[浙江]2013届浙江省新梦想新教育新阵地联谊学校高三回头考联考英语试卷

— Do you want tea or coffee?
— ______. Whichever one you’re making.

Hiking is ______ great fun. You will get close to ______ nature and take exercise at the same time.

Many parents happily pay a lot of money, only ______ the tours are not rewarding enough for their children.

Mo Yan, this year’s Nobel Prize winner in Literature, believes reading is ______ first stirred his imagination and gave him a way with words.

The potential of economic development of one region varies from ______ of another.

If you respect others ______ their economic background, you should be able to make lots of friends.

In those days our primary ______ was to provide people who were trapped in the snowstorm with food and healthcare.

He is not native; if he were, we ______ this discussion over his identity.

To my understanding, a high school graduate has already reached a point in his/her life ______ he/she is supposed to make decisions of his/her own.

Your ideas are very interesting, but we need ______ suggestions to get us out of the mess.

Play, often ______ as an activity for younger children, is still important in the social development of teenagers.

Encourage your children to try new things, but try not to ______ them too hard.

For 800 years Oxford and Cambridge universities ______ in everything from Nobel prizes to boat races.

Education is not an end, but a means to an end. ______, we do not educate children only for the aim of educating them.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says united Europe could fail if Eurozone(欧元区) ______ over debt problems in Greece, Italy and other weaker economies.

______ would have been too embarrassed, but he walked right up and asked for her autograph.

This approach, ______ more expensive than the basic one, provides us with considerably more usage flexibility.

As is known to all language learners, newly learnt words will soon be forgotten unless ______ used in everyday communication.

Washington ______ get very hot and sticky in summertime. July and August are usually the warmest months.

— Are you going to live with us this summer, Auntie Rosemary?
— ______, dear.

According to legend, a young man while wandering the desert came across a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet, he   21   his leather container so he could bring some   22   to a tribal elder who had been his teacher.
After a four-day journey he   23   the water to the old man who took a deep drink,   24   warmly and thanked his student lavishly for the sweet water. The young man returned to his village with a happy   25  .
Later, the teacher let another student   26   the water. He spat it   27  , saying it was awful. It   28   had been no longer fresh and   29   unpleasant to drink because of the old leather container.
The student challenged his teacher: “Master, the water was smelly. Why did you   30   to like it?”
The teacher replied, “You only tasted the water. I tasted the   31  . The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be   32  .”
I think we understand this lesson best when we receive   33   gifts of love from young children.   34   it’s a tray or a bracelet, the   35   and proper response is   36   and expressed thankfulness because we love the idea within the gift.
Gratitude doesn’t always come naturally.   37  , most children and many adults value only the thing given   38   the feeling embodied in it. We should remind ourselves and   39   our children about the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude.   40  , gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart.

