英语卷·2012届陕西省西工大附中高三下学期第二次适应性训练(2012.03).doc

高三英语(2)第一卷（选择题，共95分）第一部分 英语知识运用（共四节，满分55分）第一节 语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。1. country A.basket B. puzzle C. optimisticD. channel2. forget A. concernB. worthyC. surroundD. circulation3. extraordinary A. excuseB. explanationC. existenceD. exhibition 4. designed A.astonishedB.persuadedC. stoppedD. whispered5. pressure A. assessmentB. expression C. address D. possession第二节 情景对话（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。（说明：E涂AB；F涂AC；G涂AD）A. You are lucky to be in such a big city where everything is wonderful. B: I dont think so. _6_A: Why? City life seems to be very interesting and comfortable.B: _7_ You see citizens are obliged to accept an unnatural way of life. They can hardly enjoy sunshine because of tall buildings around their houses. A: Thats terrible. _8_B: Yes, perhaps. But the cost of living is much higher. _9_A: I didnt think of that. Now Id rather live in my village all my life. Would you like to go to the country for a change? B: Great! _10_ A. But working in a big city means much more money without hard work like farming. B. Actually I dont have interest in city life. C. I think country life is as interesting as city life. D. Not really. E. Sometimes people cant make ends meet these years. F. So it is. G. Id love to if Im free. 第三节 语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。11. -May I have a look at the menu for a while? -Of course, _, sir. A. take your time B. enjoy yourself C. it doesnt matter D. dont worry12. -_ you always question everything I say? -Sorry if I make you unhappy; but its my habit to question before I believe. A. Shall B. Will C. Must D. Can13. The falling of the new building _ its soft base. A. resulted in B. resulting from C. leading to D. lay in14. The newly built cafe, the walls of _ painted light green, is really a peaceful place for us, especially after hard work.A. whose B. it C. what D. which15. Everyone knows _ is dangerous to play with fire, but _ is difficult is to prevent children from playing with fire. A. that; it B. it; it C. that; what D. it; what16. -Why not buy the beautiful necklace since you like it so much? -I would but I _ have enough money. A. didnt B. shouldnt C. dont D. hadnt17. -I heard Tom got a good job paying over $8,000 _ month. -Thats right. He gets paid by _ day. A. the; the B. a; the C. the; a D. a; a18. -Have you seen Tony recently？ -No, but I _ dinner with him on Sunday. A. would have B. have had C. have been having D. am having19. The play was popular and every time _ about it, he owed his success to the support of his friends. A. talked B. when talked C. talking D. when talking20. -What do you think of the furniture on exhibition? -Well, great! But I dont think much of _ you bought. A. the one B. it C. which D. that21. He is looking for another job because he feels that nothing he does _ his boss.A. serves B. promises C. satisfies D. supports22. -Is everyone here? -Not yet. Look, there _ the rest of our guests! A. come B. comes C. is coming D. are coming23. _ I admit that the problems are difficult, I dont agree that they cant be solved. A. In caseB. While C. As D. Because24. It is the prevention of disease _ its successful treatment that has led to the rapid increase of the worlds population. A. rather than B. more than C. other than D. less than25. When he _ the door, he found his keys were nowhere. A. would open B. opened C. had opened D. was to open第四节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。I was always complaining about wind or rain. 26 it was nothing unusual for the arrival of wind or rain, it caused inconvenience for me to go out, and sometimes it even created an awful atmosphere, so I 27 it strongly. On a rainy day a meteorologist（气象学家）I met was very 28 at my great anger caused by rain that made a little inconvenience for me. He asked, “Have you ever seen typhoon? Do you know what would happen to the world if there were no typhoon?” I shook my head. I had no 29 of how overwhelming it was when it 30 everything away in its way. “Well, let me tell you,” the meteorologist said. “Without it the 31 of fresh water will be more serious, for it is a great 32 of water supply on earth, Without it, there would be a greater imbalance in the distribution of 33 . The equatorial area that receives the most sunshine on earth 34 entirely on typhoon to disperse（驱散）heat. Without typhoon the tropics would be even 35 while the frigid zones much colder. As a result the temperate zones would 36 from the world.”Ignorance made me 37 . I disliked wind only because it ruffled（吹乱）my hair. I hated rain merely because I had to carry an umbrella. But I had no idea at all that typhoon-something much more violent, something a thousand times more 38 than wind or rain-was a 39 to the existence of mankind. 40 no road on earth goes all the way on level ground, theres no person in the world who can do whatever he pleases. 