2013年高考模擬系列試卷英語試題【新課標(biāo)版】

1、2013年高考模擬系列試卷英語試題【新課標(biāo)版】第一節(jié)：單項填空（共15小題，每小題1分，滿分15分）從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。例：Its so nice to hear from her again. , we last met more than thirty years ago.AWhats moreBThats to sayCIn other wordsDBelieve it or not答案是D。21Buy two CDs and get completely free.Aother Bthe otherCanother

2、Dall22She came in for coffee and told me traffic kept her awake last night.Aa, theBa, 不填Cthe, theDthe, 不填23Its an old car, its very reliable.Aso BbutCorDand24 increasing the distance of your walks, you may lose more weight.AByBFromCOnDFor25Put on your coat! I you down to the doctor.AtakeBam takingCt

3、ookDhave taken26He collected information on 1,000 people, whose IQ when they were ten years old.Ais testedBhas testedCwould testDhad been tested27- Havent I told you that you should be home earlier? - Yes, but I home earlier than I usually do.Awas comingBwill comeCcameDhad come28From the dates on th

4、e gold coin, we know that it was made 500 years ago.AmarkingBmarkedCto markDto be marked29 a little money, Jane was able to buy her mother a lovely new watch.ATo saveBSavingCSavedDHaving saved30The government has taken measures air quality.Ato improveBimprovedCbeing improvedDto be improved31- Mary I

5、 smoke here? - If you , choose a seat in the smoking section.AshouldBcouldCmustDmay32 most parents care about is to provide the best education for their children.AWhatBThatCHowDWhether33In 1963 we moved to New York, my grandparents lived.AwhichBwhereCwhyDwhat34When his dad died, he felt his world ha

6、d turned upside down. Ain caseBas ifCso thatDeven though35If you had seen a doctor, you much better now.AareBwill beCwould beDwould have been第二節(jié) 完型填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。I grew up poor living with six brothers, my father and a wonderful mother. We h

7、ad 36 money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention. I was 37 and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, they could 38 afford a dream.My dream was to be a 39 . When I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety mile per hour fastball. I was also 40 :

8、my high school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who 41 me the difference between having a dream and showing strong belief. One particular 42 with him changed my life forever.It was a summer and a friend recommended me for a summer 43 . This meant a chance for my first income cash for a new bike and new cloth

9、es, and the 44 of savings for a house for my mother. The opportunity was attracting, and I wanted to 45 at it.Then I realized I would have to 46 summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldnt be playing. I was 47 about this.When I told Coach J

10、arvis, he was as 48 as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” he said. “Your 49 days are limited. You cant afford to waste them.”I stood before him with my head 50 , trying to think of how to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was wo

11、rth 51 his disappointment in me.“How much are you going to make at this job?” he demanded.“$ 3.25 an hour,” I replied.“Well, is $ 3.25 an hour the price of a 52 ?” he asked.That 53 laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I devoted myself to 54 that summ

12、er, and within the year I was offered a $ 20,000 contract. I signed with the Denver Broncos in 1984 for $ 1.7 million, and bought my mother the 55 of my dreams.36AsomeBlittleCnoDmuch37AhappyBlovelyCangryDnoisy38AonlyBeverCstillDalmost39AteacherBcoachCdoctorDsportsman40AluckyBsatisfiedChopefulDsurpri

13、sed41AtaughtBaskedCtoldDtrained42AmatchBstoryCmomentDincident43AjobBcampCholidayDcourse44AcauseBstartCneedDamount45AstandBcallClookDjump46Atake outBcut offCput onDgive up47AexcitedBcuriousCanxiousDdisappointed48AmadBpuzzledCregretfulDdiscouraged49AworkingBplayingClearningDshining50AshakingBhangingCh

14、oldingDnodding51AfeelingBsufferingCfacingDexpressing52AdreamBgameCchanceDlife53AofferBpriceCquestionDorder54AstudyBsportsChomeworkDbusiness55AclothesBbikeChouseDgoods第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題，每題2分，滿分40分）第一節(jié)（共15小題；每小題2分，共30分）閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。AObama Still Smokes in SecretUS Preside

15、nt Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products.At a White House sig

16、ning ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday.Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadnt completely kicked the habit. Every now and then he still smokes in secret.“As a former smoker I str

17、uggle with it all the time. Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No.” Obama said at a news conference.“I don t do it in front of my ladsI don ?t do it in front of my familyI would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess up, he saidOnce you go down

18、 this path, it s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so importantThe new law is not about me, it s about the next generation of kids coming upWhat we don t want is kids going down that path, he saidNearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000

19、 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases56The new law makes life difficult for .AObama Btobacco industryCWhite House DUS Food and Drug Administration57What do we know about Obama?AHe no longer smokesBHe still smokes as usual CHe began to smoke at e

20、ighteenDHe is trying hard to give up smoking58According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about Achildren Bofficials Chis family DbusinessmenBThanks a Million, DadI was born disabledA difficult birth, feet first, my head stuckBy my first birthday, I couldnt stand or walkWhen I was three, the d

21、octor told dad I had cerebral palsy （腦癱）A loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my bodyBut no son of my dad s was going to be disabledEvery morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right legThe m

