2013學年浙江省第二次五校聯(lián)考英語試題卷說明：本試卷共5大題，滿分120分，考試時間120分鐘。所有試題必須在答題卡上作答。第一部分 英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）第一節(jié) 單項填空（共20題；每小題0.5分，滿分10分）從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題紙上將該選項符號涂黑。1. Shall we go out for a meal tonight?_. We havent been out for ages. A. No botherB. Thats all rightC. Not reallyD. Id love to2. Although Albert Einstein would someday be _ famous scientist, he did not like _ school.A. a; 不填B. a; the C. the; 不填 D. the; the3. Experts and teachers all think that failure is not _ a bad thing to some extent.A. greatlyB. necessarilyC. definitelyD. fully 4. Afraid _? This type of anxiety can deeply disturb peoples enjoyment of social relationships.A. of laughing atB. to be laughed atC. of being laughed atD. being laughed at5. Childrens brains cannot develop properly _ they lack protein.A. becauseB. sinceC. whenD. unless6. Supposing you _ the lottery, what would you do with the money? A. would win B. have won C. had won D. won7. If our marketing plan succeeds, we _ the sales by thirty percent next year.A. would increaseB. will increaseC. would have increasedD. will be increasing8. Although we may not realize _, when we talk with others we make ourselves understood not just by words but also by body movements.A. itB. themC. thatD. ourselves9.It is the respect for universal rights, our respect for different cultures, and our _ to international laws that guide Chinas openness to other countries. A. comprehensionB. contributionC. commitmentD. consideration10. This is Johns photo. We miss him very much. He _ trying to save a girl in the earthquake. A. is killedB. was killedC. has been killedD. had been killed11. Alex has finally become an astronaut, _all his family members think is his dream career. A. whichB. whoC. thatD. whom12. The information confirms me in the belief _ he, as well as his coach, is to blame. A. whetherB. why C. which D. that 13. A horrible thought _ him when he was waiting for Tom in the airport: what if the plane from Malaysia had been hijacked（劫持）?A. attackedB. struckC. beatD. occurred14. All the travelling fare, unless specifically stated _, includes admission charges to the attractions, shows and exhibitions we visit. A. otherwiseB. likewiseC. thereforeD. still15. The famous actor keeps fit and athletic by _ at the gym for an hour every morning.A. making out B. figuring outC. working outD. turning out16. Im hoping that John will let us have the car tonight; _, Im afraid we wont be able to go out. A. even ifB. if so C. what if D. if not17. _ being an outstanding physician and scientist, he was an accomplished writer and a gifted artist.A. As far asB. As well asC. As soon as D. As long as18. Everybody says Rebecca and John is a perfect match; no one has ever known _ couple. A. a betterB. the betterC. a bestD. the best19.I had the computers repaired yesterday.How much did they _ for that? A. costB. spendC. takeD. charge20. Do you think Catherine likes Fred? _. They dont seem to get on very well together.A. It depends B. I hope soC. I imagine not D. Sounds reasonable第二節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后2140各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題紙上將選項標號涂黑。Its a sad and familiar voice that we often hear in big cities: “Can you spare some change?”Usually, when faced with that particular 21 , I have feelings of guilt if I pass by 22 giving a coin or two.I had that feeling 23 in Venice while on a tour of Italys famous sites in 2006. I had taken refuge from the 24 in a quiet caf. Outside, there was an old woman kneeling on the hard, ancient paving stones, 25 . Steady 26 of tourists were walking past her. A young backpacker stood away from the crowd, 27 drinking in the vistas（景觀、景色）, but I noticed the young traveler was also 28 the old woman.A tourist group walked along the street, 29 the woman and walked on. 30 group of tourists arrived and walked past the old lady. The backpacker watched 31 everybody else went on their way, focused on the 32 around them. Then, I was preparing to leave when I caught sight of the backpacker stepping forward and 33 some money in the womans cup. He did this somewhat 34 just before the arrival of another tourist group. As I 35 , the leader of the group stopped and put some money in the cup. Having been shown the way, other tourists followed suit and 36 some more coins to the cup.His work done, the young man walked over to the old beggar-woman, patted her on the shoulder and said, “I hope that 37 a little.”I dont know if the woman understood his English or 38 what had just happened, but I did.I placed some money in the womans cup and continued my travels, 39 after witnessing such a 40 act of