Things had not started well. I had overslept at the hotel, missing breakfast, and had to leap into my clothes. I couldn't find a cab and had to drag my unreasonably overweighted bag eight blocks through slush to the central bus station. I had had huge difficulty persuading the staff at the Kreditkassen Bank on Karl Johans Gate to cash sufficient traveller's cheques to pay the overcharged 1,200-kroner bus fare-they simply could not be made to grasp that the William McGuire Bryson on my passport and the Bill Bryson on my traveller's cheques were both me-and now here I was arriving at the station two minutes before departure, breathless and steaming from the endless uphill exertion(费力)that is my life, and the girl at the ticket counter was telling me that she had no record of my reservation.

"This isn't happening," I said. "I'm still at home in England enjoying Christmas.Pass me a drop more port, will you, darling?" Actually, I said, "There must be some mistake. Please look again."

The girl studied the passenger list. "No, Mr Bryson, your name is not here•”

But I could see it, even upside-down. "There it is, second from the bottom.”

"No," the girl decided, "that says Bemt Bjornson. That's a Norwegian name•”

"It doesn't say Bernt Bjornson. It says Bill Bryson. Look at the loop(圆圈) of the 'y', the two

‘I's. Miss, please." But she wouldn't have it. "If I miss this bus when does the next one go?"

"Next week at the same time.，，

Oh, splendid.

"Miss, believe me, it says Bill Bryson."

"No, it doesn't."

"Miss, look, I've come from England. I'm carrying some medicine that could save a child's life.”She didn't buy this. "I want to see the manager."

"He's in Stavanger.”

"Listen, I made a reservation by telephone.If I don't get on this bus I’m going to write a letter to your manager that will cast a shadow over your career prospects(前景)for the rest of this century." This clearly did not alarm her. Then it occurred to me. "If this Bemt Bjornson doesn't show up, can I have his seat?"

"Sure.”

Why don't I think of these things in the first place and save myself the suffering? "Thank you," I said, and dragged my bag outside.

56. What words can best describe Hammerfest in winter?

A. Grey and dirty.      B. Dark and cold.

C. Unfriendly and expensive.   D. Wild and forbidden.

57.Why did the author mention the Kreditkassen Bank on Karl Johans Gate?

A. To suggest that people there could be ridiculous and stubborn.

B. To introduce the cultural differences in northern Europe and England.

C. To give an example of an interesting story during his journey.

D. To indicate that the bus fare was very expensive.

58.What could be inferred from the passage?

A. The author booked his bus ticket with a Norwegian name.

B. The author paid the bus fare by traveller's cheque.

C. The author would hopefully get on the bus.

D. The girl at the ticket counter cared about the author's complaints.

59.According to the last paragraph, the author probably felt_at that moment.

A. embarrassed       B. contented    C. regretful       D. grateful

60.We can learn from the passage that_.

A. the author's journey to the north was not worthwhile

B. the Europeans didn't welcome visitors

C. the author wrote a letter to the girl's manager

D. the author's journey to the north was not smooth

B

If you’re travelling in the following cities, these exciting events may drag you out of the house.

CONCERTS

Mayday Noah’s Ark World Tour

Info: Jul 13, Xiamen; Jul 19/20, Shanghai; Aug 3, Shenzhen; Aug 17, Beijing

The rock band Mayday is about to bring their attractive tour to an end — and, as usual, it’s going to happen in a grand way. On Aug 17, they will rock the National Stadium, or the Bird’s Nest Stadium, and hold their last Noah’s(诺亚方舟) Ark concert in China, before heading to Europe in September.

Tanya Chua 2013 Concert Tour

Info: Aug 10, Shanghai; Aug 31, Beijing

In her music career of more than 15 years, the 38-year-old Singaporean singer-songwriter has never been short of popular songs that astonish the heart. Now, for the first time since 2008, when she played a small Christmas concert in Shanghai, Chua is visiting China as part of a concert tour.

