2003 年北京高考英语真题及答案
第一卷(三部分,共 115 分)
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它答案标号。不能答在试卷上。
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第一部分:听力理解(共两节,满分 30 分)
第一节(共 5 小题;每小题 1.5 分,满分 7.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷
的相应位置。听完每段对话后,你都有 10 秒钟时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例:
What is the man going to read?
A.A newspaper.
B.A magazine.
C.A book.
答案是 A。
1.What time is it?
A.8.
B.9.
C.10.
2.What is Peter going to do this afternnon?
A.Play basketball.
B.Ride a bicycle.
C.Go swimming.
3.How much is the man going to pay?
A.20 pence.
B.25 pence.
C.30 pence.
4.How will the woman travel to New York?
A.By car.
B.By train.
C.By plane.
5.What is the woman doing?
A.Making a suggestion.
B.Asking for help.
C.Offering advice.
第二节 (共 15 小题;每小题 1.5 分,满分 22.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项,
并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题 5 秒种;听完后,各个小题
将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第 6 段材料,回答第 6 至 8 题。
6.Where is the new sports center?
A.On Hill Road.
B.On Mill Street.
C.On Station Road.
7.What sport did the man do last week?
A.swimming.
B.Baskeball.
C.Table-tennis.
8.When will they go to the sports center?
A.On Friday.
B.On Thursday.
C.On Wednesday.
听第 7 段材料,回答第 9 至 11 题。
9.Where can you hear the talk by the American writer?
A.At the bookshop.
B.In the library.
C.In Allen Hall.
10.What is the talk about?
A.The writer’s latest novel.
B.The writer’s success story.
C.The writer’s recent journey.
11.Who is the man speaking to?
A.Students.
B.Teachers.
C.Club members.
听第 8 段材料,回答第 12 至 14 题。
12.Where does the woman do most of her work?
A.In planes.
B.In the office.
C.At the airport.
13.What does the woman do at the beginning of each workday?
A.Talk to air-hostesses.
B.Check the computers.
C.Get flight information.
14.What does the woman want to do?
A.Stop traveling.
B.Earn more money.
C.Stay in the same job.
听第 9 段材料,回答第 15 至 17 题。
15.Who is going to visit the place?
A.Customers.
B.Reporters.
C.Tourists.
16.Where will the woman meet the visitors?
A.At the office.
B.At the factory.
C.At a restaurant.
17.What is the relationship between the man and the woman?
A.Teacher and student.
B.Boss and assistant.
C.Visitor and host.
听第 10 段材料,回答第 18 至 20 题。
18.Why is the man angry with the woman?
A.She hasn’t kept a place for him.
B.She hasn’t got any idea who he is.
C.She hasn’t given him a phone call.
19.How is the problem solved?
A.The woman helps the man find another room.
B.The man calls to tell his friends not to come.
C.The woman manages to get the man a table.
20.What does the man do?
A.He’s a businessman.
B.He’s the head waiter.
C.He’s a policeman.
第二部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分 45 分)
第一节:单项填空(共 15 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 15 分)
从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
例:It’s so nice to hear from her again.
, we last met more than thirty years ago.
A.What’s more
C.In other words
B.That’s to say
D.Believe it or not
答案是 D。
21.The teacher asked us
so much noise.
A.don’t make
B.not make
C.not making
D.not to make
22.At this time tomorrow
over the Atlantic.
A.we’re going to fly
C.we’ll fly
D.we’re to fly
B.we’ll be flying
23.Don’t mention that at the beginning of the story, or it may
the shocking ending.
A.give away
C.give up
24.York,
B.give out
D.give off
last year, is a nice old city.
A.that I visited
C.where I visited
B.which I visited
D.in which I visited
25.—
David and Vicky
married?
—For about three years.
A.How long were… being
C.How long have… been
26.The news came as no surprise to me.I
down.
B.How long have…got
D.How long did…get
for some time that the factory was going to shut
A.had known
B.knew
C.have known
D.know
27.—I hear they aren’t pleased with the house you’ve chosen for them.
—Well,
A.where else
C.how
could they live in such comfort?
B.what else
D.why
28.
time, he’ll make a first-class tennis player.
