湖南省高三英语自主招生测评试题.docVIP

2013年省重点高中自主招生测评英语试题卷注意事项：1答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号码写在答题卡和本试卷上，并认真核对答题卡条形码上的准考证号码。2选择题和非选择题均须在答题卡上作答，在本试题卷和草稿纸上作答无效。3考生在答题卡上作答的要求如下：选择题部分请按题号用2b铅笔填涂方框，修改时不留痕迹；非选择题部分请按题号用0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔书写，否则作答无效；请勿折叠答题卡，并保持字体工整、笔迹清晰、卡面整洁。4本试题卷共6页。如缺页、漏印、字迹模糊，考生须及时报告监考老师，否则后果自负。单项填空 (每小题1分，共20分)从a、b、c、d中选出可以填入各题空白处的最佳选项。she walked home by herself, _ she knew that it was dangerous. a. if b. so that c. although d. because people are concerned about the quality of the air they _.a. hear b. eat c. drink d. breathe he was breathing _ after the relay race. a. heavily b. slowly c. carefully d. weakly i didnt mean to break your vaseit was just _. a. an accident b. an advantage c. an agreement d. an experience we couldnt understand: what could _ his sudden change of mind? a. enjoy b. explainc. accept d. mean jakes passed his exams. were going out to _. a. joke b. invite c. celebrated. argue the professor was so _, hardly anyone came to class. a. popular b. boringc. friendly d. lively late again! whats your _ this time? a. expression b. saying c. meaning d. excuse geography is the study of the countries of the world and of such things _ the land, seas, climate, towns, and population. a. asb. that c. which d. what i looked under _ bed and found _ book i lost last week. a. the; a b. the: the c. 不填；the d. the; 不填id like some more cheese. sorry, theres _ left. a. some b. a littlec. noned. fewlook! hes running so fast! hard to_ his legs were once broken. a. know b. imagine c. realize d. findmy cousin went to canada two yours ago. he _ there for a few months and then went to america. a. worked b. would work c. would be working d. has been workingthe flowers were so lovely that they _ in no time. a. sold b. had been sold c. were sold d. would sell_ can we get the photos? in two days. a. how long b. how often c. how much d. how soon have you read the book _ i lent to you? a. that b. whom c. when d. whosealthough linda tried hard in the exam, she did _ than her brother. a. more badly b. much better c. much badly d. much worse _ at the door before entering please. a. knocked b. knockc. knocking d. to knocksally doesnt like pop music, does she? _. she is a fan of classical music. a. no, she doesb. yes, she does c. no, she doesnt d. yes, she doesnt _ good advice he gave us! a. how a b. what a c. how d. what 完形填空 (每小题1分，共10分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2130各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。in front of the big shibuya train station in tokyo, there is a life-size bronze (青铜) statue of a dog. even though the statue is very small when compared to the huge neon (霓虹灯) signs flashing, it isnt 21 to find. it has been used as 22 since 1934 and today you will find hundreds of people waiting there for their friends to 23 just look for the crowds（人群）. hachiko, an akita dog, was born in 1923 and brought to tokyo in 1924. his owner, professor eisaburo uyeno and he close friends that cannot be 24 right from the start. each day hachiko would go with his owner, a professor at the imperial university, to shibuya train station when he left for work. when he came back, the professor would always find the dog 25 waiting for him. 26 , the professor died suddenly at work in 1925 before he could return home. 27 hachiko was still a young dog, the bond between him and his owner was very strong and he 28 to wait at the station every day. sometimes, he would stay there for days at a time, though some believe that he kept returning because of the food he was given by street vendors. over time he became a 29 sight to people going to and from work every day. in 1934, a statue of him was put 30 the station. in 1935, hachiko died at the place he last saw his friend alive. 21. a. difficult b. important c. pleasant d. polite 22. a. a parking place b. a training center c. a starting line d. a meeting point23. a. leave b. arrive c. die d. work 24. a. touched b. separated c. reached d. moved 25. a. nervously b. disappointedly c. patiently d. carefully26. a. sadly b. clearly c. luckily d. honestly 27. a. because b. since c. although d. unless 28. a. decided b. agreed c. offered d. continued 29. a. familiar b. strange c. comfortable d. funny 30. a. inside b. outside c. behind d. above 阅读理解 (每小题2分，共30分)阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目。从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。 ascientists would like to place a huge mirror in space above the earth. it might be sixty miles wide. it would be used to catch the rays (光线) of the sun. it would direct the suns rays upon the earth as a child might do to make sunlight dance on the wall with a hand mirror. why do they want to do this? the suns rays could be helpful in many ways. they could light up cities by night. the warm rays could stop frosts (霜冻) which might come at night and hurt fruit crops. they could melt (融化) dangerous icebergs in the ocean. perhaps they could change cloud movements and bring rain where it is needed. 