1、广东高考英语试题2007年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(广东卷)英 语 本试卷共12页，四大题，满分150分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型(A)填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。 2选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点 涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 3非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指 定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上
2、新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 听力(共两节，满分35分) 第一节 听力理解(5段共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 每段播放两遍。各段后有几个小题，各段播放前每小题有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据 各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 听第一段对话，回答第13题。1. What does the girl want her father to buy7 A. A ruler. B. High-tech things. C. Pencil
3、s and erasers.2. Which of the following does the father consider buying for his daughter? A. A calculator. B. A computer. C. An MP3.3. Which of the following could be a reason for her father to buy what she wants7 A. She volunteers to use some of her own money. B. She asks her father to buy a cheap
4、one online.C. She tells her father she is the best in school.听第二段对话，回答第46题。4. What do the speakers think of San Francisco? A. It is a big city. B. They both love the city. C. It isnt so expensive to live there.5. What does the woman think of cell phone interruption? A. She likes it. B. She doesnt mi
5、nd it. C. She considers it rude.6. What reason does the man give to answer his cell phone? A. He feels like answering. B. He wants to know whos calling. C. He thinks that it could be something important.听第三段对话，回答第79题。7. What is the man complaining about? A. Not accepting any gift from his friend. B.
6、 Not receiving any answer from his friend. C. Not hearing any good news from his friend.8. According to the woman, when should you write a thank-you card? A. You receive a gift from your friend. B. You are invited to a birthday party. C. You spend a holiday with your friend.9. Whats the speakers att
7、itude towards writing thank-you cards? A. They think it out-dated. B. They think it inconvenient. C. They think it good to keep the custom.听第四段独白，回答第1012题。10. What does the speaker imply about traffic in big cities? A. Buses are slow, but comfortable. B. Parking in the rush hour is very difficult. C
8、. All the people use private transport instead of public transport.11. What does the speaker recommend to do to improve the situation? A. To enlarge city centers. B. To move to the areas outside the city. C. To make good use of existing space.12. How many aspects of our lives does the speaker mentio
9、n as affected by overcrowding? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.听第五段对话，回答第1315题。13. Why does the man like The Times? A. It has 20 pages every day. B. It carries a lot of sports news. C. It doesnt devote 5 pages every day to baseball results.14. In what way is the jobs section on The Times useful to the loc
10、al people? A. It carries job ads from the local businesses. B. It is the place where local businesses hire people. C. It provides much information about local economy.15. What does the woman think will happen to job ads if The Times closes down? A. The other two newspapers will open a local jobs new
11、spaper. B. The local economy will be much affected but not destroyed. C. The job ads will be carried in either of the other two newspapers.第二节 听取信息(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)听下面一段独白，请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡 标号为1620的空格中。听录音前，你将有10秒钟的阅题时间。录音读两遍，你将有80秒钟的作答时间。语言知识及应用(共两节，满分35分) 第一节 完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读
12、下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2130各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Wouldnt it be great if we didnt have to remember passwords (密码) ever again？If we could just sit in front of our computers and be 21 logged in (登录? Crave mentions how NECSoft BiodeLogon system uses face recognition technology to log you on to Windo
13、ws, rather than using a 22 All you need is a webcam and your pretty face to 23 your PC. No more 24 , confusing passwords to remember or change every few months.After doing a little research, I found this type of 25 already available to consumers via a relatively 26 application called FaceCode. The 2
14、7 requires the use of a webcam to recog- nize and log PC users into their systems. You can add as many 28 as you want, provided they each have a Windows account. If the system 29 to recognize your 30 , you can recall the Windows user name and password by using a hot-key combination.21. A. automatica
15、lly B. personally C. correctly D. occasionally22. A. face B. password C. software D. system23. A. access B. connect C. recognize D. remember24. A. simple B. complicated C. special D. useful25. A. computer B. technology C. password D. application26. A. independent B. infrequent C. inexpensive D. inst
16、ant27. A. account B. consumer C. designer D. software28. A. users B. passwords C. systems D. computers29. A. begins B. tries C. fails D. stops30. A. account B. name C. password D. face第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题15分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l-40的相应位置上。I was o
17、n my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting when my car 31 (break) down near a remote and poor village. Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me were arguing as to 32 should have the honor of
18、 receiving me 33 a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me 34 (settle) into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to 35 small town some 20 kilometres away 36 t
19、here was a garage. I had noticed three hens running free in my hostesss courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table. 37 villagers brought me goats cheese and hone. We drank together and talked 38 (merry) till far into the night. When the time came for me to say goodbye to my
20、friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman 39 the trouble I had caused 40 .阅读(共两节，满分40分)第节 阅渎理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将 该项涂黑。 A How should one invest a sum of money in these clays of inflation (通货膨胀)? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however
21、 high the interest rate. Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market. Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past. Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting anti
22、que clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques. I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life. The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has
23、a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round peoples wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control. This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves. Whether or not we are slaves of time to
24、day depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of clay according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would
25、shout tire time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings. However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time. They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour- glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed, an
26、y serious student of antique should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past. Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap
27、 ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by time, why not invest in air antique clock and perhaps make a future profit?41. According to the passage, collecting antique clocks_.A. can hardly keep the value of your savings B. will cost much of your savingsC. may increase your w
28、ealth D. needs your bravery42. By quoting (引用) the remark of a being from another planet, the author intends to_. A. suggest human beings are controlled by a clock B. describe why clocks can rule the planet Earth C. tell readers what clocks look like D. compare chicks to human beings43. Which of the
29、 following is NOT mentioned as a way to measure the time?A. Counting the beating of ones own heart.B. Making use of candles, sand and water.C. Observing shadows cast by the sun.D. Keeping slaves busy day and night.44. The underlined phrase stately homes in paragraph 4 meansA. state-owned houses B. h
30、ouses in very good conditionC. grand houses open to the public D. houses where statesmen meet regularly45. The purpose of the passage isA. to introduce the culture of antique clocksB. to offer some advice on collecting antique clocksC. to compare different ways to make a future profitD. to explain c
31、onvenient and reliable ways of telling time B Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self- respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as honor help you create this life of good feelings. Heres an example to show how honorable actions c
32、reate happiness. Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerks mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would le
