南高自主招生英语试卷

1、南充高中2013年面向省内外自主招生考试英 语 试 题（满分150分，时间90分钟）第I卷一、单项选择：从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。（20个小题，每题1.5分，共30分）1Mum, please tell me the answer to this maths problem. _. You are a senior student and I can't help you all the time.A. No wayB. It's none of my businessC. That's beyond meD. It

2、's not possible2Will it be fine weather tomorrow? I _.A. expect toB. am afraid notC. think notD. would like to3John and I _friends for eight years. We first got to know each other at a Christmas party. But we _each other a couple of times before that.A. had been; have seenB. have been; have seen

3、C. have been; had seenD. had been; had seen4Bob, put the _in the water. OK. I'll see how many days they will live.A. alive fishB. fish aliveC. fish livingD. fish lively5Have you ever considered _your job? No. I consider my job here _interesting.A. to change; to beB. having changed; asC. changing

4、; beingD. changing; 不填6It's true that most of us are able to play the piano, but who can take _ place of pianist to give the concert?A. / , theB. the, aC. the, theD. /, a7The culture and customs of America are more like _of England than of any other country.A. the oneB. the onesC. oneD. those8My

5、 car started up at last.You should have it repaired _it is working now.A. even thoughB. as thoughC. as long asD. in case9Jenny. How do you _the movie _ Zhang Zhiyi? Oh，interesting and instructiveA. find, starsB. consider, starredC. like, starringD. feel, to star10If you want to donate(捐献) blood, the

6、 doctor will first find out what _ your blood is.A. styleB. sortC. kindD. type11Mr. Johnson waited for his old friends at the airport for hours, but they didnt _ until the lights of the waiting hall were off.A. turn upB. turn downC. turn outD. turn away12Is that the small town you often refer to?Rig

7、ht, just the one _ you know I used to work for years.A. thatB. whichC. whereD. with whom13Well, Mashon. You should pay attention to you manners, _ in public situations.Thanks for your advice, I will.A. speciallyB. especiallyC. particularlyD. similarly14Can you tell me the way to the science museum?S

8、orry, Im a newcomer here.Thats all right. _ thank you.A. AnyhowB. ThereforeC. SomewayD. Thus15_that he managed to get the information? Oh, a friend of his helped him.A. Where was itB. What was itC. How was itD. Why was it16Do you prefer jazz _ rock music?Rock music, I think.A. toB. orC. thanD. and17

9、The rest of the students absent from the class meeting _ not allowed to leave the classroom at that time.A. areB. isC. wasD. were18Jenny, you clean the blackboard today, _? But I did it yesterday.A. do youB. will youC. didnt youD. dont you19It is said that he is either playing the guitar or practici

10、ng bungee jumping. However, I dont know _.A. whatB. whenC. whichD. where20Excuse me, but I want to use your computer to type a report.You _ have my computer if you dont care of it.A. shantB. might notC. needntD. shouldnt二、完形填空（20个小题，每题1.5分，共30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2140各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该

11、项涂黑。I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son looked 21 at me and said , “I love you. ” I didn't know what to say. 22 several seconds all I could do was to stand there and 23 down at him. My first thought was that he must need 24 with

12、 his homework or he was trying to 25 me for some news. Finally I asked, “What was that all about ? ” “Nothing , ”he said . “My teacher said we should 26 our parents that we love them and see what they say . It's 27 . The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this “experiment” and

13、how the other parents had 28 . “Most of the fathers had the 29 reacting as you did,”the teacher said.“When I first 30 we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble. The 31 is,” the teacher explained, “feeling

14、loved is an important part of 32 . It is something all people 33 . What I'm trying to tell the children is that it's too 34 we don't all express those feelings. A boy should be 35 to tell his dad he loves him. The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how 36 it is for some of us to say

15、 the things that would be good for us to say. When my son came to me that evening, I held on to him for 37 second. And just 38 he pulled away, I said in my deepest, most manly voice, “Hey, I love you, too.” I don't know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. May

16、be next time one of my children said “I love you ”, it would not take me a whole 39 to think of the right 40 .21. A. downB. awayC. outD. up22. A. AfterB. ForC. At D. On23. A. sitB. get C. look D. knock24. A. restB. time C. help D. paper25. A. reportB. prepare C. answer D. excuse26. A. helpB. tell C.

