12013 届高三英语届高三英语-(广州三模广州三模)+答案（答案（2013 年高三考前冲刺题）年高三考前冲刺题）I 语言知识及应用语言知识及应用 Some years ago, Houston airport faced a troubling customer-relations issue. Passengers were making a huge number of 1 about the long waits at baggage claim (行李提取处). In response, the airport managers 2 the number of baggage handlers. The plan worked: the average wait fell to eight minutes. But the complaints 3 despite the apparent success.4 , the managers undertook a more careful, on-site analysis. They found that it took passengers a minute to walk from their 5 gates to baggage claim and seven more minutes to get their bags. Roughly 88 percent of their time, in other words, was spent standing around 6 waiting for their bags. So the airport decided on a new approach: instead of reducing wait time, it 7 the arrival gates farther away from baggage claim area. Passengers now had to 8 six times longer to get their bags. Complaints dropped to near zero. This story shows a general 9 : the experience of waiting is defined only partly by the actual length of the wait. Often the psychology of queuing is more 10 than the length of the wait itself. Occupied time (walking to baggage claim) feels 11 than unoccupied time (standing at baggage claim). Research on 12 has shown that, on average, people overestimate how long theyve waited in a line by about 36 percent. This is also why one finds mirrors next to lifts. The spread of high-rise buildings after World War II led to complaints about lift 13 . The motive behind the mirrors was 14 to the one used at the Houston airport: give people something to 15 their time, and the wait seems shorter. 1. A. suggestionsB. questionsC. complaintsD. challenges 2. A. evaluated B. countedC. decreasedD. increased3. A. continuedB. disappearedC. doubled D. changed4. A. Annoyed B. PuzzledC. DiscouragedD. Excited5. A. exit B. landingC. arrival D. departure6. A. uncomfortablyB. aimlesslyC. hopelessly D. impatiently 7. A. freedB. sent C. moved D. removed8. A. wait B. walkC. wasteD. sit9. A. principle B. approachC. beliefD. reason10. A. scientificB. interestingC. useful D. important 11. A. slower B. shorter C. more difficultD. more painful12. A. figures B. baggageC. queuing D. standing 13. A. delaysB. qualityC. safety D. repairs14. A. devotedB. superiorC. familiar D. similar15. A. takeB. occupyC. use D. value 第二节第二节 语法填空语法填空 There was once a small boy who would never get dressed when his parents told him to, 16 would he wear what they wanted him to. He preferred unusual clothes, but above all, he liked taking his time. His parents were always in a rush, and wanted him to be much 17 (quick), but the boy didnt like this, 18 he would slow down even more. One day, his parents got so angry when he refused to dress, that they told him to go out without any clothes at 2all. 19 (amuse), the boy followed his parents out of the door. He held a belief 20 nobody could do anything to him. As the boy stood outside his house with nothing on, waiting for his parents car, along came the local pig farmer. The farmer, 21 was almost deaf, had very poor eyesight. Not only that, but also he 22 (forget) his glasses that day. When he saw the boys pink skin, he thought it was one of his pigs. Shouting and pushing, the farmer forced 23 into a pig cage. The boy begged him to stop but the deaf farmer couldnt hear. When found by his parents, the terrified boy never again wanted to be mistaken 24 anything other than a human being. Now hes the first 25 (get) dressed, and always looks neat. II 阅读阅读 A The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare, if the findings of a study into childrens writing are anything to go by. Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found they were increasingly using American words such as garbage, trash can, sidewalk, candy, sneakers, soda, and flashlight. The stories, written by pupils aged 7 to 13, show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. “Smart” is now often used for “clever” and “cranky” for “irritable”. Television also has a powerful influence on childrens work, with Lady Gaga and Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names from TV cropping up repeatedly. But pupils are let down by basic spelling, punctuation and grammar, according to the study by Oxford University Press (OUP), which looked at the entries to BBC Radio Twos “500 Words” competition. Children struggled to correctly spell simple words such as “does” and “clothes” and often failed to use the past tense correctly, frequently writing “rised” instead of “rose” or “thinked” instead of “thought”. Researchers also found that punctuation was underused, especially semi-colons and speech mar