2013年广东英语高考---读写任务
[遣词造句] 一、词汇
1．不是……而是not.., but...
2．平凡的工作ordinary jobs
3．值得我们尊重deserve our respect
4．清扫街道clean streets
5．不得不做某事have to do sth.
6．轻视／瞧不起look down upon
7．成堆pile up
8．更糟的是worse still
9．运转function
10．生活条件living conditions
二、句式1．翻译下列句子
(1)有些人不喜欢他们的工作。Some people don't like their jobs.
(2)那不是因为他们懒惰。That is not because they're lazy.
(3)那是因为他们的工作很渺小。That is because their jobs are very small.
(4)这些平凡的工作也是必要的。These ordinary jobs are also necessary.
(5)这些平凡的工作值得我们尊重。These ordinary jobs deserve our respect.
(6)清扫街道是一项平凡的工作。Cleaning streets is an ordinary job.
(7)清洁工早上需要早起。Cleaners have to get up early in the morning.
(8)清洁工需要整天在外面工作。Cleaners have to work outside all the day.
(9)清洁工常常被轻视。Cleaners are often looked down upon.
(10)垃圾会成堆。Rubbish would be piled up.
(11)气味会难闻。Smell would be unpleasant.
(12)大家的健康会受到威胁。Everyone's health would be threatened.
(13)我们的社会运转得会不好。Our society wouldn't function well.
(14)我认为世界上没有平凡的工作。I think there is no ordinary job in the world.
(15)诸如清洁之类的工作应该得到我们所有人的尊重。Such jobs as cleaning should gain respect from all of us.
(16)诸如清洁工之类的工人应该获得更好的报酬。Workers such as cleaners should be paid better.
(17)他们的生活条件需要得到改善。Their living conditions need to be improved.
2．一句多译
(1)如果没有他们的辛劳工作，很难想象我们的环境会是什么样子。
Without their hard work, it is difficult to imagine what our environment would be like.
But for their hard work, it is difficult to imagine what our environment would be like.
If it were not for their hard work, it is difficult to imagine what our environment would be like.
(2)无论是什么样的工作，对于我们社会来说都是必要的、重要的。
Whatever the job is, it is necessary and important for our society.
No matter what the job is, it is necessary and important for our society.
3．按要求完成句子
(1)Some people don't like their jobs. That is not because they're lazy. That is because their jobs are very small. (合并为一个复合句)
Some people don't like their jobs not because they're lazy but because their jobs are very small.
(2)These ordinary jobs are also necessary. These ordinary jobs deserve our respect. (合并为一个简单句)
These ordinary jobs are also necessary and deserve our respect.
(3)Cleaners have to get up early in the morning. Cleaners have to work outside all the day.(合并为一个简单句) Cleaners have to get up early in the morning and work outside all the day.
(4) Rubbish would be piled up. Smell would be unpleasant. (合并为一个并列句)
Rubbish would be piled up and smell would be unpleasant.
(5)Everyone's health would be threatened. Our society wouldn't function well. (合并为一个并列句)
Everyone's health would be threatened and our society wouldn't function well.
[实战操练]阅读下面短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
To many people even the word "work" sounds unpleasant, not necessarily because they are lazy. The same man, who dislikes his job in the factory or even in the office, may work hard at the weekend, painting the house or digging the garden.
What is the reason, then7 In most cases, it is because these people simply do not enjoy the job they are doing. It does not give them any real satisfaction. It may be quite easy, like making up wooden boxes, but it is very boring. Very often they are doing a job which is just a small part of a much larger one, such as attaching a door handle to a car. But the part they play in actually making the car is so small that they can never say. I have made something!
Yet in modern society somebody has to do ordinary jobs such as cleaning streets because this is the way society is organized. No matter how ordinary a job is, it plays a part in society and therefore deserves our due respect. Society cannot function a single day without the "dull and boring" jobs.
[写作内容]
1．以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2．以约120个词谈谈你对平凡工作的想法，内容包括：
(1)描述清洁工工作的艰辛；
(2)假如没有清洁工，环境会变得如何?
(3)你对平凡工作的看法。
[写作要求]
1．作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。
[读题]体裁：议论文
题材：平凡工作
人称：第三人称、第一人称
时态：一般现在时
内容：
(1)描述清洁工工作的艰辛；
(2)假如没有清洁工，环境会变得如何?
(3)自己对平凡工作的看法。
[连句成篇]
Some people don't like their jobs not because they're lazy but because their jobs are small. Yet, these ordinary jobs are also necessary and deserve our respect.
For example, cleaning streets is an ordinary job. Cleaners have to get up early in the morning and work outside all the day. Besides, they are often looked down upon. However, without their hard work, it is difficult to imagine what our environment would be like. Rubbish would be piled up and smell would be unpleasant. Worse still, everyone's health would be threatened and our society wouldn't function well.
Therefore, I think there is no ordinary job in the world. Whatever the job is, it is necessary and important for our society. Such jobs as cleaning should gain respect from all of us. Of course, workers such as cleaners should be paid better. Their living conditions need to be improved.
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绝密★启用前试卷类型：B 2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 (广东卷) 英语 本试卷共12页,三大题,满分135分.考试用时120分钟 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色笔迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、考场号、座位号填写在 答题卡上。用2B铅笔讲试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应的位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。 2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动， 用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置 上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试题与答题卡一并交回。 I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节完形填空 Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have 1 feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common 2 between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over 3 rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the 4 . On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for 5 the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket. The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different 6 to these problems. However, some approaches are more 7 than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but 8 clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s 9 . On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the 10 of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to 11 their actions.
完形填空精选4 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant(移植)her life was in constant 1 . Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very small: finding a donor heart that 2 Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept 3 hospitals all over the country. Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble 4 from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a 5 of the hospital, crying. “Are you okay?” a man asked. Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her story. This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t 6 it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to 7 something from herself. Could her 8 go to Carmen’s m other? After reviewing the data, doctors 9 Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to 10 the transplant. That cold night, when Cheryl was 11 dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was 12 for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried. On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s 13 with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.” One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria 14 with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was 15 in another loving mother’s chest.
2011年高考英语广东卷解析 【试卷亮点】2011高考广东试题的特点是： 1．主要考查英语知识的应用，即使对于基础知识的考查也是在具体的语境中进行考查。2．很好的考查了考生的四项基本能力，尤其是听，读，写的能力。 3．试卷编排具有一定的科学性，由易到难。能力题的选材多样，可读性强。 4．本套试题词汇量大，对考生的英语水平要求较高。 【命题趋势分析】近年高考广东卷将继续秉承考纲要求，继续贯彻“注重实用，考查基础”的考查思路和方向进行命题，并适当地探索高考改革的新思路，其高考试题大方向和考查思路，考查范围不会有太大变化，仍将保持较大的词汇量和较高层次的考查方向，贯彻“稳定中秋发展”的高考改革思路。 【复习使用指导】在今后的高考复课主要要注意做到以下几点： 1．注意词汇的积累。广东高考试题的最大特点是词汇量要求高，因此在今后的高考复课中对于词汇的记忆和巩固要加强。 2．对于阅读和写作要加大训练力度，坚持每天进行阅读和写作练习。 3．注意英语语言知识的运用的准确性，规范使用英语。 【文章大意】本文是一篇议论文，主题是学校按学生的智力差异分班的方法是错误的，即将智力好的学生分在一个班里会抑制他们的智力发育。 1．【答案】C 【命题立意】考查名词辨析。 【解题思路】根据前一句中的argue可知此处选C。其余选项不符合题意。 2．【答案】C 【命题立意】考查动词辨析。 【解题思路】design：设计；group：分组；learn：学会；live：住，生活。此处所填词做介词by的宾语，意思是：学会，了解到，选C。其余选项不符合题意。 3．【答案】D 【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。 【解题思路】smart：聪敏的，敏捷的；curious：好奇的；mature：成熟的；average：一般的，平均的。根据前文的regular classes可知此处选D。其余选项不符合题意。 4．【答案】B 【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。 【解题思路】regular：规则的；定期的；special：特殊的；small：小的；creative：有创造力的。根据后一句中的regular classes可知此处所填词与regular相对，选B。其余选项与句意不符。 5．【答案】A 【命题立意】考查名词辨析。 【解题思路】本句意思是：然而，把这些孩子从普通班里挑出来可能会造成严重的问题。选A。其余选项不符合题意。其余选项不符合题意。 6．【答案】A 【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。 【解题思路】intelligent：聪敏的；competent：有能力的, 能胜任的,称职的；ordinary：平凡的；independent：独立的。根据前一句的意思可知此处选A。B, C, D三个选项不符合句意。7．【答案】B 【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。 【解题思路】separate：独立的；regular：定期的，规则的；一般的；new：新的；boring：
绝密★启用前试卷类型：A 2013年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(广东卷) 英语 本试卷共12页,三大题,满分135分.考试用时120分钟 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色笔迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔讲试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应的位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。 2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试题与答题卡一并交回。 I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a 1 in number. Human beings are born with this ability. 2 ，experiments show that many animals are, too.For example, many birds have good number sense. If a nest has four eggs and you remove one,the bird will not 3 .However,if you remove two, the bird 4 leaves. This means that the bird knows the 5 between two and three. Another interesting experiment showed a bird's 6 number sense. A man was trying to take a photo of a crow(乌鸦)that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not 7 until the man left the tower. The man had an 8 .He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they did not 9 the bird.The crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The experiment was 10 with three men and then with four men. But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were 11 .It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were 12 able to fool the crow. How good is a human's number sense? It's not very good. For example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a 13 group.But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are 14 fooled. It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world,and that our human 15 is not much better than a crow's. 1.A. rise B. pattern C. change D. trend 2.A. Importantly B.Surprisingly C. Disappointedly D. Fortunately 3. A.survive B.care C. hatch D. notice 4. A.gennerally B.sincerely C.casually D.deliberately
专题检测卷(三十一) 读写任务 (建议用时: 40分钟) Passage 1 (2013·潮州二模) 阅读下面短文, 然后按要求写一篇150个词左右的英语短文。 Never Put off until Tomorrow What You Can Do Today We have been told never to put off until tomorrow what you can do today since childhood. However, there are still many people who like putting off the things that they should do today until tomorrow. They have no plans for their work and their time. As a result, they will not accomplish their goals in the end. For example, one Sunday I felt so tired after having a football match that I did not finish my homework even at night. I thought I could get up earlier to go to school the next morning so that I could finish my homework before class. But the next morning, I was not able to get to school in time because of the traffic jam. I was punished by the teacher. It taught me a lesson. From then on I made a determination that I would never put off anything important until the next day. Please remember: Work today, for you don’t know how much you may be hindered tomorrow. Seize the present day, cherish every minute you have now and trust the tomorrow as little as possible. 【写作内容】 1. 以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。 2. 以约120个词对“今日事今日毕”展开议论, 内容包括: (1)你读了本篇文章后的感想; (2)谈谈你对“今日事今日毕”的看法; (3)你平时是怎样合理安排时间, 及时完成老师布置的任务的。 【写作要求】 1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事, 也可以参照阅读材料的内容, 但不得直接引用原文中的句子。 2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。 【评分标准】 概括准确, 语言规范, 内容合适, 语篇连贯。 _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ Passage 2 (2013·茂名二模) 阅读下面短文, 然后按要求写一篇150个词左右的英语短文。 As a kid, I was a little fat. In college, I was less active, and I started blowing up. It got out of control when I went to law school. At the age of 30, I weighed 414 pounds. I was always tired. I have a family history of heart disease, and I was scared. I also wanted to look better. So a few weeks after my birthday, in the spring of 2006, I started to lose weight. Walking was all I could do at first. I started by walking to a subway stop a few blocks away instead of the one closest to my apartment. I gradually increased the distance. A year later, I started to run. At
2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(广东卷) 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have 1 feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common 2 between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over 3 rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the 4 . On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for 5 the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket. The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different 6 to these problems. However, some approaches are more 7 than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but 8 clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing the ir children’s 9 . On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the 10 of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to 11 their actions. Psychologists say that 12 is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should 13 to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parents may 14 their children when they are untidy but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and 15 each other that problems between parents and children can be settled. 