【2013届湛江二模】广东省湛江市2013届高三普通高考测试(二)英语试题Word版含答案

试卷类型：A 湛江市2013年普通高考测试（二）英语本试卷共8页，三大题，满分135分。

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I.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15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。

Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all begin to 1_____ our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero?Despite huge 2_____ in cultures, heroes around the world 3 share a number of similar characteristics that instruct and 4 people.A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and a community who will 5_____ But a hero goes beyond mere fame.Heroes serve powers or principles 6_____ than themselves. Like high-voltage transformers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down so that it can be used by 7 _____.The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. Those who 8_____ a real hero will experience life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom do they serve? What are they 9_____ to live and die for? If the answer or evidence suggests theyserve only their own fame, they may be 10_____ persons but not heroes. Madonna and MichaelJackson arefamous, but who would claim that their fans find life more 11_____?Heroes can make things change 12_____ .They have a 13_____ from the mountaintop. They have the skill and the charm to move the masses. They 14_____ new possibilities. It may bepossible for large-scale change to occur without leaders with attractive personalities, but the pace of change would be 15_____ and the vision uncertain.1. A. laugh B. question C. ask D. think2. A. difference B. similarities C. changes D. suggestions4. A. frighten B. surprise C. damage D. inspire5. A. listen B. enjoy C. ignore D. hate6. A. poorer B. smaller C. larger D lower7. A. parents B. children C. neighbors D. ordinaries8. A. imitate B. dislike C. think D. select9. A. bored B. willing C. hopeless D. doubtful10. A. admiring B. selfish C. famous D. careless11. A. dreadful B. meaningful C. useful D. thankful12. A. luckily B. beautifully C. quickly D. awfully13. A. vision B. stand C. step D. climb14. A. recover B. create C. instruct D. lighten15. A. certain B. stable C. weak D. slow第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15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16—25的相应位置上。

Nowadays employees are supposed to make contributions to their companies. What is the 16_____(value) contribution employees make to their companies, knowledge or judgment? I sayjudgment. Knowledge, no matter how broad, is useless 17_____ it is applied. And applicationtakes judgment, 18_____ involves something of a sixth sense—a high performance of the mind.This raises interesting questions about the best 19 _____ (train) for today’s business people. As Daniel Goleman suggests in 20_____ new book, Emotional Intelligence, the latest scientific findings seem to indicate that clever 21_____ inflexible people don’t have the right stuff in an age when the suitable ability is the key 22_____ survival.In 23_____ recent cover story, Time Magazine sorted through the current thinking on intelligence and reported, “New brain researc h suggests that emotions, not IQ, may be the true measure of human intelligence.” The basic significance of the emotional intelligence that Time called “EQ” 24_____ (suggest) by management expert Karen Boylston: “Customers are telling businesses, ‘I don’t care whether every member of your staff graduated from Harvard. I will take my business and go 25_____ I am understood and treated with respect.，”II. 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节：阅读理解（共20小题；每题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AThe baby elephant Ishanga was lying in the bushes, scared, starving, and struggling to breathe. Until just a few days before, she had been with her mother, walking through the sweeping grasslands of Tsavo National Park in the African country of Kenya.The b a b y’s mother was killed, most likely by a poacher. On Wednesday, November 17，2010，an anti-poaching team was removing the deadly wire traps that poachers set throughout the park. Luckily, a member of the team spotted the baby and rushed to help her.Suddenly, a lion sprang from the bushes and clamped its mouth around her neck. One person managed to pull out his gun and fire shots in the air. The shocked lion released the baby and backed away.Now the weakened baby had a grave wound on her neck. About 300 miles north of Tsavo is a place that helps baby elephants. Over the years, the orphanage(孤儿院）has raised 130 elephants and successfully released them back into the wild.After a tense wait and a plane ride, the baby’s rescuers made it to the orphanage. The medical staff worked frantically to treat her wound. She was scared and wild. She screame d, and wouldn’tlet any humans get near her, refusing to eat or drink.After two hours of intense medical care, Ishanga awoke and slowly struggled to her feet. Two keepers and a veterinarian had been with her all night. They were relieved that she seemed to be recovering.The next day, though Ishanga remained weak, her keepers introduced her to some of the other 14 young elephants living at the orphanage. The keepers stood back as the other