[重庆]2013届重庆市三峡联盟高三3月联考英语试卷

Awarded ______ 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan, ______ productive contemporary Chinese writer, has published dozens of short stories related to the countryside.

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

After a pause for a drink, I took up my story just _______ I had left off.

He insisted the person referred ______ put into prison at once.

You have to take some necessities such as ropes, a flash, boots, ______ you may get lost in the mountain if going hiking.

—Want to have the bungee jumping with me?
—It’s out of the question! I ______ a try even if you paid me a million dollars!

–The Modern Art Exhibition in the City Museum has been canceled.
–Oh, no! ______

Yao Ming, now a student of Shanghai Jiaotong University majoring in financial management, _______basketball in NBA for nine years.

______, as long as I’m with nature, I don’t care.

We are seeking a prime minister, ______ who will devote himself to the interest of the country.

How long do you think _______ the conflict between Japan and China comes to an end?

The traffic administration indicates that airline passengers are only allowed to carry their luggage _______ less than 5 kilograms with them.

—Mr. Smith, why are you always asking me to do the difficult work?
—Because you _______ do such a thing and nobody else is fit for it.

—________ two months enough for the project to be finished?
—I am afraid not. The professor is ill and only after he recovers ______ go on with it.

______ is surprising to us is that Tom, for _______ English was once boring, can speak English fluently as though he were a native speaker.

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分 30分)
Fred and his wife Edna went to the state fair every year. Every year Fred would say, "Edna, I'd like to    36   in that airplane." And every year Edna would say, "I know Fred, but that airplane ride   37   ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."
One year Fred and Edna went to the fair again and Fred said, "Edna, I'm 71 years old. If I don't ride that airplane this year I may never get another   38  ." Edna replied, "Fred, the airplane ride needs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."
The   39   overheard them and said, "Folks, I'll make you a   40  . I'll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay   41   for the entire ride and not say one word, I won't    42   you, but if you say one word, it's ten dollars."
Fred and Edna agreed and   43   they went. The pilot did all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word was heard. He did all his   44   over again, but still not a word.
They   45   and the pilot turned to Fred, "By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to yell out, but you   46  ."
Fred replied, "Well, I was going to say something when Edna   47   out of the plane, but you know ten dollars is ten dollars."

A．sit B．ride C．sleep D．hide

A．loses B．pays C．costs D．benefits

A．job B．unit C．family D．chance

A．pilot B．policeman C．stranger D．friend

A．promise B．plan C．request D．deal

A．safe B．quiet C．kind D．strong

A．charge B．punish C．carry D．want

A．up B．down C．in D．out

A．deeds B．tricks C．flights D．attractions

A．climbed B．flew C．landed D．stopped

A．failed B．didn’t C．forgot D．moved

A．walked B．ran C．fell D．looked

In our life, we will have a lot of time to feel low. If there’s one thing that ruins us, which   48   us from doing what we’re   49   capable of and prevents us from achieving our dreams, it is fear of   50  .
Many of us go through our lives never knowing what we could have done and what has often been heard is that if only we hadn’t given up our   51  .
What if you had given up on   52   to talk, walk, read, ride a bike, or any other achievements before you were even five years old? How   53   would your life have turned out if you’d given up instead of    54   with them?
Now, how different has your life been because of the goals you gave up? Because you were afraid that you would fail, how many experiences and opportunities have you   55   out on because you couldn’t get past that invisible barrier of fear!?