kindness.21.A. soundB. questionC. excuseD. command22.A. beyondB. afterC. withoutD. before23.A. many timesB. some times C. only onceD. once again24.A. crowdsB. familiesC. streetsD. signs25.A. singingB. cryingC. beggingD. trembling26.A. streamsB. packsC. massesD. groups27.A. simplyB. seeminglyC. similarlyD. specially28. A. showingB. followingC. checkingD. observing29.A. glanced atB. laughed atC. rushed atD. stared at30.A. OneB. MoreC. AnotherD. Other31.A. ifB. sinceC. becauseD. as32.A. stonesB. sightsC. signsD. tourists33.A. lendingB. borrowingC. placingD. taking34.A. accidentallyB. successfullyC. purposefullyD. cheerfully35.A. watchedB. shownC. understoodD. walked36.A. changedB. chargedC. foundD. added37.A. measuresB. helpsC. explainsD. matters38.A. recognizedB. caughtC. realizedD. figured39.A. pleasantB. annoyedC. disappointedD. light-hearted40.A. beautifulB. smartC. pureD. happy第二部分 閱讀理解（共2節(jié)，滿分50分）第一節(jié)：閱讀下列材料，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C、和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題紙上將該選項標號涂黑。AMy six-year-old came home from school this week with two envelopes. One was for a donation to help people in the Philippines. The other was to help hungry families have a Thanksgiving meal.“Ill put a check in each of these. Then you can add your own money from your piggy bank, okay?” I said, thinking hed be so excited to put his own stamp on things.“Thats okay, mom. You put money in. I dont want to waste mine,” he sweetly sang as he colored. “I want to fill my bank all the way up.”Ack! I guess I know what our dinnertime discussion will be about tonight, I thought.I had figured that through watching his parents donate items, helping us take toys from time to time to needy kids and putting money in the basket at church, he would just understand why it was important to help people in need and even want to do it himself.But of course he doesnt really understand yet. “Theres a big disconnect between the people over there and my piggy bank,” said parenting educator Vicki Hoefle.“Theres nothing wrong with the child. Theres just no connection.”As for having that conversation immediately, or forcing my son to put money into the envelopes: “Try not to do it now,” Hoefle said. Teaching a child about donating their own money or toys or time to people in need “should be a gentle introduction into what we hope will be a way of life for our kids.”She suggested these things to help children understand the importance of giving:* Just talk about it. Then explore the issue from a perspective he can understand.* Use the course of a year to introduce kids to opportunities. That way, they wont be shocked when you ask them to stuff their own money into an envelope （like this writer just did）.* Pick a family charity for the year and have a conversation about how you all can help throughout the year.* Think of this not as something you must teach, but as something to expose them to.At her house, Hoefle said, “When you got something new, you gave something up.” Each birthday, her children would pick what toys they had outgrown and give them away. “There was a comfort in it. It just became a natural part of the kids lives.”So I will fill those envelopes alone this time. But Ill make sure he understands why they should be filledgradually. 41. When the writer asked her son to give money to help the poor, he _. A. declined to donate B. sang a sweet song C. put all his money in a bankD. seemed very surprised42. Hoefles attitude towards childrens unwillingness to donate money can be best described as “_”. A. criticalB. tolerantC. positiveD. worried43. Which of the following is Hoefles approach to educating kids about charity? A. Giving courses about charity. B. Setting a rule for children to give. C. Inviting a lot of poor people home. D. Giving children enough real life chances.44. What can we learn about the writer from the passage? A. She often makes donations for people in need. B. She taught her son a lesson over dinner that evening. C. She is at a loss as for what she should do next. D. She invited a parenting educator home for advice.45. What is the best title of the passage? A. Kids, please help those in need. B. Why are kids unwilling to donate? C. Kindness is lost in the young generation. D. How can we help kids learn generosity?BCan software bring dead tongues back to life? Probably yes. A computer algorithm（計算程序）works almost as well as a trained linguist（語言學家） in reconstructing how dead "protolanguages" would have sounded, says a new study."Our computer system is doing a basic job right now," says Alex Bouchard-Ct, an assistant professor in the department of statistics at the University of British Columbia and lead author of the paper describing the algorithm. But the program does a good enough job that it may be able to give linguists a head start, the statistician added.For centuries, scholars have reconstructed languages by hand: looking at the same word in two or more languages and making educated guesses about what that words "ancestor" may havesounded like. For example, the Spanish word for man （"hombre"） and the French word for man （"homme"） developed from the Latin word "homo." The way linguists compare words from descendant（后代）languages to reconstruct the parent language is called, appropriately, the comparative method.The early 19th-century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greek, Latin and Sanskrit using this method. Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame, used the comparative method to show how Germanic languages developed from a common ancestor.The difference between that and Bouchard-Cts program, the statistician says, "is we do it on a larger scale." As a proof of concept, Bouchard-Ct fed words from 637 Austronesian languages （spoken in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and more） into the new algorithm, and the system came up with a list of what the ancestor words of all those languages would have sounded like. In more than 85 percent of cases, the automated reconstruction came within one character of the ancestor word commonly accepted as true by linguists.The algorithm wont replace trained human linguists, but could speed uplanguage analysis.Using a computer to do large-scale reconstruction offers another advantage. Bouchard-Ct says, “With big data sets, you can really start finding regularities You might find that certain sounds are more likely to change than others."So Bouchard-Cts team tested the "functional load hypothesis（假設）," which says that sounds that are more important for two clearly different words are less likely to change over time. A formal test of this hypothesis in 1967 looked at four languages; Bouchard-Cts algorithm looked at 637."The revealed pattern would not be obvious if we had not been able to reconstruct large numbers of protolanguages," Bouchard-Ct and his coauthors write in the new study.In addition to simply helping linguists understand how people spoke in the past, studying ancient languages can perhaps answer historical questions. For example, Bouchard-Ct says, "Say people are interested in finding out when Europe was settled. If you can figure out if the language of the settling population had a word for wheel, then you can get some idea of the order in which things occurred, because you would have some records that show you when the wheel was invented.”46. The underline word “protolanguages” in the first paragraph probably refers to _. A. the languages that couldnt be reconstructed by hand B. parent languages that existed in the past C. languages developed from a common ancestor D. languages used to explain things that occurred in the past47. We can learn from the fourth and fifth paragraphs that the reconstruction of “protolanguage” by scholars _. A. is commonly accepted as falseB. dates back to the 19th century C. focuses on European languages D. is conducted using the comparative method48. According to Bouchard-Ct, reconstructing the dead "protolanguages" might _. A. arouse peoples interest in when Europe was settled B. allow us to find answers to some historical questions C. enable us to picture the way linguists communicated D. help figure out how the wheel was invented49. The author probably wants to prove the computer algorithm program led by Bouchard-Ct _. A. will bring every dead language back to lifeB. can take the place of linguists in language analysis C. is of great help to promote language analysis with big data sets D. can merely reconstruct Asian-Pacific “protolanguages”CLONDON, Feb. 18，2014 （Xinhua News agency） Britain will send experts to East Chinas Shanghai to learn from the citys experience in maths teaching in an attempt to raise the teaching standards.British Education Minister Elizabeth Truss is to lead a delegation of experts on a fact-finding mission to Shanghais schools next week to see how children there have become the best in the world at maths, to get a first-hand look at maths classes and teaching methods there, and particularly to investigate why the performance of almost all children in Shanghai is high, regardless of gender or income. Britain was last year placed 50th out of 148 countries and regions in the World Economic Forums competitiveness ranking in quality of maths and science education. Two years ago, Shanghai topped the 2012 international PISA tables for maths, while England was ranked in 26th place. The top five were all in Southeast Asia, with 15-year-olds in Shanghai judged to be three years ahead of their peers in maths.The education department said: "Englands performance in maths has lagged behind while other countries have improved and overtaken us, including Poland and Germany." Actually, it is the latest step in the governments drive to raise standards in maths, looking at what has made schools in the far East the most successful in the world in teaching the subject."Shanghai is the top-performing part of the world for mathstheir children are streets ahead. Shanghai and Singapore have teaching practices and a positive mind that make the difference. They have a belief that diligence makes up for lack of ability," Truss said. "Our new curriculum has borrowed from theirs because we know it worksearly learning of key arithmetic, and a focus on times tables and long division（長除法）, for instance." She was determined to change the situation as performance in maths is weakening the countrys skills base and threatening the productivity and growth. The government is emphasizing maths because of the importance of good grades in the subject to young people competing for good jobs in a global labor market and to the economy more generally.An education and skills survey released by the Confederation of British Industry last year showed that 30 percent of employers reported dissatisfaction with the standard of school and college leavers numeracy. More than two-thirds of employers said they wanted both maths and science promoted more in schools.50.Why does the British government send a delegation of experts to Shanghai?A. To see how children from rich families have become the best at maths.B. To investigate why the performance of almost all children in China is high.C. To get a first-hand look at science classes and teaching methods there.D. To raise the teaching standards in maths in Britain.51.Which of the following statements is true according to the two international competition results?A. British students performed better in 2013 than in 2012.B. British students did better than the students from Poland in 2013.C. The students from Singapore did better than the students from Germany.D. The students from Germany did better than the students from Poland.52.What has made schools in Shanghai the most successful in teaching maths in the eye of Truss? A. Curriculum and teaching methods. B. Teaching practices and a positive mind.C. Early learning of key arithmetic and times tables. D. A focus on times tables and long division.53.How will students poor performance in maths affect the country eventually?A. By threatening the countrys competitiveness of economy.B. By weakening the countrys political system.C. By losing international competitions in education.D. By failing to find jobs in a global labor market.54.What can we infer from the news?A. The students in Britain dont work hard at Maths.B. The students in shanghai are the smartest in the world.C. The education of science in Britain is no better than that of maths.D. Most British citizens are dissatisfied with teachers work.D“Father, do you see Mother in your dreams?” the young girl asks. “You know sometimes I do.”“Mother comes to see me a lot, you know. We sit and talk.” The father smiles. “How is your homework coming along?”“Why do I have to study so hard?”“It is what your mother would have wanted!”She regrets speaking her mind. “Im sorry, Father, I shouldnt have said that.” She looks up and sees his eyes well up with tears.“Its okay, love,” he gets up and pours himself a drink. “Ill just sit outside for a while. You finish up your work, okay?”“Im sorry, Father; Mother did love you very much. She told me all the time.”“Homework, first, eh? Then we can chat about your mother.”He heads off outside and sits in his usual chair, looking around the courtyard. The whole area relaxes the mind and somehow soothes the soul. “All finished, Father. May I get a drink and sit with you? I have some questions.”She comes with two drinks one for him and one for herself. He looks surprised. She never really liked him having a drink. Although he had cut back a lot from before he brought her here, it still seemed strange. “Mother told me all about you. That is before she passed away. We would laugh together at your love stories.”He listens without uttering a single sound.“Why didnt you come and take her away with you? She really wanted that. Did you know that?”Her father looks at his daughter lovingly. “Circumstances were difficult back then. It was just the way things were. When it came time to” He sighs. “To visit her it was too late.”The girl smiles. “I hope I wil