1. A. natural B. strong C. guilty D. similar 2. A. interest B. argument C. link D. knowledge 3. A. noisy B. crowded C. messy D. locked 4. A. homework B. housework C. problem D. research 5. A. washing B. using C. dropping D. replacing 6. A. approaches B. contributions C. introductions D. attitudes 7. A. complex B. popular C. scientific D. successful 8. A. later B. deliberately C. seldom D. thoroughly 9. A. behavior B. taste C. future D. nature 10. A. failures B. changes C. consequences D. thrills 11. A. defend B. delay C. repeat D. reconsider 12. A. communication B. bond C. friendship D. trust 13. A. reply B. attend C. attach D. talk 14. A. hate B. scold C. frighten D. stop 15. A. loving B. observing C. understanding D. praising
2013年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（广东卷）英语 第一节完型填空 Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a 1 in number. Human beings are born with this ability. 2 , Experiments show that many animas are, too. For example, many birds have good number sense. If a nest has four eggs and you remove one, the bird will not 3 . However, if you remove two, the bird 4 leaves. This means that the bird knows the 5 between two and three. Another interesting experiment showed a bird’s 6 number sense. A man was trying to take a photo of a crow(乌鸦) that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not 7 until the man left the tower. The man had an 8 . He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they did not 9 the bird. The crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The experiment was 10 with three men and then with four men. But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were 11 . It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were 12 able to fool the crow. How good is a human’s number sense? It’s not very good. For example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a 13 group. But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are 14 fooled. It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world, and that our human 15 is not much better than a crow’s. 1. A. rise B. pattern C. change D. trend 2. A. Importantly B. Surprisingly C. Disappointedly D. Fortunately 3. A. survive B. care C. hatch D. notice 4. A. generally B. sincerely C. casually D. deliberately 5. A. distance B. range C. difference D. interval 6. A. amazing B. annoying C. satisfying D. disturbing 7. A. relax B. recover C. react D. return 8. A. appointment B. excuse C. idea D. explanation 9. A. fool B. hurt C. catch D. kill 10. A. reported B. repeated C. designed D. approved 11. A. confused B. gone C. tired D. drunk 12. A. gradually B. luckily C. strangely D. finally 13. A. single B. small C. local D. new 14. A. seldom B. temporarily C. merely D. often 15. A. sight B. nature C. ability D. belief 第二节语法填空 One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he 16 (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much 17 too little.” His son looked surprised. “I can understand why shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, 18 not save a bit of money?” “That would be a very 19 (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said. Nick’s guest, 20 had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason a man would sell salt 21 a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect 22 the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.” “But such a small thing couldn’t 23 (possible) destroy a village.” “In the beginning, there was only 24 very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always 25 (think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.” 第三节阅读理解 A． Imagination and fantasy can play an important role in achieving the things we fear. Children know this very well. Fred Epstein, in his book I Make It to Five, tells a story he heard from one of his friends about Tom, a four-year-old boy with a cancer in his back bone. He came through several operations and a lot of pain by mastering his imagination. Tom loved to pretend, and he particularly loved to play superheroes. Dr. Epstein explained that it was actually a brilliant way for his young mind to handle the terrifying and painful life he led. The day before his third trip to the operating room, Tom was terribly afraid. “Maybe I could go as Superman,”he whispered to his mom. Hearing this, the mother hesitated for while. She has avoided buying the expensive costume(戏装), but finally she agreed. The next day Tom appeared as the powerful Superman, showing off through the hospital halls and coolly waving his hand