3月份高三英语百题精练（1）.doc

2014年3月份百题精练（1）英语试题第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。aa policeman was questioning 3 blondes who were training to become detectives to test their skills in recognizing a suspect, he shows the first blonde a picture for5 seconds and then hides it“this is your suspect, how would you recognize him?the first blonde answers, thats easy, well catch him fast because he only has one eye! the policeman says, welluhthats because the picture shows his profileslightly confused by this ridiculous response, he flashes the picture for 5 seconds at the second blonde and asks her, this is your suspect, how would you recognize him?the second blonde giggles, flips her hair and says, ha! hed be too easy to catch because he only has one ear!the policeman angrily responds, whats the matter with you two? of course only one eye and one ear are showing because its a picture of his profile! is that the best answer you can come up with?extremely frustrated at this point, he shows the picture to the third blonde and in a very testy voice asks this is your suspect, how would you recognize him? he quickly adds, think hard before giving me a stupid answerthe blonde looks at the picture intently for a moment and says, hmmmmthe suspect wears contact lensesthe policeman is surprised and speechless because he really doesnt know himself if the suspect wears contacts or not well, thats an interesting answerwait here for a few minutes while i check his file and ill get back to you on that he leaves the room and goes to his office, checks the suspects file in his computer, and comes back with a beaming smile on his face wow! i cant believe itits true! the suspect does in fact wear contact lenses good work! how were you able to make such an acute observation?thats easy, the blonde replied he cant wear regular glasses because he only has one eye and one ear51 why did the policeman show a picture to the three blondes?a to inquire about their relationship with the suspectb to test their potential of being detectivesc to train them as qualified police officers d to show the skills in recognizing a suspect52 whats the policemans attitude towards the first blondes answer?a angry b puzzled c embarrassedd satisfied53 what did the second blonde think of the task?a demanding b easy c ridiculous d confusing54 how did the third blonde know that the suspect wore contact lenses?a by coincidence b by random guessc by logical and reasonable analysisd by checking the file in the computerbwhen i look back on my childhood i wonder how i survived at all it was, of course, a miserable childhood the happy childhood is hardly worth your while worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable irish catholic childhood that was frank mccourt reading the opening lines of his book angelas ashes, released in nineteen ninety-sixthis irish american author best known for the pulitzer prize-winning autobiography angelas ashes that recorded his poor upbringing, died of cancer on sunday, the new york times reported he was 78born in new york city, he was the eldest of seven children born to irish immigrant parents angelas ashes was a memoir that captured an irresponsible, drunkard father with a gift for story-telling when not drunk, his father was absent, turning his back on a family so poor, mccourt wrote, that they were reduced to burning the furniture in their rented hut to keep warm his mother struggled to raise her many children after his father left the familyalready struggling when the great depression hit, the family moved back to limerick, where they slipped ever deeper into poverty in the 1930s three of mccourts siblings died of diseases worsened by hunger and the wretchedness of their surroundings mccourt himself almost died of typhoid（伤寒的） fever as a childin angelas ashes, he wrote of hunger, a home flooded with rainwater and the unbearable humiliation of seeking handouts from charities in the irish city but he told the story in a way that is expressive, warm and light-heartedfrank mccourt left ireland at the age of nineteen to return to new york city where he was born he earned a degree in- english education and taught creative writing for nearly thirty years after retiring in nineteen eighty-seven, he decided to write about his childhood angelas ashes became a huge success and brought mccourt a 1997 pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award and other honors millions of copies of the book were sold worldwide and it was adapted into a 1999 movie starring emily watson and robert carlyle55 whats the text mainly about?a a brief introduction to frank mccourt and one of his worksb a literary review on frank mccourts book angelas ashesc an account of frank mccourts miserable childhood.d a comment on frank mccourts life experience 56 by saying the happy childhood is hardly worth your while, the writer really means that a a lot of readers dont deserve happy childhoodb his childhood is not worth of others sympathyc his childhood is mixed with happiness and miseryd smooth childhood surely will not draw readers attention57 from the passage, we know frank mccourts father is a humorous and trustworthy b alcohol-addicted but loves his familyc poor but warm-hearted d irresponsible but gifted in telling stories58 what does the underlined word handouts mean in the 6th paragraph?a reliefs b compensationsc leaflets d teaching materialscresearchers at yale, texas a&m and boston university predict that by 2030 urban areas will expand by more than 463,000 square miles, or l2 million square kilometers that is equal to 20,000 american football fields becoming urban every day for the first three decades of this centurythe growth in urban areas will go with the construction of roads and buildings, water and sanitation facilities, and energy and transport systems that will transform land cover and cities globally recent estimates suggest that between $25 trillion（万亿） and $30 trillion will be spent on infrastructure（基础设施） worldwide by 2030, with $100 billion a year in china aloneconsidering the long life and near unavoidability of infrastructure investments, it will be critical for current urbanization-related policies to consider their lasting impacts, said karen seto, lead author of the study we have a huge opportunity to shape how cities develop and their environmental impactsnearly half of the increase in high-probability -defined as greater than 75 percent - urban expansion is forecasted to occur in asia, with