B

Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 per cent more.

And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once. If you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value.

60. By the first sentence of the passage, the author means that______.

A. he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

B. everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming

C. advertising costs money like everything else

D. it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising

61. In the passage, which of the following is not included in the advantage of advertising?

A. Securing greater fame. B. Providing more jobs.

C. Improving living standards. D. Reducing newspaper cost.

62. According to the author, _____.

A. the consumers are often fooled by misleading advertising.

B. no advertiser dare promote a product that can't live up to the promise of his advertisement.

C. if an article is consistently advertised, it probably has good value.

D. with advertisements, you have to pay more for the goods or services you need.

63. From the passage, we can draw a conclusion that____.

A. the most importance of advertisements is to lower the cost of many services

B. the twenty-seven Acts of Parliament made misleading advertisements unable to exist

C. advertising assists a rapid distribution of goods, thereby do good to the import at good prices

D. advertising does a lot for the material benefit of the community

C

Last year, my boyfriend suggested that I should run the London marathon, and I laughed. He laughed too, but he laughed too long and too loud. That made me think. I realized that he didn’t believe that I could do it. That made me angry, and determined. Now he knows that I can!

Training wasn’t easy, but I kept going. I didn’t need special training but I did need to buy very good shoes. Each day, I went a little further. By the end of three months, I was running five days a week. Sometimes in the evenings I ran 10 km; on Sunday mornings, I sometimes ran about 30 km. I used to come home, have a shower and eat my breakfast. I felt wonderful!

On the day of the race in London, I lined up with about 30,000 other runners. The faster runners were at the front, while slower runners like me were placed further back. In that way, the professional runners and club runners were not slowed down by the amateurs.

At first, there were so many runners close together that we were almost falling over each other. We could only run very slowly but that was a good thing because it meant that we didn’t rush off too quickly. Gradually the runners spread out and there was more space. There were thousands of people watching us along the route and they cheered and clapped everyone, even the slowest runner. It was wonderful!

For the first 10 km I felt very happy and my legs felt very comfortable. However, at 15 km I got a pain in my side and running became difficult, but I kept going and the pain disappeared. At the 30 km mark, I felt extremely tired, and wanted to stop, but I kept on going. I covered another 3 km and then I began to feel better again.

By the time I reached the 35 km mark, I knew I was going to get to the end of the course. Somehow that confidence made me feel lighter and faster and it seemed as if my legs flew over the last few kilometers. I passed hundreds of slower runners, some of whom had passed me earlier, and I felt wonderful! As I came round the last bend and saw the finishing line, I could see three runners ahead of me. I raced past all of them to finish the race in just under four hours. The winner had completed the race in 2 hours and 10 minutes, but I didn’t care! I had run 42 km and completed my first marathon!

64. The writer’s boyfriend laughed at her because .

A. he thought she could run the marathon

B. he didn’t think she could run the marathon

C. he wanted her to run the marathon

D. she wanted to run the marathon

65. When the race began .

A. all the faster runners were asked to stand before those slower ones

B. many runners fell over each other

C. all the runners were asked to run slowly

D. the professional runners and club runners ran very fast

66. The hardest time for the writer was when she .

A. had run for 15 kilometers

B. got a pain in her side

C. reached the 30 kilometer mark

D. was about to reach the finish line

67. The passage suggests that it is better to start a long race slowly .

A. than to run at the same speed all the time

B. than to run too fast at the beginning

C. than to run slowly at the end

D. than to run very fast all the time

D

Wind is the great maker of waves. There are exceptions, such as the tidal(潮汐的) waves some¬times produced by earthquakes under the sea. But the waves most of us know are produced by winds blowing over the sea.

Now before constructing an imaginary life history of a typical wave, we need to know certain physical things about it. A wave has height, from trough (low point) to crest (high Point). It has length-the distance from this crest to that of the following wave. The period of the wave means the time it takes for succeeding crests to pass a fixed point. None of these things stays the same-for all depend upon the wind, upon the depth of the water and many other matters.

The water that makes up a wave does not advance with it across the sea. Each drop of water turns around in a little circle with the passing of the wave, but returns very nearly to its original position. And it is fortunate that this is so. For if the huge masses of water that make up a wave actually moved across the sea, sailing would be impossible.

If we want to find the speed of a wave, we may use the following way:

Speed = wavelength × frequency

Here, wavelength is the distance between two high points (crests), frequency means the number of cycles per second.

68. What causes waves?

A. Earthquakes and nothing else. B. Only wind.

C. Wind causes most waves. D. Wind causes some waves.

69. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. The water of a wave moves away across the sea.

B. The water of a wave remains almost at the same place.

C. The water of a wave goes with the passing of the wave.

D. The length of a wave means the distance from the top of a wave to the bottom.

70. The speed of Wave 1 is 100 cm/s, frequency 10. The frequency of Wave 2 is 300, while its speed is twice that of Wave 1. Which of the following is right?

