2013年广东高考英语试题及答案解析 I
语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从115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。
Number sense is not the ability to
count. It is the ability to recognize a 1
in number. Human
beings are born with this ability.
2 ，experiments show that many
animals are, example, many birds have
good number sense. If a nest has four eggs and you remove one,the bird will not 3
.However,if you remove two, the bird 4 leaves. This
means that the bird knows the 5 between two and three.
Another interesting experiment showed a bird's 6 number sense. A man was trying to
take a photo of a crow(乌鸦)that had a nest in a
tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not 7 until the man
left the tower. The man had an
8 .He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they did not 9
the crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The experiment was 10
with three men and then with four men. But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were 11 .It
was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were 12 able to fool the crow.
How good is a human's number sense? It's not very good. For
example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a 13
when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are 14 fooled.
It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world,and that our human 15 is not much better than a crow's. . rise B.
pattern C. change D. trend
. Importantly C.
Disappointedly D. Fortunately 3. C. hatch D. notice 4. 5．
6．
7. A. relax
D. return
8. A.
appointment C. idea
D. explanation
9. A. fool B. hurt C. catch D. kill . repo
B. repeated C.
designed D. approved .
confused B. gone C. tired D. drunk .