2012届高三英语12月份百题精练（2）

用心 爱心 专心 1 20112011 年年 1212 月份百题精练 月份百题精练 2 2 英语试题 英语试题 第三部分 阅读理解 共 20 小题 每题 2 分 满分 40 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 并在答题 卡上将该项涂黑 A When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah he happened to live near a copper smelter 炼铜厂 and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to he a beautiful forest One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area Paul knocked him down From then on something happened inside him Years later Paul was back in the area and he went to the smelter office He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back The answer from that big industry was No Paul then went to college to study the science of plants Unfortunately his teachers said there weren t any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds It would be a waste of his life to try to do it Everyone knew that he was told Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected he wouldn t get his idea accepted Paul later got married and had some kids But his dream would not die And then one night he did what he could with what he had As Samuel Johnson wrote It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote Attainable good is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges Under the cover of darkness he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting And every week he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass For fifteen years he did this against the plain common sense Slowly rabbits appeared Later as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has It took him until his hair turned white but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child 51 When Paul was a boy A he had decided never to leave his hometown B the economy of Utah depended wholly on the copper smelter C no laws were made to protect the environment against pollution D he had determined to stop the copper smelter polluting the area 52 Why did Paul go to college to study the science of plants A He wanted to find out the best way to save the area himself B He was interested in planting trees since he was young C He wanted to get more knowledgeable people to help him D He thought his knowledge would make his advice more persuasive 53 The underlined phrase the plain common sense probable means that 用心 爱心 专心 2 A It was impossible for trees to grow on the wasteland B His normal work and life would be greatly affected C No one would like to join him in the efforts D He had to keep everything he did secret 54 The message of the passage is that A action speaks louder than words B perseverance will work wonders C God helps those who help themselves D many hands make light work B STEVE Wayne 16 who worked this summer as a lifeguard and swim teacher in Idaho Falls was thrilled to see an extra 20 in his paycheck when the federal minimum wage increased in July When you re getting paid minimum wage anything helps Wayne said Wayne is one of several hundred thousand American teenagers who earn the minimum wage The last of three recent increases that took the minimum from 5 15 an hour in 2007 to 7 25 U S Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis says the minimum wage increase will pump an extra 5 5 billion into the economy over the next year which is helpful at a time when the economy is hurting You re giving people who spend money a raise said Kai Filion of the Economic Policy Institute Those people will go out and spend that money and it will circulate through the economy But other economists say raising the minimum wage actually hurts the very people it s designed to help A higher hourly minimum they say could force businesses to cut workers hours or even lay people off What matters for people earning minimum wage is how much money they take home in total in their paycheck explains Rajeev of Georgia State University s Economic Forecasting Center Their hourly rate may go up but their number of hours may come down so it s not an overall increase Business owners also say that raising the minimum wage exerts 施加 upward pressure on other wages If the minimum wage is 7 and I have to pay 8 or 9 to hire a dishwasher then the cooks are going to say they want more sayd Cleveland restaurant owner Rick How much can I charge for that hamburger Another argument is that it makes it more expensive for businesses to hire new workers For many businesses already struggling to make ends meet in these tough times it will be simply too expensive to keep them or to hire new people 55 Steve Wayne was excited that A his hard work had paid off B he had received a big wage increase C he has more money due to an increase in minimum wage D the wages of American teenage workers have been increased 用心 爱心 专心 3 56 According to the text the US federal government has increased minimum wage with the aim of A decreasing unemployment B promoting economic recovery C increasing American teenagers wage D narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor 57 What matters most to people in need of help is A a higher hourly minimumB more working hours C a minimum wage increaseD an increase in total income 58 Some are against the increase in minimum wage because they say A only very few workers will be helped B they have to cut down working hours C many business owners can t afford to employ new workers D minimum wage workers will expect more pay rises in the future C Warning reading too much Cinderella to your daughter may damage her emotional health in later life A paper to be developed at the international congress of cognitive psychotherapy in Gothenburg suggests a link between the attitudes of women abused by their parents and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales It says girls who identified with Cinderella Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast were more