限时训练四.doc

2012-2013高三英语限时训练（四）一、完形填空（时间：10分钟）For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 1 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 2 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 3 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 4 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency 5 in the actual stuff of language itself words. Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 6 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） to 7 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 8 down the speed of reading is vocalization sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 9 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined（预先确定的） speedThe bar is set at a slightly faster rate 10 the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, 11 word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization（默读）practically impossible. At first 12 is sacrificed for speedBut when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found 13 reading skill drastically improved after some training . 14 Charlie Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 128 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can 15 a lot more reading material in a short period of time. ( ) 1 Aapplying Bdoing Coffering Dgetting( ) 2 Aquickly Beasily Croughly Ddecidedly( ) 3 Agood Bcurious Cpoor Durgent( ) 4 Atraining Bhabits Csituations Dcustom ( )5 Alies Bcombines Ctouches Dinvolves( )6 AFortunately BIn factCLogically DUnfortunately( ) 7 Areuse Breread Crewrite Drecite( )8Ascales Bcuts Cslows Dmeasures( ) 9Aaccelerator Bactor Camplifier Dobserver( )10Athen Bas Cbeyond Dthan( )11Aenabling Bleading Cmaking Dindicating( )12Ameaning Bcomprehension Cgist Dregression( )13Aour Byour Ctheir Dsuch a( )14ALook at BTake CMake DConsider( )15Amaster Bgo overCpresent Dget through二、语法填空（时间：8分钟）We are all busy talking about and_1_(use) the Internet, but how many of us know_2_history of the Internet?Many people are_3_(surprise) when they find that the Internet was not set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large_4_expensive. Computer networks didnt work well. If one computer in the network broke_5_, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information could be sent_6_another part. In this way the computer network system would keep on_7_(work) all the time.The Internet was only used by the government in the 1960s, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too._8_, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing” the Internet more_9_(convenience).Today it is easy to get online and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day._10_(send) emails is more and more popular among students.The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of peoples life.三、阅读理解（时间：10分钟） AParents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do，and home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready made; washing can go to the laundry; food can be bought; cooked，canned or preserved; bread is baked and delivered by the baker; milk arrives on the doorstep; meats can be had at the restaurant，the works canteen，and the school dining-room.It is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home，and his children rarely，if ever，see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their fathers occupation，and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money，and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence. In textile areas it has long been customary for mothers to go out to work，but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a childs home life，the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years. With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. When mother works, economic advantages accrue，but children lose something of great value if mothers employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from school.( )41. The writer mentions home as workshop because_.A. fathers often pursue employment at homeB. parents had to make food and necessity themselves for their daily-lifeC. many families produce goods at home for saleD. both fathers and mothers and mothers in most families are workers( )42. The writer says that home has become much less of a workshop. He means_.A. in the past, home was more like a workshopB. home is much more of a workshop nowC. home-workshops are becoming fewer and fewerD. home was less like a workshop in the past( )43.The word “accrue” in the sentence “When mother.accrue,”is closest in meaning to _.A. changeB. dwindleC. doubleD. increase( )44. The chief reason that boys are