A．packed B．filled C．took D．carried

A．in B．away C．back D．up

A．presented B．mailed C．delivered D．showed

A．said B．laughed C．smiled D．nodded

A．heart B．mind C．moment D．occasion

A．smell B．watch C．taste D．feel

A．away B．out C．off D．on

A．apparently B．still C．sadly D．quickly

A．however B．instead C．nevertheless D．therefore

A．change B．pretend C．determine D．agree

A．sweat B．sense C．promise D．gift

A．clearer B．fresher C．sweeter D．purer

A．simple B．innocent C．worthless D．meaningless

A．Whether B．If C．Whatever D．Whichever

A．pretended B．lovely C．abnormal D．natural

A．devotion B．comfort C．imagination D．appreciation

A．Unfortunately B．Frankly C．Strangely D．Possibly

A．other than B．rather than C．better than D．more than

A．persuade B．teach C．improve D．advise

A．In a word B．Otherwise C．Thus D．After all

Some people would go through anything just to achieve their dream. Kasia Siwosz is proof. For the final year student on the university women’s tennis team, the road to Berkeley, University of California was met with poor advice and misinformation from her home country and two unsuccessful stops along the way that fell short of expectations.
Born in Poland, Siwosz began playing tennis at seven years old and developed the skills that helped her earn a top-50 ranking among the ITF Junior division(国际网球联会青少年赛). Siwosz wanted to do more with her life than just play tennis, which led her to seek chances that would also allow her to obtain a top education. While most who grow up in the U.S. are naturally accustomed to the American tradition of collegiate(大学的) sports, such a custom is not as familiar in a country like Poland. “There’s no collegiate sports in Poland and no culture of sports and academic(学术的) study there. You can only do one, not both,” Siwosz said.
Her desire to have a quality education led her to America to follow her dream. While Siwosz was talented enough to begin her collegiate tennis career, she could only attend community college because she missed the deadline to apply to four-year schools, mainly due to misinformation provided in her home country of Poland.
When she had earned all her credits and was able to transfer(转学), Siwosz made the decision to attend Baylor in Texas. Her friends from Poland put in a good word for the university, saying that it was a good fit because there were many international players at Baylor. “I thought it would be a good idea, but it really wasn’t what I thought it would be,” Siwosz said. “I wasn’t happy at Baylor. The level of tennis was high, but the academic standards were no match and I just wanted more.”
After one year at Baylor, Siwosz’s luck finally began to change when she made the decision to transfer to Berkeley, which was due in large part to Lee, a former Berkeley student. Lee, who is a keen tennis player himself, met Siwosz four years ago in Texas. “I knew she was unhappy there,” he said. “I saw the opportunity for her to come here.” Siwosz visited Lee in Berkeley. “I ended up loving this place and this school,” Siwosz said. “I came here a lot over the summer, I gave it a shot and I ended up with a Berkeley education and a spot on one of the best college tennis teams in the country.”
What does “two unsuccessful stops” (Paragraph 1) refer to?

Why did Siwosz want to leave her homeland for America?

Why did she leave Baylor?

The phrase “gave it a shot” (Paragraph 5) is closest in meaning to ______.

What is the main idea of the passage?

The aims of the Illustrators’(插图画家的) Exhibition, staged as part of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, organized by BolognaFiere and held from 23 to 26 December 2012, are to bring illustrators and publishers together and to promote illustrators and their works among publishers.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Individual illustrators or groups of illustrators of any nationality, if they were born before 31st December 1992, whose artwork is intended for use in children’s books, are qualified to enter the Exhibition, either directly or through publishing houses or schools.
• Please state in the application form whether you are entering work for the Fiction or Nonfiction Category. Illustrators may only enter one category.
• Artwork previously presented to the Exhibition may not be re-entered.
• The confirmation(确认) form must be filled in and a photograph attached, then presented together with illustrations no later than 15 October 2012.
SHIPMENT
Entries may be delivered by post, express delivery service or by hand. From abroad, please use the following forms: Form “A” for registered mail or post by air; Form “B” if using an international forwarding agent or airline.
To avoid delays, material should not be sent by normal post. Material should be sent “carriage(运费) paid”, including any customs and delivery costs.
BolognaFiere may not be held responsible for the non-arrival or late arrival of artwork. All published works must be accompanied by a declaration bearing the ISBN number, publisher’s name and address.
REQUIREMENTS
The illustrations (i.e. the size of the sheet) must not exceed(超过) the following dimensions:
Fiction:
32 × 42 cm (or 42 × 32 cm)
Non-fiction:
50 × 70 cm (or 70 × 50 cm)
Illustrations in larger formats will not be considered, nor will they be returned by BolognaFiere. The illustrations must be on paper or flexible board, maximum thickness 2 mm (for scanner separation purposes).
SELECTION PROCESS
All artwork received by the stated deadline and meeting the specified requirements will be examined and selected by an international group (whose decision is final), including five members (from publishing house and art schools) appointed each year by BolognaFiere.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
After the Bologna event, the Illustrators Exhibition will travel to Japan under the supervision of JBBY. The Illustrators Exhibition may afterwards be transferred to other venues(场馆) in other countries. The exhibitions of illustrations held abroad follow the same rules and regulations as the Illustrators Exhibition, and the provisions(条款) of the regulations are extended to the organizers of the exhibitions held abroad.
RETURN OF ARTWORK
All the works will be returned to their owners by BolognaFiere or directly by the organizers of the exhibitions and held abroad by the end of July 2013.
Which of the following of the Illustrators’ Exhibition is TRUE?

The illustrators of the Illustrators’ Exhibition ______.

Which of the following is unacceptable for delivering entries?

What is BolognaFiere responsible for?

The illustrators’ works will not be considered if they ______.

