（英语）六校2013届高三第三次联考

六校2013届高三第三次联考

英语试题

Ⅰ. 语言知识及应用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In 60 years, the Queen has never put a foot wrong in public. And for the last 24 of them, it turns out she’s had a secret weapon – Ella Slack.

The 1 BBC manager is unknown to anyone except a handful of key advisers. She has spent the last quarter of a century, 2 as the Queen’s official stand-in(替身) at rehearsals for 3 events. The 69-year-old from the Isle of Man has never 4 a penny for her loyal service, considering it ―a pleasure and a(n) 5 ‖ to ensure that everything runs 6 for the Queen.

―How many people in the world have had a(n) 7 to sit in a royal landau (马车) or walk onto the platform at Windsor Castle even before the 8 has done so?‖ she said proudly and cheerfully.

9 ，Miss Slack may not resemble the Queen，but she has a(n) 10 build to the Queen, standing just shy of 5 feet. The Queen is 5 feet 2 inches.

Ella began her 11 role in 1988 when she was working as manager of the BBC’s sports and events department. A producer asked her if she could stand in for the Queen to check camera angles at a rehearsal for Remembrance Day – and her second 12 was born.

Since then, from the State Opening of Parliament to the 50th anniversary of VE Day wherever the Queen is on duty, Miss Slack is 13 to have been there first. In the Thames Diamond Jubilee, she braved the wind and rain on the royal boat. She has 14 her own version of the Queen’s wardrobe, including a black patent handbag she bought in a charity shop for ￡1, and 15 styled her hair like the Queen. 1 A. friendly B. forever C. former D. formal 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

A. acting A. scientific A. given A. honour A. proudly A. room A. Queen A. Fortunately A. similar A. unforgettable A. child A. hardly A. completed

B. regarding B. international B. offered B. happiness B. smoothly B. period B. public B. Actually B. attractive B. remarkable B. feature B. likely B. designed

C. considering C. domestic C. spent C. harmony C. directly C. chance C. adviser C. Basically C. different C. reasonable C. career C. finally C. perfected

D. playing D. royal D. accepted D. honesty D. immediately D. interest D. producer D. Facially D. familiar D. considerable D. home D. lately D. invented

15 A. still B. almost C. just D. even

第二节 语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡括号为16-25的相应位置上。 I woke up and saw the sun was high up in the sky. That meant it was after eight o’clock in the morning. The light came to me 16 the trees, but it was still quite dark in the woods. I felt happy because I was free of my father.

I was about to go to sleep again when I heard a loud ―boom‖! I didn’t know how far it was, but after a few minutes I heard 17 . I jumped up and looked at the river through the leaves. 18 I saw was a lot of smoke on the water and 19 steamboat full of people.

―They think I am 20 (die), but they can’t find my body. They are firing cannon balls into the water, as local people usually do, 21 (make) my body come up.‖ I thought.

Soon the steamboat got closer to the island. I saw people 22 I knew well on the boat: Tom Sawyer, his aunt Polly, my father and Judge Thatcher. The boat went around Jackson’s Island, then up the river and back to the town. I didn’t come out 23 I knew I was OK to catch some fish for breakfast. In the afternoon, a little sadness 24 (strike) me when I was enjoying my food because nobody was on the island with me. By the end of the day, as the night fell, I started to feel 25 (sad). Three days and nights passing in the same way, I fished, looked for fruit and looked around the island.

II阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。

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New York (CNN) – It’s official. ―Bieber Fever‖ has broken and given way to ― Gangnam Style.‖

Justin Bieber, who was first discovered on YouTube in 2008, had previously held the crown

with just under 804 million online visitors. However, rapper Psy on Saturday defeated the teenage pop star as the most-watched YouTube video ever, netting more than 806 million views.

The ―Gangnam style‖ is the title of the song, which has been sung by a South Korean rapper, Psy, who was in fact better known for his stage performances, and this video has made him one of

the most popular dancing icons of the world.

If Americans can make a movie called “Kung Fu Panda” and sell it to the Chinese and it becomes a No. 1 hit in China, then it follows that a Korean artist, too, can rise to the top of the music charts in America, riding an invisible horse and rapping in his own language - Gangnam Style, of course. Wearing a tuxedo and sunglasses, the 34-year-old rapper Psy, whose real name is

Park Jae-sang, is no stranger to the TV world, who has made appearances in The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Sunday, Golden Fishery ,just to name a few.