17、 ask D. make27. A. a matterB. an experiment C. a word D. a sentence28. A. saidB. reacted C. done D. explained29. A. sameB. different C. usual D. common30. A. suggestedB. agreed C. allowed D. planned31. A. pointB. idea C. way D. cause32. A. bodyB. health C. life D. study33. A. have B. know C. take D.

18、 require34. A. bad B. good C. late D. early35. A. fit B. like C. worth D. able36. A. easy B. much C. often D. difficult37. A. a more B. after C. an exactD. an extra38. A. before B. after C. because D. if39. A. day B. week C. afternoon D. night40. A. answer B. key C. reason D. experiment三、阅读理解（共15小题，

19、每题3分，共45分）阅读下面四篇短文，然后从4155各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。ATraveling can be a fun way to gain life experiences, especially during Spring Breaka weeklong school vacation in the United States.But what if youre a student and dont have enough money for a trip? Dont worry.Here are some useful tips

20、.Save: This probably is the most important preparation for traveling. Cut expenses(开支) to fatten your wallet so youll have more choices about where to go and how to get there.Plan ahead: Dont wait until the last minute to plan your trip. Tickets may cost more when bought on short notice. Giving your

21、self several months to get ready can mean security（安全） and savings .Do your homework: No matter where you go, research the places you will visit. Decide what to see. Travel books will provide information on the cheapest hotels and restaurants.Plan sensibly(明智地): Write down what you expect to spend f

22、or food and hotels. Stick to your plan or you may not have enough money to cover everything.Travel in groups: Find someone who is interested in visiting the same places. By traveling with others you can share costs and experiences.Work as you go: Need more money to support your trip? Look for work i

23、n the places you visit.Go off the beaten path: Tourist cities may be expensive. You may want to rethink your trip and go to a less-known area. Smaller towns can have many interesting activities and sights.Pack necessary things: The most important things to take are not always clothes: Remember medic

24、ine in case you get sick and snacks in case you cant find a cheap restaurant.Use the Internet: The Net can help to save money. Some useful websites include www.Travelocity. com, www.bargains-lowest fare. com and www.Economy travel. com.By planning sensibly, even students can enjoy the travel. Your t

25、ravel experiences will be remembered for a lifetime.41. This passage is about_.A. how to plan your travel B. how to travel with less moneyC. how to make your travel interesting D. how to get life experiences42. Before your trip, the first thing you should do is _.A. make a plan of the route B. get i

26、nformation on the InternetC. save money by spending less D. buy tickets in advance43. The writer advises you _.A. to share costs with any other people B. not to go to well-known placesC. not to visit dangerous places D. to buy anything you want to buy44. During your trip, _.A. you need more medicine

27、 than clothesB. you should look for work all the wayC. you can gain valuable life experiencesD. you should remember to do your homeworkBPeople like different kinds of vacations. Some go camping. They swim, fish, cook over a fire and sleep outside. Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city.

28、They go shopping all day and go dancing all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahal or the Louvre.Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They dont want to be “tourists”. They want to have an adventure a surprising and exciting trip. They want to learn s

29、omething and maybe help people too. How can they do this? Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult. Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment. Others work with animals. Others learn about people of the past.Wo

30、uld you like an adventure in the Far North? A team of volunteers is leaving from Murmansk, Russia. The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska. Hes worried about chemicals from factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the environment. If you like exercise and cold weather

31、, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need to ski sixteen kilometers every day.Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There, you can teach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow orders such as “Bring me the large ball”. They also understand opposites. How much

32、more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these intelligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows orcas. We call orcas “Killer Whale”, but they re really dolphinsthe largest kind of dolphin. These beautiful animals travel together in family groups. They

33、move through the ocean with their mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earthwatch is studying how this happens.Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano(火山) exploded there, on S

34、antorini. This explosion was more terrible than Krakatoa or Mount Saint Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in Pompei. Today teams of volunteers are learning more about people from the p

35、ast.Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to travel far, work hard and learn a lot? Then an Earthwatch vacation is for you.45. The Tai Mabal may be _.A. a shopping center B. a hotel C. a dancing ball D. a place of interest46. According to the passage, on an adventure trip, people _.A. m

36、ay not spend much time on sightseeingB. won t meet some difficulties or hardshipsC. cant enjoy themselvesD. cant learn something47. If you want to learn something about people of the past, you can _ .A. join the team to Hawaii B. join the team to GreeceC. join the team to Washington D. join the team

