54. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. A job offering free meals may not be as desirable as it sounds to be.
B. Dishes in the restaurant usually contain too many calories.
C. Eating fruits and vegetables every day is the best way to lose weight.
D. Food writers work hard to maintain their health and weight.
D
I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years. However, I still like to think that it really did happen, somewhere, sometime.
They were going to Fort Lauderdale -- three boys and three girls -- and when they boarded the bus, they were carrying sandwiches and wine, dreaming of golden beaches and sea tides as the gray, cold spring of New York vanished behind them.
As the bus passed through New Jersey, they began to notice Vingo. He sat in front of them, dressed in a plain, ill-fitting suit, never moving, his dusty face masking his age. He kept chewing the inside of his lip a lot, frozen into complete silence.
Deep into the night, the bus pulled into Howard Johnson’s, and everybody got off except Vingo. He sat rooted in his seat, and the young people began to wonder about him: perhaps he was a sea captain, a runaway from his wife, an old soldier going home. When they went back to the bus, one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself.
“We’re going to Florida,” she said brightly. “I hear it’s really beautiful.”
“It is,” he said quietly, as if remembering something he had tried to forget.
“Want some wine?” she said. He thanked her and retreated again into his silence. After a while, she went back to the others, and Vingo nodded in sleep.
In the morning, they awoke outside another Howard Johnson’s, and this time Vingo went in. The girl insisted that he join them. He seemed very shy, and ordered black coffee and smoked nervously as the young people chattered about sleeping on beaches. When they returned to the bus, the girl sat with Vingo again, and after a while, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in jail in New York for the past four years, and now he was going home.
“Are you married?”
“I don't know.”
“You don't know?” she said.
“Well, when I was in jail I wrote to my wife,” he said. “I told her that I was going to be away a long time, and that if she couldn’t stand it, if the kids kept asking questions, she could just forget me. I’d understand. Get a new guy, I said – she’s a wonderful woman -- and forget about me. I told her she didn’t have to write me. And she didn’t. Not for three and a half years.”
“And you’re going home now, not knowing?”
“Yeah,” he said shyly. “Last week, when I was sure the parole was coming through, I wrote her again. There’s a big oak tree just as you come into town, I told her that if she didn’t have a new guy and if she’d take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I’d get off and come home. If she didn’t want me, forget it -- no handkerchief, and I’d go on through.”
“Wow,” the girl exclaimed. “Wow.”
She told the others, and soon all of them were in it, caught up in the approach of Brunswick, looking at the pictures Vingo showed them of his wife and three children.
Now they were 20 miles from Brunswick, and the young people took over window seats, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face, as if fortifying himself against still another disappointment.
Then Brunswick was 10 miles, and then five. Then, suddenly, all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying. All except Vingo. Vingo sat there stunned, looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs -- 20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds. As the young people shouted, the old con slowly rose from his seat and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.
55. According to the passage, which statement is TRUE?
A. The young people are travelling from Florida to New York.
B. Vingo was put in prison ten years ago, and now he was set free to go home.
C. The young people around Vingo were quite curious about his silence.
D. At last, Vingo went home together with the three boys and three girls.
56. From the underlined sentences in Para 3, we can infer that ________.
A. Vingo was nervous because he didn’t know whether his wife would accept him.
B. Vingo was very disappointed because his wife didn’t answer his letter.
C. Vingo was very shy because he knew someone was watching him.
D. Vingo was excited because he could go home and meet his wife and children.
57. The underlined word “fortify” in the passage has the same meaning as that in Sentence_____.
A. The French soldiers are working hard to fortify airbase.
B. The food has been fortified with Vitamin C.
C. People in the whole city were fortified by the moving story about their hero.
D. We had to drink some more coffee to fortify ourselves for the journey.
58. Which word do you think can best describe Vingo’s wife?
A. humorous B. loyal
C. generous D. hard-working
59. After reading the whole story, we can probably make a conclusion that________.
A. Young people are always curious about everything new around them.
B. Home is always the first place a person wants to go.
C. Don't laugh at a person who has no home.
D. It is impolite to ask questions about one’s privacy that he or she doesn’t want to tell.
60. What’s the best title for the passage?
A. A story of a poor man
B. The power of love
C. Help from strangers
D. Going home
第二节：下面文章中有5处（第61～65题）需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A. Study the levels of stress by comparison.