THEATER

What is Success?

Director: Edward Lam

Performers: Chu Hung-chang, Ethan Wei, Shi Yi-hsiu

Info: Aug 9-10, Guangzhou; Aug 16-17, Chongqing; Aug 29-Sept 1, Beijing

In Part Three of Edward Lam’s Four Great Classics Series, which looks back at Luo Guanzhong’s novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is sure to give you a surprise. Will it be true? Find out for yourself!

To Live

Director: Meng Jinghui

Performers: Huang Bo, Yuan Quan

Info: Jul 30-Aug 4, Beijing; Aug 6-7, Tianjin; Aug 9-11, Hangzhou; Aug 13-18, Shanghai

After their world show in September, theater director Meng Jinghui and his team are back for another tour around China. While audiences can renew their memories of Yu Hua’s new realism works, film stars Huang Bo and Yuan Quan will also impress audiences with their excellent performance.

EXHIBITIONS

Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal(永恒)

Info: Apr 29-Jul 28, Shanghai

Launched in 2012 — the 25th anniversary of the pop artist Andy Warhol’s death — the exhibition brings the largest ever collection of Warhol’s work to Asia. It includes more than 300 paintings, photographs, drawings and 3-D art, including his works such as Marilyn Monroe, Mao, Campbell’s Soup and Self-Portrait.

61. You may find the above advertisements ____.

A. in a newspaper      B. in a school magazine

C. in a store window     D. on a company notice-board

62. The rock band Mayday is going to give concerts in ____ after they perform in Beijing.

A. Australia   B. Japan   C. Europe   D. the USA

63. Tanya Chua 2013 Concert Tour is her ____ concert in China.

A. third    B. fourth   C. first    D. second

64. Travelling in Hangzhou on Aug 10, you can watch film star Huang Bo’s works ____.

A. What is Success  B. To Live    C. Campbell’s Soup   D. Self-Portrait

65. The main purpose of the advertisements is to tell you ____ when you are in these cities.

A. how to enjoy these activities  B. how to improve your artistic level

C. how to amuse yourselves   D. what to enjoy

C

No opera smells of the sea quite like Britten’s Peter Grimes. The music makes us constantly aware of the sea’s immensity, it’s potential for threat, and the play of light on its waves. But the sea isn’t just a special background, it weighs on the lives of the characters, offering them a living, but at a price. In the first act the laboured sound of the strings evokes (引起) the complete heaviness of the sailor’s work, as they haul(用力拉) the boats up the shingle (鹅卵石). Then a storm gathers which rages(肆虐) through the scene at the Inn, and stirs up an orchestral hurricane. Even when it’s calm and favorable, the sea is inescapable.

In the comfortable enclosed world of the opera house, this can only be suggested. In the production of Peter Grimes about to open at the Aldeburgh Festival, it will be really present, because the opera is taking place on the beach, the setting for much of the narrative of Britten’s opera, and also the poem by the Suffolk poet George Crabbe that inspired it.

This won’t be the first opera production to be set in the actual landscape in which the action takes place. There’s a well-known filmed production of Tosca shot in Castel Gandolfo in Rome, and a production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena was once mounted in the moat(护城河) surrounding the Tower of London. But those were manageable urban landscapes, with comfortingly solid buildings to act as wind shields and acoustic blocks.

On the Aldeburgh beach there’s actually nothing, apart from a few boats, some whole, some wrecked. Here anything more complicated than walking the dog is hard to solve. The wind blows away one’s words, so conversation is hard, and anything not tied down tends to blow away. The sliding shingle turns one’s steps into a drunken stagger.

The idea of performing an opera in these conditions seems quite barmy — an accusation Aldeburgh director Jonathan Reakie takes cheerfully on the chin. Why has he done it? “Well, Grimes is the opera of Britten’s that’s most associated with Aldeburgh, but it’s never been produced at the Festival which he founded. There just isn’t the space for it. In his anniversary year we wanted to focus on Britten’s connection with Suffolk, and this seemed the boldest way to do it.”

