2012年广东高考英语试题及答案茂名

2012年广东高考英语试题及答案（茂名市）

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1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，

1.A.read B. learn C. behave D. speak

2.A.visit B. leave C. desire D. attend

3.A.cameras B. books C. libraries D. data

4.A. printed B. ordered` C. used D. priced

5.A. students B. colleagues C. leaders D. friends

6.A. digital B. popular C. regular D. different

7.A. present B. provide C. charge D. update

8.A. peacefully B. consistently C. steadily D. unnoticeably

9.A. less B. more C. higher D. better

10.A. rent B. download C. buy D. record

11.A. exactly B. permanently C. doubtfully D. roughly

12.A. actually B. unwillingly C. hopefully D. fortunately

13.A. entrance B. approach C. access D. admission

14.A. school B. work C. hand D. home

15.A. seats B. Internet C. textbooks D. homework

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。

I was feeling sad because my mother was out of job. It left me wondering 16 was going to happen to us.

I got off the college shuttle bus and started walking. Then I heard piano music and singing rising above the noise of the people and the traffic. I walked much17 (slow) so I could find out where it was coming 18 . Through the crowd I saw a young lady sitting at a piano with a carriage next to her. She was singing songs19 love and keeping on trying, and not underestimating（低估）the power within yourself. The way she was singing comforted me a bit. I stood there 20 (watch) her play for about fifteen minutes, thinking that 21 must take courage to perform on her own in the middle of a crowd.

She must have felt my presence because she would occasionally look in my direction. By now I was telling 22 that if she could perform in front of hundreds of people 23 she didn't know, I could at least tell her how good she sounded. I walked over，24 (put) some money in her carriage and said, "Thank you. I have been going through a rough time lately, but you've made me 25 (hope) again."

Ⅱ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)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Whether we’re 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of

others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child’s lie is different from an adult’s lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.

“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liars,” says Dr. Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of the Institute of Child Study. He has spent the last 15 years studying how lying changes as kids get older, why some people lie more than others as well as which factors can reduce lying. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage. Dr. Lee conducted a series of studies in which they bring children into a lab with hidden cameras. Children and young adults aged 2 to 17 are likely to lie while being told not to look at a toy, which is put behind the child’s back. Whether or not the child takes a secret look is caught on tape.

For young kids, the desire to cheat is big and 90% take a secret look in these experiments. When the test-giver returns to the room, the child is asked if he or she looked secretly. At age 2, about a quarter of children will lie and say they didn’t. By 3, half of kids will lie, and by 4, that figure is 90%, studies show.

Researchers have found that it’s kids with better understanding abilities who lie more. That’s because to lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which includes many brain processes, such as combining several sources of information and faking that information. The ability to lie — and lie successfully — is thought to be related to development of brain regions that allow so called “executive functioning”, or higher order thinking and reasoning abilities. Kids who perform better on tests that involve executive functioning also lie more.

26. What’s the purpose of children telling lies?

A. To help their friends out.

B. To get rid of trouble.

C. To get attention from others.

D. To create a popular image.

27. The underlined word “deceive” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “”.

A. tell lies

B. handle troubles