1、2011年高一英语上学期25分钟限时阅读天天练第12天I完形填空（30分）ks5uOn a Friday 1 , a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. The music was 2 , and many people 3 and put some money into the 4 of the young man.The next night, the young artist took out a large piece of 5 and laid it on the
2、 ground. Then he began 6 . The music sounded more pleasant. Some people gathered and they found the 7 on that paper. “Last night, a gentleman put a(n) 8 thing into my hat. Please come to get it back.” When the people saw that, they felt very curious and began to 9 what it could be. After about half
3、an hour, a man 10 there in a hurry and said, “It cant be true！You .you .”The young violinist asked, “Did you 11 something?”“Lottery (彩票).”the man answered 12 . ks5uThe violinist took out a lottery ticket. “Is it？” he asked. The man was too 13 to say a word .George Sang 14 a lottery ticket a few days
4、 ago. The awards(奖)opened yesterday and he won $500,000. So lucky and excited did he feel that he 15 50 dollars and put it in the hat when hearing the music. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown into the hat without being noticed. The violinist found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owne
5、r would 16 to look for it, he came back to where he was given the lottery ticket. ks5uSomeone asked the violinist 17 he returned the lottery ticket to the man. He said, “ 18 I dont have much 19 , I live happily; but if I lose 20 I wont be happy forever.”1. A. morning B. afternoon C. noon D. night2.
6、A. quiet B. beautiful C. familiar D. exciting3. A. slowed down B. speeded up C. passed by D. went away4. A. wallet B. bag C. hat D. box5. A. paper B. glass C. plastic D. cloth6. A. working B. waiting C. singing D. playing7. A. poems B. articles C. words D. texts8. A. important B. fantastic C. danger
7、ous D. interesting9. A. argue B. care C. expect D. guess10. A. came B. rushed C. walked D. left11. A. get B. find C. forget D. lose12. A. quickly B. anxiously C. seriously D. carefully13. A. confused B. anxiously C. excited D. surprised14. A. bought B. made C. found D. sold15. A. handed out B. took
8、out C. hunted for D. picked up16. A. forget B. remember C. return D. picked up17. A. where B. why C. when D. how18. A. If B. While C. Because D. Although19. A. money B. food C. time D. luck20. A. friendship B. hope C. love D. honestyII阅读理解（10分）ks5uAWhy do men die earlier than women? The latest resea
9、rch makes it known that the reason could be that mens hearts go into rapid decline（下降） when they reach middle age.The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that womens longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age. “We have fou
10、nd that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of thos
11、e cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old womans heart coas well as a 20-year-old ones.“This gender（ 性） difference might just explain wh
12、y women live longer than men,” said Goldspink. They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove（消除）the confusing influence of disease. “The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart,” said Goldspink.The
13、 good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular （规律的）exercise. Goldspink stressed （强调）that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age. 21. The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to（指
14、的是） “_”.A. health B. long life C. ageing D. effect22. The text mainly talks about _.ks5uA. mens heart cells B. womens ageing process、C. the gender difference D. hearts and long life23. According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _.A. women have more cells than men when they are bornB. w
15、omen can replace the cells that enable the heart to beatC. the female heart loses few of the cells with ageD. women never lose their pump power with age24. If you want to live longer, you should _.A. enable your heart to beat much faster B. find out the reason for ageingC. exercise regularly to keep
16、 your heart healthy D. prevent your cells from being lost25. We can know from the passage（文章 ）that _.ks5uA. the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found outB. scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cellsC. the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater lossD. women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20语言知识点滴积累ks5u New words _ New phrasesks5u_ New sentences_ 完型1-5 DBACA 6-10 DCADB 11-15 DBCAB 16-20 CBDAD 阅读：21-25 B D C C B