Having had the mad idea, Reakie found his colleagues were not just accepting, but enthusiastic. “We spent a long time thinking about ways to do it. One idea we had was to do all the scenes at the right time of day. There’s one scene at dawn, another at midday, and a lot of action at night, but that was too complicated. Then we thought about doing a few scenes on the beach. But in the end, we thought hell, let’s just do the whole thing.”

66. Which of the following can best describe the sailor’s work in the first act?

A. Pleasant.  B. Hard.   C. Comfortable.  D. Attractive.

67. How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?

A. By giving descriptions.   B. By following time order.

C. By analyzing causes.   D. By making comparisons.

68. What does Paragraph 4 mainly tell us?

A. The benefits of the actual landscape.

B. The actual landscape of Aldeburgh beach.

C. The location of the Aldeburgh beach.

D. The hardship of performing opera in Aldeburgh beach.

69. The underlined word “barmy” (in Paragraph 5) is closest in meaning to ____.

A. crazy     B. impossible   C. wonderful   D. terrible

70. Reakie’s partners’ attitude towards his opera on a beach is ____.

A. eager   B. cautious  C. doubtful   D. unfavorable

D

I guess I always knew about the little fish treat, but this past summer it was all I could see. Pipin and Nemo were balancing on one front flipper(鳍), flying through hoops, dancing with the trainer, and we were all applauding — the little kids screaming with delight. That’s when the trainer, who wore a little treat bag on her belt, slipped Pipin and Nemo a fish. Each time they successfully performed a trick, they’d get an immediate reward.

These creatures weren’t really dancing, of course. They were performing a series of movements that they knew would produce a fish. It’s such a good show because the sea lions look like they’re having such fun. These talented performers who love to be in front of an audience seem almost human.

Somewhere in our faith journey, we all have a sea lion moment. You see how you’ve spent years jumping through hoops, balancing a ball on your nose, not because it’s really who you are, but because you’ve always done it and the system rewarded you for your performance. But when you’ve done that for ten or twenty years, you start to ask yourself, “Whose approval am I working for? What do I really believe?” Suddenly you see it: you’ve spent most all your life taking direction from other people. They’ve told you what to believe in, what to work for, what to value, how to live your life. You don’t want to end your life like Sinclair Lewis’s George Babbitt, the middle-aged real-estate broker(经纪人) who has everything and reached the top. But on the last page of Babbitt, George is speaking to his son Ted, who cannot follow in his father’s steps. He wants to leave college and head off on his own way. “Dad, I can’t stand it any more,” the boy says. “Maybe it’s all right for some fellows. Maybe I’ll want to go back some day, but now, I want to get into mechanics.” Babbitt, seeming old and subdued, says, “I’ve never done a single thing I’ve wanted to in my whole life!”

The Good-Bye Gate brings us naturally to a second passage, leading from dependency to self-possession. As you start separating from the whole worn-out system, you discover that where there is supposed to be a self, there really isn’t.

71. The sea lions were pleased to perform in front of the audience because they ____.

A. will be punished if it refuses it  B. wants to win the trainer’s favor

C. wants to get audiences’ applauses D. can get food as a reward that way

72. While watching the sea lions’ performance, the author ____.

A. realized an important life philosophy

B. recalled the similar scene of last year

C. couldn’t help shouting and dancing

D. was happy to see them living freely

73. By saying “we all have a sea lion moment”, the author means that ____.

A. anyone can make it so long as they work hard

B. sometimes we don’t act following our own will

C. we can also get rewarded if we do something well

D. every human being also has his happy moment

74. What do you learn about George Babbitt?

A. He has been living a free life of his own.

B. His son ends up Babbitt family’s business.

C. He tends to agree to his son’s choice of life.

D. His son decides to follow his father’s steps.

75. Which can be the best title for this passage?

A. Challenge Yourself    B. Summer Vacation Fun

C. No Pains, No Gains    D. Now I Become Myself

第II卷(共三部分，满分35分)

第四部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节 阅读表达(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)

阅读下面短文并回答问题，将答案写到答题纸上，请注意问题后的词数要求。

[1] Boys whose fathers work very long hours are more likely to be aggressive, according to a new research. A study of more than 1,400 children found those boys, whose fathers worked more than 55 hours a week, were more aggressive than their peers, yet the same thing didn’t happen to daughters. What’s more, mothers’ working hours did not seem to affect it.

