1、2012届北京市高三高考预测英语试卷与答案（带解析） 单项选择 * Buy two CDs and get completely free. A other B the other C another D All 答案： C If you had seen a doctor, you much better now. A are B will be C would be D would have been 答案： C When his dad died, he felt his world had turned upside down. A in case B as if C so that
2、D even though 答案： B In 1963 we moved to New York, my grandparents lived. A which B where C why D What 答案： B most parents care about is to provide the best education for their children. A What B That C How D Whether 答案： A - May I smoke here - If you , choose a seat in the smoking section. A should B
3、could C must D may 答案： C The government has taken measures air quality. A to improve B improved C being improved D to be improved 答案： A a little money, Jane was able to buy her mother a lovely new watch. A To save B Saving C Saved D Having saved 答案： D From the dates on the gold coin, we know that it
4、 was made 500 years ago. A marking B marked C to mark D to be marked 答案： B - Havent I told you that you should be home earlier - Yes, but I home earlier than I usually do. A was coming B will come C came D had come 答案： C He collected information on 1,000 people, whose IQ when they were ten years old
5、. A is tested B has tested C would test D had been tested 答案： D Put on your coat! I you down to the doctor. A take B am taking C took D have taken 答案： B increasing the distance of your walks, you may lose more weight. A By B From C On D For 答案： A Its an old car, its very reliable. A so B but C or D
6、And 答案： B She came in for coffee and told me traffic kept her awake last night. A a, the B a, 不填 C the, the D the, 不填 答案： A 完型填空 I grew up poor living with six brothers, my father and a wonderful mother. We had 36 money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention. I was 37 and energetic.
7、 I understood that no matter how poor a person was, they could 38 afford a dream. My dream was to be a 39 . When I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety mile per hour fastball. I was also 40 : my high school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who 41 me the difference between having a dream and
8、showing strong belief. One particular 42 with him changed my life forever. It was a summer and a friend recommended me for a summer 43 . This meant a chance for my first income cash for a new bike and new clothes, and the 44 of savings for a house for my mother. The opportunity was attracting, and I
9、 wanted to 45 at it. Then I realized I would have to 46 summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldnt be playing. I was 47 about this. When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as 48 as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” he said
10、. “Your 49 days are limited. You cant afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head 50 , trying to think of how to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth 51 his disappointment in me. “How much are you going to make at this job ” he deman
11、ded. “$ 3.25 an hour,” I replied. “Well, is $ 3.25 an hour the price of a 52 ” he asked. That 53 laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I devoted myself to 54 that summer, and within the year I was offered a $ 20,000 contract. I signed with the Denver
12、Broncos in 1984 for $ 1.7 million, and bought my mother the 55 of my dreams. 【小题1】 A some B little C no D much A happy B lovely C angry D noisy A only B ever C still D almost A teacher B coach C doctor D sportsman A lucky B satisfied C hopeful D surprised A taught B asked C told D trained A match B
13、story C moment D incident A job B camp C holiday D course A cause B start C need D amount A stand B call C look D jump A take out B cut off C put on D give up A excited B curious C anxious D disappointed A mad B puzzled C regretful D discouraged A working B playing C learning D shining A shaking B h
14、anging C holding D nodding A feeling B suffering C facing D expressing A dream B game C chance D life A offer B price C question D order A study B sports C homework D business A clothes B bike C house D Goods 答案： 【小题 1】 B 【小题 2】 A 【小题 3】 C 【小题 4】 D 【小题 5】 A 【小题 6】 A 【小题 7】 D 【小题 8】 A 【小题 9】 B 【小题 10
15、】 D 【小题 11】 D 【小题 12】 C 【小题 13】 A 【小题 14】 B 【小题 15】 B 【小题 16】 C 【小题 17】 A 【小题 18】 C 【小题 19】 B 【小题 20】 C 【小题 1】上下文。根据第一句 I grew up poor可知，他们家里很穷，所有是有很少的钱， C，一点钱也没有，不符合现实。 【小题 2】上下文，根据 but plenty of love and attention可知，作者家里虽然很穷，但是充满了爱和父母对他们的关注，所以作者应当是很快乐的！ Lovely可爱 angry 生气的 noisy 喧闹的 【小题 3】上下文，因为作者感
16、觉虽然很穷，但是有了父母对他们的爱，他感到很开心，所以他理解无论一个人多么穷，他仍然可以有梦想。 Still 仍然。Only只有 ever永远，曾经 almost几乎 【小题 4】上下文，根据 I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety mile per hour fastball可知，作者很喜欢棒球 ，所以他本来要成为运动员 。 【小题 5】上下文，根据下文可知一个教练对我产生了深远的影响，所以他很幸运（有这样的教练） 【小题 6】上下文，因为那个人是教练，所以是教会了他有梦想和有强烈信念之间的区别。 【小题 7】上下文，根据下文可知是一次想放弃体育去打
17、工赚钱的事件（ incident）改变了他的一生。 【小题 8】上下文。根据 This meant a chance for my first income cash for a new bike and new clothes可知，这是一份工作，可以给他钱买新 单车和新衣服，也可以开始存钱给妈妈买房子。 【小题 9】同上 【小题 10】考查词组。 Jump at sth 意为欣然接受。 【小题 11】考查词组辨析。 take out拿出 cut off切断 put on穿上，上演 give up放弃根据句意可知，我要想工作，必须放弃棒球。根据 I would have to tell Coa
18、ch Jarvis I wouldnt be playing也可以看出 【小题 12】上下文，因为他必须放弃棒球才能去工作，所以他对此感到很担心，很焦虑。 【小题 13】上下文，根据教练所说 的话可知，他对作者的决定很生气，因为他认为工作的时间以后多的是，而打棒球的时间是有限的，不能浪费了这段时间。 【小题 14】同上 【小题 15】上下文，因为作者知道他的决定要教练失望了，所以他垂下了头。Shake摇 hang悬挂，垂下 hold 持有 nod点头 【小题 16】句意为我在想如何向他解释，我想给妈妈买房子和赚钱的梦想值得让我去面对他对我的失望。 【小题 17】上下文。根据上文可知，他有一个梦
19、想，此处指的就是为了一个小时 3.25美元而放弃自己的梦想这个问题 【小题 18】上下文。根据 Well, is $ 3.25 an hour the price of a 52 可知，这是一个问题。 【小题 19】上下文，根据后文可知作者在体育方面取得了成功，得到了一个两万美元的合同，还有 170万美元的合约， 【小题 20】上下文，根据上文可知他想给他妈妈买个房子，所以此处指的是他实现了给母亲买房子的梦想。 阅读理解 Obama Still Smokes in Secret US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficul
20、t for cigarette makers. He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products. At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was am
21、ong the nearly 90% of smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday. Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadnt completely kicked the habit. Every now and then he still smokes in secret. “As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time. Do I still smoke
22、sometimes Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker No.” Obama said at a news conference. “I don t do it in front of my lads I don t do it in front of my family I would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess up, he said Once you go down this path, it s something you continually s