A.Having given
C.Giving
B.To give
D.Given
29.—I’m sorry I stepped outside for a smoke. I was very tired.
—There is no
A.reason
for this while you are on duty.
B.excuse
C.cause
D.explanation
30.He made a mistake, but then he corrected the situation
it got worse.
A.until
C.before
B.when
D.as
31.
I know the money is safe, I shall not worry about it.
A.Even though
B.Unless
C.As long as
D.While
32.Our neighbor has
ours.
A.as a big house as
C.the same big house as
33.They had a pleasant chat
A.for
B.with
B.as big a house as
D.a house the same big as
a cup of coffee.
C.during
D.over
34.He did it
it took me.
A.one-third a time
C.the one-third time
35.Come and see me whenever
.
A.you are convenient
B.you will be convenient
C.it is convenient to you
D.it will be convenient to you
B.one-third time
D.one-third the time
第二节:完形填空(共 20 小题;每小题 1.5 分,满分 30 分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从 36—55 各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答
题卡上将该项涂黑。
My First Job furniture
I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the fields of Eufaula,
the time I was eight I was helping Dad fix up old furniture. He gave me a cent for every
Okla.
nail I
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out of old boards.
I got my first
38
job, at JM’s Restaurant in town, when I was 12. My main responsibility.
(职责) were
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tables and washing dishes,
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sometimes I helped cook.
Every day after school I would
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my friends run off to
me to have. Because
I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local Tastee Freez. This
from two until eleven. At that age it was difficult going to work and
swim or play. I didn’t necessarily like work, but I loved what working
of my
made me
to JM’s and work until ten. Even on Saturdays I
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44
45
46
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.
Word that I was trustworthy and hard-working
I was only in seventh grade. I immediately
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around town. A local clothing store offered
a $68 sports coat and
only 65 cents an hour, and I already owed the storekeeper $90!
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50
me credilt(赊帐) 48
a $22 pair of shoes. I was
So I learned
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satisfaction few of my friends had experienced. As my father,
me, “If you
t have.” How right he was.
36.A.Before
37.A.pulled
38.A.usual
39.A.sweeping
40.A.or
41.A.head
C.From
C.picked
C.main
C.clearing
C.but
C.change
B.Within
B.put
B.real
B.packing
B.so
B.turn
D.By
D.pressed
D.particular
D.emptying
D.even
D.move
the danger of easy credit. I paid it
52
as soon as I could.
My first job taught me self-control, responsibility and brought me a
of personal
worked three jobs, once told
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54
sacrifice(奉献)and responsibility, there are not many things in life you can’
42.A.studied
43.A.helping
44.A.asked
45.A.study
46.A.proud
47.A.ran
48.A.although
49.A.sold
50.A.keeping
51.A.gradually
52.A.out
53.A.point
54.A.he
55.A.understand
第三部分:阅读理解(共 20 小题;每小题 2 分,满分 40 分)
B.worked
B.having
B.told
B.power
B.friendly
B.got
B.while
B.borrowed
B.making
B.greatly
B.over
B.level
B.that
B.demand
C.played
C.watching
C.promised
C.age
C.lucky
C.flew
C.if
C.charged
C.paying
C.hardly
C.away
C.part
C.who
C.offer
D.slept
D.letting
D.allowed
D.job
D.hopeful
D.carried
D.since
D.wore
D.taking
D.early
D.off
D.sign
D.whoever
D.fear
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
A newspaper in Helsinki, Finland, recently published a cartoon of
a baby with a mobile phone, telling his parents that his diaper(尿布)
needed changing. But it’s hardly a joke. Helsinki is home to Nokia, the
mobile-phone maker. It’s one of the most “mobile” cities in the world:
About 92 percent of its households have at least one mobile phone. And
the kids start young.
“A relatively normal age to get a mobile phone is now 7,”says Jan Virkki, marketing manager
for a mobile-phone company. Among the second graders at the Kulosaari Elementary School, the most
popular object of desire this year is not a Barbie or a Gameboy. It is a Nokia mobile phone with
a picture of their own choice on the screen.
“One of the first things we discuss when school starts is the rules for mobile phones,” says
Tiia Korppi, a teacher. Among the rules: You have to put it away out of sight. You cannot turn it
on. You cannot send text messages to your friends, or play amusing tunes(令人发笑的曲调)in class,
or call your parents or call for a pizza during history.
