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45分钟限时精练(八)注意事项:1. 答题前,考生务必将学校、班级、姓名写在密封线内。2. 请将选择题的答案根据老师批改需要填写在试卷第2页所附的答题栏内。一、 完形填空human beings enjoy challenges. many of them like physical challenges. they ask themselves 1 like these: how fast can i run? how high can i climb? how deep can i dive? how far can i swim? how long can i hold my 2?how much can i lift? how high can i jump? because people enjoy challenges, they like to play 3 and watch other people play sports. they like climbing, running, diving, lifting, jumping, and so on. every four 4 millions of people all over the world enjoy the international sports 5 called olympics. there are challenges that are not physical challenges. there are social and intellectual challenges, too. leonardo da vinci, who 6 in italy during the 15th century, enjoyed every possible challenge. he was a(n) 7 and painted the well-known picture, the mona lisa. he was an engineer who made 8 for a city with roads under the street for traffic. he was an inventor who invented a device to let people 9 under water. he was a scientist, and he learnt a great deal about human structure. another kind of challenge 10 the egyptians between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago when they decided to build the great pyramid. they 11 six million tons of rock. that is enough to build a foot wall around all of france. four hundred thousand men 12 for twenty years to build it. so, for thousands of years, people 13 challenges. today we still have many challenges before us. medical science faces the challenges of conquering many 14 which still attack human beings. engineers and planners must build new cities and new kinds of 15. ()1. a. answersb. questionsc. ordersd. hates()2. a. airb. belowc. heatd. breath()3. a. cardsb. chessesc. sportsd. exercises()4. a. yearsb. weeksc. monthsd. decades()5. a. quizb. contestc. competitiond. fight()6. a. stayedb. studiedc. workedd. lived()7. a. carpenterb. artistc. actord. explorer()8. a. adviceb. suggestionc. plansd. decision()9. a. swimb. floatc. taked. breathe()10. a. welcomedb. facedc. introducedd. invited()11. a. usedb. wastedc. spentd. cost()12. a. livedb. lastedc. insistedd. worked()13. a. refusedb. receivedc. acceptedd. considered()14. a. disastersb. diseasesc. droughtsd. memories()15. a. farmsb. schoolsc. transportationsd. museums二、 语法填空a us father has named his son after a computer software term(术语). jon blake cusack, from mocjogam, told the local newspapers the us traditional way of adding “junior” 16 “” after a boys name was too common. so, when his son was born last week, he decided on the name jon blake cusack 2.0, as if he were an upgraded software, which would leave a deep impression on 17 heard the name. mr cusack admitted that it took months to persuade his wife, jamie, 18 university teacher, to accept the idea. mrs cusack said she asked several friends whether they could accept this name. all the men, she said, 19(feel) the name was “cool”. however, her women friends did not think so. “20 think the women will end up liking it,” she said. mr cusack told the local newspaper he got the idea from a film called the legend of 1900, 21 an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to remember the year of 22 birth. “i thought that if they could do it, why couldnt we?” he stressed 23(repeat). after little jon version 2.0 was born, mr cusack even sent a celebratory email to the family and friends 24(design) to look as though he and his wife had created a new software. “i wrote things 25 there are a lot of new features from version 1.0 with additional features from jamie,” he said. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 三、 阅读理解athis week, spacex successfully launched its falcon 9 rocket from cape canaveral in florida. the launch vehicle and its reusable dragon capsule were carrying supplies for the international space station. the national aeronautics and space administration(国家航空航天局) is turning to private companies to provide services like bringing supplies to the space station.nasa official bill gerstenmaier spoke to reporters after the launch. he said nasa has already signed agreements with spacex for the companys services. “weve already begun the contract for twelve flights with spacex going forward under commercial resupply services and those are already in place,” says bill gerstenmaier. the contract is worth 1.6 billion dollars. mister gerstenmaier said the united states no longer pays russia to carry out such operations.the headquarters of spacex lie in hawthorne, california. elon musk started the company in 2002. but, it is not the first company founded by the south african-born businessman. he also started the internet payment service, paypal, which is now owned by online auction(拍卖) store, ebay. his other company, tesla motors, makes electric cars.speaking to reporters, mister musk likened(比喻) space travel to where internet technology was in the 1990s. at that time, businesses were just starting to think about how to sell goods and services on the world wide web. today, billions of dollars in goods and services are sold online. but after the launch, elon musk tried to keep his attention on the job at hand.elon musk: “well, i think right now our focus is very much on serving the international space station with cargo(货物) and then to crew and then advancing the state of our rocket technology.i think the critical breakthrough in rocket technology is to make full and rapidly reusable rocket.”the dragon capsule is designed to be able to carry both astronauts and cargo. spacex says it has forty launches planned over the next few years and contracts worth four billion dollars. it says sixty percent of its upcoming flights are for businesses, not the government.()26. the best title of the passage may probably be . a. spacex is doing business in spaceb. the us no longer pays russiac. the breakthrough in space rocketd. private companies matter in space()27. the resupplies of the international space station used to be carried out by . a. the usb. russiac. africad. spacex()28. from the passage, we can learn that spacex . a. is the first company by elon muskb. is based in hawthorne, californiac. will turn to the governmentd. has completed forty launches()29. by comparing space travel to internet technology in the 1990s, elon musk really meant . a. the way goods and services are sold has changed a lotb. space travel is bound to have a bright futurec. nothing is impossible with a big heartd. space travel has a long way to go()30. according to elon musk, spacex focus finally on . a. carrying both astronauts and cargob. making full and rapidly reusable rocketc. improving the dragon capsuled. getting contracts worth more from the governmentbwhen dr harveen kaur sidhu travels from her home in a neighborhood of the north-western indian city of chandigarh, she always carries her gun in her bag. the gun is a new purchase-sidhu got her license only a year ago-but now the 33-year-old dentist wont travel without it.“i dont have faith in the police to protect me. there are so many attacks on women these days. its everybodys right to defend themselves,” sidhu said. she is not alone. a growing number of well-off, educated indian women are turning to firearms for protection. there are estimated to be 40 million guns in india, the second highest number in the world after the us. licenses are hard to obtain and most are illegal weapons. ownership levels per person remain low-three guns for every 100 people in india-but there is strong evidence that middle-class interest in firearms is rising fast.one sign is the emergence of groups such as the national association for gun rights india, founded in 2009, which asks for fewer restrictions on ownership of firearms. “we are looking at it as a way to protect ourselves,” said rakshit sharma, the groups secretary general. his group, he said, receives “many inquiries from women who want to know how to obtain a gun and stay within the law”.the local taste for conspicuous(挥霍性的) consumption has also boosted sales. “people buy weapons, 10% for security and 90% for status. people will happily spend 80,000 rupees(9,600) on a foreign-made handgun,” said satish kumar, a gunseller in chandigarh.kumar said only one in 50 purchases were made by women but the number was rising. the phenomenon may in part be a response to the failure of the state to inspire confidence among many middle-class indians, particularly women. almost all women interviewed by the guardian said they felt an increased level of threat.“there are so many incidents, especially in delhi. women who are working or who are travelling should definitely have a gun,” said sidhu. she explained that changing lifestyles were making women more vulnerable(脆弱的), particularly single women working or coming home late at night.()31. what message is mainly expressed in the passage?a. indian women take up firearms. b. guns have become a must in india.c. a new way to seek for protection. d. the increasing crimes in india.()32. according to the second paragraph, we can know . a. the indian police fail to protect womenb. sidhu never travels from home while alonec. badly-off indian wom