高三英语二轮精品卷语法填空和完形填空（8）.doc

2014届高三英语二轮精品卷：语法填空和完形填空（8）iigrammar and vocabularysection adirections: after reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. for the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks,use one word that best fits each blank.aevery summer, penny travels to a family reunion barbeque. penny is never excited, and this year is no different. she is afraid of the drive.she does not like talking to her relatives. and she does not like the smell of hamburgers. (penny is a vegetarian.)(25) _ penny arrives, she sees lots of familiar faces. it is july and uncle vernon (26) _ (wear) a sweater. uncle vernon is always cold. its very mysterious.she sees her cousin polly. polly has six children. the youngest one screams. then the oldest one screams. pollys children are always screaming.she sees many of her other cousins in the field (27) _ (play) softball. they play a softball game every year, (28) _ always ends up in a big argument. penny wonders, again, why they never solve it.then penny sees an incredibly handsome man. she stares at him. he catches her staring. he smiles and walks (29) _ to her. penny is very nervous. she is nervous because a handsome man is walking to her and she is nervous because this handsome man might be her cousin.the man sticks out his hand, (30)_ (say), “hi, im paul.”“hi, im penny,” penny says. “are we related?”paul laughs. “no, we are not related. i am vernons nurse. he is sick and needs (31) _ (keep) me close by. but he did not want to miss this barbeque!”“oh, thank goodness,” penny says and then blushes. penny always blushes when she is nervous, embarrassed, or hot, and right now she is all three.handsome paul laughs and says, “would you like to go get a hamburger with me? (32) _ smell delicious.”penny smiles, “sure. i love hamburgers!”bbeware first-class travelers! passengers sitting in the rear of a plane have the best chance of survival in an event of a crash, an extraordinary and costly aviation（航空，飞行）experiment ever (33) _ (conduct) has revealed.in a unique aviation experiment recently, the 170-seat-boeing 727 was made（34）_ _ (crash) in a controlled manner in a remote part of mexicos sonoran desert. after pilot james slocum jumped out of the plane at 2,500ft, the jet（35）_ (guide) into the ground by a pilot in a following cessna via a remote-control device, the reporters reported. on board of the jet were three advanced crash-test dummies（假人）designed to move (36)_ humans.they were arranged in three positions: one in the classic brace and wearing a seat-belt; one belted but not in the brace position; and one（37）_ belted nor in the brace. after the jet hit the ground nose-first, experts found that the dummy in the brace position would have survived the impact, (38) _ one not in the brace would have suffered serious head injuries, and the dummy not wearing a seat-belt would have “died”.using this, experts predicted that 78 percent of passengers on board would have survived the impact,（39）_ all the first-class travelers would have died because the front of the fuselage（机身）broke apart when the plane comes down nose first. those sitting at the back would have had the（40）_ (good) chance of survival.section bdirections: complete the following passage by using the words in the boxeach word can only be used oncenote that there is one word more than you needa. value b. shape c. designed d. understanding e. importantly f. economists g. response h. vast i. connected j. major k. amazinglythirteen years after the launch of taobao, china has risen to become the worlds second busiest online marketplace, behind only the united states. this is the kind of statistic that 41 love, but it doesnt really tell us anything about why so many people like to buy so many things online.is it because its easy? is it because of the 42 selection? is it because we want to feel 43 to others without leaving the house?taobao was in fact a 44 to ebays entrance into the chinese market in 2003. jack ma (马云) knew that he knew china better than the americans did, and that taobao could beat ebay at its own game here. he was right, and jack ma has helped to 45 the nature of online commerce in chinawhat it looks like, how it works, and, most 46 , who its users are.taobaos aesthetic (美学) is distinctive, and has influenced and inspired competitors in china and around the world. the way it works is also different from other 47 online retailers (零售店) . but the real genius of taobao lies in its 48 of its users. what it looks like and how it works, after all, were 49 with the users in mind: a young, increasingly “connected” and increasingly wealthy chinese generation.when they designed taobao, jack ma and his team realized that many young people in china strongly 50 social interaction with their peers, so they made such interactioneverything from messaging to live chats to recommendations and reviewsa core part of the taobao shopping experience. iii. reading comprehension section a directions: for each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked a, b, c and d. fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.when we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones-the kind of modern, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazinesbut the us has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be incredibly 51 to tear them all down and 52 them with greener versionsan enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those housesand it would take an average of 65 years for the 53 carbon emissions (排放) from a(an) _54 _ energy-efficient (节能) home to make up for the 55 lost by destroying an old oneso in the broadest sense, the greenest home is the one that has already been builtbut at the same time, 56 half of us carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and powering our 57 , offices and other buildingsyou cant deal with climate 58 without dealing with existing buildings, says richard moe, the president of the national trustwith some exceptions, the oldest homes tend to be the 59 energy-efficienthouses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that 60 over time and let in more outside 61 . 62 , there are a vast number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from 63 ones like lincolns cottage to your own postwar homeand efficiency upgrades (升级) can save more than just the earth; they can help 64 property owners from rising power 65 .51.a. terri