2013江西省高考压轴卷

英语试题

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分，全卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

考生注意事项：

1．答题前，务必在试题卷、答题卡规定的地方填写自己的姓名、座位号，并认真核对答题卡上所粘贴的条形码中姓名、座位号与本人姓名、座位号是否一致。务必在答题卡背面规定的地方填写姓名和座位号后两位。

2．答第Ⅰ卷时，每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

3．答第Ⅱ卷时，必须使用0·5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上书写，要求字体工整、笔迹清晰。作图题可先用铅笔在答题卡规定的位置绘出，确认后再用0．5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔描清楚。必须在题号所指示的答题区域作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上答题无效。

4．考试结束，务必将试题卷和答题卡一并上交。

第I卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

略

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21．The construction was left half done, and _______ of money were wasted.

A. large numbers of B. a great deal of

C. large amounts D. masses of

22．It is the husband, _______ the wife, that is to be responsible for the spoiled boy.

A. other than B. or rather

C. more than D. rather than

23． This program can give you a lift at work, ____ increase your income by 50%.

A. as long as B. as well as

C. so much as D. as soon as

24．This toy is meant _______ Tom as his birthday present.

A. to??????????? B. for??????????? C. by????? D. With

25． His first lecture is of great use to our development. But his latest one is ______ worth attending.

A. better B. more C. very D. much

26． --May I put my bicycle here?

-- Yes. But you should always keep it ________, in case it is stolen.

A. in relief B. in sight C. in turn D. in return

27． It is reported that the United States uses ________ energy as the whole of Europe.

A. as twice B. twice much

C. twice much as D. twice as much

28． It was not until dark __________ he found __________he thought was the correct way to solve the problem．

A. that; what B. that; that

C. when; what D. when; that

29．---- What does P．O．_________?

----Poster order, I guess．

A. call for B. fall for

C. prepare for D. stand for

30． The reason why he didn't come to school was ________ he was ill.

A. that B. how C. why D. because

31． News has been put forward ________ more middle school graduates will be admitted into universities.

A. while B. when C. that D. As

32． One-third of the area ________ covered with trees. About seventy percent of the trees _______ been planted recently.

A. is; has B. is; have C. are; have D. are; has

33． The bell ____ the end of the period rang and we had to stop our discussion

A. indicating B. indicated

C. to be indicated D. being indicated

34． --It really shocked us that he should have made such_______ rapid progress in his study in such a short time!

--No surprising. He has been making _______ most of his spare time to study.

A. a; the B. a; / C. /; the D. /; /

35．The government tried its best to _____ the people’s needs, but the people were still not_________. In fact, what the government did was not___________.

A. satisfy; satisfied; satisfying

B. satisfy; satisfying; satisfied

C. satisfied; satisfied; satisfying

D. satisfying; satisfied; satisfied

第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

It was at a concert that I happened to find David. He was holding his head at a strange 36 as if he were staring down at something. Then the truth struck me. He was blind. The last thing he remembers 37 was his daughter being born. Then the world went 38 .

Bad luck is no stranger to this 44-year-old man. His mother died of cancer, and his weak father had to 39 11-year-old David to the care of the state.

Things seemed always to go from bad to 40 . Two years ago, his beloved guide dog pulled him out of the 41 of a truck. David was not hurt. The dog 42 .

But David does not feel sorry for himself. “These are just little obstacles(障碍)you have to 43 in your life,” he said.

He has to make a daily two-hour trip to his working place—the X-ray department of an 44 room.

It was a hard job to 45 . Before he got it, David was determined to escape the workshop run by the Lighthouse, an organization 46 to help blind people. He wanted a job of developing X-ray film, something 47 , not just he, must do in the dark, including people with 48 eyesight. The Lighthouse called many hospitals, with no result, 49 they offered to pay his first three months’ salary.

David works alone in a dark room that 50 of chemicals. He cannot wear gloves. 51 , he could not feel. Since this is an emergency room, lives can be put 52 or out of danger. His directress says she trusts him 100 percent.

He makes $20,000 a year. But his motivation(动机)goes 53 money. “By working, I can actualize my own 54 . That’s the most important!” he said.

What a shining example for us to 55 !

