历届英语高考试卷及答案分析(2)
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
Joe was a man with a genius for art. Delia did things in six octaves(音阶) promisingly.
Joe and Delia became in love with one of the other, or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married – for (see above), when one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
They began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome flat, but they were happy; for they had their Art, and they had each other.
Joe was learning painting in the class of the great Magister – you know his fame. His fees are high; his lessons are light – his high-lights have brought him fame. Delia was studying under Rosenstock – you know his reputation as a disturber of the piano keys.
They were mighty happy as long as their money lasted.
After a while Art flagged. Everything going out and nothing coming in, money was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Rosenstock their prices. When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
For two or three days she went out looking for pupils. One evening she came home overjoyed.
“Joe, dear,” she said, cheerfully, “I’ve a pupil. And, oh, the loveliest people! General – General Pinkney’s daughter Clementina – on Seventy-first street.”
“That’s all right for you, Dele,” said Joe, “but how about me? Do you think I’m going to let you work while I play in the regions of high art? ”
Delia came and hung about his neck.
“Joe, dear, you are silly. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else. While I teach I learn. I am always with my music.”
“All right,” said Joe. “But I may sell some of my pictures as well.”
The next few weeks, they both busied themselves with their own business and brought back a ten, a five, a two and a one – all legal tender notes – and laid them beside each others’ earnings.
One Saturday evening Joe reached home first. He spread his on the table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
Half an hour later Delia arrived, her right hand tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.
“How is this?” asked Joe. Delia laughed, but not very joyously. “Clementina,” she explained, “insisted upon a Welsh rabbit(一种奶酪) after her lesson. In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my wrist. Nothing serious, dear.”
“What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Dele?”
“Five o’clock, I think,” said Dele. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time.”
“Sit down here a moment, Dele,” said Joe. “What have you been doing for the last few weeks, Dele?” he asked.
She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, but at last down went her head and out came the truth and tears.
“I couldn’t get any pupils,” she wept. “I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty-fourth street laundry. A girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon. I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina. What made you ever suspect that I wasn’t giving music lessons?”
“I didn’t,” said Joe, “until tonight. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last few weeks.”
“And then you didn’t …” said Delia
And then they both looked at each other and laughed, and Joe began:
“When one loves one’s Art no service seems …”
But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. “No,” she said – “just ‘When one loves.’”
65. What can we know about the couple from the story?
A. They both became famous for their talents in art.
B. Studying from famous teachers contributed most to their poverty.
C. Art helped them out of the poverty they were faced with.
D. They turned out to be working at the same laundry.
66. What qualities of the couple’s are best conveyed in the story?
A. considerate and giving B. faithful and romantic
C. intelligent and economical D. hardworking and loyal
67. What does the underlined word “flagged” most probably mean?
A. became weaker B. displayed its power
C. went in a wrong direction D. returned to its original condition
68. Which of the following does NOT give readers a clue that the couple were telling white lies?
A. Joe washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
B. Delia’s right wrist was tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.
C. Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
D. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time” said Dele.
69. What can serve as the best title of this story?
A. A Service of Art B. The Love for Art
C. A Service of Love D. No Art No Love
70. Why does the author repeat “When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.”?
A. To reveal the theme of the story.
B. To assist with the development of the story.
C. To explain the author’s writing purpose.
D. To indicate the sad mood of the story.
第二卷(非选择题，共两大题，35分)
第四部分: 任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题l分, 满分l0分)
请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意: 每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。
The latest attack on the Internet and on computers in general is Nicholas Carr’s writing, “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.”
Carr and other digital alarmists make a case that seems reasonable, at least on the surface. They argue that Internet communication tools trap us in a shallow culture of constant interruption as we crazily tweet, text and e-mail. This in turn leaves us little time for deep reading, reflection and serious conversation — activities traditionally thought to build knowledge and wisdom.
The alarmists use the concept of “neural plasticity(神经可塑性)” and talk of technology “reshaping” the brain to convince us that the new distractions make us not just less willing but less able, on a physiological level, to focus.