56.The author uses the newspaper cartoon to show that
.
A.he is good at telling jokes
B.he cares much for children
C.mobile phones are toys for new –born babies
D.mobile phones are widely used in Finland
57.The passage is mainly about
.
A.different uses of mobile phones
B.a successful mobile-phone maker
C.effects of mobile phones on children
D.school rules for the use of mobile phones
B
If you dream of going someplace warm to escape the cold winter weather, a trip to a recently
discovered planet would certainly warm you right up, The planet, named OCLE-TR-56b, has temperatures
of more than 3,000 °F.“This is the hottest planet we know about,”says Dr. Dimitar Sasselov, a
scientist who led the discovery team,“It is hot enough to have an iron fog and to rain hot iron
droplets(细沫)”
The new planet is 30 times farther away than any planet discovered by scientists before. It is
in the Milky Way(银河)but it is not in our solar(太阳的)system The new planet moves around a
star much like our sun, however. Seientists discovered the planet by using a new planet-searching
method, called“transit technique”They were able to catch sight of the planet when it moved in front
of its star, causing the star’s light to dim(变暗).Scientists compare the method to discovering
the shadow of a bee flying in front of a searchlight 200 miles away.“We believe the door has heen
opened wide to go and discover planets like Earth,”says Sasedlov.
58.We can infer from the passage that.
A.there is iron on the new planet
B.we could go to the new planet in winter
C.the star could block our view of the new planet
D.scientists are studying the weather on the new planet
59.The “transit technique”can
A.help dim the light of a star.
B.help scientists with a searchlight
C.help discover a bee on a planet
D.help find a planet moving before its star
60.Which is the best title for the passage?
A.New Planet-searching Technique
C.Space Searching
B.New Distant Discovery
D.Dream Planet
C
Elephants don’t forget—at least, female(雌性的)
elephants don’t. Elephant families are matriarchal. And the
social knowledge gained by the oldest females is the key to
a family group’s survival(生存), according to a study
published in April by Karen McComb, a biologist at Sussex
University in England.
Elephants announce their presence by making a deep, long sound, a practice referred to as contact
calling(联络呼叫). An unfamiliar call may mean that an elephant from outside the family group is
nearby. A stranger can cause trouble. Interrupting feeding or disturbing the young. So an elephant
matriarch signals the family to gather around her; then they all lift their trunks in the air to
smell the unfamiliar caller. False alarms can disturb the group and take time and energy away from
feeding, so survival may depend in part on getting it right.
Working with Cynthia Moss, who founded the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya 30 years
ago, McComb tested the social knowledge of 21 Amboseli elephant families with matriarchs 27 to 67
years old. She played recordings of contact calls to each family and found that the oldest matriarchs
were much better at picking out unfamiliar calls. In fact, a group with a matriarch in her fifties
was several thousand times more likely to form into a group upon hearing an unfamiliar contact call
than when hearing a familiar call. However, families with younger matriarchs were less than twice
as likely to gather together upon hearing an unfamiliar contact call as compared with a familiar
call. And they gathered together a lot. Moreover, the social knowledge of older matriarchs translated
into favourable results: Families with older matriarchs produced more baby elephants in each
female-reproductive year.
This finding shows how difficult it is to protect the oldest members of elephant families. As
elephants age, they continue to grow larger ,as do their much wanted tusks(象牙). So the older-and
wiser-a matriarch is, the greater the chance she will be killed. About 800,000 elephants have been
killed by people in the past 20 years.
61.What does the underlined word “matriarch” mean?
A.An old member of an elephant family.
B.A female head of an elephant family
C.A wise elephant.
D.A large elephant.
62.When do elephants form into a group?
A.When they are feeding the young.
B.When they see a familiar elephant.
C.When they are giving birth to baby elephants.
D.When the leading elephant gives out a warning.
63.The research with recordings of contact calls shows
.
A.how fast elephants form into groups
B.how important the age of a leading elephant is
C.how frightened elephants are when hearing a strange call
D.how frequently old elephants call other members of the family
64.The older a female elephant is,
.
A.the stronger she will be
C.the more useless her tusks will be
B.the poorer memory she will have
D.the more likely she will be killed
65.We can infer from the passage that elephants may
.