elephants extended their trunk in friendly greetings. The older elephants led Ishanga around, giving her a tour of her new home.Over the past year, Ishanga’s wounds have healed. She has made many friends. It’ll be up to Ishanga to decide when she’s ready to leave the orphanage. Returning to the wild is a long process that can take more than 10 years. For now, she is in no rush to leave this extraordinary community of elephants and humans. Ishanga has a long, happy life ahead of her.26. The underlined word “poacher” in paragraph 2 probably means_____.A. someone who hunts illegallyB. someone who protects wild animalsC. someone who is an elephant keeperD. someone who works in the park27. When the baby elephant was saved by the team, she was_____.A. badly illB. very dangerousC. deadD. badly wounded28. The baby elephant was sent to _____by plane.A, hospital B. nature C. the orphanage D. National Park29. According to the passage, we can know that_____.A. Ishanga is eager to leave the community after recoveringB. the anti-poaching team shot the lion and saved IshangaC. it will probably take Ishanga a long time to return to the natureD. a year later, Ishanga still didn’t adapt to living in the orphanage30. The passage is mainly about _____.A. the rescue of a baby elephantB. the importance of animal protectionC. a brief introduction to the elephant orphanageD. a story about poachers and an anti-poaching teamBDave Bruno works as an online marketing manager. Several years ago, one weekend Bruno and his family did a major house cleanup and then donated several bags of unneeded items to the local Goodwill store. “After all were done, I looked around and realized that I still had too much stuff”，says Bruno, “It occurred to me that maybe I wanted to lead a simple life but in reality I behaved differently.” That reali zation prompted the 39-year-old father of three to try an experiment, “The 100Thing Challenge”.With the goal of breaking free of what he calls a “bad habit of consumerism，，，Bruno was determined to live for one year with just 100 personal items. He cut down his possessions to 94 items, including a Bible, laptop, guitar, wedding ring, car and clothes. He created some guidelines for the experiment since his wife and daughters did not participate-family-shared and household items did not count as personal items. He also grouped together some basic things such as underwear and socks. Bruno began blogging about his new lifestyle and eventually wrote a book, The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul.Since completing the experiment, Bruno has continued to live by the motto: reduce, refuse, and rearrange and maintains just 110 personal things. “ Nearly three years of living with a minimal amount of personal possessions, I’m no longer in the habit of consuming for the sake of consumption(消费)，” he wrote in his blog last week, “That has freed me up for all sorts of better endeavors than shopping—like spending time with family and writing a book and planning for business opportunities.”Bruno’s project has also inspired others to live minimally, many of whom post their own 100 Thing Challenge updates on YouTube. “The reality is that the 100 Thing Challenge is surprisingly e a s y”，s a y s Bruno, “I’m not saying there were no challenges or disappointments. I miss some things, but not that much. Frank ly, it’s far easier to live with less stuff than with excessive trash.”31. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 1?A. Bruno regretted to have an easy life.B. Bruno had a special behavior in reality,C. Bruno and his family led a happy life.D. Bruno would have liked a life with fewer items.32. The things were included in Bruno’s 94 items EXCEPT _____.A. socksB. a BibleC. cookersD. a wedding ring33. It can be inferred in the last paragraph that _____.A. it is less possible for people to live simplyB. Bruno met some difficulties in the experimentC. many people were inspired to update their blogsD. getting rid of the habit of over-consumption is easy34. What can we learn from the passage?A, Bruno hasn’t blogged for a long time. B. Unneeded things should be thrown away.C. Bruno has succeeded in the experiment.D. The family show interest in the experiment.35. What is the best title for the passage?A. Live with 100 ThingsB. Defeat 100 Challenges in LifeC. Survive by Your MottoD. Consume for Consumption’s SakeCThe United States is faced with serious traffic problems. Too many cars travel on the freeways to and from the city. This heavy traffic causes delays and lots of pollution from cars that are using their engines but not mo ving anywhere. Many cars going nowhere is called a “traffic jam.”While many cities in the United States have traffic problems, some of the worst are in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles is a big city with a large downtown area. One of the reasons why there is so much traffic is that few people use public transportation to get around Experts say one possible solution to the traffic problem in Los Angeles would be to make people want to use the public transportation system of buses instead of their own cars. People say the buses should be made easier, faster, less costly and more dependable than driving a