2012年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（四川卷）
英 语
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，第Ⅰ卷1页至9页，第Ⅱ卷10页。考试结束后，须将答案答在答题卡上，在本试题卷、草稿纸上答题无效。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共100分）
注意事项：
1.必须使用2B
2.第Ⅰ卷共两部分，共计100分。
第一部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 语法和词汇知识（共201
从A、B、C、D上将该项涂黑。
1. --- .
A. Extra Large D. Altogether there are 5
2. possible to turn out new products
C. one D. it
3. .
A. I did B. I do C. I shall D. I will
4. At school, some students are active some are shy, yet they can be
good friends with one another.
A. while B. although C. so D. as
5. This is not my story, nor the whole story. My story plays out
differently.
A. is there
B. there is C. is it D. it is
6. Tom took a taxi to the airport, only his plane high up in the sky.
A. finding B. to find C. being found D. to have found
7. The hotel is almost finished, but it needs one or two weeks to get
ready for guests.
A. only B. also C. even D. still
8. I looked up and noticed a snake its way up the tree to catch its
income by 40%.
A. as well as B. so long as C. so much as D. as soon as
15. He will come to understand your efforts sooner or later. It‟s just a matter
of .
A. luck B. value C. time D. fact
16. I make $2, 000 a week. 60 surely won‟t make difference to me.
A. that a big B. a that big C. big a that D. that big a
17. Scientists study human brains work to make computers.
A. when B. how C. that D. whether
18. We are said to be living in Information Age, time of
new discoveries and great changes.
A. an; the B. 不填; the C. 不填；a D. the; a
. was by a wall of flames. Sibson realized he was trapped（困住）.
Sibson‟s house was three kilometers the main road and was so well hidden by trees that he knew calling for help would be .
Up a hill nearby lived Sibson‟s neighbor, Huggons. He was lying in bed when something like a smoke alarm his ears. He jumped out bed took his and flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the .That was when he
saw the rolling heavy smoke.
Huggons dialed 911, and the operator warned him not to the house. But Huggons said, “There is no way I am going to listen to Sibson and die in that fire.”
“Anyone there?” Huggons called out. Then he heard “Help! I‟m trapped!”
coming from the second floor balcony（阳台）. He entered the house, but soon had to
“
D. phone D. danger D. damage D. sigh D. flashlight D. attempt 30. A. coat 31. A. noise 32. A. search 33. A. call 34. A. breath 35. A. stay
B. key B. road B. enter B. roll C. basin C. smoke C. leave C. scream C. ladder B. attention B. chance C. thought
36. A. climbed
37. A. clear
38. A. led B. circled B. open B. put
B. kicked C. looked D. jumped D. fit D. shone D. forced
D. thankful C. enough C. drove C. pulled C. proud 39. A. persuaded 40. A. nervous B. surprised
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共20小题；每小题2分）
A
yellow and red in the fall and note the poplars‟ putting out the first green leaves of spring. The rainbow smelt fills the local stream as the ice gradually disappears, and the wood frogs start to sing in pools after being frozen for the winter. A family of bird rules our skies and flies over the lake.
41. What can be learned from Paragraph 2?
A. The scenes are colorful and changeable.
B. There are many windows in the wooden house. C. The views remind us that we are in a wooden house. D. The lakes outside the windows are quite different in color.
42. By mentioning the names of the trees, the author aims to show that .
A. the kids like playing in trees B. the kids are very familiar with trees C. the kids have learned much knowledge D. the kids find trees useful learning tools
A. The change of seasons is easily felt. B. The seasons make the scenes change. C. The weather often changes in the forest.
B
‟t miss it. Just （活动券） in our B&B Daily printed from 01/ 04/ 2012 to 07/ 04/ ● The offer includes a room for the night and a breakfast the next morning.
● The offer is of two kinds: £20 per room, per night, valid（有效的） during stay
period of 02/ 04/ 2012--- 31/ 05/ 2012 and then again 01/ 08/ 2012--- 31/ 10/ 2012; £35 per room, per night, valid during stay period of 01/ 06/ 2012 --- 31/ 08/ 2012. ● The offer is valid for a basic twin or double room only.
● The stay must be booked directly with the chosen B&Bs before 28/ 04/ 2012.