A.run into other elephant families
B.give wrong warnings to their mothers
C.run away open hearing a strange sound
D.produce more babies by gathering together often
D
If there is no difference in general intelligence(智力)between boys and girls, what can explain
girls’ poor performance in science and mathematics?
It seems to be that their treatment at school is a direct cause. Mathematics and science are
seen as subjects mainly for boys, and therefore, as girls become teenagers, they are less likely
to take them. Interestingly, both boys and girls often regard the subjects for boys as more difficult.
Yet it has been suggested that girls do not take mathematics courses, not because
they are difficult,
but for social reasons. Girls do not want to be in open competition with boys because they are afraid
to appear less feminine(女性的) and attractive.
However, if we examine the performance of boys and girls who have taken mathematics courses,
there are still more high-achieving boys than there are girls. This difference appears to be
world-wide. Biological explanations have been offered for this, but there are other explanations
too.
Perhaps the difference which comes out during the teenage years has its roots in much earlier
experiences. From their first days in kindergarten, boys are enoouraged to work on their own and
to complete tasks. Facts show that outstanding(杰出的)mathematicians and scientists have not had
teachers who supplied answers.
Besides, there can be little doubt that teachers of mathematics and science expect their boy
students to do better at these subjects than their girl students. They even appear to encourage the
difference between boys and girls. They spend more time with the boy students, giving them more time
to answer questions and working harder to get correct answers from them. They are more likely to
call on boys for answers and to allow them to take the lead in classroom discussion. They also praise
boys more frequently. All of this seems to encourage boys to work harder in science and mathematics
and to give them confidence(信心)that they are able to succeed.
Such a way of teaching is not likely to encourage girls to take many mathematics and science
courses, nor is it likely to support girls who do. When it comes to these subjects it seems certain
that school widens the difference between boys and girls.
66.Girls are likely to think that
.
A.science courses are for both boys and girls
B.science courses make them more popular
C.science courses make them successful
D.science courses are difficult for them
67.The text mainly discusses
scientific achievements.
reasons for the difference between boys and girls in
A.biological
B.historical
C.social
D.personal
68.What are boys usually encouraged to do at school?
A.To get help with their homework..
B.To play the leading role in class.
C.To work with girl students in class.
D.To learn to take care of others.
69.What does the passage say about great mathematicians?
A.Their teachers did not supply answers to them.
B.They started learning mathematics at an earlier age.
C.They showed mathematical abilities in their teenage years.
D.Their success resulted from their strong interest in mathematics.
70.The author would probably agree that
.
A.boys and girls learn in the same way
B.boys and girls are equal in general intelligence
C.girls are more confident in themselves than before
D.girls should take fewer science courses than boys
E
At first Kate thought the Romanian girl could not speak and understand English. Nadia would
not reply to anything Kate said. Kate was in charge of showing Nadia around on her first day at
Buckminster Grade School. Kate could not figure out why the school had put Nadia in a class where
she could not understand what people were saying.
“Why did they do this?” Kate wondered aloud. “I mean, you can’t learn if you can’t understand
the teacher.”
Nadia’s voice was a whisper. “I understand English. I will learn.” Nadia’s English was perfect.
Kate was perplexed. She couldn’t understand why Nadia did not like to speak. Then she realized
that moring to a new country probably wasn’t the easiest thing to do. There were hundreds of unfamiliar
and unusual things to learn-all at the same time.
“There’re a lot of new things to learn, huh?” said Kate.
Nadia nodded rapidly. In a quiet voice she replied. “Many things people say, I do not understand.
I have been speaking English and Romanian all my life, but I do not know what some children are saying.
For example. yesterday a
boy asked if I could help him find the USB port on a thin black box he
was carrying. Isn’t a port a place for ships? It made no sense to me.”
“Don’t worry.” said Kate. “You’ll figure everything out in time. You see, that thin black
box was a computer. A USB port is a place where you can connect other machines to a computer.”
Nadia and Kate were quiet after that. They took notes while the teacher gave a maths lesson.
To Kate’s surprise. Nadia put up her hand and offered to answer questions at the blackboard.
Nadia handled every question the teacher gave her. Some of the questions were really difficult,