B. Higher level of stress causes more trouble.
C. Milder stress does more harm than expected.
D. A certain level of stress is efficient in working conditions.
E. Always pay enough attention to mild stress.
F. Modern social conditions may lead to stress.
61. ________________________
Even relatively mild stress can lead to long term disability and an inability to work, reveals a large population based study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology (流行病学) and Community Health. It is well known that mental health problems are associated with long term disability, but the impact of milder forms of psychological stress is likely to have been underestimated (低估), say the authors.
62. ________________________
Between 2002 and 2007, the authors tracked the health of more than 17,000 working adults up to the age of 64, who had been randomly selected from the population in the Stockholm area. All participants completed a validated (经验证的) questionnaire at the start of the study to measure their mental health and stress levels, as well as other aspects of health and wellbeing.
63. ________________________
During the monitoring period, 649 people started receiving disability benefit--- 203 for a mental health problem and the remainder for physical ill health. Higher levels of stress at the start of the study were associated with a significantly greater likelihood of subsequently being awarded long term disability benefits. But even those with mild stress were up to 70% more likely to receive disability benefits, after taking account of other factors likely to influence the results, such as lifestyle and alcohol intake. One in four of these benefits awarded for a physical illness, such as high blood pressure, angina(心绞痛), and stroke(中风), and almost two thirds awarded for a mental illness, were likely to have been caused by stress.
64. ________________________
The authors say that it is important to consider their findings in the context of modern working life, which places greater demands on employees, and social factors, such as fewer close personal relationships and supportive networks.
65. ________________________
These factors lead them to ask, “Are the strains and demands of modern society commonly exceeding(超出) human ability?” And they conclude that while mild stress should not be overmedicalised, their findings suggest that it should be taken more seriously than it is.
II卷（非选择题部分：共40分）
第三部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在下面加上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Uncle Marion was one of my mother’s younger brother. He has been died for a year. When I was a teenager, he taught us how to hunt in the New Jersey woods used the hours before dawn. We usually left home at three o’clock in the morning, stayed in local restaurant for breakfast, and then travel on to one of his hunting destinations. Just after dawn, he would find the right spot in the woods. He would show me how not to make a sound and a movement. Though I never hunted an animal successfully, but I learned to be brave and patiently through the experience.
第二节：书面表达（满分30分）
人人都在渴望幸福，人人都在感受幸福。请用英语写一篇120词左右的短文，描述你体验幸福的一次经历，并谈一谈你对幸福的理解。
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宁波市2013高考模拟考试
英语参考答案
第一部分
第一节单选选择（10分，每小题0.5分）
1-5 ABDBB 6-10 CDDBB 11-15 DAACD 16-20 ADACB
第二节完形填空（20分，每小题1分）
21-25 CDBCD 26-30 CBADA 31-35 ABCBA 36-40 CDCBD
第二部分
第一节阅读理解（40分，每小题2分）
41-45 BADDC 46-49 ACBA 50-54 DACCD 55-60 CACBBD
第二节任务型阅读（10分，每小题2分）
61-65 CABFE
第三部分
第一节短文改错（10分，每小题1分）
Uncle Marion was one of my mother’s younger brother. He has been died for a year. When I
brothers dead
was a teenager, he taught us how to hunt in the New Jersey woods used the hours before dawn. We
me using
usually left home at three o’clock in the morning, stayed in /\ local restaurant for breakfast, and
a
then travel on to one of his hunting destinations. Just after dawn, he would find the right spot in
traveled(travelled) before
the woods. He would show me how not to make a sound and a movement. Though I never hunted
or
an animal successfully, but I learned to be brave and patiently through the experience.
patient
第二节写作（30分）
One possible version:
It was a cold, late afternoon and it was showering. Without an umbrella to shelter me from the heavy rain, I had to stand still and wait for my father. After seemingly long hours’ waiting, my father finally arrived. I was about to rush home when I found that my English teacher, Miss Wang, was also waiting for the rain to stop. Without any hesitation, I went to her and gave my umbrella to her. Surprised but happy, she accepted it. Seeing Miss Wang walking in the rain with my umbrella, I smiled and a sense of happiness sprung up in my heart.
As a famous saying goes, happiness is only real when shared. As long as we are willing to share, we will find happiness everywhere.(128 words)