A．increases B．stops C．inspires D．helps

A．truly B．hardly C．honestly D．easily

A．death B．trouble C．sorrow D．failure

A．plans B．jobs C．dreams D．lives

A．trying B．learning C．practicing D．studying

A．strange B．poor C．successful D．different

A．playing B．covering C．sticking D．moving

A．missed B．picked C．taken D．looked

That summer I drank every day, everywhere I went. I had a bottle in my drawer next to me and a bottle next to my bed. I never did another drug, but I drank so much that my family finally asked a priest for help. My father gave me a bottle of medicine for alcoholism that produces unpleasant symptoms when users drink alcohol. I drank while taking it, which made me very sick. And I still drank.
When the priest came, he said, "Jimmy, doctors said that with your diseases and the amount of drinking you’re doing, you’d be lucky to live another six months. So your choice is either to stop drinking and live or to continue drinking and die within six months.”
I said, "I know I can't stop, so guess I'll have to die." The priest told my family what I said. My little brother–who is like my soul mate, looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "But we don't want you to die." All I could think of was how desperately I had to get out of that room at that moment and have a drink.
But I finally stopped drinking. I was on the care team of my dentist Russell. A lot of people in New York knew him. At the time he was the most famous dentist in the city. He drank heavily and was also with AIDS, so I was selected to be on his care team. Everybody on the team was sober (清醒) but me. He went through dementia (痴呆) and died so quickly before my eyes. I stopped drinking and I’ve been with the disease for 35 years now.
Why did the author’s father give him the bottle of medicine?

What did the priest mean by saying to the author “…you’d be lucky to live another six months” in the second paragraph?

How did the author stop drinking?

What can we learn from the above story?

Aggie Bonfire (篝火) was a long-standing tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry (竞争) with the University of Texas at Austin. For 90 years, Texas A&M students—known as Aggies—built and burned a bonfire on campus each autumn. Known to the Aggie community simply as "Bonfire", the annual autumn event symbolized Aggie students' "burning desires”. The bonfire was traditionally lit around Thanksgiving in connection with festivities surrounding the annual college football game.
Although early Bonfires were little more than piles of trash, as time passed, the annual event became more organized. Over the years the bonfire grew bigger, setting the world record in 1969. Bonfire remained a university tradition for decades until, in 1999, a collapse during construction killed twelve people—eleven students and one former student—and injured twenty-seven others.
The accident led Texas A&M to declare a pause on an official Bonfire. However, in 2002, a student-sponsored-and-off-campus "Student Bonfire" came up.
In 2003, the event became known as Student Bonfire. In a design approved by a professional engineer, Student Bonfire uses a wedding cake design, but, in a departure from tradition, every log in the stack (堆) touches the ground. For added support, four 24 feet poles are spaced evenly around the stack and then bolted to the 45 feet center pole with a steel pipe. Since the group does not receive funding, Student Bonfire charges a fee to each attendee to cover expenses. Attendance for Student Bonfire ranges from 8,000–15,000 people and the event is held in Brazos County or one of the surrounding counties.
When did Aggie Bonfire come into being?

Which of the following statements is true according to the above passage?

Why did Aggie Bonfire once stop?

Which of the following might serve as the best title of the whole passage?

The Danish (丹麦) architect of the iconic Sydney Opera House, Jorn Utzon, has died at the age of 90, after suffering a heart attack.
Mr. Utzon, an award-winning architect, put "Denmark on the world map with his great talent," said Danish Culture Minister Carina Christensen. Having won a competition in 1957 to design the building, he left the project before it opened in 1973. Mr. Utzon never visited the completed landmark, after disputes about costs. He had quarreled with the Australian client and the costs overran by 1,000%. Even decades later, he declined invitations to return to Australia, but did design, with his son, a new wing which opened in 2006. In 1998 he said, "It's part of education–I can't be bitter about anything in life."

Most of the interior（内部）of the opera house was not completed according to his plans after government-appointed architects took over the job.
The Sydney Opera House planned to dim the lights on the sail-shaped roof on Sunday to mark Mr. Utzon's death.
The chairman of Sydney Opera House Trust, Kim Williams, said, "Jorn Utzon was an architectural and creative genius who gave Australia and the world a great gift. Sydney Opera House is core to our national cultural identity and a source of great pride to all Australians. It has become the most globally recognized symbol of our country."
Mr. Utzon also designed the National Assembly of Kuwait and several prominent buildings in Denmark.
Danish Minister of Culture Carina Christensen paid tribute to him, saying, "Jorn Utzon will be remembered as one of the Danes who in the 20th century put Denmark on the world map with his great talent."
Mr. Utzon won several international awards, including the Alvar Aalto Medal for architecture and France's Legion of Honour.
In 2003 he won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize for his design of the opera house.
Which of the following is true about Mr. Jorn Utzon?

From the above passage we may NOT know ______.

What did the Opera House plan to do to mark its designer’s death?

