[湖南]2013届湖南省重点高中高三自主招生测评英语试卷

She walked home by herself, ______ she knew that it was dangerous.

People are concerned about the quality of the air they ______.

He was breathing ______ after the relay race.

I didn’t mean to break your vase—it was just ______.

We couldn’t understand: what could ______ his sudden change of mind?

Jake’s passed his exams. We’re going out to ______.

The professor was so ______, hardly anyone came to class.

Late again! What’s your ______ this time?

Geography is the study of the countries of the world and of such things ______ the land, seas, climate, towns, and population.

I looked under _____ bed and found _____ book I lost last week.

—I’d like some more cheese.
—Sorry, there’s _____ left.

—Look! He’s running so fast!
—Hard to______ his legs were once broken.

My cousin went to Canada two yours ago. He ______ there for a few months and then went to America.

The flowers were so lovely that they ______ in no time.

—______ can we get the photos?
—In two days.

Have you read the book ____ I lent to you?

Although Linda tried hard in the exam, she did ______ than her brother.

______ at the door before entering please.

—Sally doesn't like pop music, does she?
—_____. She is a fan of classical music.

______ good advice he gave us!

In front of the big Shibuya train station in Tokyo, there is a life-size bronze (青铜) statue of a dog. Even though the statue is very small when compared to the huge neon (霓虹灯) signs flashing, it isn’t   21   to find. It has been used as   22   since 1934 and today you will find hundreds of people waiting there for their friends to   23  —just look for the crowds（人群）.
Hachiko, an Akita dog, was born in 1923 and brought to Tokyo in 1924. His owner, Professor Eisaburo Uyeno and he were close friends that cannot be   24   right from the start. Each day Hachiko would go with his owner, a professor at the Imperial University, to Shibuya train station when he left for work. When he came back, the professor would always find the dog   25   waiting for him.   26  , the professor died suddenly at work in 1925 before he could return home.
  27   Hachiko was still a young dog, the bond between him and his owner was very strong and he   28   to wait at the station every day. Sometimes, he would stay there for days at a time, though some believe that he kept returning because of the food he was given by street vendors. Over time he became a   29   sight to people going to and from work every day. In 1934, a statue of him was put   30   the station. In 1935, Hachiko died at the place he last saw his friend alive.

A．difficult B．important C．pleasant D．polite

A．a parking place B．a training center C．a starting line D．a meeting point

A．leave B．arrive C．die D．work

A．touched B．separated C．reached D．moved

A．nervously B．disappointedly C．patiently D．carefully

A．Sadly B．Clearly C．Luckily D．Honestly

A．Because B．Since C．Although D．Unless

A．decided B．agreed C．offered D．continued

A．familiar B．strange C．comfortable D．funny

A．inside B．outside C．behind D．above

Scientists would like to place a huge mirror in space above the earth. It might be sixty miles wide. It would be used to catch the rays (光线) of the sun. It would direct the sun’s rays upon the earth as a child might do to make sunlight dance on the wall with a hand mirror.
Why do they want to do this? The sun’s rays could be helpful in many ways. They could light up cities by night. The warm rays could stop frosts (霜冻) which might come at night and hurt fruit crops. They could melt (融化) dangerous icebergs in the ocean. Perhaps they could change cloud movements and bring rain where it is needed.
The huge mirror would ______.

The mirror would be used to ______.

The strong light from the mirror could possibly ______.

The huge mirror is ______.

Liverpool city council (市政厅) want to clear the city of fat pigeons (鸽子). They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat. The pigeons get bigger because they normally eat seeds (种子) and insects (昆虫) for their main food, not high-fat junk food they are eating in the city centre.
The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons makes the streets crowded (拥挤)with these birds. They hope to encourage the birds to move away from the city centre and into parks and open spaces.
Ten robotic birds have been brought into the city centre to scare the pigeons away and visitors are asked not to give the pigeons any food. The mechanical birds—known as ‘robops’—will sit on the roofs of buildings. They can be moved around to different places. They look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons. They even make noises and flap their wings to scare the pigeons. They hope that the pigeons will go away before the city becomes the European Capital of Culture in two years.
Liverpool city council want to clear the city of fat pigeons because ______.

What do we know about a peregrine falcon?

Which of the following is probably true according to passage?

May: Happenings from the Past
May 5, 1884
Isaac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.
May 9, 1754
Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon (漫画), showing a snake cut in pieces with the words “Join or Die” printed under the picture.
May 11, 1934
The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, the result of years of drought (干旱), blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.
May 19, 1994
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.
May 24, 1844
Samuel F.B Morse taps out the first message, “What hath God wrought,” over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Md.
We know from the text that Buchanan is ______.

What is the title of the first American political cartoon?

In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?

Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?
A. Washing to, D.C.  B. New York City C. Kentucky         D. Pennsylvania

A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maliyuwa, a nearby village. They lived with the man’s big family—his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.
Three months later the woman went back to her parents’ home, having quarreled with her husband. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart-broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.
It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved (感动) by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband’s home.
The writer wrote the story in order to ______.

The woman left her new home ______.

After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant ______.

The young wife went back to her husband because ______.

We went to the swimming pool today. I had my first swimming lesson. At first I was very afraid. I hated it when the water went up my nose and into my ears. I kept my eyes closed all _____ time.
Slowly, however, I became more confident. The teacher made sure ____ would always touch the bottom of the pool with my feet and ____ my head was above water. By the end of the lesson I could float on the water for ____ least a minute.
I’m glad I’m learning to swim; it can be lots of fun. Soon I hope to be able to dive into the pool ____ swim underwater.

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