The song has been sung in Korean but the video has crossed all barriers of language, as it has become a massive hit all over the world, regardless of the language. The video, performed in Korean, is downloaded largely by people who don’t understand one word of the language. The dancing style has been seen performed at various night clubs, dance floors, events, and functions, etc. Even famous personalities have been hooked on, as Ban Ki Moon from the UN, also for a brief period, recently tried his hand at the Gangnam Style. Music is a universal language. Psy, quite aware of this, told CNN recently, ―If I have a chance I want my music lyrics to be Korean. The world’s most famous and popular language is music. So if we have some sort of solution with these kinds of dance moves and this kind of music video, can I use Korean if possible? It’s really huge history for my country.‖

For many, the song and the music just resemble fun, but Psy has a deeper meaning attached to the song, as it is a criticism of the wealthy neighborhood in Seoul, Gangnam. It would be interesting to find out how many of the people from Gangnam actually liked the video. Very few people around the world know about the special talent he possesses - the pop star actually sits down to write all his music by himself.

Now, with Psy having gained world wide popularity, fans would be expecting more from the Korean star. So what can we expect from him in his new song? Only Psy would be able to answer this, as it is his think out of the box attitude, which has made him a trend setter worldwide. 26. “Bieber Fever” is mentioned in the beginning in order to ________.

A. attract the readers’ attention

B. bring in the most-watched song “Gangnam Style ”

D. talk about a disease called ―Bieber‖

C. introduce the life of Justin Bieber

27. In the song video “Gangnam Style”, Psy ________.

A. wears a tuxedo and sunglasses and puts on a very good performance. B. sings the song in Korean and dances on a horse to make people laugh. C. has quite a similar singing and dancing style to Justin Bieber’s. 28. We learn from the passage that ________.

A. “Kung Fu Panda” was made in China and becomes a hit in America. B. Most people think the “Gangnam style” is only a meaningless video for fun. C. Psy is a talented pop star who is good at dancing and writing music. D. We can’t expect something extraordinary from Psy in his new song. 29. “Ban Ki Moon” in Paragraph 5 can be ________.

A. a horse rider who is keen on dancing B. a netizen who downloaded the “Gangnam style” C. a very famous politician

D. a woman with very strong personalities

30. In Paragraph 6, the underlined “this” probably refers to ______.

A. the effect of the video and the song B. the fact that the video is downloaded C. the attraction of the dancing style

D. the truth that music is a universal language B

You’ve probably learned lessons by watching other people make mistakes. For example, if

D. criticizes Korean rich people for few of them actually like watching videos.

you saw another kid ride his bike too fast around a corner and fall down, you might ride your bike more slowly on that turn. And the same is true for other animals.

Johnson’s team has discovered that in monkeys, a small part of the animal’s brain is activated when a companion monkey makes an error. The finding appeared in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience.

Animals mess up all the time. They might eat a poisonous berry, fall off a tree or let their prey slip away. By watching other members of its species fail, an animal can avoid making the same mistake. This may improve its chance of survival. ―Everybody’s life is a bit of a trial-and-error game,‖ Matthew Shane told Science News. Shane is a psychologist who studies the brain at the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque. Psychologists suspected that one part of the brain, the medial frontal cortex (前额皮质层), helps animals process information about others’ errors. Cells in that region appear to become more active when a person makes a mistake or sees someone else making a mistake. But researchers didn’t know whether individual cells in this part of the brain play different roles in detecting errors.

So Johnson’s team studied the brain’s response to errors in more detail. To investigate, the researchers taught a game to two macaques, a type of monkey. One monkey could press a yellow or green button while the other watched. If the first monkey pressed the right button, the team gave both animals a treat. Every couple of rounds, the two monkeys switched roles. Meanwhile, the researchers monitored individual cells in the animals’ brains. When the first monkey failed the game by pressing the wrong button, a group of cells in the medial frontal cortex of the second monkey’s brain fired. But if the second monkey also made the wrong choice during its turn, some of the cells in that group didn’t respond. Those unresponsive cells reacted specifically to mistakes made by others, not to their own mistakes.

Psychologists believe other parts of the brain also might help people process information about others’ errors. ―You start to think about the other person and take the perspective of him,‖ Ellen de Bruijn, told Science News. She studies the brain at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

31. What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. Watching is the best way to learn how to ride. B. Others’ mistakes are very helpful to us.

C. A rider should slow down around a turn. D. People should warn those who ride a bicycle.

32. We can infer from the third paragraph that ________. A. Life is just a kind of endless trial-and-error game. B. Animals always make more mistakes than humans. C. One benefits a lot from watching others make mistakes. D. The medial frontal cortex processes error information.

33. Johnson’s team studied the two monkeys in order to judge ______. A. what response brain cells make when they find others’ errors B. whether monkeys are much cleverer than human beings. C. what other cells may react to other species’ mistakes.

D. how many cells one has in his brain that can react to errors.