高三英语12月份百题精练（2）.doc

2012年12月份百题精练（2）英语试题三、阅读理解（共两节，40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项。asince my son is getting ready for first grade, i asked a friend where she shops for school suppliesfor price and convenience, she had a quick answer: schoolpakcomparents can buy items or packaged equipment for all gradesthe generic elementary school-pak for first through fifth graders, for example, is $2328（teachers can also e-mail their grades or schools whole list for a price on customized kits（销售包）shipping（运送）is free for 75 or more kits）teachers thinks highly of educationalwarehousecom for its learning tools and gameseverything from puzzles and puppets to software and chalksclassroomdirectcom has great prices on over 10000 products and a special corner offering even deeper discountspick your lunch box the second-most-difficult back-to-school decision, right after what to wear on the first day, is what kind of lunch box to buyjonas brothers or hannah montana? ariel or elmo? your kids can examine their （and your） lunch boxes at platesplus4kidscom and lunchboxescomtrade in sports toolsmy garage is a tangle（混乱） of bikes and balls, sticks and clubs, so i was excited to find playitagainsportscom - a company that helps you sell quality, name-brand sporting equipmentyoull have to visit one of its 320 stores, located in 46 states and the district of columbia3 sites for savingfeedthepigorgthink about the savings if your kids （and you） stopped buying lunch out every day and brown-bagged（自带午餐）itgoodshopcomsupport your favorite school by shopping at more than 1,000 participating shopsup to 30 percent of every purchase is donatedand youll find hundreds of deals and coupons（优惠券）taxadminorgclick on 2009 state sales tax holidays to see if your state has a tax-free shopping daycheck whats included before going to the store56the passage is mainly aimed at_ aparents bteachers cstudents dbusinessmen57if you want to sell the bikes your children dont use, you can go to _ aeducationalwarehousecom bplayitagainsportscom cfeedthepigorg dtaxadminorg58what does the writer think of picking a lunch box? ait is very easy bit is rather hard cit proves interesting dit seems special59what can be filled in the blank in the first item? ateachers are much wiser bpuzzles and puppets cshops where teachers shop ddevelop your brainsbtanzania tarangire is a national park which lies in tanzaniathe park itself covers an area of around 2,850 square kilometers, making it the sixth largest park of its kind in the countryi recently visited tarangire to see what it was like one of the first sightings upon entering the park which i found was a huge herd（群）of elephants our guide told us that tagrangire was probably the best place in tanzania to find large herds of elephants, and that their population in the park was around 2,500we continued to watch the elephants as they stood under trees and scratched themselves against the trees to hit the spot of an itch（痒处） to the right of the elephant herd, we noticed a big tree! our guide informed us that this was a baobab tree and that they could live for hundreds of yearscompared with this tree, the elephant just looked like dwarfs（侏儒）! we were informed that tarangire was one of the best national parks in africa to see so many baobab trees as we continued our drive through the park, we finally reached a watering holeour guide warned us that there were lions all around usit took us all a while to find them, but there they were! most of them are resting in the shade under brushes, but there was one that was drinking from the watering hole directly in front of uswe then noticed just to our right, there were a couple of fresh zebra corpses（尸体） it seemed as if the lions which were resting had killed them! we were unlucky not to have seen the actual kill, as our guide had mentioned that the zebra corpses were fresh and the kill had occurred within the last hour our final big sighting was one that none of us were expecting to see, even our guide! we pulled over to where there was a large gathering of cars, with a sleeping leopard（美洲豹）there! we took photos happily and excitedly and observed its surprising body before returning to our hotel as it was getting late so, i hope you enjoyed my description of tarangire, and that i have inspired you to add this amazing park to your very own tanzania travel route60which statement is correct about the park? ait covers an area of about 2,580 square kilometers bit is the largest park of its kind in the country ctheir population in the park was around 2,000 dthere are a lot of baobab trees in it61how did the writer travel in tanzania tarangire? aon foot bon horsebackcby car dby bicycle62what did they see when they stopped with some other cars? aa large herd of elephants bsome lions csome zebras da leopard63what does the writer think of his trip in tanzania tarangire? aboring bchallengingcdangerous denjoyablechaving spent five years searching for her older brother, miss lund was unbelievable to think she had been working in the same building for five monthsmrphilips, 33, and miss lund last saw each other almost twenty years ago after their father, also called stephen, 56, lost contact with his son from a previous relationshipmiss lund, only five at that time, moved to india with her father and mother rose, while steven lived with his mother in wolverhapton by the time miss lund and her parents returned to leeds, the family had lost all contact with mrphilipson turning 18, lund started to track down her long-lost half brother, even asking customers at the shop where she workedbut despite checking on internet sites such as friends reunited and myspace, it wasnt until the pair started working together at loop customer management where she went on asking everyone if they knew a stephen philips that she tracked him down in march, 2007 she couldnt believe it when she was told someone by that name worked thereafter she checked on the internet database, it suggested he wasnt her brother as his name steven instead of stephenthen a friend came up to her and said stevens surely her brotherthey checked parents names and it turned out they were relatedshe wanted to scream but they were at work so they just hugged and chatted mrphilips, a father of four children, said he was delighted, adding: “i never thought we would meet againi cant wait to get to know my sisterwe have so much to know”64the relationship between the brother and sister is that_ athey have the same father bthey have the same mother cthey have the same parents dthey are just cousins64how long had the brother and sister been working in the same building before they got to know each other? a5 years b13 years c20 years d5 months66how old may miss lund be now? a5 b18 cabout 23 dabout 2767what made miss lund finally believe mrphilips was her brother? athe names of their parents bhis appearance cher friends advice dtheir talk with each otherdbetty friedan, born in 1921 in peoria, illinois, attended smith college in northhampton, massachusettsshe finished her studies in psychology in 1942after college she attended the university of california at berkeley to continue her studieslater, she moved to new york city and worked as a reporter and editor for labor union newspapersin 1947, betty married carl friedanthey had a child, the first of threewhen betty, friedan became pregnant for the second time, she was dismissed from her job at the newspaper after that she worked as an independent reporter for magazinesbut her editors often rejected her attempts to write about subjects outside the traditional interests of womenin 1966, betty friedan helped found now, the national organization for womenshe served as its first presidentshe led campaigns to end unfair treatment of women seeking jobsshe wanted women to take part in social and political changebetty friedan led a huge demonstration （游行） in new york city for womens rightsdemonstrations were also held in other citiesin 1981, betty friedan wrote a book called the second stage about the condition of the womens movementfriedan wrote that the time for huge demonstrations andother such events had passedshe urged the movement to try to increase its influence on american political lifesome younger members of the movement criticized her as too conservativebetty friedan died on february 4,2006she was considered the mother of modern womens liberation movementbetty friedan once told a television reporter how she wanted to be remembered: she helps make women feel better about being women68betty led a huge demonstration to _afight against the government bfight for womens rightsctake part in political life dget support from the government69the book the second stage_ awas popular among young women readersbthought highly o