likely to say in destructive relationships as adults The theory was developed by Susan Darker Smith a psychotherapist at the University of Derby She interviewed 67 female abuse survivors and found that 61 put up with serial abuse because they believed they could change their partners and with patience composition and love Hardly any of the women in a control group who had not experienced abuse thought they could change their partners in this way These women and men said they would leave a relationship rather than put up with abuse from a partner Ms Darker Smith found the abused women were much more likely to identify with Cinderella and other submissive female characters in fairytales who were later rescued by a stranger prince or hero Although most girls heard the stories damage appeared to be done to those who adopted the submissive characters as role models They believe if their love is strong enough they can change their parents behaviors she said Overexposure in children to stories that emphasize the transformational qualities of love may make women believe they can damage their partners For example they might never have understood the obvious flaw 缺点 in the story of Rapunzel who remained locked in a high tower until rescued by a knight on a white horse who broke the door down The question said Ms Darker Smith is why she did not break the door down herself 59 The passage is especially intended for A parents with young daughters 用心 爱心 专心 4 B girls who like reading fairy stories C girls who think they can change their partners D parents with grown up daughters 60 Cinderella Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast are similar in that A they all married some princes B they all changed their partners with love C they were all abused by their partners D they all put up with abuse 61 Which of the following statements is true of the women in a control group A They don t believe in fairy tales B They don t believe in the transformational qualities of love C They have also experienced abuse D They survived abuse 62 What does the underlined word submissive in the 3rd paragraph probably mean A kind hearted B passive C gentle D easy going D The days of the hunter are almost over in India This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill and partly because some steps have been taken mainly by banning tiger shooting to protect those animals which still survive Some people say that Man is naturally a hunter I disagree with this view Surely our earliest forefathers who at first possessed no weapons spent their time digging for roots and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat eating animals I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals Of course there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat I can respect reasons like these but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself The greatest big game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives One of them wrote You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal s own territory 领地 You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten half alive by other animals Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing not if you 用心 爱心 专心 5 respect the thing you kill not if you kill to enrich your memories not if you kill to feed your people I can understand such beliefs and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears and bravely caught them by the tail But this is very different from many tiger shoots I have seen in which modern weapons were used The so called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits 63 There is no more hunting in India now partly because A it is dangerous to hunt there B hunting is already out of date C hunters want to protect animals D there are few animals left to hunt 64 The author thinks modern hunters kill mainly A to make the countryside safeB to earn people s admiration C to gain power and influenceD to improve their thelth 65 What do we learn about the big game hunters A They hunt old animalsB They mistreat animals C They hunt for foodD They hunt for money 66 What is the author s view on the tiger shoots he has seen A Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face to face B Modern hunters should use more advanced weapons C Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers D Modern hunters should put their safety first E The global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides 自杀 as people struggle to deal with poverty and unemployment the World Health Organization warned Thursday Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are already affected by mental problems such as depression and bipolar disorders 带狂躁的抑郁症 and the current market meltdown 崩溃 could worsen feelings of despair among people who can t stand such illnesses The United Nations agency said the impact could be especially marked for those living in low and middle income countries where access to treatment is often limited We should not be surprised at the turbulence 动荡 and likely consequences of the current financial crisis Now we are seeing a huge gap in taking care of people in great need WHO director general Margaret Chan told at a meeting of mental health experts It should not come as a surprise that we continue to see more stresses suicides and mental disorders Chan warned Ben Saraceno director of WHO s mental health said mental health disorders affected one in four people at some point in their lives Mental and neurological disorders are often chronic 慢性的 and disabling he said Nearly 1 million people commit suicide worldwide every year a large 用心 爱心 专心 6 proportion 比例 of them are young adults Asked about the financial crisis Saraceno said Poverty can be the consequence of such events the debts despair and sense of loss that may reach middle and lower classes Even th