[江苏]2013年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语
Generally, students' inner motivation with high expectations from othersessential to their development.
A. | is | B. | are | C. | was | D. | were |
—The T-shirt I received is not the same as is shown online.
—______? But I promise you we’ll look into it right away.
A.Who says | B.How come | C.What for | D.Why worry |
—The town is so beautiful! I just love it.
—Me too. The character of the town is well ______.
A.qualified | B.preserved | C.decorated | D.simplified |
Lionel Messi, ______ the record for the most goals in a calendar year, is considered the most talented football player in Europe.
A.set | B.setting | C.to set | D.having set |
—Could I use your car tomorrow morning?
—Sure. I ______ a report at home.
A.will be writing | B.will have written |
C.have written | D.have been writing |
I am always delighted when I receive an e-mail from you. ______ the party on July 1st, I shall be pleased to attend.
A.On account of | B.In response to | C.In view of | D.With regard to |
"Never for a second," the boy says, "
In the global economy, a new drug for cancer, ______ it is discovered, will create many economic possibilities around the world.
A.whatever | B.whoever | C.wherever | D.whichever |
Team leaders must ensure that all members ______ their natural desire to avoid the embarrassment associated with making mistakes.
A.get over | B.look over | C.take over | D.come over |
I should not have laughed if I ______ you were serious.
A.thought | B.would think | C.had thought | D.have thought |
Shortly after suffering from a massive earthquake and
The president of the World Bank says he has a passion for China, ______ he remembers starting as early as his childhood.
A.where | B.which | C.what | D.when |
With inspiration from other food cultures, American food culture can take a ______ for the better.
A.share | B.chance | C.turn | D.lead |
—What about your self-drive trip yesterday?
—Tiring! The road is being widened, and we ______ a rough ride.
A.had | B.have | C.would have | D.have had |
—Thank you for the flowers.
—______. I thought they might cheer you up.
A.That’s right | B.All right | C.I’m all right | D.It’s all right |
I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us 36 chasing the same thing.
One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell 37 . I found myself homeless and alone. I had my truck and $ 56. I 38 the countryside for some place I could rent for the 39 possible amount. I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road 40 the Potomac River in West Virginia. It was 41 , full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner, rented it, and 42 a corner to camp in.
The locals knew nothing about me, 43 slowly, they started teaching me the 44 of being a neighbor. They dropped off blankets, candles, and tools, and began 45 around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a 46 American Dream—not the one of individual achievement but of 47 .
What I had believed in, all those things I thought were 48 for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place. 49 on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my 50 with my neighbors.
Four years later, I moved back into 51 . I saw many people were having a really hard time, 52 their jobs and homes. I managed to rent a big enough house to 53 a handful of people. There are four of us now in the house, but over time I’ve had nine people come in and move on to other places. We’d all be in 54 if we hadn’t banded together.
The American Dream I believe in now is a shared one. It’s not so much about what I can get for myself; it’s about 55 we can all get by together.
