[河南]2013届河南三门峡“人保财险杯”高三学生综合能力竞赛英语卷

The report said a bus went out of ____ control in the highway _____ south of the city and rushed into the river.

Which do you feel like ________ the time on the train, chatting with friends or just reading something?

----Would you like some sweets, dear?
----______, I have a sweet tooth.

Helen has been looking for a job over the whole year, feeling she can’t get _________ without work experience.

----Another cup of tea? That’s your third since lunch.    
----Yeah, well, I ____ all night preparing for my history exam. I can hardly keep my eyes open.

He has spent, 1 think, a lot __________ time in reading than she has.

----Can you attend tomorrow’s meeting?
----I am sorry , but I will have too much work__________．

The wine industry in the area has developed in a special way, ______little foreign ownership.

I always enjoyed French at school, but the advanced courses in literature turned me _____.

Fully __________ in looking after three children at home, she no longer has time to enjoy the various activities in the club.

I can guess you were in a hurry. You ______ your sweater inside out.

________ anything, give me a call and I'll be glad to help you.

________ you didn't know the rules won't be an excuse for your failure to report.

How can you expect him to make any improvement ________ you never give him an opportunity to have a try?

----Mr. Johnson, would you have some more ice-cream?
----No, thanks. It’s very good, but I have to _____ my weight, you know.

Checks have largely taken the place of money as a means of    36   , for they are widely accepted everywhere.   37    this is very   38    for both buyer and seller, it should not be forgotten that checks are not real money: they are quite   39  in themselves. A shop-keeper runs a certain 40 when he accepts a check and he is quite   41   his rights if, on occasion, he   42   to do so. People do not always know this and are   43    if their good faith is called in question. A wealthy friend of mine told me he had an extremely   44   experience.
One day he decided to buy a particularly fine pearl necklace at a famous jewelry shop which keeps a large__45  of precious stones and asked if he could pay   46   check, the assistant said that this was quite  47  . But the moment my friend signed his name, he was invited into the manager’s office. The manager was very polite, but he explained that someone   48   exactly the same name had presented them with a worthless check not long ago. My friend got very angry at it and said he would buy a necklace   49  . When he got up to go, the manager told him that the police would arrive at any moment and he had better stay   50   he wanted to get into serious trouble. Sure enough the police arrived, __51 to my friend for the   52  ,  but explained that a person who had used the same name as his  53   for a number of recent robberies. Then the police asked my friend to    54    out a note which had been used by the thief in a number of shops. The note read, “I have a gun in my pocket, ask no questions and give all the money in the safe.” Fortunately, my friend’s handwriting was quite__55__ the thief’s. He was not only allowed to go without further delay, but to take the pearl necklace with him.

A．change B．exchange C．trade D．business

A．Because B．If C．Though D．Since

A．favourite B．popular C．profitable D．convenient

A．dangerous B．priceless C．unimportant D．valueless

A．chance B．risk C．opportunity D．danger

A．within B．out of C．without D．beyond

A．refuses B．agrees C．fails D．hates

A．unhappy B．ashamed C．shocked D．puzzled

A．uninteresting B．unreasonable C．unforgettable D．unpleasant

A．amount B．accident C．stock D．number

A．in B．by C．with D．on

A．in need B．in common C．in use D．in order

A．used B．with C．named D．by

A．anywhere B．somewhere C．somewhere else D．everywhere

A．unless B．otherwise C．if D．whether

A．coming B．sticking C．apologizing D．checking

A．manner B．behavior C．inconvenience D．treatment

A．responsible B．answered C．charged D．blamed

A．copy B．read C．take D．bring

A．unlike B．different C．dissimilar D．dislike

When she was twelve, Maria made her first important decision about the course of her life. She decided that she wanted to continue her education. Most girls from middle-class families chose to stay home after primary school, though some attended private Catholic "'finishing" schools. There they learned a little about music, art, needlework, and how to make polite conversation. This was not the sort of education that interested Maria or her mother. By this time, she had begun to take her studies more seriously. She read constantly and brought her books everywhere. One time she even brought her math book to the theater and tried to study in the dark.
　　Maria knew that she wanted to go on learning in a serious way. That meant attending the public high school, something that very few girls did. In Italy at the time, there were two types of high schools: the "classical" schools and the "technical" schools. In the classical schools, the students followed a very traditional program of studies, with courses in Latin and Greek language and literature, and Italian literature and history. The few girls who continued studying after primary school usually chose these schools.
　　Maria, however, wanted to attend a technical school. The technical schools were more modern than the classical schools and they offered courses in modern languages, mathematics, science, and accounting. Most people including Maria's father believed that girls would never be able to understand these subjects. Furthermore, they did not think it was proper for girls to study them.
　　Maria did not care if it was proper or not. Math and science were the subjects that interested her most. But before she could sign up for the technical school, she had to win her father's approval. She finally did, with her mother's help, though for many years after, there was tension in the family. Maria's father continued to oppose her plans, while her mother helped her.
　　In 1883, at age thirteen, Maria entered the "Regia Scuola Tecnica Michelangelo Buonarroti" in Rome. Her experience at this school is difficult for us to imagine. Though the courses included modern subjects, the teaching methods were very traditional. Learning consisted of memorizing long lists of facts and repeating them back to the teacher. Students were not supposed to ask questions or think for themselves in any way. Teachers were very demanding, discipline in the classroom was strict, and punishment was severe for those who failed to achieve or were disobedient.
In those days, most Italian girls________.

