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20122013年下期高二中考试题英语. 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115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。we often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects(缺陷)that can never be changed. “im impatient.” “im always behind.” “i always put things off！”youve surely heard them. maybe youve used them to describe yourself. these comments may come from stories about us that have been _1_ for yearsoften from as far back as childhood. these stories may have no _2_ in fact. but they can set low expectations for us. as a child，my mother said to me，“marshall，you have no mechanical skills，and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” how did these expectations _3_ my development？i was never _4_ to work on cars or be around _5_.when i was 18，i took the us armys mechanical aptitude test. my scores were in the bottom for the entire nation! six years later, _6_, i was at california university, working on my doctors degree. one of my professors，dr. bob tannbaum，asked me to write down things i did well and things i couldnt do. on the positive side，i _7_ down，“research，writing，analysis，and speaking.” on the _8_ side，i wrote，“i have no mechanical skills.”bob asked me how i knew i had no mechanical skills. i explained my life _9_ and told him about my _10_ performance on the army test. bob then asked，“why is it that you can solve _11_ mathematical problems，but you cant solve simple mechanical problems？”suddenly i realized that i didnt _12_ from some sort of genetic defect. i was just living out expectations that i had chosen to _13_.at that point，it wasnt just my family and friends who had been _14_ my belief that i was mechanically hopeless. and it wasnt just the army test, either. i was the one who kept telling myself, “you cant do this!” i realized that as long as i kept saying that，it was going to remain true. on the contrary，if we dont treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects，we can _15_ well in almost anything we choose.1a. said bspoken cspread drepeated2a. basis bplot ccause dmeaning3a. lead bimprove caffect dchange4a. encouraged bdemanded choped dagreed5a. means btools cfacilities dhammers6a. therefore bsomehow cinstead dhowever7a. settled bturned ctook dgot8a. passive bactive cnegative dsubjective9a. experiences btrips croads dpaths10a. unexpected bpoor cexcellent daverage11a. complex badvanced ccommon dprimary12a. arise bseparate csuffer dcome13a. believe bsuspect cadopt dreceive14a. weakening bstrengthening cabandoning daccepting15a. do bgo cwork dget第二节 语法填空(共10小题：每小题l.5分, 满分l5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1625的相应位置上。we high school students do have some growing pains, but we can get rid of them correctly and wisely. 16 , some of us are upset 17 their body styles and looks. its unnecessary and its not important at all. we neednt care about it. it is ones inner beauty 18 matters. second, we sometimes seem to be misunderstood 19 our teachers, parents and classmates. 20 (face) with this, we can find a proper time to have a heart-to-heart talk with them, trying to remove the 21 (understand). some of us have fewer friends. i think being open-minded and friendly will do you good. third, we may fall behind others, 22 makes us stressed. actually we can encourage 23 to work efficiently, full of_24_ (determine). at last, some of us dont have much pocket money, so they feel unhappy. isnt it strange? so long as we have some, thats enough. and we can learn 25 to spend money.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）aparents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do，and home has become much less of a workshop. clothes can be bought ready made; washing can go to the laundry; food can be bought; cooked，canned or preserved; bread is baked and delivered by the baker; milk arrives on the doorstep; meats can be had at the restaurant，the works canteen，and the school dining-room. it is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home，and his children rarely，if ever，see him at his place of work. boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their fathers occupation，and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. the young wage-earner often earns good money，and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence. in textile areas it has long been customary for mothers to go out to work，but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a childs home life，the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years. with mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. when mother works, economic advantages accrue，but children lose something of great value if mothers employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from school.26. the writer mentions home as workshop because_.a. fathers often pursue employment at homeb. parents had to make food and necessity themselves for their daily-lifec. many families produce goods at home for saled. both fathers and mothers and mothers in most families are workers27. the writer says that home has become much less of a workshop. he means_.a. in the past, home was more like a workshopb. home is much more of a workshop nowc. home-workshops are becoming fewer and fewerd. home was less like a workshop in the past28. the word “accrue” in the sentence “when mother.accrue,” is closest in meaning to _.a. changeb. dwindlec. doubled. increase29. the chief reason that boys are seldom trained to follow their fathers occupation is _.a. that children nowadays rarely see their fathers at their place of workb. that fathers do not like to pursue employment at home any morec. that there is a wide choice of employment for childrend. that children also like to have jobs outside30. what makes father no longer the only dominant person in a family?a. with their earning，mother and children do not need to depend on father for their life.b. there are many choice of employment for mothers and children.c. father does much less for his children today than he used to.d. the number of married women in employment has increased greatly now.bthe use of the word imitation（模仿） reminds me that we ought to make some more comments on the risk of people imitating what they see on the screen in the way of crime（犯罪） or violence. first there was always a risk of children acting out scenes which could be dangerous. for example, i remember a woman who was head of a middle school telling me that she had happened to look out of her window when the children were on the playground and had seen them putting a small boy on a chair with a rope round his neck and the rope over the branch of a tree; fortunately she was in time to get there before the child was hanged. i remember a film in particular in which the hero who was imprisoned had escaped by electrocuting（通电触死） his guard, the technique of doing this being shown in detail. this was the kind of scene which we could cut for these reasons.in films for young people and adults we always tried to keep off the screen the details of criminal techniques, such as how to open a locked door with a piece of hard plastic or how to open a safe; if we were consulted（请教） before production, i used to advise that the details should not be shown. when i gave talks in prisons about film checking i had full support for this, since fathers who were in prison for criminal offences did not want their children to get on crime.every time i gave a talk in a prison someone used to mention the french film rififi. made by jules dassin in 1954. this remarkable film showed in great detail a robbery of a jewelers shop, the robbery lasting about half an hour and being backed by only natural sound.one of the most brilliant film sequences（连续镜头） of all time. i remember our discussion at the time. we thought that the robbery was finished only with the use of advanced and obviously expensive equipment and that only the most experienced and skilled criminals could possibly imitate it; we believed therefore that it was relatively safe. when talking in prisons some years later i learned that there had been several robberies in which the techniques had been copied, so perhaps