2013年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语

—Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup!
—_________ , madam. It's our soup of the day!

They might just have a place ________ on the writing course— why don’t you give it a try?

Try not to cough more than you can _______ since it may cause problems to your lungs.

If wenow to protect the environment, we'll live to regret it.

Tony can hardly boil an egg, still ________ cook dinner.

Police have found ________ appears to be the lost ancient statue.

When I first met Bryan I didn’t like him, but I ________ my mind.

The drive wanted to park his car near the roadside but was asked by the police ________ .

The door ________ open, no matter how hard she pushed.

At the last moment, Tom decided to ________ a new character to make the story seem more likely.

India attained ________ independence in 1947, after _______ long struggle.

There's no way of knowing why one man makes an important discoveryanother man, also intelligent, fails.

“You can’t judge a book by its cover,” ________ .

It was a real race _______ time to get the project done. Luckily, we made it.

The sunlight is white and blinding, _______ hard-edged shadows on the ground.

I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday” which was to make us more   36   the problem faced by disabled people. We were asked to “   37   a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some member   38   chose the wheel chair. Other wore sound-blocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a   39   experience, I had never considered before how   40   it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down my   41   made the chair begin to roll. Its wheel were not   42   . Then I wondered where to put my   43   , It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into   44   , I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of   45   for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary(临时的)   46   .
I tried to find a   47   position and thought it might be restful,   48   kind of nice to be   49    around for a while. Looking around, I   50   would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I   51   the heavy wheels, I came to know that controlling the   52   of the wheelchair as not going to be   53   task,
My wheelchair experiment was soon   54   . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the   55   , both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.

A．curious about B．aware of C．interested in D．careful with

A．cure B．adopt C．prevent D．analyze

A．inserted B．strangely C．as usual D．like me

A．learning B．working C．satisfying D．relaxing

A．convenient B．awkward C．boring D．exciting

A．height B．force C．skill D．weight

A．locked B．repaired C．powered D．grasped

A．hands B．feet C．keys D．handles

A．place B．action C．play D．effect

A．operation B．communication C．transportation D．production

A．exploration B．education C．experiment D．entertainment

A．flexible B．safe C．starting D．comfortable

A．yet B．just C．still D．even

A．shown B．pushed C．driven D．guided

A．realized B．suggested C．agreed D．admitted

A．lifted B．turned C．pressed D．seized

A．path B．position C．direction D．way

A．easy B．heavy C．major D．extra

A．forgotten B．repeated C．conducted D．finished

A．weaknesses B．anxieties C．challenges D．illnesses

Some people will do just about anything to save money. And I am one of them. Take my family's last vacation. It was my six-year-old son's winter break form school, and we were heading home from Fort Lauderdale after a weeklong trip. The flight was overbooked, and Delta, the airline, offered us $400 per person in credits to give up our seats and leave the next day. I had meeting in New York，So I had to get back . But that didn't mean my husband and my son couldn't stay. I took my nine-month-old and took off for home.
The next day my husband and son were offered more credits to take an even later flight. Yes, I encouraged一okay, ordered-them to wait it out at the airport, to "earn" more Delta Dollars. Our total take: $1,600. Not bad, huh?
Now some people may think I'm a bad mother and not such a great wife either. But as a big-time bargain hunter, I know the value of a dollar. And these days, a good deal is something few of us can afford to pass up.
I've made living looking for the best deals and exposing (揭露) the worst tricks . I have been the consumer reporter of NBC's Today show for over a decade. I have written a couple of books including one titled Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival Guide. And I really do what I believe in. I tell you this because there is no shame in getting your money's worth. I'm also tightfisted when it comes to shoes, clothes for my children, and expensive restaurants. But I wouldn't hesitate to spend on a good haircut. It keeps its longer, and it's the first thing people notice. And I will also spend on a classic piece of furniture. Quality lasts.

The baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert (警觉). Twenty centimeters from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by another, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards change from one to the other, her gaze(凝视) starts to lose its focus - until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns; she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two is different from three, just 24 hours after coming into the world?
Or do newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three spots shown before two, shows the same return of interest when the number of spots changes. Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects(a comb, a key, an orange and so on), changing the number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves. Could it be the pattern that two things make, as opposed to three? No again. Babies paid more attention to squares moving randomly on a screen when their number changed from two to three, or three to two. The effect even crosses between senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they heard just two; likewise(同样地) when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots.
The experiment described in Paragraph 1 is related to the baby’s ______.

Babies are sensitive to the change in ______.

Why did the researchers test the babies with drumbeats?

Where does this text probably come from?

It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President. A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was ,in his words, “a brilliantly（精彩地）written book”. However, he then went on to talk about Mr Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.
And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In the World Book Day’s “Report on Guilty Secrets”, Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I’m not one to lie too often (I’d hate to be caught out ),I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire top ten . But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s really brilliant.
The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it. It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky(I haven’t read him, but haven’t lied about it either )and Herman Melville.
Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to “impress” someone they were speaking to. This could be tricky if the conversation became more in –depth!
But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J. k. Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story(I’ll come clean: I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so).
How did the author find his friend a book liar?

Which of the following is a “guilty secret” according to the World Book Day report?

By lying about reading, a person hopes to.

What is the author’s attitude to 58%of readers?

The National Gallery
Description:
The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of European art ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The older collections of the gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modern works in the East Wing are most easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance
Layout:
The modern Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building houses 13th-to15th-century paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli and Memling.
The main West Wing houses 16th-century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titan and Veronest.
The North Wing houses 17th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude and Vermeer.
The East Wing houses 18th-to early 20th-century paintings, and artists include Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Renoir and Van Gogh
Opening Hours:
The Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6pm (Fridays 10anm to 9pm) and is free, but charges apply to some special exhibitions.
Getting There:
Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk). Leicester Square (3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute walk), and Piccadilly Circus(8-minute walk).

Business is the organized approach to providing customers with the goods and services they want. The word business also refers to an organization that provides these goods and services. Most business seek to make a profit(利润) - that aim to achieve income that is more than the costs of operating the business.      Commonly called nonprofits, these organizations are primarily nongovernmental service providers.       .
Business management is a term used to describe the techniques of planning, direction, and control of the operations of a business.       One is the establishment (制定)of broad basic policies with respect to production; sales; the purchase of equipment, materials and supplies; and accounting.       The third relates to the establishment of standards of word in all departments. Direction is concerned primarily with supervision(监管)and guidance by the management in authority.    

E. The second aspect relates to the application of these policies by departments.
F. In the theory of business management, organization has two main aspects.
G Planning in business management has three main aspects.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌中间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：把缺词处叫个娄子符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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。
I hardly remember my grandmother. She used to holding me on her knees and sing old songs. I was only four when she passes away. She is just a distant memory for me now.I remember my grandfather very much. He was tall, with broad shoulder and a beard that turned from black toward gray over the years. He had a deep voice, which set himself apart from others in our small town,he was strong and powerful. In a fact, he even scared my classmates away during they came over to play or do homework with me. However, he was the gentlest man I have never known.

假定你是李华。请你给笔友Peter写封信，告诉他你叔叔李明将去他所在城市开会，带去他想要的那幅中国画，同时询问他是否可以接机。信中还需说明：
李明：高个子，戴眼镜
航班号：CA985
到达：8月6日上午11:30
注意：1. 词数100左右
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语和介绍语已为你写好。
Dear Peter,
How are you doing?___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua