[重庆]2013年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语

I felt very tired when I got home, and Istraight to bed.

- Would you like a glass of wine?
-. I don't drink.

It’s not easy to change habits, ______ with awareness and self-control, it is possible.

John invited about 40 people to his wedding, most of ______ are family members.

______we have enough evidence, we can’t win the case.

— What are you doing this Saturday?
— I’m not sure, but I go to the Rolling Stones concert      

It was with the help of the local guide ______ the mountain climber was rescued.

______struck me most in the movie was the father’s deep love for his son.

— It rained cats and dogs this morning. I’m glad we took an umbrella.
—Yeah, we would have got wet all over if we _______.

When I was little, my mother used to sit by my bed, ______ me stories till I fell asleep.

Recycling is one way to protect the environment; reusing is ______. 

The parents were shocked by______news that their son needed______operation on his knee.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream ______at the Theatre Royal on 19^th June, and then tours throughout Scotland.

The engine just won't start. Something seemswrong with it.

— Forgotten something? I can keep an eye on your kids if you want to go and get it.
—______

When Joe was about to start school, all signs pointed to success. Yet things turned out to be quite 36  . The fourth grade even found him at the 37   of the class. Joe struggled day and night, but it did not 38   —until one stormy afternoon.
On that afternoon,   39  the math teacher started to introduce difficult concepts, dark clouds
covered the sky, and the storm set in. Hard though she tried to make the kid,   40  , the thunder won the battle for their attention. No one  41  the concepts. Except for Joe. He understood them and answered all the questions correctly. The teacher patted him on the back, and told him to go around to the others and explain how he had managed it.   42  by his newfound success, Joe moved quickly throughout the room. Soon math time was followed by the time for 43  . All children naturally drew 44  pictures on such a day. Except for Joe.
Since then, Joe started 45  . Though he never made it to the top, his math teacher was always 46  and curious about the change: Why had that stormy day changed Joe?
On the day Joe graduated, he presented the teacher with his most 47   possession—the picture of a bright yellow sun. On the picture Joe had written: This is the day I  48  my brightness.

A．unfair B．boring C．disappointing D．dangerous

A．center B．top C．beginning D．bottom

A．happen B．work C．finish D．last

A．until B．since C．because D．as

A．concentrate B．change C．hide D．sit

A．challenged B．grasped C．doubted D．admitted

A．Relieved B．Surprised C．Encouraged D．Puzzled

A．class B．sports C．art D．tea

A．great B．dark C．different D．strange

A．improving B．painting C．recovering D．studying

A．worried B．amazed C．friendly D．cautious

A．familiar B．expensive C．admirable D．precious

A．woke up to B．put up with C．got on with D．looked down upon

It is easy to overlook the role that your body plays in influencing your mood(情绪). When you are 49  , you may find yourself blaming work pressures or an unknown future. However, it could just be that you’ve been sitting behind your desk too long.
One way to improve your mood is 50  . Psychologically, it provides you with a break from the stresses in your life. Also, in the process, you may aim for  51   goals, like a new personal running record or a better body shape. The achievement of a particular goal makes you feel good and contributes to your 52  . That is why exercise has been shown to 53  your self-respect.
You do not have to train yourself 54   to feel the psychological benefits of exercise. What really matters is 55  , not intensity(强度) of your exercise. You can try walking for 30 minutes five times per week or simply gardening on weekends.