● If voucher holders book either the £20 or £35 per room per night, any additional
services such as lunch, evening meal or activities may require an extra charge. But these are not required in order to take up the offer. Please check directly with your chosen B&Bs to see what extra services are available.
● Vouchers must be presented on arrival. If no vouchers are presented, the B&Bs
may reserve（保留） the right to charge at full price for every night of stay. ● Vouchers may not be used together with any other offer.
●
Additional £10 may be paid to confirm（确认） on arrival.
●
the age of 18.
.
A. 09/ 01/ 2012 B. 04/ 02/ 2012 A. £ 70. B. £ D. £30.
.
C. use the B&B offer together with other offers D. book the stays through B&B Daily
C
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I income. I tried journalism, but I didn‟t think I was any good, then finance, which I
hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a
deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55, 000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start--- there‟s a dark period in-between where you‟re neither one thing nor the other. You‟re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you‟re too ashamed to say, “Well, I „m writing a novel, but if I‟m going to get there. ” published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商） second half of the novel.
（合同）of the publisher--- to be a published （有回报的）.
C. I was being aimless about a suitable job. D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.
50. The author decided to write a novel .
A. to finish the writing course B. to realize her own dream C. to satisfy readers‟ wish
D. to earn more money
51. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
A. Disturbed B. Ashamed. C. Confident. D. Uncertain.
52. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
A. It pays to stick to one‟s goal. B. Hard work can lead to success. C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky. D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.
D
attract millions of online learners worldwide.
“
courses,”
offering courses on the open-source edX platform.
“” Hockfield said. Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.
The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit（非盈利的） organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both
MIT and Harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.
53. According to this text, edX is .
A. a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWare B. a free computer program by MIT and Harvard C. a Harvard-MIT platform of free online courses D. a free program online for universities worldwide
54. What is said about online education in the text?
A. Universities have been trying online courses. ”.
‟ achievement. E
Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.
Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say.
Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable
rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.
“Predicting species‟ reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology, ”
said the researchers of several U. S. universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.
The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life
cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1, 634 species. It found that 4 times.
“
” said.
using photosynthesis to out
‟℃
℃
℃ this century --- a point
A. Plants‟ reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystems. B. The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists‟ expectation. C. Climate change leads to the change of food production patterns. D. Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.
58. We can learn from the study published on the Nature website that .
A. plants‟ flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafing
B. there are 1, 634 plant species on the four continents C. scientists should improve the design of the experiments
D. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change
59. Scientists pay special attention to the study of plants because .
A. they can prove the climate change clearly B. they are very important in the food chains C. they play a leading role in reducing global warming D. they are growing and flowering much faster than before
A. It has risen nearly 0.2 ℃ since 1979. B. Its change will lead to weather extremes. C. It is 0.8℃ higher in 1979 than that of 1900. D. It needs to be controlled within 2℃ 第二节 根据对话内容，并在 5小题：每小题2分，满分10分）
--- --- ‟t taste quite right.
--- Now I‟ll give you some medicine. Take it and you should be
feeling better soon.
---
--- I also suggest that you follow a special diet. ---
--- You should stick to eating lighter foods.
Dear Mom,
Mother‟s Day is coming. I‟m sorry that I am abroad
and can‟t send your flowers, so I‟m writing to you.
Mom, I know I have never expressed my thank to you
before. But on today, at this special time, I just want to tell you loudly: I love you, Mom! Thank you so much by not
only giving me life, but also teach me how to be a good
person. Thank you for all you had done for me. Mom, though I may often say it, I do love you. Nobody can take your part in my heart. Whenever I am, I will always love you.
Hope you good health and much happiness every day!
Your little girl,
参考答案： 1-5 BDDACC
6-10 BDCDB
11-15 AACAC 16-20 DBDBA 31-35 ABCAD 36-40 BCDCD 51-55 DACAB 56-60 CBCBD
21-25 ADCDA 41-45 ACADD 61-65 GDBCA 66. 正确
26-30 BBCAD 46-50 BBACB
67. your→ you 68. thank→thanks 69. 去on
70.by→for 71. teach→teaching 72. had→have 74. Whenever→Wherever
73. may后加not
One possible version: Dear Ms Li,
new window.
help.