41 as it is for people to guard against typhoon, it is advisable for a man to stop 42 for a moment before he complains. “ 43 typhoon disappeared all together? What would the world become then?” The 44 will keep him calm and lead him closer to truth-he will be better 45 of the world he lives in. 26. A. But B. Therefore C. Although D. Unless 27. A. refused B. blamed C. punished D. fought 28. A. excited B. puzzled C. encouraged D. delighted 29. A. experience B. sign C. sense D. recognition 30. A. washed B. frightened C. swung D. swept 31. A. shortage B. supply C. amount D. waste 32. A. resource B. power C. strength D. source 33. A. warmth B. energy C. water D. wealth 34. A. holds B. keeps C. moves D. depends 35. A. warmer B. hotter C. cooler D. better 36. A. disappear B. move C. escape D. remove 37. A. farsightedB. out of sight C. in sight D. shortsighted 38. A. appealing B. frightening C. disturbing D. exciting 39. A. trouble B. danger C. must D. lead 40. A. Since B. As C. When D. While 41. A. Impossible B. Wrong C. Hard D. Easy 42. A. thinking B. to think C. to rest D. resting 43. A. How come B. What about C. What if D. Even if 44. A. theories B. answers C. phenomena D. complaints 45. A. careful B. kind C. aware D. tired第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。AAndy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., so commuting(经常往返) to class isnt the problem. But he doesnt like lectures much, isnt a morning person, and wants time during the day to restore motorcycles.So Steele, a full-time senior business major, has been taking as many classes as he can from the South Dakota State systems online offerings. He gets better grades and learns more, he says, and insists he isnt missing out on the college experience.“I still know a lot of people from my first two years living on campus, and I still meet a lot of people,” he says. But now, he sets his own schedule.At least 2.3 million people took some kind of online courses, according to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, and two-thirds of colleges offering “face-to-face” courses also offer online ones. But what were once two different types of classes are looking more and more alike and often falling into the same pool of students.At some schools, online courses originally intended for non-traditional students living far from campus have proved surprisingly popular with on-campus students. A recent study found 42 percent of the students enrolled(登记) in its distance education courses were located on campus at the university that was hosting the online courses.Numbers vary depending on the policies of particular colleges, but other schools also have students mixing and matching online and “face-to-face” credits. Motives range from lifestyle to adapting a job schedule to getting into high-demand courses.Washington State had about 325 on-campus undergraduates taking one or more distance courses last year. As many as 9,000 students took both distance and in-person classes at Arizona State last year.“Business is really about providing choices to their customers, and thats really what we want to do,” said Sheila Aaker, extended services coordinator (协调人) at Black Hills State.Many schools, such as Washington State and Arizona State, let departments and academic units decide who can take an online course. They say students with legitimate academic needs-a conflict with another class, a course they need to graduate that is full-often get permission, though they still must take some key classes in person.46. What is the purpose of the passage? A. To introduce Steele to us, who prefers online courses. B. To tell us about the development of campus courses. C. To show the differences between campus courses and online courses. D. To show more on-campus students are taking online courses.47. We can learn from the passage that Andy Steele _. A. lives far from the campusB. knows none of his classmatesC. wants to have his own lifestyleD. doesnt get good marks48. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. The undergraduates attend the online courses for different purposes.B. It is expected that distance education is popular with on-campus students.C. About 325 on-campus undergraduates took online courses in Washington last year. D. Different colleges have different policies about online courses.49. From what Sheila Aaker said in the passage, we can tell _.A. business is the most popular major in universities B. colleges should provide more majors for studentsC. where the similarity between business and colleges liesD. why colleges offer online courses to on-campus studentsBHave you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle when you are happy.Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However, they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory.Do you know what a “territory” is? A territory is an area that an animal, usually the male, claims as its own. Only he and his family are welcome there. No other families of the same species are welcome. Your yard and house are your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and threaten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away.If so, you have actually scared the stranger away without having to fight him. A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider almost any time, especially at nesting season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a birds song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away.Birds sing loudest in the spring when they are trying to attract a mate and warn others not to enter the territory of theirs.You can see that birds have a language all their own. Most of it has to do with attracting mates and setting up territories.50. According to the passage, most of the time birds singing is actually .A. an expression of happinessB. a way of warningC. an expression of angerD. a way of greeting51. What is a birds “territory”?A. A place where families of other species are not accepted.B. A place where a bird may shout at the top of its voice.C. An area for which birds fight against each other.D. An area which a bird considers to be its own.52. Why do birds keep on singing at nesting season?A. Because they want to invite more friends.B. Because their singing helps frighten outsiders away. C. Because they want to find outsiders around.D. Because their singing helps get rid of their fears.53. How does the writer explain birds singing? A. By comparing birds with human beings. B. By reporting experiment results.C. By describing birds daily life. D. By telling a birds story.C高考资源网 Sirs, Your twelve thousand Smart watches were received by our company this morning. However, we wish to make a number of complaints concerning the serious delay in delivery and your failure to carry out our instructions regard to this order.It was firmly pointed out from the beginning that the delivery date had to be less than six weeks from the original order in order to satisfy our own customers requirements. While we understand that delays in production are occasionally unavoidable, we must point out that the major reason why the order was placed with your company was that we were assured by you of its simplicity, and that your existing stocks were sufficiently high to ensure immediate shipment. Late delivery of the goods has caused us to disappoint several of our most valued customers, and will have an unfavorable effect on future orders.The second complaint concerns the difference in colour between the watches we ordered and those delivered. It was stated clearly in the order that watches in combinations of green/purple and orange/purple only were required. However, only half the watches in the delivery received are of the colours specified. Our Hong Kong agent informed you of the importance of following our instructions exactly, since we consider there to be only a limited market in this country for watches of other colors at the present time. Any watches that are not of the specified colours will, of course, be returned to you.We are also somewhat concerned about the rather poor quality of the goods received, since it is obvious that the watches that finally arrived have been made from not good enough materials and have been produced to a lower standard than those in the sample. We have also found that a number of the watches do not appear to be working. Whether the latter problem is due to poor production, or damage in transportation is not yet clear, but we should like to point out that we feel this matter to be entirely your fault.As a result of the above problems, therefore, we feel that the most suitable course of action is to return to you unpaid any of the goods considered unsatisfactory. We shall also, of course, be forced to reconsider whether any further orders should be placed with your company.We look forward to your early reply.Yours sincerely,John Smith54. The producers of Smart watches were given the order because they promised_.A. the designs were already preparedB. there was enough space for shipmentC. they could produce enough watches quicklyD. they had enough ready-made watches to ship55. The last sentence of paragraph 5 “We shall also, of course, be forced to with your company” suggests that _. A. the company may stop trading with the watch manufacturers. B. the company will probably reduce the number of watches to be ordered in the future. C. the writer is afraid their company might go out of business soon. D. the company is probably willing to give the manufacturers another chance56. The general attitude of the letter is _. A. firm but polite B. angry and impolite C. reasonable but impolite D. regretful and polite DScientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims. The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water showup in peoples hair. “Youre what you eat and drink, and thats recorded in your hair,” said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah. While U.S diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences resultfrom weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move. Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months. Cerlings team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops. They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.“Its not good for pinpointing(精确定位),” Cerling said. “Its good for eliminating many possibilities.”Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about anunidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovere