taught Bissel villagers knowledge of the North Star when he first arrived
34. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. Ken Levin didn’t walk south because it would take more days
B. the use of a compass was necessary to walk out of the desert
C. tourism in Bissel has been greatly developed and improved
D. Argutel became the leader of Bissel after his return
35. Which of the following can most probably be found at the base of Argutel’s statue?
A. Two heads are better than one.
B. Where there is a will, there is a way.
C. A long journey starts with the first step.
D. A new life starts from the fixed direction.
C
Years ago, I was watching a detective show on TV where the fingerprints of a criminal are required. The hero invites the bad guy to his home and offers him a glass of water. The man takes the glass and drinks the water. After he leaves the hero dramatically brings out a handkerchief and picks up the glass. His expressions show the satisfaction at a job well done. The bad guy will soon be arrested.
At that time, I found it amazing – how can prints on a glass identify people? My dad explained that if you were to press your thumb on an inkpad and then on a sheet of white paper you will leave a smudge or print, which no one else in the world can make. The same would be true for each of your fingers. The Chinese were the first to use a fingerprint as a type of identification – it was used as a signature on important documents, although they had no way of independently matching it with the owner.
Each print is one-of-a-kind and no two people have the same characteristic. Scientists and criminologists (those who study criminal characteristics) determine the differences between fingerprints by a careful study of their curves and not by their general shape or pattern.
In 1892, an English scientist, Sir Francis Galton, published a book on using fingerprints to solve crimes. At the same time in Argentina, a police researcher Juan Vucetich was also working towards a fingerprint classification system. However, it was in 1896 that Sir Edward Henry, then serving as Inspector General of Police in India, developed the print classification system that would eventually be used globally.
Sir Edward Henry and his assistant Khan Haque discovered that all fingerprints could be systematically classified according to their general curve patterns. He divided them into three classes on the basis of their general pattern: loops (箕形纹), whorls (斗形纹), and arches (弓形纹). By counting the curve between any two points in the pattern, each of the ten fingers could be classified into a particular group. Taking the group together as a unit you have a complete system of classifying fingerprints.
In June 1897, the world’s first fingerprint bureau was set up in Calcutta and in 1901, Sir Edward Henry was appointed head of Scotland Yard in London, where he applied the system. This system, called the science of fingerprint identification, is still used by police departments all over the world today with few changes.

36. The purpose of the first paragraph is to show _________.
A. how a person’s fingerprints are taken
B. how satisfied the hero was with his work
C. how careful detectives should be when working
D. how fingerprints are commonly used to solve crimes
37. Fingerprints were first used in China to _______.
A. sign documents B. capture criminals
C. show respect D. prove identity
38. In which country was today’s fingerprint classification system developed?
A. China B. Scotland C. Argentina D. India
39. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The fingerprint classification system has experienced great changes.
B. For more than a century, fingerprints have been applied to crime solving.
C. Henry’s fingerprint classification system was immediately accepted internationally.
D. By comparing the general shape of two fingerprints, one can easily tell their difference.
40. What is the best title for this passage?
A. Detectives and Criminals
B. Scientists and Criminologists
C. Fingerp