A．ill B．poor C．unhappy D． unsuccessful

A．play B．communication C．sleep D． exercise

A．clear B．present C．common D． early

A．ability B．relationship C．confidence D． business

A．tear down B．build up C．set aside D． give out

A．hard B．everywhere C．carefully D． late

A．time B．length C．form D． frequency

The morning had been a disaster. My tooth was aching. And I’d been in an argument with a friend. Her words still hurt: “The trouble with you is that you won’t put yourself in my place. Can’t you see things from my point of view?” I shook my head stubbornly—and felt the ache in my tooth. I’d thought I could hold out till my dentist came back from holiday, but the pain was really unbearable. I started calling the dentists in the phone book, but no one could see me immediately. Finally, at about lunchtime, I got lucky.
“If you come by right now,” the receptionist said, “the dentist will fit you in.”
I took my purse and keys and rushed to my car. But suddenly I began to doubt about the dentist. What kind of dentist would be so eager to treat someone at such short notice? Why wasn’t he as busy as the others?
In the dentist’s office, I sat down and looked around. I saw nothing but the bare walls and I became even more worried. The assistant noticed my nervousness and placed her warm hand over my ice-cold one.
When I told her my fears, she laughed and said, “Don’t worry. The dentist is very good.”
“How long do I have to wait for him?” I asked impatiently.
“Come on, he is coming. Just lie down and relax. And enjoy the artwork,” the assistant said.
“The artwork?” I was puzzled.
The chair went back. Suddenly I smiled. There was a beautiful picture, right where I could enjoy it: on the ceiling. How considerate the dentist was! At that moment, I began to understand what my friend meant by her words.
What a relief!
Which of the following best describes the author’s feeling that morning?

What made the author begin to doubt about the dentist?

Why did the author suddenly smile?

What did the author learn from her experience most probably?

One of the greatest gifts one generation can give to other generations is the wisdom it has gained from experience. This idea has inspired the award-winning photographer Andrew Zuckerman. He interviewed and took photos of fifty over-sixty-five-year-olds all over the world. His project explores various aspects of their lives. The photos and interviews are now available on our website. Click on the introductions to read the complete interviews.
Let us now have a culture of peace. —Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spain Federico Mayor Zaragoza obtained a doctorate in pharmacy(药学)      from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1958. After many years spent in politics, he became Director-General of UNESCO in 1987. In 1999, he created the Foundation for a Culture of Peace, of which he is now the president. In addition to many scientific publications, he has published four collections of poems and several books of essays.
Writing is a discovery. —Nadine Gordlmer, South Africa Due to a weak heart, Nadine Gordimer attended school and university briefly. She read widely and began writing at an early age. She published her first short story at the age of fifteen, and has completed a large number of works, which have been translated into forty languages. In 1991, Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Jazz is about the only form of art today. —Dave Brubeck, USA Dave Brubeck studied music at the University of the Pacific and graduated in 1942. After World War Two he was encouraged to play jazz. In 1951, he recorded his first album(专辑). Brubeck’s 1959 album has become a jazz standard. He received a Grammy lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.
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Why did Andrew Zuckerman choose the fifty elders for his project?

According to the web page, Federico Mayor Zaragoza_____.

Who most probably said “My education has been the library and books” in the interview when reflecting on his/her experience?

What is the main purpose of this web page?

Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia.

The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn't become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around.

But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren't going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modem road design.

In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road-a base layer (层) of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same lime, metal hubs (the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre(充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads (柏油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.

Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Western civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.

"Storm at Sea", a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind's earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.

When the wind is from the west

All the waves that cannot rest

To the east must thunder on

Where the bright tree of the sun

Is rooted in the ocean's breast.

As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull. It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly. It makes all kinds of noise-it is forever thundering, boiling, crashing, and whistling.

It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath-perhaps not so noticeably out in mid-ocean, but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach. It mimics(模仿) nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature. It is filled with symbiotic existences, too: unimaginable quantities of creatures, little and large alike, mix within its depths in a kind of oceanic harmony, giving to the waters a feeling of heartbeat, a kind of sub-ocean vitality. And it has a psychology. It has personalities: sometimes peaceful and pleasant, on rare occasions rough and wild; always it is strong and striking.

It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr. Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.
Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that, as the English weather is not at all exciting, the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that “To an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.
Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says, because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena. “The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.
Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs, which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather, they are routine greetings, conversation starters or the blank “fillers”. In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.
The author mentions Dr. Johnson’s comment to show that______.

What does the underlined word “obsession” most probably refer to?

According to the passage, Jeremy Paxman believes that______.

What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A mother said, “My son is always on the phone, sleeping, out with his friends, or in his room. He never has time to talk to me.”
要求：1) 就此材料发表你的看法；
2) 紧扣材料，有明确的观点；
3) 词数不少于60；
4）在答题卡上作答。

调查显示，中国长江江豚(finless porpoise)受人类活动影响而濒临灭绝，目前总数不足1000只。假设你是李华，现请用英文给WWF(世界自然保护基金组织)写一封信，请他们关注这一情况并提供帮助。内容应包括：

●说明写信目的
●简述江豚现状
●希望WWF如何帮助(比如: 资助江豚保护项目等)
●表示感谢并期待回复
注意：1) 词数不少于80；
2) 在答题卡上作答。
3) 书信格式及开头均已给出(不计入总词数)。