23、truggle with, which is exactly why the law is so important The new law is not about me, it s about the next generation of kids coming up What we don t want is kids going down that path, he said Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United States due t
24、o cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases 【小题 1】 The new law makes life difficult for . A Obama B tobacco industry C White House D US Food and Drug Administration 【小题 2】 What do we know about Obama A He no longer smokes B He still smokes as usual C He began to smoke at eighteen D He is try
25、ing hard to give up smoking 【小题 3】 According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about A children B officials C his family D Businessmen 答案： 【小题 1】 B 【小题 2】 D 【小题 3】 A Thanks a Million, Dad I was born disabled A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck By my first birthday, I couldnt stand or
26、walk When I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy （脑瘫） A loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body But no son of my dad s was going to be disabled Every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floo
27、r to exercise my right leg The muscles were shrunk and twisted together Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape But my dad s exercise of passion didnt stop there For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a lar
28、ge box, it was a-set of boxing gloves We put them on My dad kept on beating me mercilessly Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jaw I begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world. That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasnt
29、picked for Little League. Two weeks later Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid played Dad coached us and made me a pitcher （棒球投手） The power of my dad s love guaranteed I walked and more In high school, I became a football star In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didnt t
30、have cerebral palsy after all He explained how and where the doctor s forceps （镊子） at birth had damaged my brain. My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago But all that counts is the bottom line After all his madness, on this Father s Day, like every Father s Day, I m no longe
31、r disabled 【小题 1】 What caused the author s disability A A failed operation B The doctors forceps C An accident in a game D Shrunken and twisted muscles 【小题 2】 What do we learn from the passage A The author has a talent for boxing B The author achieved a lot thanks to his father s love C The author b
32、ecame a baseball star with the help of his father D The author doesnt think his father should be so strict with him 【小题 3】 Paragraph 3 suggests that the author s father_. A wouldnt give up hope easily B believed his son was a normal child C blamed the doctors for his son s disability D couldnt accep
33、t the truth that his son was disabled 【小题 4】 The author wrote the passage to _. A remember his father B encourage disabled children C show the difficulty the disabled face D give advice to the parents of disabled children 答案： 【小题 1】 B 【小题 2】 B 【小题 3】 A 【小题 4】 A I live in the land of Disney, Hollywoo
34、d and year - round sun You may think People ,n such an attractive, fun - filled place are happier than others If so you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness Many intelligent people still think fun equals happiness The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common
35、 Fun is what we experience during an act Happiness is what we experience after an act It is a deep, long-lasting emotion Going to an amusement park or a ball game, watching a movie or television are fun activities that help us relax, temporally forget our problems and maybe even laugh But they do no
36、t bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun They have constant access to exciting parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells hap
37、piness But in memoir（回忆录） after memoir, they expose Ac unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages and loneliness Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying If he is honest, he will tell you
38、 that he is afraid of making a commitment For commitment is in fact quite painful The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of pai
39、nless fun over painful happiness They can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they want Couples with babies are lucky to get a whole night s sleep I dont know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothin
40、g to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we can ever come to It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can truly increase our happiness It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems
41、pointless And it frees us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and famous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all 【小题 1】 What is the passage mainly about A Fun and happiness B Success and satisfaction C Marriage and com
42、mitment D Entertainment and responsibility 【小题 2】 The author probably agrees that _ A fun creates long - lasting satisfaction B long - standing fun may lead to happiness C fun is short-lived while happiness is long-lasting D fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness 【小题 3】 What does the a
43、uthor think of marriage A It ends in pain B It means commitment C It affords greater fun D It leads to raising children 【小题 14If one gets the real meaning of happiness, he _ A will start a business B won t place too much value on money C will seek for freedom D wont devote himself to his family 答案：
44、【小题 1】 A 【小题 2】 C 【小题 3】 B 【小题 4】 B Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us Physicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum （钟摆） and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar As some-one who understood the d
45、istinction observed, When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age They also note that the more tim
46、e is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in structured tune could well be to blame for why ti
47、me seems to speed up as we grow older Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere weve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when well arrive, we experience the trip as lasting
48、a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine. Thus taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock. When was become as identical as identical as beads（小珠子） on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your d
