2013年江苏省高考英语试卷

1、2013年江苏省高考英语试卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。1（1.5分）What does the man want to do？ATake photosBBuy a cameraCHelp the woman2（1.5分）What are the speakers talking about？AA noisy nightBTheir life in townCA place of living3（1.5分）Where is the man now？Aon his way BIn a restau

2、rant CAt home4（1.5分）What will Celia do？AFind a playerBWatch a gameCPlay basketball5（1.5分）What day is it when the conversation takes place？ASaturdayBSundayCMonday6（3分）听第6段材料，回答第6、7题6What is Sara going to do？ABuy John a giftBGive John a surpriseCInvite John to France7What does the man think of Sara

3、9;s plan？AFunnyBExcitingCStrange7（3分）听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8Why does Diana say sorry to Peter？AShe has to give up her travel planBShe wants to visit another cityCShe needs to put off her test9What does Diana want Peter to do？AHelp her with her studyBTake a book to her friendCTeach a geography lesson8（4.5分）听

4、第8段材料，回答第10至12题10Why does the man call the woman？ATo tell her about her new jobBTo ask about her job programCTo plan a meeting with her11Who needs a new flat？AAlexBAndreaCMiranda12Where is the woman now？AIn BaltimoreBIn New YorkCIn Avon9（6分）（1）What does Jan consider most important when he judges a r

5、estaurant？AWhere the restaurant isBWhether the prices are lowCHow well the food is prepared（2）When did Jan begin to write for a magazine？AAfter he came back to SwedenBBefore he went to the United StatesCAs soon as he got his first job in 1982（3）What may Jan do to find a good restaurant？ATalk to peop

6、le in the streetBSpeak to taxi driversCAsk hotel clerks（4）What do we know about Jan？AHe cooks for a restaurantBHe travels a lot for his workCHe prefers American food10（6分）听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17What do we know about the Plaza Leon？AIt's a new building BIt's a small town CIt's a public place1

7、8When do Parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon？ASaturday nights BSunday afternoons CFridays and Saturdays19Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best？AVia del Mar Street BFernmando Street CHermandes Street20Why does the Speaker like Horatio Street best？AIt has an old stone surfaceBIt

8、is named after a writerCIt has famous university第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分15分）第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑11（1分）Generally，students'inner motivation with high expectations from others _ essential to their development（）AisBareCwasDwere12（1分）The Tshirt I receiv

9、ed is not the same as is shown online_？But I promise you we'll look into it right away（）AWho saysBHow comeCWhat forDWhy worry13（1分）The town is so beautiful!I just love itMe tooThe character of the town is well （）AqualifiedBpreservedCdecoratedDsimplified14（1分）Lionel Messi，_ the record for the mos

10、t goals in a calendar year，is considered the most talented football player in Europe（）AsetBsettingCto setDhaving set15（1分）Could I use your car tomorrow morning？SureI _ a report at home（）Awill be writingBwill have writtenChave writtenDhave been writing16（1分）I am always delighted when I receive an ema

11、il from you The party on July 1st I shall be pleased to attend（）AOn account ofBIn response toCIn view ofDWith regard to17（1分）"Never for a second，"the boy says，"_ that my father would come to my rescue"（）AI doubtedBdo I doubtCI have doubtedDdid I doubt18（1分）In the global economy，a

12、 new drug for cancer， it is discovered，will create many economic possibilities around the world（）AwhateverBwhoeverCwhereverDwhichever19（1分）Team leaders must ensure that all members their natural desire to avoid the embarrassment associated with making mistakes（）Aget overBlook overCtake overDcome ove

13、r20（1分）I should not have laughed if I you were serious（）AthoughtBwould thinkChad thoughtDhave thought21（1分）Shortly after suffering from a massive earthquake and to ruins，the city took on a new look（）AreducingBreducedCbeing reducedDhaving reduced22（1分）The president of the World Bank says he has a pas

14、sion for China，_ he remembers starting as early as his childhood（）AwhereBwhenCwhatDwhich23（1分）With inspiration from other food cultures，American food culture can take a for the better（）AshareBchanceCturnDlead24（1分）What about your selfdrive trip yesterday？Tiring!The road is being widened，and we_ a ro

15、ugh ride（）AhadBhaveCwould haveDhave had25（1分）Thank you for the flowers I thought they might cheer you up（）AThat's rightBAll rightCI mall rightDIt's all right四、标题26（20分）I used to believe in the American Dream，which meant a job，a mortgage （按揭），credit cards，successI wanted it and worked toward

