2010届高三英语阅读理解冲刺精练系列29(含解析).doc

2010届高三英语阅读理解冲刺精练系列29（含解析）A Its not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what were doing. I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “Ill pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising wed fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.Email reminds me, of course， of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think Ill want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I dont bookmark; I favoritecoming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun I wasnt really sure whether people said this，but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.In the late 1980s I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like “Ill page you as soon as I know what time were meeting”. They couldnt say it to me, though; 1 refused to have one So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message （either spoken or written）for them on their phoneOr I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I havent heard that verb yet, but Im sure I will soon. Perhaps Ill start using it myself! 1. “Ill pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means . A. it was a firm arrangement B. it was an uncertain arrangement C. the arrangement should be written as a diary D. he prefers a pencil to a pen2. A website address can be easily found if it has been_. A. emailed B. messaged C. favorited D. texted3. Which of the following has not been used as a verb, yet? A. messageB. page C. email D. mobile4. The best title for this passage is_A. New Verbs from Old NounsB. The Development of the English languageC. New Technology and New words D. Technology and Language.BTo many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey（猎物）, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a men cast away on an island of solid rock，totally out of touch and destined to starve to death. So important is the web to an orb-web spiders survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier（憔悴的）， it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands（线）. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider. The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and reuses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactively，labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spiders highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate（无脊推动物）If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed，the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finishes building a normal web. One spider will finish building the incomplete web of another.5. Which of the following best expresses the main ideas of the passage?A. Secrets of Spiders AdaptabilityB. Importance of Webs to SpidersC. Secrets of the Spiders Life D. Spiders Highly Preprogrammed Brain6. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry. B. One Web-building spider usually conducts one web. C. Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs D. Web-building spiders have good eyesight.7. A spider conducts a wider-meshed web when_.A. it is 16 days oldB. it is getting weaker C. it has fewer wendsD. it hunts for food8. A spiders ability to finish an incomplete web proves that_. A. it has a highly preprogrammed brain B. it reuses its web protein to reproduce new silk C. the web is everything for a spiderD. it is able to rebuild a destroyed web1.B 从第二段中作者对他朋友说的话“ You can ink i