Maria's father probably________.

High school teachers in Italy in those days were________.

We can infer from this passage that________.

People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories according to pictures.
About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.
　　The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.
　　By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.
　　These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.
Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because______.

The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that______.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ______.

Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone’s preference is that it’s one person’s opinion. But because the two big cola companies—Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola are marketed so aggressively, we’ve wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting.
We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic (传统型) or Pepsi, Diet (低糖的) Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they’d have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.
We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants’ choices with what mere guess-work could have accomplished.
Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse----only 7 of 27 identified all four samples correctly.
While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.
According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to ________.

 It is implied but not stated in the first paragraph that ________.

The word “burnout” (Line3, Para. 5) refers to the state of _________.

The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________.

Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what’s going on in the world; they're affected by what’s going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten.
Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on inside our head affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. Rémi Radel of University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens.
Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the brain’s high-1evel thinking processes get involved. Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or her test, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.
For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about l/300th of a second each. They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word, each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they’d seen-a food-related word like cake or a neutral word like boat. Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it.
Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food- related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in perception, not in thinking processes, Radel says. "This is something great to me. Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for. From the experiment, I know that our brain can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs. "Radel says.
Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment?

What does the writer want to tell us?

What can we infer from the passage?

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有多余选项。
The Dark Age of Greece
Among early civilizations, we call the low points "dark ages", because civilizations often dropped to such a low level that it is hard to get an accurate picture of their history during these periods. During a dark age, a civilization may not have produced monuments, statue, or other objects which we use to learn about early civilizations.
One' of the most important dark ages was the dark age of Greece,which lasted from about 1100 BC to 900 BC. Prior to-that-time,Greece had a highly advanced society called the Mycenaean civilization. The Mycenaeans were a trading civilizationIn fact, the Mycenaean civilization was so important that when it collapsed in the 12th centuryBC,most other civilizations in the region collapsed as well.The next 200 years are like a blank page to  historians and we know very little about this period.The collapse of the Mycenaeans brought an end to writing in the area, and thus an end to the written records historians rely on.
The little that we know about this period has been learned from archaeology. It seems that civilization became much less advanced. The pottery from this period is much simpler and less artistic. This suggests that there was lack of wealthy people to buy higher quality products.    This would suggest a large decrease in population, possibly due to a widespread lack of food and consequent starvation.
Sometime around 800 BC, the Greeks began to emerge from this dark age, most probably due to the influence of other civilizations. They had lost their early writing system, but began to use the writing system of the Phoenicians at this time.Over the next 300 years, their civilization continued to rise, and their dark age was forgotten.

E.Many pieces of evidence suggest that there was a huge increase in population during the dark age of Greece.
F.and they did much to spread their culture across the eastern Mediterranean.
G.One major reason for this is that writing basically stopped.

假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有
10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出该加的词。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词。
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
Have you ever heard the saying: All work and no play make Jack a dull boy? What this means is that if you study all the times you will become a boring person. You must go out and have a fun with your friends, otherwise you will lose him. No one wants to be friends with someone only talked about work and study.
Perhaps you have a confident problem. Please try to remember that you do is just for yourself rather than no one else, but do not compete with your classmates. No one can be happier in studying seven days and seven nights in a week.

假设你是李华，是一名高三学生。你的同班同学王强因患白血病（leukemia）而住院，目前已经花光了家里的所有积蓄，现在需要骨髓移植（bone marrow transplant）, 需要20万元。请你帮他写一封求助信。要点如下：
对病人的简单介绍；
目前的困难；
希望得到捐助；
联系电话：白天5221600；晚上5221610
注意：1.词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear friends,
I’m very sad to tell that
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Yours truly，
Li Hua