江苏省泰兴市第三高级中学高三英语 限时训练17.doc

限时训练第一部分：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）21. it is perhaps human nature to love beautiful things, and universe contains many things of beauty, flowers being one of the most outstanding.a. the; the b./; the c. the; /d. /; /22. our english teacher always creates a relaxed atmosphere to keep us _when we make a speech or have a discussion.a. at a loss b. at all costs c. at ease d. at will23. though its economy is speeding fast, chinas average family income is far below of the developed countries.a. eachb. thosec. oned. that24. what is the purpose of this experiment?to figure out whether this material easily under high pressure.a. is broken b. will be broken c. breaks d. broke25. our company _new profit records through technical innovation15%rate of growth in the last two years and 10% this yeara. sets b. has set c. is setting d. has been setting26. the .cultural industry is to the national economy. it is expected to account for 10% of our countrys gdp by 2015.a. valuable b. vaguec. vitald. valid27. constant quarrels between my parents are driving me crazy. if only i a warm and harmonious family.a. haveb. will havec. hadd. had had28. of all the feelings, bodily pain is the most difficult .a. explained b. to explain c. being explained d. to be explained29. we dont know the precise use google-makes of chinese famous works, but its scanning of them without permission is illegal.a. whichb. howc. whend. what30. to our delight, more and more parents are their attention from their childrens academic .scores to their all-round development.a. shiftingb. drawingc. focusingd. paying31. i dont want to repair your car for nothing.you get well paid, as long as you do a good job, i promise you.a. mustb. shouldc. shalld. may32. taking in less fat and doing more exercise will keep you in good .a. shapeb. orderc. statusd. position第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）11-year-old precious thomas is making her way to the front of a conference room in a high school, smiling broadly. the students there have been 36 that the girl is hiv-positive. they are 37 , as if they expected her to look 38 a bit sick.i know many of you are 39 , what could a little girl like her have to say? precious begins. i would like to tell you a story. in her own 40 words, she tells her story.precious was just two weeks old when her mother, a heroin addict, decided she couldnt 41 the child and gave her to a friend, rocky thomas. the birth mother 42 her rights so that rocky and her husband could adopt precious. they were in the process of doing that when the 43 was diagnosed with hiv. the couple adopted her 44.it was the age of aids 45 but rocky, from the first, taught precious about the infection, describing the virus to her as a bad bug. with an early ability of 46 long prayers(祈祷文),poems and bible passages, precious showed off her 47 in churches at just two years old. there, in places where the talk of aids might not 48 have been welcomed, precious began telling audiences about the bad bug in her body.from kindergarten through fourth grade, precious was 49 by a retired teacher with several other neighborhood children. precious attended public school in fifth grade, but her mother 50 her out when some of the kids began 51 her, calling her aids girl. now she is two years ahead of other students her age at the seed public charter school.things are much better now, rocky says. until she was four, she was 52 _ in hospital. sometimes we didnt know 53 she could come back home. these days, precious likes hanging 54 with her best friend, charlotte, and going to dance class. not worrying much about what might happen, she says, i dont even focus on that. im just a(n) 55 11-year-old. life is always enjoyable. 36. a. askedb. orderedc.toldd. noticed37. a. excitedb. surprisedc.interestedd. disappointed38. a. at leastb. at firstc. at mostd. at last39. a. worryingb. discoveringc. admiringd. wondering40. a. tremblingb. thoughtfulc. complicatedd. simple41.a. take onb. care forc. look overd. live on42. a. abandonedb. distributedc. ignoredd. exchanged43. a. husbandb. wifec. b*abyd. student44. a. anywayb. somewhatc. anytimed. sometime45. a. doubtb. protectionc.scared.research46. a. exploringb. memorizingc. explainingd analyzing47. a. figureb. opinionc.couraged. talent48. a. neverthelessb. neverc. moreoverd. otherwise49. a. attendedb. taughtjc. supportedd. treated50. a. pulledb. sentc. pickedd. ruled51. a. trickingb. scoldingc. teasingd. refusing52.a. hardlyb. frequentlyc. totallyd.rarely53. a. whetherb.thatc. howd. why54. a. onb. upc.overd. out55. a. friendlyb. abnormalc. normald. awkward第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）athe cost of raising a child from birth to age 18 is about $ 160,140! that doesnt even touch college tuition. for those with kids, this figure might lead them thinking how much they could have banked. for others, that number might confirm the decision to remain childless.but $ 160,140 isnt so bad if you break it down. it translates into $ 8 896. 66 a year, $ 741. 38 a month, or $171. 08 a week. thats a mere $24. 