1、第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）21MrAnderson is popular with his students, for he is kind, strict and knowledgeableNo wonder he has such a good _Aexpectation Bcontribution Creputation Dregulation22The concert we attended last night was really wonderfulYeah, 1 had never been to _Athe best one Ba better on
2、e C, a worse one Dthe worst one23Jane looks excitedShe _ to have passed the driving testAseems Bseemed Chad seemed Dis seeming24How can I get the main idea of a news article quickly?Just look through the first and last paragraph, and you _what it is mainly aboutAsee Bwill see Care seeing Dhave seen2
3、5People dont understand why he quit the job_ he was so well paid in that big companyAif Buntil Conce Dwhen26I was such a disappointmentI lost a game that I shouldnt haveTake it easy_ todayBut bad luck wont always comeAIts just not your day BYou are in a moodCYou are just not yourself DYou are a cold
4、 fish27Between the two tall trees _ a farmhouse, in front of which_ an old man, his eyes closedAlies; is sitting Bstands; sits Cstanding; does sit Dlying; sitting28The statement said five people died at the scene in this accident, while 15 others, their teacher included, were _ dead by the afternoon
5、Aconvinced Bdescribed Csubmitted Dconfirmed29Night had already fallen when we left the stationTired and hungry, we decided to _for the night at a small hotel nearbyAput through Bput down Cput up Dput in30Peter was admitted to a second-class collegeHe_ a top university, but he was addicted to playing
6、 computer gamesAhad entered Bwould enter Cmust have entered Dcould have entered31An important parents meeting _ tomorrow, all the class are busy cleaning the roomAgiven Bto be given Cgiving D to give32MrBob, _ as a manager for many years, found it hard to be an ordinary clerk againAhaving worked Bwo
7、rked Cto have worked Dworking第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）It was a cloudy morning when we left homeI walked alongside my father, clutching his right handAll my clothes were new: the black shoes, the green school uniform, and the red _36_They did not make me happy, 37 as this was the day I was to be th
8、rown into school for the first timeWhen we arrived at the gate we could see the 38 ,vast and full of boys and girlsGo in by yourself, said my father, and join themPut a smile on your face and be a good 39 to others I 40 and clung to his hand, but he 41 pushed me from himBe a man, he said softlyToday
9、 you truly begin lifeYou will find me 42 for you when its time to leaveI look a few stepsThen the faces of the boys and girls came into viewI did not 43 a single one of them, and none of them knew me, eitherI felt I was a stranger who had 44 his wayThen some boys began to glance at me in 45 _The gat
10、e was now closedSome of the children burst into 46 The bell rangA lady came along and led us to a roomThis is your new home, said the womanEverything that is enjoyable and 47 is hereSo dry your tears and 48 life joyfully,Well, it seemed that my misgivings（担忧） had had no basisFrom the first moments I
11、 49 many friends and I had never imagined school would have this 50 variety of experiencesWe played all sorts of games and sang our first songsWe also had our first introduction to languageWe ate 51 food, took a little nap, and woke up lo go on with friendship, playing and learningThe bell rang, 52
12、the passing of the day and the end of workThe children happily_53_ toward the gate, which was opened againI said 54 to friends and teachers and passed 55 the gate, I looked around to find my father, eagerly to tell him that I am a man now36Awatch Btrousers Ccap Dnecklace37Atherefore Bmoreover Cother
13、wise Dhowever38Acourtyard Bclassroom Clibrary DDining-room39Asupporter Bexample Ccolleague Drelative40Ainspected Badopted Chesitated Dcontrolled41 Asadly Bcoldly Croughly Dgently42Acaring Blooking Chunting Dwaiting43A, know Bacquire Crecognize Dinspire44Afound Blost Cfought D, pushed45Asorrow Bsurpr
14、ise Ccuriosity Dterror46Atears Bcrying Claughing Dlaughter47Agrateful Bbeneficial Cskillful Dprotective48Aface Boccupy Csave Dshare49Aidentified Bmade Cdistinguished Dcontacted50Asimple Brare Crich Dmere51Asour Bsalty Cterrible Ddelicious52Aanswering Bannouncing Callowing Dcelebrating53Arushed Bwalk
15、ed Cwandered Dmoved54Alove Bhello Cgoodbye Dpity55Aover Balong Cby Dthrough第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题，每题2分，满分30分）A Harii Jordean, 8, is the worlds youngest CEOFor the past two year, 8-year-old Harii Jordean from Stoke Newington, London, has been selling marbles（弹珠）His successful marble companyMarble King, Sell
16、s all things marble-relatedfrom affordable tubs of the glass playthings to significantly expensive items like Duke of York solitaire tables sourced, proclaimed and processed by the mini-CEO himselfI like having my own companyI like being the boss, Harii told The Mirror With profits now in the thousa
17、nds, the worlds youngest CEO has had to get his mother and older brothers to help him meet the growing demandHarli launched Marble King after swapping marbles at school led to schoolchildren depleting （削减） his marble collectionYes, he literally lost his marbles Harli and his mother, Tina, turned to
18、the Internet to find replacementsHarli saw an empty space online: the marbles he wanted were hard to findWithin months, Harli had his own marble-selling website and orders started pouring inTina says her sons obsession （迷恋） with marbles started when lie was just 6 His obsession became so big we star
19、ted calling him the Marble King, so when he wanted to set up a website it was the natural name for it, she told The SunI never thought it would become so popularwe are struggling to cope with the number of orders at timesThe 8-year-old boy has his sights set on expanding his business and launching h
