2013辽宁省高考压轴卷

英语试题

本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一卷

注意事项：

1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2.选出每小题答案后，用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，再选其他答案标号，不能答在试卷上，否则无效。

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。

例：We last night, but we went to the concert instead.

A. must have studied B. might study

C. should have studied D. would study

答案是 C 。

1. Mr. Bill Clinton was elected ____ President of the United States in ____ 1990s.

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

2．She let herself get into a_______ before the examination began.

A．condition B．situation C．state D．form

3. Computer has become a(n) ________ part of my life, without which I can hardly deal with my job. A．special B．specific C．essential D．especial

4. I ________ on a sofa because my grandparents have been here for the weekend.

A. slept B. was sleeping C. have slept D. am sleeping

5. I'm interested in a one-bed room. Do you have any ________？

A．convenient B．available C．possible D．personal

6. The further falling of the stock market as reported today has _____ a fresh wave of selling.

A．given off B．set off C．put off D．got off

7. The incomes of skilled workers went up. _____， unskilled workers saw their earnings fall.

A. Moreover B. Therefore C. Meanwhile D. Otherwise

8. You may imagine what great difficulty I had________complicated ideas in simple English.

A．expressing B．to express C．expressed D．express

9. Thanks to Mr. Smith the father and the son eventually________after ten years' cold relationship between them. A．took up B．made up C．looked up D．turned up

10．He ________ whether the articles exhibited at the back of the department store were for sale. A．demanded B. decided C．required D．requested

11．—Shirley, can I have a look at your photos?

—________.Here you are.

A．By any means B．By no means C．By this means D．By all means

12. I hadn't seen him for 10 years but I ________ him at first sight.

A. realized B. spotted C. watched D. observed

13. ________while writing, he locked himself in his study.

A．Not to interrupt B．Not being interrupted

C．Not to be interrupted D．Being not interrupted

14. If we keep wasting so much energy, ________are that our oil wells will dry up and the environment will be destroyed.

A. problems B. difficulties C. questions D. chances

15. —Andrew won't like it, you know.

—________？ I don't care what Andrew thinks!

A. So what B. So where C. So why D. So which

第二节 完形填空（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、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 a big city with a lot of homeless people. Luckily there're small ways of helping them and you needn't have a lot of__16__. One way to help is to buy their monthly magazine.__17__doing this one day, I got to__18__a young homeless man. He was often__19__the magazine at the train station.

He was a poor farmer from another country. After a while, I discovered that his__20__was close to mine. It__21__that we were born in the same month.

I met him last year__22__after his birthday, and after congratulating(祝贺) him, without__23__， I asked if he had had a good day. He__24__and said that he hadn't really celebrated. I felt so __25__.

I just couldn't bear the thought of (不敢想)this nice, young man being__26__on his 25th birthday with no presents, no cake, nothing! So I went home and looked in my yarn(纱线) basket.__27__for me, I had enough yarn__28__. I set to work and knitted(编织) a__29__for the young man. The yarn had become a little dirty__30__I didn't knit very often. Then I washed the yarn so the scarf would be__31__when he got it.

I met him on my own birthday as I was going shopping. I had__32__to meet him so I had__33__the scarf and a piece of my own birthday__34__around with me. He was very happy with these gifts and so was I. The__35__in his eyes was the best present he could have given me!

16．A.work B．energy C．money D．experience

17．A.In B．On C．Besides D．By

18．A.realize B．ignore C．know D．recognize

19．A.selling B．reading C．covering D．buying

20．A.birthday B．house C．height D．hobby

21．A.said B．found C．guessed D．meant

22．A.long B．shortly C．ever D．even

23．A.stopping B．helping C．praising D．thinking

24．A.looked up B．turned up C．looked down D．got down

25．A.foolish B．excited C．clever D．worried

26．A.calm B．happy C．alone D．hungry

27．A.Suddenly B．Luckily C．Badly D．However

28．A.used B．done C．left D．produced

29．A.scarf B．cap C．sock D．glove

30．A.when B．because C．so D．and

31．A.different B．dry C．wet D．clean

32．A.liked B．hoped C．promised D．agreed

33．A.made B．thrown C．received D．carried

34．A.cake B．present C．song D．party

35．A.light B．pain C．sight D．tear

第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

It was Thanksgiving morning. I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together on the top step.

“Any old papers, lady？” asked one of them.

I was busy. I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals(凉鞋), wet with heavy snow.

“Come in and I'll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”

They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started cooking.

The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich？”

“Am I rich? Pity, no！”

I looked at my worn-out slipcovers(椅套). The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟)carefully and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” They left after that, holding their papers against the wind. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.

Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a regular job, these matched, too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of little sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.

36．Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A．Lady, are you rich?

B．A story of Thanksgiving Day

C．Don't forget how rich you are

D．Does cups and saucers match well?

37．The writer let the two children come in and served them well because________.

A．she wanted to sell old papers to them

B．she wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party

C．she showed great pity and care on them

D．she had the same experience as them in the past

38．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The girl thought the writer was rich just because she wanted to make the writer happy.

B．The writer had thought she wasn't rich because her supplies were not expensive.

C．If cups and saucers match well, they are a best pair even though cheap.

D．After hearing what they said, the writer seemed to understand what a rich life was.

39．The writer left the muddy marks of little sandals on the floor for a while to________.

A．show that she was a kind-hearted lady

B．remind her that she shouldn't forget how rich she was

C．leave room for readers to think about what being rich is

D．prove that she had understood what meant being rich

40．It can be inferred from the text that whether you are rich depends on________.

A．how much money you have made

B．what attitude you have had towards life

C．the way you help others

D．your social relationship

B

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