A. The wavelengths of the two are equal.

B. The wavelength of Wave 1 is 10 times longer than that of Wave 2.

C. The wavelength of Wave 2 is longer than that of Wave 1.

D. The wavelength of Wave 1 is longer than that of Wave 2.

E

The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic(赞同的) audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, “High school English teachers are not doing their jobs.” He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established.

My topic is not standards nor its decline(降低). What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer young; he has been teaching for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult.

My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies (缺陷). But since then, English teachers have been under constant attack.

The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate.

Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived(察觉) as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar(特有的) to today’s young people, it naturally follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs. Otherwise, young people would not commit offenses against the language.

71. The speaker the author mentioned in the passage believed that _____.

A. the language of the younger generation is usually inferior(差的) to that of the older

generation

B. the students had a poor command of English because they didn’t work hard enough

C. he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen

years

D. English teachers should be held responsible for the students’ poor command of English

72. In the author’s opinion, the speaker ______.

A. gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students

B. had exaggerated(夸大) the language problems of the students

C. was right in saying that English teachers were not doing their jobs

D. could think and speak intelligently

73. The author’s attitude towards the speaker’s remarks is ______.

A. neutral B. positive C. critical D. compromising

74. It can be concluded from the passage that ______.

A. it is justifiable(有理由的) to include English as a school subject

B. the author disagrees with the speaker over the standard of English at Grade 9 level

C. English language teaching is by no means an easy job

D. language improvement needs time and effort

75. In the passage the author argues that ______.

A. it is unfair to blame the English teachers for the language deficiencies of the students

B. young people would not commit offences against the language if the teachers did their

jobs properly

C. to eliminate(消除) language deficiencies one must have sensitive eyes and ears

D. to improve the standard of English requires the effort of several generations

第Ⅱ卷(共35分)

第四部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：任务型读写(共10分，每小题1分)

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

Although stressful and unpleasant, examinations are a part of education that students all over the world have to experience. Exams are not recent methods of testing knowledge. They have been used since ancient times and our ancestors probably went through the same anxious preparation as students today.

China, exams were first introduced more than 1,300 years ago during the Sui Dynasty. Known as the Imperial Examinations or keju, the ten subject tests were used to select people for government jobs. A career in public service was considered the highest profession, and the examinations attracted millions of hopeful participants each time they were held. The tests had three levels: for local, provincial and national government. Only about 5% of those taking each level passed, and the number of students who passed all the levels was even smaller- perhaps as low as 0.0004%.

The exams were so important in China that some people spent nearly their whole lives retaking the exams in the hope of eventually passing. Others tried to cheat by hiding notes in cakes or on their clothes. Historians found one undergarment that had 353 model essays written on it. Perhaps if this particular student had spent as much time studying as he did writing on his clothes, he would have passed!

The Imperial Examinations lasted until 1905, when they were replaced. Exams, however, are still a compulsory part of education in China. As nobody has yet come up with an alternative method of judging students’ abilities, it seems likely that the system of examinations will continue for more years.

Title 76 in China

Introduction ●Examinations are a part of education that students 77 have to experience.

●Exams have 78 been used to test knowledge.

The history of exams in China ●Exams 79 in the Sui Dynasty.

●The test had three levels: for local, provincial and national government.

●The 80 of students passing all the levels was only 0.0004%.

81 people tried to pass the exams ●Some people spent their whole lives retaking the exams.

●Some tried to pass the exams by 82 .

83 for exams continuing ●An 84 way of judging students’ abilities has not yet been 85 .

第二节：书面表达(满分25分)

假如你是一名中学生，叫李华，根据下表内容用英语写信给某报社Just ask栏目的主持人Witman，请求帮助解决一个长期困扰你如何与同桌相互交流、沟通的问题。

你的情况 学习成绩好;喜欢与同学交流，乐于助人

你同桌的情况 学习勤奋，遵守纪律;性格内向，很少与人交流、沟通;有时会发脾气

注意：1.开头已写好，只需接着写;

2.可适当发挥，使文章更连贯;

3.词数100左右

参考词汇：发脾气lose one’s temper

Dear Witman,

I’m a middle school student. _________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

高三英语参考答案

答案：

1-5ABCAB 6-10ABCCB 11-15BCBAA 16-20CBCAA 21-25 ACDAC 26-30DCABD 31-35 CDBAB

36-40 BDCAB 41-45 DDCBA 46-50 DBCAB 51-55 CDABD

56-59DDCB 60-63DACD 64-67BACB 68-70CBD 71-75DBCDA

76. Examinations 77. worldwide 78. long

79. originated/ started 80. percentage 81. How

82. cheating 83. Reason 84.alternative 85. presented/given/found/introduced

参考答案：

Dear Witman,

I’m a middle school student. I’m doing well at my studies, and ready to help others. In the school I like to talk with my classmates. However, I have a problem that troubles me all the time. It is the relationship between my deskmate and me.

My deskmate is a hardworking student, who keeps the school rules well. However, he is a person of few words. What’s more, he loses his temper easily. I don’t know how to communicate with him. Maybe it’s because we have seldom sat down and exchanged our feelings and thoughts. I hope we can know more about each other and understand each other better. I do hope we’ll be closer. What can I do?

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

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