31. the huge mirror would _. a. stand 60 miles in height (高度) b. be 60 miles from side to side c. cover 60 miles of the earth d. be 60 miles above the earth 32. the mirror would be used to _. a. reflect (反射) sunlight b. absorb (吸收) sunlight c. see what the earth looks like d. see how clouds move 33. the strong light from the mirror could possibly _. a. hurt fruit crops b. set fire to cities c. bring longer daytime d. shine through walls 34. the huge mirror is _. a. something in a story b. already made c. just an idea d. to be made soon bliverpool city council (市政厅) want to clear the city of fat pigeons (鸽子). they say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat. the pigeons get bigger because they normally eat seeds (种子) and insects (昆虫) for their main food, not high-fat junk food they are eating in the city centre. the council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons makes the streets crowded (拥挤)with these birds. they hope to encourage the birds to move away from the city centre and into parks and open spaces. ten robotic birds have been brought into the city centre to scare the pigeons away and visitors are asked not to give the pigeons any food. the mechanical birdsknown as robopswill sit on the roofs of buildings. they can be moved around to different places. they look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons. they even make noises and flap their wings to scare the pigeons. they hope that the pigeons will go away before the city becomes the european capital of culture in two years. 35. liverpool city council want to clear the city of fat pigeons because _. a. the pigeons are eating junk food b. the pigeons might get killed c. the pigeons make the city center crowded d. the pigeons sit on the roofs of buildings 36. what do we know about a peregrine falcon? a. it scares the robotic birds. b. it is an enemy of the pigeons. c. it looks like a pigeon. d. it likes the food people give it. 37. which of the following is probably true according to passage? a. the robots will fly around the city center like real birds. b. pigeons get fat because they eat seeds and insects. c. liverpool is the european capital of culture. d. the pigeons like the food that people give them. cmay: happenings from the pastmay 5, 1884isaac murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in american history, rides buchanan to win his first kentucky derby. he becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.may 9, 1754benjamin franklins pennsylvania gazette produces perhaps the first american political cartoon (漫画), showing a snake cut in pieces with the words “join or die” printed under the picture.may 11, 1934the first great dust storm of the great plains dust bowl, the result of years of drought (干旱), blows topsoil all the way to new york city and washington, d.c.may 19, 1994jacqueline lee bouvier kennedy onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s died of cancer in new york city at the age of 64.may 24, 1844samuel f.b morse taps out the first message, “what hath god wrought,” over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from washington, d.c., to baltimore, md.38. we know from the text that buchanan is _. a. isaacs father b. a winning horsec. a slave taking care of horses d. the first racing horse in kentucky39. what is the title of the first american political cartoon? a. join or die b. pennsylvania gazette c. what hath god wrought d. kentucky derby40. in which year did the former first lady jacqueline die? a. 1934 b. 1960 c. 1964 d. 199441. which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history? a. washing to, d.c. b. new york city c. kentucky d. pennsylvaniada young man from a village called nawalapitiya married a young woman from maliyuwa, a nearby village. they lived with the mans big familyhis parents, his brothers, their wives and children. the family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. every day she fed it with fruit and sugar. three months later the woman went back to her parents home, having quarreled with her husband. soon the elephant refused to eat and work. it appeared to be ill and heart-broken. one morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house. it went to the womans home. on seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. the young woman was so moved (感动) by the act of the animal that she returned to her husbands home. 42. the writer wrote the story in order to _. a. show that elephants are very clever b. tell how a woman trained a wild animal c. show that women care more for animals than men do d. tell how an animal reunited (团圆) a husband and wife 43. the woman left her new home _. a. to visit her own parents in maliyuwa b. to see if the elephant would follow her c. because she was angry with her husband d. because she was tired of the large family 44. after the young woman left her husbands home, the elephant _. a. returned to the forest b. was sad because it missed her c. went to look for a new home d. was sick because nobody fed it 45. the young wife went back to her husband because _. a. she knew he had sent the animal to her b. the elephant had come to look for her c. h