we were wrong.31. the writer thinks that_.a. the details of the criminal technique should be keptb. the details of the crime should not be shown on the screenc. children should not imitate what they see on the screend. it is dangerous to imitate what they see on the screen32. what is the writers attitude（态度） towards the film in which the hero had escaped by electrocuting the guard?a. the writer likes it very much. b. the writer is strongly against it.c. the writer thinks the film has some value.d. the writer does not show his/her attitude.33. parents in prison agreed to film checking because_.a. they did not want their children to follow themb. the crime on screen could be imitated without difficultyc. they had given a talk on it d. they had made mistakes34. all the following statements about “rififi” are true except _.a. that the robbery shown needs experience and skillsb. that some very good tools were used in the robberyc. that the film showed the technique in detaild. that the technique of the robbery was not imitated35. it can be inferred from the passage that_.a. it is hard for children to tell the differences between real life and the imaginaryb. only people in prison support film checkingc. only children imitate what they have seen on the screend. the writer used to advise the details of crime should be showncafter too long on the net, even a phone call can be a shock. my boyfriends liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary stone seems more rejecting than id imagined it would be. time itself becomes fluidhours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.for the last three years, since i stopped working as a producer for charlie rose, i have done much of my work as a telecommuter. i submit（提交） articles and edit them by e-mail and communicate with colleagues on internet mailing lists. my boyfriend lives in england; so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.if i desired, i could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. i can order food, and manage my money, love and work. in fact, at times i have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. i watched most of the blizzard of 96 on tv.but after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal i start to feel as though ive merged（融合） with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node（波节） on the net. others on line report the same symptoms. we start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. its like attending an a. a .meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half sipped drink. we have become the net opponents worst nightmare.what first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become avoidance（逃避），a lack of discipline. and once you start replacing real human contact with cyber interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.at times, i turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that id never done previously. the voices of the programs relax me, but then im jarred by the commercials. i find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. “dateline”, “frontline” , “nightline,” cnn, new york 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. work moves from foreground to background.36. compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes_.a. unreal b. unbearable c. misleading d. not understandable37. the passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in_.a. the same city b. the same country c. different countries d. different cities in england38. what does the last paragraph mean?a. having worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange.b. sometimes tv programs give her comfort and even make her forget her work.c. she watches tv a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather.d. she turns on tv now and then in order to get some valuable information.39. what is the authors attitude to the computer?a. at first she likes it but later becomes tired of it.b. she likes it because it is very convenient.c. she dislikes it because tv is more attractive.d. she likes it because it provides an imaginary world. 40. the underlined phrase “coming back out of the cave” probably means_.a. going back to the dreaming worldb. coming back home from the outside worldc. bringing back direct human contactd. getting away from living a strange lifedwithout proper planning, tourism can cause problems. for example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. if tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. they begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. they forget how much tourism can help the countrys economy. it is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. tourism should help a country; keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. tourism should also advance the wealth and happiness of local inhabitants.too much tourism can be a problem. if tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. this means that other parts of the countrys economy can suffer.on the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. businesses can also lose money. it costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first- class roads, and other support facilities（配套设施）needed by tourist attractions. for example, a major international class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. if this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.building a hotel is just a beginning. there must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. all of these support facilities cost money. if they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.41which of the following do you think has been discussed in the part before this selection？a. it is extremely important to develop tourism. b. building roads and hotels is essential.c. support facilities are highly necessary. d. planning is of great importance to tourism.42the underlined word“ inhabitants” （in paragraph 1 ） probably means_.a. tourists b. passengers c. population d. citizens43too much tourism can cause all these problems except _ .a. a bad effect on other industries b. a change of tourists customsc. over-crowdedness of places of interestd. pressure on traffic44it can be inferred from the text that _ .a. the author doesnt like tourism developing so fastb. local people will benefit from tourist attraction c. other parts of a countrys economy wont benefit from tourism muchd. we cant build too many support facilities45the author thinks it is good for local people to know that tourism will _ .a. waste a lot of money b. weaken their economyc. help establish their customs d. help improve their life第二节 信息匹配(共5小题：每小题2分，满分10分)请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。以下是几个国际节日的简要介绍：a. wharfedale festival of performing arts west yorkshire, the united kingdom young people are invited to compete in this art festival with classes covering speech, guitar, dance, poetry and short story writing, and so on. the previous years winners are invited back to perform again at a special concert. with a long and well-known history behind it, this well-attended competition is a kind of forerunner of popular television talent contests such as pop idol. b. sydney writers festival sydney, australia held at sydneys wharf 4/5, the annual sydney writers festival is the biggest literary event of its kind in australia and one of the biggest book fairs in the world. attracting a mix of authors, poets, editors, publishers and book lovers, this is a great event at which people can look through thousands of titles while enjoying workshops, book reading and seminars.c. flipside festival singapore as part of the singapore arts festival outreach programme, flipside aims to reach a much wider audience with three weeks of lively, fun street performances. flipside promises to bring out the adventurous side of you with a combination of physical theatre and mind games as well as free outdoor performances such as music performances from local singers.d. hay festival hay on wye, the united kingdomthe little market town, hay, has a population of 1500 and no fewer than 39 bookshops. it bills itself as the worlds first and most distinguished book town, and is, therefore,