22、uscles were shrunk and twisted togetherBack and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shapeBut my dad s exercise of passion didnt stop thereFor my 13th birthday, he threw me a special partyWhen everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was a-set of boxing glove

23、sWe put them onMy dad kept on beating me mercilesslyEach time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jawI begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasnt picked for Little League. Two weeks later

24、Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid playedDad coached us and made me a pitcher （棒球投手）The power of my dad s love guaranteed I walked and moreIn high school, I became a football starIn 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didnt t have cerebral palsy after allHe explained how

25、and where the doctor s forceps （鑷子） at birth had damaged my brain. My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years agoBut all that counts is the bottom lineAfter all his madness, on this Father s Day, like every Father s Day, I m no longer disabled59What caused the author s disability?A

26、A failed operationBThe doctors forcepsCAn accident in a gameDShrunken and twisted muscles60What do we learn from the passage?AThe author has a talent for boxingBThe author achieved a lot thanks to his father s loveCThe author became a baseball star with the help of his fatherDThe author doesnt think

27、 his father should be so strict with him61Paragraph 3 suggests that the author s father_.Awouldnt give up hope easilyBbelieved his son was a normal childCblamed the doctors for his son s disabilityDcouldnt accept the truth that his son was disabled62The author wrote the passage to _.Aremember his fa

28、therBencourage disabled childrenCshow the difficulty the disabled faceDgive advice to the parents of disabled childrenCI live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year - round sunYou may think People ,n such an attractive, fun - filled place are happier than othersIf so you have some mistaken ideas

29、about the nature of happinessMany intelligent people still think fun equals happinessThe truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in commonFun is what we experience during an actHappiness is what we experience after an actIt is a deep, long-lasting emotionGoing to an amusement park or

30、a ball game, watching a movie or television are fun activities that help us relax, temporally forget our problems and maybe even laughBut they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun endsI have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach

31、us that happiness has nothing to do with funThey have constant access to exciting parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells happiness But in memoir（回憶錄） after memoir, they expose Ac unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages

32、and lonelinessAsk a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfyingIf he is honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitmentFor commitment is in fact quite painfulThe single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitementMarriage has suc

33、h moments, but they are not its most distinguishing featuresSimilarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happinessThey can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they wantCouples with babies are lucky to get a whole night s sleepI d

34、ont know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising childrenUnderstanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we can ever come toIt liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can truly increase

35、 our happinessIt liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointlessAnd it frees us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and famous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actua

36、lly may not be happy at all63What is the passage mainly about?AFun and happinessBSuccess and satisfactionCMarriage and commitmentDEntertainment and responsibility64The author probably agrees that _Afun creates long - lasting satisfactionBlong - standing fun may lead to happinessCfun is short-lived w

37、hile happiness is long-lastingDfun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness65What does the author think of marriage?AIt ends in pain BIt means commitmentCIt affords greater fun DIt leads to raising children66If one gets the real meaning of happiness, he _Awill start a business Bwon t place t

38、oo much value on moneyCwill seek for freedom Dwont devote himself to his familyDTime and how we experience it have always puzzled usPhysicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum （鐘擺） and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock o

39、r calendarAs some-one who understood the distinction observed, When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hoursPsychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings a

40、s we ageThey also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to passFor example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beachSince most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in structured

41、tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow olderExpectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidlyAlmost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere weve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when well arrive

42、, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine. Thus taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock.When was become as identical as identical as be

43、ads（小珠子）on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your dayto stop time, so to speak.Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days of our youth seems so full

44、 and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesnt have to be.67The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is used to show .Apsychological time is quite puzzlingBtime should not be measured by a pendulumCphysical time is di

45、fferent from psychological timeDphysical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time68Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?AOur sense of time changes.BWe spend less time at the beach.CMore time is structured and scheduled.DTime is structured with too many appointments.69In Parag

46、raph 3 “novelty” probably means .AexcitementBunfamiliarityCimaginationDamusement70The purpose of the passage is to .Agive various explanations about timeBdescribe how we experience time psychologicallyCshow the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on timeDexplain why time flies and how to

47、 slow it down psychologically第二節(jié) （共5小題；每小題2分，共10分） 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的七個選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。A 7.0 magnitude（級）earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile. And few weeks later, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turke

48、y, killing at least 57 people.The earthquakes kept coming hard and fast. 71 Its not. The problem is whats happening above ground, not underground, experts say. 72 Theyre rapidly putting up buildings that cant stand up to earth quakes, scientists believer.And news reports and better earthquake monito

49、ring make it seem as if earth quakes are increasing all the time.On average, there are 134 earthquakes a year that have a magnitude between 6.0 and 6.9. So far this year there have been 40 earthquakesmore than in most years for that time period. But thats because the 8.8 quake in Chile caused a larg

50、e number of strong aftershocks.Also, its not the number of quakes, but their destructive effects that gain attention. The death is largely due to building standards, 73 Paul Earle, a US seismologist, called for better building standards in the worlds big cities.Of the 130 cities worldwide with populations of more than I million, more than half are likely to be hit by earthquakes. 74 “If you have a problem feeding yourself, yo