2013年省重点高中自主招生测评

英语试题卷

时间：4月8日 时量：70分钟 满分：80分

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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 didn’t mean to break your vase—it was just ______.

A. an accident B. an advantage C. an agreement D. an experience

We couldn’t understand: what could ______ his sudden change of mind?

A. enjoy B. explain C. accept D. mean

Jake’s passed his exams. We’re going out to ______.

A. joke B. invite C. celebrate D. argue

The professor was so ______, hardly anyone came to class.

A. popular B. boring C. friendly D. lively

Late again! What’s 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. as B. 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

—I’d like some more cheese. —Sorry, there’s _____ left.

A. some B. a little C. none D. few

—Look! He’s running so fast! —Hard to______ his legs were once broken.

A. know B. imagine C. realize D. find

My 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 working

The 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. whose

Although 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. Knock C. Knocking D. To knock

—Sally doesn't like pop music, does she? —_____. She is a fan of classical music.

A. No, she does B. Yes, she does C. No, she doesn't D. Yes, she doesn’t

______ 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21—30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 isn’t 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 point

23. 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. carefully

26. 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。

A

Scientists 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 sun’s 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 sun’s 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

B

Liverpool 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 birds—known as ‘robops’—will 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.

C

May: Happenings from the Past

May 5, 1884

Isaac 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, 1754

Benjamin Franklin’s 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, 1934

The 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, 1994

Jacqueline 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, 1844

Samuel 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. Isaac’s father B. a winning horse

C. a slave taking care of horses D. the first racing horse in Kentucky

39. What is the title of the first American political cartoon?

A. Join or Die B. Pennsylvania Gazette

C. What Hath God Wrought D. Kentucky Derby

40. In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?

A. 1934 B. 1960 C. 1964 D. 1994

41. 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. Pennsylvania

D

A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maliyuwa, a nearby village. They lived with the man’s big family—his 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 woman’s 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 husband’s 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 an