20、is own brand of marblesSometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bitBut his dream is still to own Britains biggest marble shop and open stores around the world Tina told The Daily MailAt the minute he is annoying me by asking about creating his own Marble King marbles, so that co
21、uld well be the next step for him56Wily did Harlis marble company become popular as soon as he launched it?ABecause it was run by the worlds youngest CEOBBecause it filled the gaps of marble businessCBecause Harli was fascinated with marble collectionDBecause his mother and brothers helped him a lot
22、57How many mass media are mentioned in the passage?AOne BTwo CThree DFour58Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined expression scale back?Amake smaller Bcarry out Cturn down Dfrighten away59What message do the last two paragraphs carry?AConflicts often occur between Harli Jorde
23、an and his familyBHarlis mother and brothers are worried about Marble Kings futureCMarble King marbles will be more popular with marble fans around the worldDThe Marble King has great ambitions for his Marble King CompanyBTravel NoticesNewark/New York /Houston area travel waiverA travel waiver has b
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30、h EasvCheck-in Onlineor mobile check-inIf you find that you are unable to change your reservation online, you may rebook your travel by calling United Reservations or the agency that originally booked your ticketCCanadian concept of space has contributed to the spreading citiesWith no lack of land,
31、their cities tend to grow horizontally, rather than verticallyJust about every house in town has a large grassy lawn and at least four trees: two at the front and two at the backVegetable gardens are optionalAdd the municipally maintained trees that line the streets and you have towns occupying real
32、 forestsLiving in one of the least densely populated countries in the world, the Canadians have their own version of personal spaceA general rule is never to advance closer than one meter to a personBut the distinct concept of how much physical distance you want to have between you and the next pers
33、on may disappear once a friendship has been establishedPeople are not above giving hugs, even between menBut once the physical embrace is concluded, the Canadians return to their conventional distance, that is, only close enough that one does not have to shout in order to be heard,The Canadians are
34、noted for being exceptionally politeA Canadian is quick to apologize even when it is you who unintentionally bumped him in the streetPedestrians in smaller towns have to take care not even to look as if they would like to cross the street since cars are likely to stop and wait for themA woman suffer
35、ing from amnesia （遗忘症） was discovered aimlessly wandering the streets of Los AngelesNot knowing her own identity, police had only one clue: the woman was polite So polite, in fact, they figured she had to be CanadianSure enough, when an all-points bulletin went out across Canada, it turned out that
36、indeed she wasCanadian politeness does not mean formalityThe language etiquette （礼节） in Quebec follows much less formal lines than in France where one would never call a stranger tuTo do so would be like walking up to the Prince of Wales and giving him a hearty slap on the backHowever, me Quebecois
37、appear to consider anyone from the same province a brother or sister and tu their way around the countryside as if they know the entire world on first name terms63How is the first paragraph developed?ABy examples BBy comparison CBy discussion DBy classification64From the passage, we can know that_At
38、he Canadians have the tendency of building high buildingsBthe Canadians never apologize to strangers in the streetCthe physical distance the Canadians accept is one metreDformality is a necessary part of politeness in Canada65By mentioning the woman who suffers from amnesia, the author wants to illu
39、strate thatApolice m Los Angeles are very devoted to their workBpoliteness has become a natural quality of the CanadiansCpeople still remember to be polite even after becoming illDthe USA and Canada maintain a good relationship66After reading the passage, we can infer that in Canada_Apeople always k
40、eep much physical distance between each otherBpeople in Quebec like being informal in their language etiquetteCpedestrians in small towns have to be very careful before they cross the streetDpeoples concept of space has negatively affected the development of their citiesDCLIMATE science is famously
41、complicated, but one useful number to keep in mind is climate sensitivityThis measures the amount of wanning that can eventually be expected to follow a doubling in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 （carbon dioxide）The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change（IPCC）, in its most recent summary of
42、 the science behind its predictions, published in 2007, estimated that, in present conditions, a doubling of CO2 would cause warming of about 3, with uncertainty of about a degree and a half in either directionBut it also says there is a small probability that the true number is much higherSome rece
43、nt studies have suggested that it could be as high as 10If that were true, disaster occursBut a paper published in this weeks Science, by Andreas Schmittner of Oregon State University, suggests it is notIn Dr Schmittners analysis, the climate is less sensitive to CO2 than was fearedExisting studies
44、of climate sensitivity mostly rely on data gathered from weather stations, which go back to roughly 1850Dr Schmittner takes a different approachHis data come from the peak of the most recentice age, between 19,000 and 23,000 years agoHis group is not the first to use such data （ice cores, fossils, m