16、it like everyone else，all of us （36） chasing the same thingOne year，through a series of unhappy events，it all fell（37） I found myself homeless and aloneI had my truck and $56I （38） the countryside for some place I could rent for the （39） possible amountI came upon a shabby house four miles up a wind

17、ing mountain road （40） the Potomac River in West VirginiaIt was （41） ，full of broken glass and rubbishI found the owner，rented it，and （42） a corner to camp inThe locals knew nothing about me，（43） slowly，they started teaching me the （44） of being a neighborThey dropped off blankets，candles，and tools，

18、and began （45） around to chatThey started to teach me a belief in a （46） American Dreamnot the one of individual achievement but of （47） What I had believed in，all those things I thought were （48） for a civilized life，were nonexistent in this place（49） on the mountain，my most valuable possessions we

19、re my （50） with my neighborsFour years later，I moved back into （51） I saw many people were having a really hard time，（52） their jobs and homesI managed to rent a big enough house to （53） a handful of peopleThere are four of us now in the house，but over time I've had nine people come in and move

20、on to other placesWe'd all be in （54） if we hadn't banded togetherThe American Dream I believe in now is a shared oneIt's not so much about what I can get for myself； it's about （55） we can all get by together36AseparatelyBequallyCviolentlyDnaturally37AoffBapartCoverDout38AcrossedBle

21、ftCtouredDsearched39AfullestBlargestCfairestDcheapest40AatBthroughCoverDround41AoccupiedBabandonedCemptiedDrobbed42AturnedBapproachedCclearedDcut43AbutBalthoughCotherwiseDfor44AbenefitBlessonCnatureDart45AstickingBlookingCswingingDturning46AwildBrealCdifferentDremote47AneighborlinessBhappinessCfrien

22、dlinessDkindness48AuniqueBexpensiveCrareDnecessary49AUpBDownCDeepDAlong 50AcooperationBrelationshipsCsatisfactionDappointments51ArealityBsocietyCtownDlife52AcreatingBlosingCquittingDoffering53Aput inBturn inCtake inDget in54AyardsBsheltersCcampsDcottages55AwhenBwhatCwhetherDhow第三部分:阅读理解(共4小题;每小题4分,满

23、分30分)请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。27（4分）56The leaflet is to inform visitors of the Park's Aadvanced management Bthrill performancesCentertainment facilities Dthoughtful services57A visitor to the Park can Arent a stroller outside Front Gate Bask for first aid by Thunder Run

24、Csmoke in the Water Park Dleave his pet at KidZville28（6分）We've considered several ways of paying to cut inline：hiring line standers，buying tickets from scalpers （票贩子），or purchasing line cutting privileges directly from，say，an airline or an amusement parkEach of these deals replaces the morals o

25、f the queue （waiting your turn） with the morals of the market （paying a price for faster service） Markets and queuespaying and waitingare two different ways of allocating things，and each is appropriate to different activitiesThe morals of the queue，"First come，first served，"have an egalita

26、rian（平等主义的） appealThey tell us to ignore privilege，power，and deep pocketsThe principle seems right on play grounds and at bus stopsBut the morals of the queue do not govern all occasionsIf I put my house up for sale，I have no duty to accept the first offer that comes along，simply because it's th

27、e firstSelling my house and waiting for a bus are different activities，properly governed by different standardsSometimes standards change，and it is unclear which principle should applyThink of the recorded message you hear，played over and over，as you wait on hold when calling your bank："Your ca

28、ll will be answered in the order in which it was received"This is essential for the morals of the queueIt's as if the company is trying to ease our impatience with fairness But don't take the recorded message too seriouslyToday，some people's calls are answered faster than othersCall

29、 center technology enables companies to"score"incoming call sand to give faster service to those that come from rich placesYou might call this telephonic queue jumping Of course，markets and queues are not the only ways of allocating thingsSome goods we distribute by merit，others by need，st

30、ill others by chanceHowever，the tendency of markets to replace queues，and other nonmarket ways of allocating goods is so common in modern life that we scarcely notice it anymoreIt is striking that most of the paid queuejumping schemes we've consideredat airports and amusement parks，in call cente

31、rs，doctors'offices，and national parksare recent developments，scarcely imaginable three decades agoThe disappearance of the queues in these places may seem an unusual concern，but these are not the only places that markets have entered58According to the author，which of the following seems governed

32、 by the principle"First come，first served"？ ATaking buses BBuying housesCFlying with an airline DVisiting amusement parks59The example of the recorded message in Paragraphs 4 and 5 illustrates Athe necessity of patience in queuing Bthe advantage of modern technologyCthe uncertainty of allo