car.One suggestion is to reduce the cost of riding the bus. People who usually drive their cars could save a lot of money on gas and parking costs. Also, Los Angeles could make the buses easier for people to use. The buses could travel to more places in the city. And there could be more special lanes on the freeways that only buses could drive in. These changes would make taking the bus faster and easier than driving a car.Other experts have said that the best way to ease traffic problems is to charge people money to drive on the freeways. These charges, or tolls, would be for the most crowded roads. The tollswould be in effect during the times of day when most people drive to work and home again. These times in the morning and late afternoon are called “rush hour”. People would try to avoid driving on these roads, which would decrease the amount of traffic. Also ，the money collected from these tolls could be used to improve the roads and public transportation system.36. The passage mainly discusses _____.A. different means of transportation of the United StatesB. possible solutions to solving American traffic problemsC. causes of the serious traffic problems in AmericaD. some new laws about American public transportation37. Which is NOT the effect caused by the heavy traffic?A. Too many private cars.B. Time wasting.C. Serious air pollution.D. Traffic jams.38. The reason why Los Angeles has some of the worst traffic problems is that _____.A. there is a lack of public transportationB. the city is big with a large populationC. most people like to get around by carD. many people like to travel there for shopping39. One of the ways the experts suggest is that _____.A. people should avoid driving to work and homeB. more roads should be built for the increasing private carsC. people should be charged on the most crowded roads during rush hourD. more special lanes on the freeways should be marked out for private cars40. According to the passage, if the solutions were carried out, _____A. more cars would be reduced and more roads would be builtB. it would be easier but slower to take buses than to drive carsC. many people would prefer to walk around rather than drive carsD. the roads and public transportation system would be greatly improvedDAs the new semester begins, millions of college students across the country are trying hard to remember how best to write a paper or, more likely, how best to delay that paper.Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it. They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos and looking at other students sitting around them, who, most likely, are doing nothing either.Paralyzed by their habit to procrastinate, they write micro blogs about their fears, asking their online friends if they sometimes have the same issue. But this does nothing to break the spell(魔咒).According to a recent report, 95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of the world’s population are always procrastinating. The figures are disappointing. Procrastinators are less wealthy, less healthy and less happy than th ose who don’t delay. Procrastinators like to find excuses " to justify their behavior, but BBC columnist Rowan Pelling says they are all wrong.Many procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time. The behavior of procrastinators often makes them feel ashamed, inconveniences others and annoys loved ones.Pelling also points out that procrastination feels particularly delinquent(过失的）in a society that thinks of swift action as admirable, and, at times, even as a moral good.Fortunately, social scientists have thrown their weight behind efforts to understand this behavioral mistake and offer strategies to control it. Piers Steel, a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation, believes human is “designed” to procrastinate. Nevertheless, he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand.41. From the first two paragraphs we can learn that _____.A. procrastination is beneficial to many studentsB. many students are under great pressure in their studyC. lots of college students are working hard to write good articles on timeD. many students are getting into the habit of delaying finishing their tasks42. According to the passage, procrastination probably refers to _____.A. a bad habitB. a serious illnessC. a difficult taskD. a form of entertainment43. Which of the following statements is WRONG?A. Procrastination makes people waste their time.B. Procrastinators usually complete their tasks perfectly.C. Swift action is considered as a moral standard in the society.D. Procrastination is common among people.44. Which behavior belongs to procrastination?A. Never dream away the time.B. Always complete the tasks ahead of time.C. Never put off till tomorrow what should be done today.D. Always wait to work until the “good mood” or “good time”.45. What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?A. Measures to deal with procrastination.B. Approaches to handling the study pressures.C. More examples to illustrate procrastination.D. Introduction to the book The Procrastination Equation.第二节信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下列表格内容及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。