2013湖北省高考压轴卷英语

第二部分：词汇知识运用(共两节，满分30分)

第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10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. It is necessary for websites to check their cooperator’s ______ to protect their rights and the rights of the netizens.

?? A. administration??? B. reliability???? C. relationship?????D. knowledge

22. When parents know where their children are playing, they can set safe ______ and ensure friendly adults are on hand when needed.

?? A. boundary??????? B. background???? C. information????? D. record

23. When we ______ the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland will be encouraged to take up sport.

?? A. attend?????????? B. watch????????? C. stage???????? D. miss

24. Difficulty can help you ______ experience, and experience can, in return, enrich your mind.

?? A. accompany?????? B. accumulate????? C. access???????? D. acknowledge

25. Our next stop will be Canada and then we will ______ our tour in America.

?? A. pick up?????????? B. set up????????? C. look up???????? D. end up

26. We know that a cat, whose eyes can ______ many more rays than our eyes, can see clearly in the night.

?? A. take in?????????? B. call in???????? C. give in???????? D. break in

27. To cover my nervousness I started eating an apple, because I think if they hear you chewing on the other end of the line, it makes me sound ______.

?? A. absurd?????????? B. casual?????????? C. noble????????? D. serious

28. We are collecting for the victims of the earthquake-stricken area, please give ______.

?? A. automatically?? B. simply????????? C. actually??????? D. generously

29. You’d better write your new address on your luggage just ______ they get it wrong .

?? A. in sight?????????? B. in fear????? C. in short??????? D. in case

30. To sum up, ______ war is unavoidable, human beings cannot enjoy everlasting peace.

?? A. as far as?????? B. as soon as?? C. as long as????? D. as well as

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)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。

I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and there are some homeless people in the downtown. I used to give a lot of money to the 31 , feeling sorry for them. However, after becoming a single mom with no home, a huge 32 , and hardly any income, I 33 giving.

Through working hard, things started to change for the better. I 34 a home for me and my daughter, and plenty of food, and I started to 35 myself out of debt. One day I saw a homeless person with a 36 “will work for food”. I passed by. My daughter said, “Mommy, you used to give to those people in need. But now…” I replied, “Honey, they just use that money for drugs or other 37 things.” But when I said that, I didn’t feel 38 .

Three days later, I was driving to 39 my daughter from school. A man was 40 on the corner looking worried, and suddenly something deep inside me said, “Just help the guy.” So I 41 down my window, and he ran 42 with joy. He said, “Kind lady, I only need 77 cents for the bus ticket.” I reached into my pocket and found that I didn’t take my 43 . I, with a red face, spread out my hands to show that I was in no 44 to help him. But just when he 45 away, I called to him, “Wait a moment!” I found in my ashtray (烟灰缸) there sat three quarters and two pennies. 46 enough, it was the very 77 cents.

Tears in eyes, he burst out with 47 , “Wow, you just made it possible for me to see my mom 48 Christmas! Thank you so much!”

It is the moment that I’ll never forget, because I am the one who gets the best gift in life－ 49 . It also strikes me that nothing happens by accident, and giving has meaning, 50 it is only 77 cents.

31. A. poor B. old C. homeless D. sick

32. A. debt B. chance C. check D. problem

33. A. continued B. forgot　 C. hated D. stopped

34. A. earned B. sold C. designed D. built

35. A. push B. pull C. force D. leave

36. A. mark B. notice C. sign D. card

37. A. dangerous B. bad C. great D. good

38. A. sad B. happy C. wrong D. right

39. A. dress up B. pick up C. bring up D. call up

40. A. lying B. smiling C. standing D. crying

41. A. rolled B. took C. put D. brought

42. A. away B. in C. over D. out

43. A. phone B. purse C. food D. chequebook

44. A. doubt B. time C. hurry D. position

45. A. ran B. flew C. drove D. turned

46. A. Naturally B. Impossibly C. Surprisingly D. Luckily

47. A. joy B. shock C. disappointment D. satisfaction

48. A. for B. until C. in D. after

49. A. RECEIVING B. SHARING C. HELPING D. GIVING

50. A. unless B. although C. because D. whether

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(原创)

A.