The most proper title of the above passage might be ______.

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a stricter nationwide health standard for smog-causing pollutants that would bring substantial benefits to millions of Americans. With a final rule expected by the end of this month, some opponents, mainly from industrial and oil-producing states, are pushing back. They say investments required to produce cleaner air are too expensive and not scientifically justified.
Lisa Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator, needs to stick to her guns. This is only the first of several political tests to come this fall, as she also seeks to tighten rules governing individual pollutants like mercury and global warming gases like carbon dioxide.
The health standard she is proposing covers ground-level ozone, commonly known as smog, which is formed when sunlight mixes with pollutants from factories, refineries, power plants and automobiles. Ozone is a major health threat, contributing to heart disease and various respiratory (呼吸道的) problems.
Ms. Jackson’s proposal—to reduce the permitted level of smog in the air from the current 75 parts per billion to between 60 parts per billion and 70 parts per billion—is sensible, no matter what industry’s defenders may claim. It had been recommended by the agency’s independent scientific panel but rejected by the Bush administration, which proposed a weaker standard.
Industry will have to make investments in cleaner power plants, and new technologies may be required. As it is, about half the counties that monitor ozone levels are not yet in compliance with current standards, let alone the proposed standard.
Fears about burdening industry raised by critics like George Voinovich, a Republican of Ohio, and Mary Landrieu, a Democrat of Louisiana, cannot be dismissed out of hand, especially in the middle of a recession (萧条). But the health benefits, E.P.A. says, far outweigh the costs, and the time frame for compliance (服从) is generous.
Why are some people strongly against a stricter limitation of smog-caused pollutants?

What does Ms Jackson propose to do?

What is the attitude of the author to the smog-controlling issue?

Which of the following can serve as the best title of the whole passage?

Never argue with one's own understanding.
The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do.
If you create a time lag (隔绝层) between the whisper of intelligence and understanding in you and your action, then you are preventing the brain from growing into a new size. When you argue with intelligence, when you postpone acting according to understanding then there is confusion, the brain gets confused.
The voice of understanding, the voice of intelligence has insecurity about it. How do you know that it is the right thing?
So we tend to ignore it. Instead we accept authority. We obey.
But the brain cannot be orderly, competent, accurate and precise if you do not listen to it, if you have no respect. We are so busy with the outside world and its force that the world that is inside us does not command that respect and reverence (敬重), that care and concern from us.
So one has to be a disciple (信徒) of one's own understanding, and look upon that understanding as the master.
Sometimes one may commit a mistake, it might be the whim (念头) of the ego and we might mistake the whim, the wish of the ego for the voice of silence and intelligence, but that we have to discover. Unless you commit mistakes, how do you learn to discriminate between the false and the true? In learning there is bound to be a little insecurity, a possibility of committing mistakes. Why should one be terribly afraid of committing mistakes?
So instead of accepting the authority of habits and conditionings, while one is moving one watches, and when there is a suggestion, do not neglect, ignore, or insult the whisper from within and from one's own intelligence.
What will happen if you refuse to follow your own understanding according to the above passage?

What is the function of committing mistakes from the view of the author?

The whole passage is developed by ______.

The best title of the passage might be ______.

结合材料，按要求用英文写作，词数不少于60。
In your English class, your teacher shows you the picture beside. Please describe it and say something about it.
要求：
（1）就此材料发表你的感想；
（2）应紧扣材料，有明确的观点；
（3）请在答题卡上作答。

假如你是高三（1）班班长李华，为了结合学校开展的“理想教育”活动，学校决定举办一场以“我有一个梦想”为主题的英语演讲比赛。请根据以下提示用英语写一篇演讲稿。内容要点如下：
■你的梦想
■说明理由
■如何实现
注意：1. 可根据内容需要适当发挥，使行文连贯；
2. 不可出现自己学校，班级和姓名的信息；
3. 字数：80字以上（演讲稿开头和结尾语已给出，不计入总词数）；
4. 请在答题卡上作答。
Dear fellow students,
I am Li Hua from Class One Senior Three and I’m so pleased to share my dream with you here.
                                                                   
                                                                   
                                                                   
That’s all. Thank you.