37、 to the Far North48. Which of the following is not true?A. Some people find sightseeing trips boring.B. Earth watch is planning various special adventures.C. The number of orcas is decreasing.D. Volcano Explosions all broke out 3, 500 years ago in Greece.CThere once lived a brilliant student. He was

38、 eager to acquire more and more knowledge. Then he heard of a great teacher to whom he travelled long to meet.On arriving at the teachers feet, he said, “Master, teach me.” The teacher received the student with a smile. He inquired(询问) about him. He asked in detail all that the student had learnt ti

39、ll then.Later, he asked his assistant to get tea for the two of them. A big pot of tea with two cups and saucers was brought before the master. The student volunteered to serve the tea. The master brushed aside his offer with a smile.He asked the student to lift up a cup and saucer so that he could

40、serve him tea. The student lifted his cup and saucer. The master started pouring tea into his cup. The tea filled the cup. The master did not stop. He kept pouring the tea. It flowed out of the cup into the saucer. Still the master kept on pouring the tea. The student was surprised.When the tea star

41、ted overflowing(溢出) the saucer too, the student said “Master, you are serving tea more than the cup can hold.” Master smiled and stopped serving him tea.He said, “Dear student, the same is the case with you. You have learned enough. Your knowledge is overflowing. Put this into practice rather than w

42、anting to acquire more knowledge, which will go waste like this tea.”The student realized the importance of practising what is learnt and left the master, a wiser man.49. The underlined phrase “brush aside” here is closest in meaning to _. A. turn down B. put forward C. ask for D. hear of50. The tea

43、cher served the student tea in order to _. A. express his respect to students longing for knowledgeB. tell the student the right way of serving tea for othersC. advise him never to be proud of himself at any timeD. show it is more important to use ones knowledge51. It can be inferred from the passag

44、e that_. A. the student learned something more valuable from the teacherB. the student was too clever to learn anything from the teacherC. it was impolite for the student to let the teacher pour tea for himD. it was not necessary for us students to master more knowledge52. The best title for the pas

45、sage might be_. A. Learning to Act B. Practice Makes PerfectC. Lifelong Learning D. Learning by DoingDA youth, who had to pay money to get his stolen cell phone back, found that the thieves left pictures of themselves on the phone some of which he recognized as those he paid the money to. Besides th

46、e pictures, the thieves also left the phone numbers they had called. The police, however, are not happy that the young man gave the thieves money and did not contact them.The young man said he went to his car after soccer practice at about 8 pm on Thursday. He found that a window was broken and his

47、$500 cell phone was gone. He told the police but then decided to look for it on his own so he called the missing phone. A person answered the phone at about 1am yesterday and told him to go to a Jackson St address to get his phone back. However, he and a friend found that the address did not exist.

48、Then he called his phone again, and was told to go to the other end of the street and that he would have to pay $20 to get his phone back. There he saw about six teenagerstwo boys and four older girls. They went to talk to the boys, who were armed with knives and warned them not to “try anything”. T

49、he young man paid them $20 and got back his cell phone.Police had been given the details of the phone numbers called, though not the pictures of the thieves. Senior Sergeant Blair said that the young man should have called the police instead of meeting the group. The young man said that if the thiev

50、es had seen a police car they would have run away and “I wouldnt have got my cell phone and nothing wouldve been done”. He also said that he told Telecom (the phone company) at 9 pm on Thursday about the theft but his phone was not cancelled until five hours later.53. Why were the police not happy?A

51、. The young man didnt report the theft to them.B. The young man met the thieves without calling them.C. The young man didnt give the pictures of the thieves to them.D. The young man and his friend were braver than them.54. What do you think will happen next?A. The young man will never do such a sill

52、y thing again.B. The young man will go to arrest the thieves with Blair.C. The thieves will never ask for money again.D. The thieves will be caught by the police soon. 55. Which is the best title for the passage?A. Phone thieves leave their picturesB. Teenagers should be well educatedC. A young man

53、pays to get his cell phone backD. Police should be called after a theft第II卷四、根据短文内容及所给的首字母写出所缺的单词。（每题2分，共10分）。Today roller-skating is easy and funny. But a long time ago, it wasn't easy at all. Before 1760, the idea of s 56 didn't exist. That was changed because of a man named Joseph Merlin.

54、 Merlin's work was making musical instruments. In his spare time he liked to play the violin. Joseph Merlin was a man of ideas and dreams. People called him a dreamer. One day Merlin r 57 an invitation to attend a fancy dress ball (化装舞会). He was very pleased and a little excited. As the day of the party came near, Merlin