44 a day! just over a dollar an hour.still, you might think the best financial advice says dont have children if you ever want to be rich. it is not.what do you get for your $ 160,140? naming rights. giggles under the covers every night. more love than your heart can hold. kisses and hugs. endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies. a hand to hold usually covered with jam. a partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, and building sandeastles.for $ 160,140, you never have to grow up! you get to finger-paint, carve pumpkins, play hide-and-seek, and never stop believing in santa claus. you have an excuse to keep reading the adventures of piglet and pooh, watching cartoons , going to disney movies, and wishing on stars.for $ 160,140, you get to be a hero just for taking the training wheels off the bike, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.you get a front row seat to history; to witness the first step, first word, first date, and first time behind the wheel.you get to be immortal(不朽的)you get another branch added to your family tree.you get an education in nursing, criminal justice and communications that no college can match.in the eyes of a child, you rank right up there with god.you have all the power to correct a mistake, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a party, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost.56. which of the following is not true after you have a child?a. you enjoy the right to name your children.b. you never seem to get old.c. you still need to learn.d. you get admiration as a parent.57. by in the eyes of a child, you rank right up there with god, the author intends to say.a. you are powerful next to godb. you are the one your children love and trust mostc. you need to behave like a godd. you keep yourself too far for your children to reach you58. which of the following could be the best title of the passage? a. a dollar, an hour and a child b. children and bankc. money and parentsd. fun and children59. which of the following could be used as the last sentence to end the passage? a. remain childless.b. enjoy raising your children.c. make a bank for your children. d. find a way to be happy.bisrael has passed a law banning the use of underweight models in advertising. known as the photoshop law”, it also requires that agencies tell their audience if theyve digitally changed pictures to make models look thinner.the new law prohibits the use of models with a body mass index of 18. 5 or less, a designation based on internationally accepted measures. the figure matches the set of fixed limits by the u. s. department of health.the law doesnt set a money amount that can be gained in court from such a suit. lawmakers realize that it may be a long and difficult process to prove in court that a company broke the new law, but they feel that simply having the law in place will accomplish what they want; stopping advertising companies from continuing to influence israelis with images of unhealthy-looking models as the gold standard of beauty.some modeling agencies in israel arent happy.they say that the indexes on which the law is based are arbitrary and are not appropriate for every model. many models who are totally healthy girls might be disqualified because of the law. some models are naturally thin and unable to gain weight and the new law would unfairly prevent them from finding jobs.however, plus-size american supermodel emme told cnn that she thinks the law will cause other countries to make similar measures against showing underweight models. i think this is fantastic because so many young women and men are suffering to look in a way that is unrealistic and unhealthy, she said.60. what is photoshop law about?a. banning the use of underweight models.b. banning underweight models in advertising.c. banning changing pictures digitally.d. banning models in advertising.ca unique thermo-solar power station germasolar in southern spain can work even on cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night.it is the first solar power station in the world that works 24 hours a day! this is how it works: the panels reflect the suns rays onto the tower, transmitting energy 1,000 times stronger than that of the suns rays reaching the earth. energy is stored in tanks, and then steam is produced before finally turned into electricity.it is the stations capacity to store plenty of energy that makes gemasolar so different because it allows the plant to transmit power during the night, relying on energy it has gained during the day.helped by the generous state aid, renewable energies have enjoyed a boom in spain, the world number two in solar energy and the biggest wind power producer in europe, ahead of germany.for the gemasolar solar product, foreign investors helped too: torresol energy is a joint enterprise between the spanish engineering group sener, which holds 60 percent, and abu dhabi-financed renewable energy firm masdar.this type of station is expensive, not because of the raw material we use, which is free solar energy, but because of the enormous investment these plants require. the investment cost is over 200 million euros ($ 260 million). but the day when the business has repaid that money to the banks (maybe, in 18 years, someone estimates), this