Whenever you hear that something is changing your brain, you ought to be worried — or at least the person telling you wants you to be worried. But does a cultural change like this necessarily lead to a fundamental change to the brain?
The appeals to neural plasticity, backed by studies showing that new changes can reorganize the brain, are largely irrelevant. The basic plan of the brain’s “shaping” is genetically determined long before a child discovers Facebook and Twitter. There is simply no experimental evidence to show that living with digital culture fundamentally changes brain organization in a way that affects one’s ability to focus. Of course, the brain changes any time we form a memory or learn a new skill, but new skills build on our existing capacities without fundamentally changing them. We will no more lose our ability to pay attention than we will lose our ability to listen, see or speak.
The idea that the Internet might make us shallower has some instant appeal, because it is easy to see how the cognitive performance of people around us drops when they are distracted. But the notion that prolonged focus and deep reading mark the best path to wisdom and insight is just an assumption, one that may be an accidental consequence of the printing press existing before the computer. To book authors like us it seems a weird notion, but it is possible that spending 10 or more hours engaged in a single text might not be the most favorable way for building brainpower.
So don’t be afraid of the digital era. Google is not making us stupid, PowerPoint is not destroying literature, and the Internet is not really changing our brains.
第五部分: 书面表达 (满分25分)
作为一个即将毕业的高中学生，你经历了各种各样“成长的烦恼”，也积累了很多的成长经验。请以 “My View on Growing Pains”为题，准备一份演讲稿，留给即将进入高一的学弟学妹们。
你的演讲必须包括以下内容：
1.用30词左右陈述你对growing pains的理解。
2.描述自己经历的一次growing pain, 并结合它提出解决此问题的建议。
注意：
1. 词数150左右;
2. 可以适当增加过渡语句,以使行文连贯;
3. 短文中不能出现与本人相关的信息;
4. 短文中已给出的部分不计入总词数。
My View on Growing Pains
Dear newcomers,
On behalf of all the experienced hands, I would like to share my view on Growing Pains.
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Above is my personal understanding of growing pains, I hope it will be of some help to you.
历届英语高考试卷参考答案
第一部分：听力(每小题1分，满分20分)
1~5 C C B A C 6~10 A ABCA 11~15ABBAC 16~20 ABCBC
第二部分：英语知识运用
第一节 单项填空(每小题1分，满分15分)
21~25 D A B B C 26~30 ACCAD 31~35 B A B B D
第二节 完形填空(每小题1分，满分20分)
36~40 BDABC 41~45 CDABB 46~50 CADCA 51~55 BACDC
第三部分：阅读理解(每小题2分，满分30分)
56~57 D C 58~60 C A D 61~64 B C D B 65~70 D A A C C B
第四部分：任务型阅读(每小题1分，满分10分)
71. fear 72.argument(s) 73. trapped 74. interrupted (disturbed) 75. unwillingness (reluctance) 76. change(s) (technology) 77. cause(bring)
78. genes 79. Despite 80. accidentally (incidentally)
第五部分： 书面表达(满分25分)
One possible version:
My View on Growing Pains
Dear newcomers,
On behalf of all the experienced hands, I would like to share my view on growing pains.
Just as the two words stand for, growing pains are the two sides of one coin. To grow, one is doomed to suffer; with pains, one can grow more steadily.
The point is, how should we deal with those pains?
My suggestion is, we should face the pains directly but avoid extreme behaviors. It’s unwise to either shy away from the pain or exaggerate your suffering. Instead, a balanced attitude is a better solution. For example, my biggest struggle lies in the conflict between the impulse to play computer games and the obligation to study. To solve the problem, I talked with my parents and persuaded them to let me play once a week. The key is I didn’t lose myself. Now learning for my dream university has surpassed the desire for games, making that pain a precious memory. Had I not kept the conflict in control, I wouldn’t be so peaceful now.
Above is my personal understanding of growing pains, I hope it will be of some help to you.
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