Li Hua
2012年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（四川卷）
英 语
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，第Ⅰ卷1页至9页，第Ⅱ卷10页。考试结束后，须将答案答在答题卡上，在本试题卷、草稿纸上答题无效。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共100分）
注意事项：
1.必须使用2B
2.第Ⅰ卷共两部分，共计100分。
第一部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 语法和词汇知识（共201
从A、B、C、D上将该项涂黑。
1. --- .
A. Extra Large D. Altogether there are 5
2. possible to turn out new products
C. one D. it
3. .
A. I did B. I do C. I shall D. I will
4. At school, some students are active some are shy, yet they can be
good friends with one another.
A. while B. although C. so D. as
5. This is not my story, nor the whole story. My story plays out
differently.
A. is there
B. there is C. is it D. it is
6. Tom took a taxi to the airport, only his plane high up in the sky.
A. finding B. to find C. being found D. to have found
7. The hotel is almost finished, but it needs one or two weeks to get
ready for guests.
A. only B. also C. even D. still
8. I looked up and noticed a snake its way up the tree to catch its
income by 40%.
A. as well as B. so long as C. so much as D. as soon as
15. He will come to understand your efforts sooner or later. It‟s just a matter
of .
A. luck B. value C. time D. fact
16. I make $2, 000 a week. 60 surely won‟t make difference to me.
A. that a big B. a that big C. big a that D. that big a
17. Scientists study human brains work to make computers.
A. when B. how C. that D. whether
18. We are said to be living in Information Age, time of
new discoveries and great changes.
A. an; the B. 不填; the C. 不填；a D. the; a
. was by a wall of flames. Sibson realized he was trapped（困住）.
Sibson‟s house was three kilometers the main road and was so well hidden by trees that he knew calling for help would be .
Up a hill nearby lived Sibson‟s neighbor, Huggons. He was lying in bed when something like a smoke alarm his ears. He jumped out bed took his and flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the .That was when he
saw the rolling heavy smoke.
Huggons dialed 911, and the operator warned him not to the house. But Huggons said, “There is no way I am going to listen to Sibson and die in that fire.”
“Anyone there?” Huggons called out. Then he heard “Help! I‟m trapped!”
coming from the second floor balcony（阳台）. He entered the house, but soon had to
“
D. phone D. danger D. damage D. sigh D. flashlight D. attempt 30. A. coat 31. A. noise 32. A. search 33. A. call 34. A. breath 35. A. stay
B. key B. road B. enter B. roll C. basin C. smoke C. leave C. scream C. ladder B. attention B. chance C. thought
36. A. climbed
37. A. clear
38. A. led B. circled B. open B. put
B. kicked C. looked D. jumped D. fit D. shone D. forced
D. thankful C. enough C. drove C. pulled C. proud 39. A. persuaded 40. A. nervous B. surprised
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共20小题；每小题2分）
A
yellow and red in the fall and note the poplars‟ putting out the first green leaves of spring. The rainbow smelt fills the local stream as the ice gradually disappears, and the wood frogs start to sing in pools after being frozen for the winter. A family of bird rules our skies and flies over the lake.
41. What can be learned from Paragraph 2?
A. The scenes are colorful and changeable.
B. There are many windows in the wooden house. C. The views remind us that we are in a wooden house. D. The lakes outside the windows are quite different in color.
42. By mentioning the names of the trees, the author aims to show that .
A. the kids like playing in trees B. the kids are very familiar with trees C. the kids have learned much knowledge D. the kids find trees useful learning tools
A. The change of seasons is easily felt. B. The seasons make the scenes change. C. The weather often changes in the forest.
B
‟t miss it. Just （活动券） in our B&B Daily printed from 01/ 04/ 2012 to 07/ 04/ ● The offer includes a room for the night and a breakfast the next morning.
● The offer is of two kinds: £20 per room, per night, valid（有效的） during stay
period of 02/ 04/ 2012--- 31/ 05/ 2012 and then again 01/ 08/ 2012--- 31/ 10/ 2012; £35 per room, per night, valid during stay period of 01/ 06/ 2012 --- 31/ 08/ 2012. ● The offer is valid for a basic twin or double room only.
● The stay must be booked directly with the chosen B&Bs before 28/ 04/ 2012.