45、arine sediments and the like） to explore the climates sensitivity to CO2 But their paper is the most thoroughPrevious attempts had considered only small regions of the globeHe has collected enough information to make an attempt at recreating the climate of the entire planetThe result offers the rare
46、st of things in climate science ?a bit of good newsThe groups most likely figure for climate sensitivity is 23, which is more than half a degree lower than the consensus （公认的） figure, with a 66% probability that it lies between 17and 26More importantly, these results suggest an upper limit for clima
47、te sensitivity of around 32Before you take a break and start to celebrate, though, it is worth bearing in mind that this is only one study, and, like all such, it has its shortcomingsAnd although the studys geographical report is the most comprehensive so far for work of this type, there are still b
48、lank areasnotably in Australia, Central Asia, South America and the northern Pacific Ocean67The studies conducted by Dr Schmittners group show that _Athe climate may not be so sensitive to CO2BIPCCs predictions in 2007 are completely wrongCthe geographical report is thorough and perfectDprevious stu
49、dies cover a large regions of the globe68Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?AThe group forecasts disasters will surely occurBThe research will make people feel relaxed and safe-CWeather stations contribute to climate sensitivity studiesDThe group is the first to explo
50、re climates sensitivity69The consensus figure of climates sensitivity is about _A23 B26 C29 D3270What can be the best title for the passage?ANatural Disasters Occur BDisagreement Becomes BiggerCResearch Range Grows DClimate Sensitivity Proves Lower第四部分任务型阅读（共10小题； 每小题1分，满分10分）请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格
51、中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。Eat more， Play moreWeight LessIn the United States, 20 to 40 percent of the adult population have a weight problemTo many people, the cause seems obvious: we eat too muchBut scientific evidence does little to support this ideaSeveral modern studies have
52、 shown that fatter people do not eat more on average than thinner people and that slim people are more active than fat peopleI believe that this shows overweight people can become relatively slim gradually via a progressive program of regular exerciseThe key is regular, enjoyable activityUse of ener
53、gy （calories） by the body falls into two categoriesThe first is energy used for essential bodily functions digestion, heart beat, breathing and BMR （新陈代谢）In an average-sized adult, BMR requires about 1400 calories per dayThe second category is energy used for physical activity standing, walking and
54、all other movementsTogether with the BMR, it makes up total calorie use, which should be balanced by food intake for weight to remain stableFor years now, we have known that dietingespecially severe dieting （400 calories per day, for instance） decreases BMRThis is tlie bodys defense system to keep e
55、nergy when food supply is reducedUnfortunately, it tends to weaken the diets effects by enabling the body to get by on fewer caloriesFor this reason, I believe that severe dieting is not a good way to lose weight, and all dieting should be seen as a temporary measureIn addition to helping weight los
56、s and continued weight control, regular exercise has many other features to recommend itWhile weight loss by dieting alone results in some loss of muscle as well as fat, weight loss by exercise and moderate dieting leads to an increased proportion of muscle massThe regular exerciser has good heart f
57、unction tooRegular exercise helps to raise blood levels of high-density lipoprotein （HDL） and increased exercise leads to increased food intake and thus to increased intake of critical nutrientsThe benefits of eating more because of an increase in physical activity are not widely appreciatedMany peo
58、ple in this country, by actual measurement, have remarkably low calorie intakeOften the amount is so low （1200 to 1800 calories a day） that nutritionists worry about the adequacy of their vitamin and mineral intakeAnd too little food, with inadequate fiber content, leads in the old population to chr
59、onic constipation（长期便秘）To sum up, most Americans still get too little regular exercise, and it is within this group that almost all obesity is foundSevere dieting should not be used as it is unpleasant and tends to be self-defeatingModerate dieting combined with regular exercise is much more effecti
60、ve and enjoyableThe choice is yours: life on the sofa, nibbling celery or the active, robust-eating, healthful wayTitleEat more,Play more-Weight lessCauses of weight problemsIts commonly believed that adults weight problems are due to (71)_ too much,but little scientific evidence (72)_ this idea.Stu
61、dies show that fat people eat less and are (73)_active than slim people.(74)_ of eating enoughEnergy used for essential bodily functions,BMR,and (75)_ activity should be balanced by food intake for weight to remain stable.Food intake offers (76)_ vitamin and mineral intake and prevents the old from
62、chronic constipation.Ways of weight lossDieting alone-a temporary measure. Tending to weaken the diets effects. (77)_ in some loss of muscle as well as fat.Exercising (78)_- a recommended way. Having good heart function. Helping to raise blood levels of HDL. Attaining critical nutrients.(79)_Doing little exercise has much to do with obesity.Severe dieting should be (80)_.Moderate dieting as well as regular exercise is much more effective and enjoyable.限时训练18苏北四市（徐、连、淮、宿）2012届上学期高三期末调研测试