America’s first college, Harvard University, is almost universally regarded as our gold standard of higher learning.?Students in other parts of the country sometimes call their colleges “the Harvard” of this place or that, knowing that no other school could match the old Ivy League institution in the Boston suburb of Cambridge, Massachusetts.?Traditionally, only the best of the nation’s high-school graduates are admitted, and a Harvard degree is said to be a sure ticket to a lucrative career.

But proud Harvard is dealing with an embarrassing incident on its record and reputation. It’s a cheating scandal possibly involving as many as 125 students in a government class.?It’s the sort of incident that sometimes ruins a less-famous institution - which is precisely what upsets Harvard, its critics, and its alumni.

Dozens of school team athletes have been connected to the cheating episode, involving a take-home test last academic year, just when Harvard’s basketball team had become one of the nation’s 25 best, for the first time ever.?This has caused much worries in the academic community, which is fearful that Harvard is beginning to mirror the practice at some other schools of cutting corners for prized athletes and admitting some students just because they can throw a football or shoot a basketball.

Two star players who were co-captains of the Crimson basketball team have taken leave from school this season, according to Harvard officials.? “Without integrity, there can be no genuine achievement, either at Harvard or anywhere else,” undergraduate dean Jay Harris said in a statement soon after the cheating was discovered.

Familiar reasons for the cheating have been sounded: Stressed students are more interested in scoring good grades than with learning.? The easy access to information online makes plagiarism and cheating easier than ever.? Universities no longer stress ethics.? And professors who are abosorbed in their research often pay less attention to teaching.

These arguments might ease the embarrassment at some universities.? But at 376-year-old Harvard University, they do not.

51.According to the passage, the first paragraph is used to _____.

introduce Harvard to the readers

praise Harvard University highly

attract more students to Harvard

introduce the cheating in Harvard

52.Which statement about the cheating scandal is true?

A.It involves some government officials .

B.It will ruin Harvard University finally.

C.It has something to do with Harvard basketball team.

D.It has caused 125 students of Harvard to leave school.

53.What does the underlined phrase mirror the practice in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A.to practise in front of a mirror

B.to repeat what has been done

C.to cheat in front of a mirror

D.to show others what has been done

54.It can be inferred from what has been said by Jay Harris in Paragraph 4 that _____.

A.Harvard would not put up with the cheating incident.

B.Harvard pays much attention to students’ personal values.

C.Harvard will ask all the students involved to leave school

D.Harvard values students scores and achievements best

B.

SEOUL — South Korea has one of the highest rates of suicide in the developed world.? Now the government is trying a new approach to prevent people from taking their own lives.

It only took a single generation for the country to go from a poor nation to one of the world’s top economies. Some observers say this rapid development is leaving many South Koreans feeling lonely and depressed.Kim Hyun-chung, a psychiatrist at the National Medical Center in Seoul, says more than half of her patients have suicidal thoughts.“We’re just growing just too fast and people don’t have time to adjust to it," she explains.? "We are an Asian cultural society but now we are more globalized. Its westernized and I don’t think people have had the time to adjust to the big changes.”

The biggest change, Kim says, is family structure.? No longer do many generations live under one roof.? She says the traditional support systems are disappearing.“More parents are working.??I think we’re more focused on earning money than the quality of life.”?

She adds that senior citizens make up the largest part of Koreans who take their own lives. But suicide is still a leading cause of death for young adults, high school and even middle school students.

Over the past five years, at least 100 Koreans have leaped off Seoul’s Map Bridge into the Han River.? Around half of those jumpers lost their lives. Now Seoul City is trying to turn this suicide spot into what it calls the bridge of life. Along the bridge’s sidewalk are inspirational slogans that say things to make one happy.There are also pictures of babies on the railing and at the center of the bridge is a statue of an old man consoling a young person. Seoul hopes these installments will make people think again before taking the next step.

But psychiatrist Kim Hyun-chung is no