● If voucher holders book either the £20 or £35 per room per night, any additional
services such as lunch, evening meal or activities may require an extra charge. But these are not required in order to take up the offer. Please check directly with your chosen B&Bs to see what extra services are available.
● Vouchers must be presented on arrival. If no vouchers are presented, the B&Bs
may reserve（保留） the right to charge at full price for every night of stay. ● Vouchers may not be used together with any other offer.
●
Additional £10 may be paid to confirm（确认） on arrival.
●
the age of 18.
.
A. 09/ 01/ 2012 B. 04/ 02/ 2012 A. £ 70. B. £ D. £30.
.
C. use the B&B offer together with other offers D. book the stays through B&B Daily
C
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I income. I tried journalism, but I didn‟t think I was any good, then finance, which I
hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a
deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55, 000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start--- there‟s a dark period in-between where you‟re neither one thing nor the other. You‟re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you‟re too ashamed to say, “Well, I „m writing a novel, but if I‟m going to get there. ” published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商） second half of the novel.
（合同）of the publisher--- to be a published （有回报的）.
C. I was being aimless about a suitable job. D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.
50. The author decided to write a novel .
A. to finish the writing course B. to realize her own dream C. to satisfy readers‟ wish
D. to earn more money
51. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
A. Disturbed B. Ashamed. C. Confident. D. Uncertain.
52. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
A. It pays to stick to one‟s goal. B. Hard work can lead to success. C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky. D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.
D
attract millions of online learners worldwide.
“
courses,”
offering courses on the open-source edX platform.
“” Hockfield said. Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.
The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit（非盈利的） organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both
MIT and Harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.
53. According to this text, edX is .
A. a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWare B. a free computer program by MIT and Harvard C. a Harvard-MIT platform of free online courses D. a free program online for universities worldwide
54. What is said about online education in the text?
A. Universities have been trying online courses. ”.
‟ achievement. E
Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.
Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say.
Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable
rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.
“Predicting species‟ reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology, ”
said the researchers of several U. S. universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.
The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life
cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1, 634 species. It found that 4 times.
“
” said.
using photosynthesis to out
‟℃
℃
℃ this century --- a point
A. Plants‟ reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystems. B. The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists‟ expectation. C. Climate change leads to the change of food production patterns. D. Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.
58. We can learn from the study published on the Nature website that .
A. plants‟ flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafing
B. there are 1, 634 plant species on the four continents C. scientists should improve the design of the experiments
D. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change
59. Scientists pay special attention to the study of plants because .
A. they can prove the climate change clearly B. they are very important in the food chains C. they play a leading role in reducing global warming D. they are growing and flowering much faster than before
A. It has risen nearly 0.2 ℃ since 1979. B. Its change will lead to weather extremes. C. It is 0.8℃ higher in 1979 than that of 1900. D. It needs to be controlled within 2℃ 第二节 根据对话内容，并在 5小题：每小题2分，满分10分）
--- --- ‟t taste quite right.
--- Now I‟ll give you some medicine. Take it and you should be
feeling better soon.
---
--- I also suggest that you follow a special diet. ---
--- You should stick to eating lighter foods.
Dear Mom,
Mother‟s Day is coming. I‟m sorry that I am abroad
and can‟t send your flowers, so I‟m writing to you.
Mom, I know I have never expressed my thank to you
before. But on today, at this special time, I just want to tell you loudly: I love you, Mom! Thank you so much by not
only giving me life, but also teach me how to be a good
person. Thank you for all you had done for me. Mom, though I may often say it, I do love you. Nobody can take your part in my heart. Whenever I am, I will always love you.
Hope you good health and much happiness every day!
Your little girl,
参考答案： 1-5 BDDACC
6-10 BDCDB
11-15 AACAC 16-20 DBDBA 31-35 ABCAD 36-40 BCDCD 51-55 DACAB 56-60 CBCBD
21-25 ADCDA 41-45 ACADD 61-65 GDBCA 66. 正确
26-30 BBCAD 46-50 BBACB
67. your→ you 68. thank→thanks 69. 去on
70.by→for 71. teach→teaching 72. had→have 74. Whenever→Wherever
73. may后加not
One possible version: Dear Ms Li,
new window.
help.
Li Hua