33、cation principle Dthe fairness of telephonic services60The passage is meant to Ajustify paying for faster servicesBdiscuss the morals of allocating thingsCanalyze the reason for standing in lineDcriticize the behavior of queue jumping29（8分）If a diver surfaces too quickly，he may suffer the bendsNitro

34、gen（氮） dissolved（溶解） in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressureThe consequence，if the bubbles （气泡）accumulate in a joint，is sharp pain and abent bodythus the nameIf the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain，the consequence can be death Other airbreathing animals also suffer this

35、 decompression（减压） sickness if they surface too fast：whales，for exampleAnd so，long ago，did ichthyosaursThat these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bonesIf bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supplyThis kills the cells in the bone，and consequent

36、ly weakens it，sometimes to the point of collapseFossil （化石）bones that have caved in on them selves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in th

37、e pastWhat he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million yearsTo this end，he and his colleagues traveled the world's naturalhistory museums，looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Ju

38、rassic and Cretaceous periodsWhen he started，he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils，reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompressionInstead，he was astonished to discover the oppositeMore than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffe

39、red the bends before they died，but not a single Triassic specimen（标本） showed evidence of that sort of injury If ichthyosaurs did evolve an antidecompression means，they clearly did so quicklyand，most strangely，they lost it afterwardsBut that is not what Dr Rothschild thinks happenedHe suspects it was

40、 evolution in other animals that caused the change Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator （捕食动物） such as a large sharkOne of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles，both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunche

41、sTriassic oceans，by contrast，were mercifully sharkand crocodilefreeIn the Triassic，then，ichthyosaurs were top of the food chainIn the Jurassic and Cretaceous，they were prey（猎物） as well as predatorand often had to make a speedy exit as a result61Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bend

42、s？ AA twisted bodyBA gradual decrease in blood supplyCA sudden release of nitrogen in bloodDA drop in blood pressure62The purpose of Rothschild's study is to see Ahow often ichthyosaurs caught the bendsBhow ichthyosaurs adapted to decompressionCwhy ichthyosaurs bent their bodiesDwhen ichthyosaur

43、s broke their bones63Roths child's finding stated in Paragraph 4 Aconfirmed his assumptionBspeeded up his research processCdisagreed with his assumptionDchanged his research objectives64Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs Afailed to evolve an anti decompression meansBgradually deve

44、loped measures against the bendsCdied out because of large sharks and crocodilesDevolved an anti decompression means but soon lost it30（12分）Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novelAnd he surely deserves additional praise：the man who popularized the clever literary attack on raci

45、smI say clever because antislavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil WarHBStowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is only the most famous exampleThese early stories dealt directly with slaveryWith minor exceptions，Twain planted his attacks on slavery and p

46、rejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirelyHe drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the storyAgain and again，in the postwar years，Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of raceConsider the most controversial，at least today，of Twain's novel

47、s，Adventures of Huckleberry FinnOnly a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn，Twain's most widely read taleOnce upon a time，people hated the book because it struckthemas rudeTwain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel"trash and su

48、itable only for the slums（贫民窟）"More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim，the escaped slave，and many occurrences of the word nigger（The term Nigger Jim，for which the novel is often severely criticized，never appears in it）But the attacks were and are sillyand miss the

49、pointThe novel is strongly antislaveryJim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroicAs JChadwick has pointed out，the character of Jim was a first in American fictiona recognition that the slave had two personalities，"the voice of surviva

50、l within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual：Jim，the father and the man"There is much moreTwain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his dayWritten at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes t

51、o be inferior （低等的） to whites，especially in intelligence，Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birthA slave gave birth to her master's baby and，for fear that the child should be sold South，switched him for the master's baby by his wifeThe slave's lightskinned ch

52、ild was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slaveholding classThe master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slaveThe point was difficult to miss：nurture （养育），not nature，was the key to social statu

53、sThe features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudicemanner of speech，for examplewere，to Twain，indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victimsTwain's racial tone was not perfectOne is left uneasy，for example，by the lengthy passage in his autobio

54、graphy （自传） about how much he loved what were called"nigger shows"in his youthmostly with white men performing in blackfaceand his delight in getting his mother to laugh at themYet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing realityHis frequent attacks on slavery and pr

55、ejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not Was Twain a racist？Asking the questioning the 21 stcentury is as wise as asking the same of LincolnIf we read the words and attitudes of the past through the"wisdom"of the considered moral judgments of the present，we will find nothing but errorLincoln，who believed the black man the inferior of the white，fought and won a war to free himAnd Twain，raised in a slave state，briefly a soldier，and inventor of Jim，may have done more to ang