china and india absorbing 55 percent of the regional total in china, urban- expansion is expected to create a l,l00-mile coastal urban corridor from hangzhou to shenyang in india, urban expansion will be gathered around seven state capital cities, with large areas of low-probability growth forecasted for the himalaya region where many small villages and towns currently exist africas urban land cover will grow the fastest, at 590 percent above the 2000 level of 16,000 square miles urban expansion win be concentrated in that continents five regions: the nile river in egypt; the coast of west africa on the gulf of guinea; the northern shores of lake victoria in kenya and uganda and extending into rwanda and burundi; the kano region in northern nigeria; and greater addis ababa, ethiopiaurban expansion is concentrated in only a few areas where there are large cities and industry, said seto from the northern shore of lake victoria down to rwanda is also a major hotspot of urban expansionin north america, where 78 percent of the total population lives in urban areas, urban land cover will nearly double by 96,000 square miles by 2030the study also forecasts that 48 of the 221 countries in the study will experience insignificant amounts of urban expansion 59 as for china, the expansion of urban area means a $ 100 billion will be spent on infrastructure a yearb creating a coastal urban corridor from hangzhou to qingdaoc it will become the fastest developing country in the next decaded it will make up 55% of the increase in urban expansion in asia60 according to the passage infrastructure doesnt include a construction of roads b sanitation facilitiesc energy systems d land cover transformation61in paragraph three the underlined word “their lasting impacts” refers to the impacts of .athe development of cities burbanization-related policiescinfrastructure in vestmentsdchinas expansion of urban area 62 the best title for this passage should be .athe limitation of urban expansionbmore investment on infrastructurec the fast development of the third worldd the future urban expansion of the worlddit is one of the few bright spots in the chinese economy, says zeng ming he is talking about e-commerce mr zeng, the chief strategy officer for alibaba, a giant chinese internet firm, predicts that digital transactions on his firms platforms will top l trillion yuan （$159 billion） this year-more than amazons and ebays combined that is a bold claim, but consider what happened on singles sundayinvented a few years ago by students and seized upon by digital marketers, this festival for lonely hearts falls annually on the llth day of the llth month （since l is the loneliest number）it is like st valentines day, only worse singletons shower each other with tender gifts: a barrage of pearls; a storm of sweetsthis november llth they spent a surprising 19 billion yuan on alibabas online platforms-a fourfold increase on a year ago, and more than double what americans spent online last cyber monday （the monday after thanksgiving, when retailers urge americans to shop online） about 100m purchases were logged, accounting for 80% of the packages shipped that day couriers（怏递员） were buried in parcelsso life is good for chinas e-tailers, then? not exactly the number of digital marketers is increasing and online sales are booming consumers are enjoying lower prices, better service and more variety the problem? the pressure on profits in chinese e-commerce is worse than in america, reckons elinor leung of clsa, a broker almost no one makes money, she says the fiercest battles are being fought between online retailers and their bricks-and-mortar（实体的） rivalsdangdang, a firm that resembles amazon,and 360buy, another online retailer, have cut prices fiercely tencent, a cash-rich online giant known for its instant-messaging software, is splashing out to win market share 360buy has also just raised $400m from investors to do the same but it is unclear how much longer such firms can burn through capital63 whats the best title of this passage?athe ambition of alibaba b fierce competition between retailersc a newly sprung festival for the singles d chinese booming and developing e-commerce64 according to zeng ming, this year alibaba will a outweigh amazon and ebay in worldwide influenceb rank top among all the internet firms c have more than 159 billion dollars sale d create another sales miracle just like the one on singles day65 how many packages were shipped on november ll th from alibabas online platforms?a about 80 million b about 100 millionc about 125 million c about 180 million66 whats the authors attitude towards online retailers in china?a optimistic b concernedc sympathetic d indifferentenicole delian, 17, suffers from a condition that makes her sleep up to 19 hours a day and as much as 64 days in a row nicole delian is tired of sleepingthis 17-year-old teenager from north fayette, pa, has a rare condition called kleine-levin syndrome - or sleeping beauty syndrome - that makes her sleep 18 to 19 hours a dayand when she does wake up, she is often so tired out that she is in a sleepwalking state and doesnt remember doing basic things like eating, according to kdka-tvnicoles sleepwalking state has been so severe that she once slept through the holidays, awaking one day in january when she finally opened christmas gifts alongside her family, according to chartiersvalleypatchcom shes never really adjusted to it, her mother, vicki delien told the website shes 17 now and it really upsets her shes missed out on a lot delien told talk show host jeff probst that the teen has at times slept 32 to 64 days in a row, waking only in sleepwalking mode to eatkleine-levin syndrome is incredibly rare, only affecting about l,000 people worldwide, and very hard to diagnosein nicoles case, it took 25 months for doctors to diagnose her, according to chartiersvalleypatchcom, and everything from a virus, to epilepsy（癫痫） to west nile was mentioned, including, unfortunately, the possibility she was faking it for attentionwhen a typical episode of sleeping beauty syndrome begins, the patient becomes progressively drowsy（昏昏欲睡的） and sleeps for most of the day and night, waking only to eat or go to the bathroom, according to the klein-levin syndrome foundation website when awake, the patients whole behavior is changed, often appearing “stupid or childlike when awake he experiences confusion, complete lack of energy, and lack of emotionspatients also report that everythi