A.separately B.equally C.violently D.naturally
A.off B.apart C.over D.out
A.crossed B.left C.toured D.searched
A.fullest B.largest C.fairest D.cheapest
A.at B.through C.over D.round
A.occupied B.abandoned C.emptied D.robbed
A.turned B.approached C.cleared D.cut
A.but B.although C.otherwise D.for
A.benefit B.lesson C.nature D.art
A.sticking B.looking C.swinging D.turning
A.wild B.real C.different D.remote
A.neighborliness B.happiness C.friendliness D.kindness
A.unique B.expensive C.rare D.necessary
A.Up B.Down C.Deep D.Along
A.cooperation B.relationships C.satisfaction D.appointments
A.reality B.society C.town D.life
A.creating B.losing C.quitting D.offering
A.put in B.turn in C.take in D.get in
A.yards B.shelters C.camps D.cottages
A.when B.what C.whether D.how
Guest Services Front Gate Guest Services can help you with anything from finding out what time your favourite show starts to purchasing tickets. The Guest Services location inside Front Gate also serves as a message centre, lost children's area and lost and found. Canada's Wonderland does not offer personalized public paging (传呼). |
Food & Drink Options Shops are located throughout Canada's Wonderland. Picnic baskets and coolers are welcome at the shelter located outside Wonderland on the north side of our Front Gate. Outside food and drinks are not allowed in the park. Bottled water may be brought into the Park. |
ATMs ATMs are located just inside the Park beside Stroller, Locker and Wheelchair Rentals at the Front Gate, as well as KidZville (beside Guest Services), Splash Works (two locations), and outside Thunder Run. |
Pet Care A pet care facility is located outside our Front Gate on the south side for a daily fee. Water and air-conditioned shelters are provided. Guests are asked to provide food and exercise. |
First Aid If you need medical assistance, tell any park employee who will call First Aid and have them come to your location. |
Stroller, Locker and Wheelchair Rentals Stroller, locker and wheelchair rentals are available inside the Park at the Front Gate, beside Thrills Are Wonderland. |
HIQ Smoking Policy Smoking is not permitted while riding or standing in line for rides or in any of the children's areas or the Water Park. Smoking is permitted in designated (指定的) areas only. |
Failure to observe all Park rules could result in being driven out of the Park without refund. |
The leaflet is to inform visitors of the Park's
A visitor to the Park can
We’ve considered several ways of paying to cut in line: hiring line standers, buying tickets from scalpers (票贩子), or purchasing line-cutting privileges directly from, say, an airline or an amusement park. Each of these deals replaces the morals of the queue (waiting your turn) with the morals of the market (paying a price for faster service).
Markets and queues—paying and waiting—are two different ways of allocating things, and each is appropriate to different activities. The morals of the queue, “First come, first served, have an egalitarian (平等主义的) appeal. They tell us to ignore privilege, power, and deep pockets.
The principle seems right on playgrounds and at bus stops. But the morals of the queue do not govern all occasions. If I put my house up for sale, I have no duty to accept the first offer that comes along, simply because it’s the first. Selling my house and waiting for a bus are different activities, properly governed by different standards.
Sometimes standards change, and it is unclear which principle should apply. Think of the recorded message you hear, played over and over, as you wait on hold when calling your bank: “Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received.” This is essential for the morals of the queue. It’s as if the company is trying to ease our impatience with fairness.
But don’t take the recorded message too seriously. Today, some people’s calls are answered faster than others. Call center technology enables companies to “score” incoming calls and to give faster service to those that come from rich places. You might call this telephonic queue jumping.
Of course, markets and queues are not the only ways of allocating things. Some goods we distribute by merit, others by need, still others by chance. However, the tendency of markets to replace queues, and other non-market ways of allocating goods is so common in modern life that we scarcely notice it anymore. It is striking that most of the paid queue-jumping schemes we’ve considered—at airports and amusement parks, in call centers, doctors’ offices, and national parks—are recent developments, scarcely imaginable three decades ago. The disappearance of the queues in these places may seem an unusual concern, but these are not the only places that markets have entered.
According to the author, which of the following seems governed by the principle “First come, first served”?
A.Taking buses. | B.Buying houses. |
C.Flying with an airline. | D.Visiting amusement parks. |
The example of the recorded message in Paragraphs 4 and 5 illustrates ______.
A.the necessity of patience in queuing |
B.the advantage of modern technology |
C.the uncertainty of allocation principle |
D.the fairness of telephonic services |
The passage is meant to ______.
A.justify paying for faster services |
B.discuss the morals of allocating things |
C.analyze the reason for standing in line |
D.criticize the behavior of queue jumping |
If a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends. Nitrogen (氮) dissolved (溶解) in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles (气泡) accumulate in a joint, is sharp pain and a bent body—thus the name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain, the consequence can be death.
Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression (减压) sickness if they surface too fast: whales, for example. And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs. That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply. This kills the cells in the bone, and consequently weakens it, sometimes to the point of collapse. Fossil (化石) bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends.
Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past. What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years. To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the world’s natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died, but not a single Triassic specimen (标本) showed evidence of that sort of injury.
If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly—and, most strangely, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr Rothschild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.
Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator (捕食动物) such as a large shark. One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches. Triassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark- and crocodile-free. In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, they were prey (猎物) as well as predator—and often had to make a speedy exit as a result.
Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?
A.A twisted body. |
B.A gradual decrease in blood supply. |
C.A sudden release of nitrogen in blood. |
D.A drop in blood pressure. |
The purpose of Rothschild’s study is to see ______.
A.how often ichthyosaurs caught the bends |
B.how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompression |
C.why ichthyosaurs bent their bodies |
D.when ichthyosaurs broke their bones |
Rothschild’s finding stated in Paragraph 4 ______.
A.confirmed his assumption | B.speeded up his research process |
C.disagreed with his assumption | D.changed his research objectives |
Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs ______.
A.failed to evolve an anti-decompression means |
B.gradually developed measures against the bends |
C.died out because of large sharks and crocodiles |
D.evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost it |
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain's novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain's most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel "trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟)." More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly-and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction-a recognition that the slave had two personalities, "the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man."
There is much more. Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master's baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master's baby by his wife. The slave's lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice-manner of speech, for example- were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain's racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自传) about how much he loved what were called "nigger shows" in his youth-mostly with white men performing in black-face-and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
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How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?
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Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its.
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What best proves Twain's anti-slavery stand according to the author?
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The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that.
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What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 7 refer to?
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What does the author mainly argue for?
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Quiet Virtue: The Conscientious
The everyday signs of conscientiousness (认真尽责)—being punctual, careful in doing work, self-disciplined, and scrupulous (一丝不苟的) in attending to responsibilities—are typical characteristics of the model organizational citizen, the people who keep things running as they should. They follow the rules, help out, and are concerned about the people they work with. It’s the conscientious worker who helps newcomers or updates people who return after an absence, who gets to work on time and never abuses sick leaves, who always gets things done on deadline.
Conscientiousness is a key to success in any field. In studies of job performance, outstanding effectiveness for almost all jobs, from semi-skilled labor to sales and management, depends on conscientiousness. It is particularly important for outstanding performance in jobs at the lower levels of an organization: the secretary whose message taking is perfect, the delivery truck driver who is always on time.
Among sales representatives for a large American car manufacturer, those who were most conscientious had the largest volume of sales. Conscientiousness also offers a buffer (缓冲) against the threat of job loss in today’s constantly changing market, because employees with this quality are among the most valued. For the sales representatives, their level of conscientiousness mattered almost as much as their sales in determining who stayed on.
There is an air around highly conscientious people that makes them seem even better than they actually are. Their reputation for dependability influences managers’ evaluations of their work, giving them higher evaluations than objective measures of their performance would predict.
But conscientiousness in the absence of social skills can lead to problems. Since conscientious people demand so much of themselves, they can hold other people to their own standards, and so be overly judgmental when others don’t show the same high levels of model behavior. Factory workers in Great Britain and the United States who were extremely conscientious, for example, tended to criticize co-workers even about failures that seemed unimportant to those they criticized, which damaged their relationships.
When conscientiousness takes the form of living up to expectations, it can discourage creativity. In creative professions like art or advertising, openness to wild ideas and spontaneity (自发性) are scarce and in demand. Success in such occupations calls for a balance, however; without enough conscientiousness to follow through, people become mere dreamers, with nothing to show for their imaginativeness.
请根据你对以下两幅图的理解,以"Actions Speak Louder than Words"为题,用英语写一篇作文。
参考词:
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你的作文应包括以下内容:
1. 简要描述两幅图的内容;
2. 概述你对两幅图中不同做法的理解;
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注意:
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Actions Speak Louder than Words