Next Stop: Planet Mars
Fly me to the moon? That’s not far enough. On September 14, 2011, NASA released designs for a superrocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). This time the final destination will be Mars.
The SLS is a huge, liquid-fuelled rocket. If it is fully developed, it will be the most powerful rocket ever built. Its lift capability will be much bigger than that of the space shuttle of Saturn 5, the rocket that sent the Apollo missions to the moon.
NASA is planning to launch its first unmanned test flight in 2017. It is hoped that the first crew will fly in 2021 and astronauts will make it to a nearby asteroid(小行星) in 2025. NASA hopes to send the rocket and astronauts to Mars from the asteroid by the 2030s, according to the Associated Press (AP).
NASA used liquid rockets to send Apollo, Gemini and Mercury into space, but later changed to solid rockets boosters(助推火箭) because they were cheaper. Tragically, however, a booster flaw(缺陷) caused the space shuttle Challenger to crash in 1986. The new project plans to return to liquid fuel.
According to AP, the rockets will at first be able to carry 77 to 110 tons of payload(净载重量). Eventually they will be able to carry 143 tons into space, maybe even as many as 165 tons, NASA officials said. By comparison, the Saturn 5 booster could lift 130 tons and the space shuttle just 27 tons.
However, unlike reusable shuttles, these powerful rockets are mostly one use only. New ones have to be built for every launch. This will be very costly.
NASA estimates that it will cost about $3 billion (19 billion yuan) per year, or $18 billion until the first test flight in 2017. NASA hopes to make money by allowing private companies to send astronauts to the International Space Station like giant taxi services, so that the program can be “sustainable”.
“This is perhaps the biggest thing for space exploration in decades,” said Senator Bill Nelson, a former astronaut. “The goal is to fly humans safely beyond low-Earth orbit(轨道) and deep into outer space where we cannot only survive, but one day also live.”
What is the outstanding feature of the SLS?

What is Saturn 5?

NASA plans to use liquid fuel in the new project because ______ than solid rockets boosters.

According to NASA’s schedule, it will take ______ years to fully complete the SLS program.

It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That’s bad for the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now. But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.
That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job turnover(人员更替) data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations(解雇), and retirements. (Yes, people are retiring even in this economy.) In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!
And as it turns out, even today — with job growth near zero — over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.
I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job. It’s true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for). And it’s true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it’s a new one or not.
But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated. They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look; learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn’t looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.
So don’t let the headlines fool you into giving up. Four million people get hired every month in the U.S. You can be one of them.
The author tends to believe that high unemployment rate ______.

Where do most job openings come from?

What does the author say about overall job growth?

What is the key to landing a job according to the author?

What do we learn from the passage about the unemployment figures in the US?

下面文章中有5处需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A. Kripke’s Research Tool
B. Dangers of Habitual Shortages of Sleep
C. Classification of Sleep Problems
D. A Way of Overcoming Insomnia
E. Sleep Problems of Long and Short Sleepers
F. Oversleeping — Too Much of a Good Thing
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Although the dangers of too little sleep are widely known, new research suggests that people who sleep too much may also suffer the consequences.
______
Investigators at the University of California in San Diego found that people who clock up 9 or 10 hours each weeknight appear to have more trouble falling and staying asleep, as well as a number of other sleep problems, than people who sleep 8 hours a night. People who slept only 7 hours each night also said they had more trouble falling asleep and feeling refreshed after a night’s sleep than 8-hour sleepers.
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Previous studies have shown the potential dangers of chronic(慢性的) shortages of sleep — for instance, one report demonstrated that people who habitually sleep less than 7 hours each night have a higher risk of dying within a fixed period than people who sleep more.
______
For the current report, Kripke reviewed the responses of 1,004 adults to sleep questionnaires, in which participants indicated how mush they slept during the week and whether they experienced any sleep problems. Sleep problems included waking in the middle of the night, arising early in the morning and being unable to fall back to sleep, and having tiredness interfere with day-to-day functioning.
______
Kripke found that people who slept between 9 and 10 hours each night were more likely to report experiencing each sleep problem than people who slept 8 hours. In an interview, Kripke noted that long sleepers may struggle to get rest at night simply because they spend too much time in bed. As evidence, he added that one way to help insomnia is to spend less time in bed. “It stands to reason that if a person spends too long a time in bed, then they’ll spend a higher percentage of time awake,” he said.

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Mr. Black,
I’m Li Hua, an exchange student from China. I had been studying in your school for a year. I am deep moved by the kindness of people around. What I want to say first is that the teachers here are very friendly. They do what they can help me and encourage me to study hard. Whenever asking, they give satisfactory answers. Beside, my classmates offer me a lot of help, either. We get on well to each other and I have made quite a few good friend. At home, Walter’s parents take good care of me, treating to me as if I were their own child.
I’m so grateful to all these people, with their help I have been accustomed to American culture and gained a lot of knowledge.
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua

假设你是李华，你们学校的外教老师Mr. Hans组织英语小组同学周六下午去他公寓交流阅读莫言小说《蛙》（Frog）的读后感，你因故无法参加。请按下列要求用英语给他写一封100~120个词的信件。内容应包括：
1. 表示歉意；
2. 解释缺席原因；
3. 询问借阅讨论摘要的事宜。
Dear Mr. Hans,
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Best wishes,
Yours
Li Hua