[2] Now, further research needs to be carried out to find out why this happens in males, and to look for ways to tackle it. In Germany, 15 percent of fathers of children, aged three and four, worked 55 or more hours a week. Dr. Jianghong Li said, “It is possible when fathers work very long hours, children are less well monitored after school, especially if mothers also work full time hours. There is some evidence young boys are less well monitored than girls, when fathers have high work related demands. As a result, it will cause more problems.

[3] The average amount of time parents spend with their children has increased in recent years, but the quantity and quality of parent-child time is still raised as a concern. Studies in the US and Australia point to a desire among parents to work fewer hours and spend more time with their children. A wish among children is that parents would come home from work less tired and stressed.

[4] The finding provides evidence to support equal opportunities for mothers and fathers to share parenting and work responsibilities. Instead of focusing on negative effects of mothers’ working hours, policy makers should pay attention to negative results of fathers’ long working hours for children’s emotional well being. Fathers should be urged not to work long hours, but to have a greater share of parenting responsibilities.

76. What’s the main idea of the passage? (no more than 11 words)

77. How much time should fathers work a week at most according to the passage? (no more than 5 words)

78. What would happen if fathers work too long hours? (no more than 10 words)

79. What’s the desire among children according to the passage? (no more than 10 words)

80. What does the text suggest to us? (no more than 10 words)

第三节：书面表达(满分25分)

在此次高三模拟考试前，你们班就试题该易还是该难进行了一次调查。请结合下表内容，用英语写一篇短文，介绍有关调查情况并发表你的看法。

赞 成 偏 难 赞 成 偏 易

1. 喜欢挑战，越难越好

2. 有助于了解自己的薄弱环节 1. 题目太难会泄气，并害怕今后的高考

2. 题目简单易得高分，增强自信心

注意：1. 词数120左右，开头已为你写好(不计入总词数);

2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Recently we have made an investigation on whether the test paper for Senior Three students should be difficult or not. ___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

Answers to the test

1-5 CCBCC     6-10 ABABC    11-15 BCCBC      16-20 AACBB

21-25 CAADD    26-30 BACBC    31-35 ACABC

36-40 ADBAD    41-45 CCDAB   46-50 CBDAB  51-55 CACDB

56-60 BACCD   61-65 ACDBD    66-70 BCDAA  71-75 DABCD

76. Working long hours makes you a bad father. / Men who do overtime are likely to have aggressive sons. / Boys whose fathers work long hours are likely to be aggressive.

77. (No more than) 55 hours.

78. Children are less well monitored after school, especially boys.

79. Parents would come home from work less tired and stressed.

80. Fathers shouldn’t work (too) long hours, but share parenting responsibilities.

【参考范文】

Recently we have made an investigation on whether the test paper for Senior Three students should be difficult or not. Opinions are different on this matter.

Some students are in favor of a difficult exam. On the one hand, they think a difficult exam is just like a challenge—the harder, the better. On the other hand, it can help students find out where they are weak in studies and improve their learning approaches.

However, others disagree. For one thing, if it is too difficult, the students may become discouraged / frustrated and feel afraid of the coming college entrance examination. For another, with an easy exam, they can get high marks /grades and gain confidence /self-esteem.

As for me, I prefer it to be neither too difficult nor too easy. If it is too easy, teachers will not know where we are. But if it is too difficult, we may lose heart.

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