station will become a 1,000-euro note printing machine!for now, the economic crisis has nevertheless cast a shadow over this kind of project: spain is battling to cut its deficit (赤字) as it slides into a difficult time and has cancelled aid to new renewable energy projects.63. which of the following pictures most probably shows how the thermo-solar power station works?64. what is not the reason for this power station being unique?a. it is the first solar power station which costs over 200 million euros.b. it is the first solar power station in the world working around the clock.c. it even works well when it is cloudy.d. its capacity to store energy is large.65. what makes germasolar expensive?a. the cost to build such a station.b. the raw material used.c. the debt owed to the bank.d. being a euro note printing machine.66. what can we learn from the passage?a. spain is building more energy projects.b. the spanish government will aid renewable energy projects.c. the spanish government ignores the development of this project.d. germasolar will make fortunes in the future.dthe art of reading fiction is largely a matter of inferring meanings. to infer means to understand facts which are not directly stated only suggested. inference is one of the commonest ways of knowing things: a child holds his knee and cries; this action implies his feeling; aji observer infers that the child hurt. to infer accurately in everyday life requires caution in observing; to infer skillfully in fiction requires caution in reading; both require disciplined imagination.the short-story reader can expect to find certain basic elements in any story. for example, all stories involve a person or persons, in a particular setting, faced with a demand for a response. the response called for may be a physical action, such as defeating an adversary (对手) or escaping from a danger; or it may be a mental action, such as adjusting to others or within oneself. in either case, the short story is a description in two ways: first, it shows the motives for a given, human action; second, it makes a point about the general human situation. such descriptions, however, rather than being stated directly, usually are implied by the elements of the story.when the reader of a story understands all the facts and their interrelationships, he is ready to infer the significance of the story as a whole its comment on the human situation. this comment, or theme, is the seed from which the story grew. it is also the idea by which all the separate elements of the story are governed, while these in turn further shape and modify the theme. in addition to action, character, and setting, these elements include structure, mood, tone, and point of view.fiction reading requires an awareness of all the ways in which a story communicates. it also requires attention to detail. what the author provides is a network of points which serve as clues to his meaning. he invites the reader to develop the meaning by inference, actually to create much of the story himself and so make it part of his own experience.67. according to the author, infer means.a. knowing facts beyond the statementb. looking for more evidences for the statementc. finding out a different meaning from the statementd. adding some facts to the statement 68. what is inferring in fiction based on?a. readers guessing.b. the basic elements of the story.c. the setting of the story.d. the interrelationships between people in the story.69. what is the implied meaning of the last sentence?a. inferring can really help the reader develop imagination and enrich himself.b inferring can help the reader write a story of his own.c. the reader should look for an experience described in the story he reads.d.the experience described in the story will leave a great impact on its reader.70. what is the main idea of this passage?a. inferring is an art of writing.b. inferring is a need in fiction writing.c. inferring is the basic skill in reading fiction.d. inferring is common in reading.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中的空格里填入一个词。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。aspirinaspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) has been used for many years as a painkiller. it also has an anti-inflammatory (消炎) action and can be used to reduce fever. aspirin is already recommended for people to prevent stroke and heart attack because it improves ones blood circulation. so many people already take daily aspirin as a heart drug. although aspirin can cause deadly internal bleeding, which is relatively rare, its benefits for people are great, not only to help increase the length of peoples lives, but to prevent and treat cancer, or to stop cancer spread according to the latest research.taking a low dose (剂量) of aspirin every day can prevent and possibly even treat cancer, fresh evidence suggests. prof. peter rothwell, from oxford university, and his colleagues, who carried out the latest work, had already linked aspirin with a lower risk of certain cancers, particularly bowel（肠） cancer. but their previous work suggested people needed to take the drug for about 10 years to get any protection. now the protective effect occurs much s