36.A.ankle

37.A.doing

38.A.blank

39.A.bring up

40.A.worse

41.A.bottom

42.A.killed

43.A.seek

44.A.upstairs

45.A.deal with

46.A.intended

47.A.everyone

48.A.common

49.A.because

50.A.consists

51.A.However

52.A.at risk

53.A.into

54.A.blindness

55.A.set

B. direction

B. feeling

B. colorful

B. bring in

B. good

B. path

B. sacrificed

B. overcome

B. emergency

B. get through

B. aimed

B. nobody

B. poor

B. if

B. smells

B. Unfortunately

B. in brief

B. beyond

B. income

B. take

C. angle

C. seeing

C. empty

C. give up

C. better

C. wheel

C. died

C. surround

C. information

C. take up

C. offered

C. someone

C. normal

C. in case

C. allows

C. Otherwise

C. up with

C. onto

C. value

C. hold

D. altitude

D. hearing

D. silent

D. give in

D. mad

D. back

D. injured

D. search

D. underground

D. come by

D. devoted

D. none

D. actual

D. even though

D. fills

D. Besides

D. in charge

D. below

D. experiences

D. follow





第三部分：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。

A

The other day I heard a few local musicians talking:

“I hate all the terrible pianos in this town. I hate that rubbish they play on the radio. They can’t even understand a bit of music.”

“I’m never playing in that club again. Too many drunks and nobody listens to us.”

But, one younger musician said, “There are a few clubs that book my band a few nights a month, and I’m trying to find other places to play. I’m also looking to book a few summer festivals this year.”

I’ve heard that you are the average of the five people whom you spend the most time with, or to put it another way, you are who your friends are.

Attitudes are important. Whether they’re positive or negative, they’re rubbing off on you. If you’re around people who complain about lack of work and about other musicians, or blame (责怪) others, and you play the role of victim (受害者), chances are you will start to as well. So it’s time to take a look at the people you call “friends”.

This is an easy exercise: Make a list of the people who you hang out with, and simply stop spending time with the negative people on your list. Set a new standard (标准) for yourself and don’t become friends with people who fall below that standard.

Keep successful people around you and your own chances for success will be much better. Ask them how they do it. Ask if they will help you get the work you’re looking for, or maybe give you some advice to help you on your career path.

56．Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. A friend in need is a friend indeed

B. How to make friendship last for ever

C. You are who your friends are

D. Friends are the most important in one’s success

57．The underlined sentence “they’re rubbing off on you” in Paragraph 6 means ______.

A. they’ll push you ahead B. they’ll influence you

C. they’ll cover your shortcomings D. they’ll help you achieve your goal

58．The musicians’ words at the beginning are written mainly to show ______.

A. the musicians’ living conditions are quite poor

B. people have poor taste in music

C. people have different attitudes towards the same thing

D. young people have greater chances of succeeding

59．By taking the exercise mentioned in Paragraph 7, you can ______.

A. improve a lot in making more friends

B. come to the right way of making friends

C. develop a better relationship with your friends

D. arrange the time with your friends properly

B

What would you think if someone suggested knocking down St Paul’s Cathedral to widen the road? Or pulling down Big Ben to make way for a car park? It would be ridiculous, right? But when it comes to devastation (毁灭) of the natural world, we aren’t so easily shocked. But we should be…or we’ll be in a lot of trouble.

Nature is shrinking by the day. Ancient forests are destroyed. Wetlands are becoming dry. Woodland is disappearing, and all in the name of progress. This is bad in itself, but it’s devastating for biodiversity.

Biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals and other living things that are all interconnected. The ecological services provided by biodiversity are vital to everyday life. The air we breathe is a product of photosynthesis (光合作用) by green plants. Insects, worms and bacteria break down waste and make soils rich. And tiny organisms clean the water in rivers and sea. In fact, all life on the earth exists thanks to the benefits of biodiversity. More than 90 percent of the calories consumed by people worldwide are produced from 80 plant species. And 30 percent of medicines are developed from plants and animals. Maintaining a wide diversity of species in each ecosystem is necessary to preserve all living things.

The loss of biodiversity could be devastating. “It is wrong to think that biodiversity can be reduced indefinitely without threatening humans,” said Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson, known as the “father of biodiversity”. He warned, “We are about to reach a critical point beyond which biodiversity loss will become irreversible (不可挽回的).”

But what can we do? The present problem is that the concept of biodiversity is so vague (含糊的). People might care about giant pandas, but it is much harder to excite them about the fate of tiny sea creatures which are being boiled to death in the c