2012届高考英语 能力训练11

1 能能 力力 训训 练 练 1111 限时限时 4040 分钟分钟 一 完形填空 共 10 小题 每小题 2 分 满分 20 分 It had been nearly two years since Mary had trouble walking She was falling more frequently now Every inch of ice was a 21 danger for her I wish I could do something said David her 8 year old son David too was having 22 of his own The boy had a speech defect 欠缺 At school he rarely asked questions or read aloud One day David s teacher announced a 23 assignment Each of you is going to 24 an invention He said This was for INVENT AMERICA and national competition to encourage the creativity in 25 An idea hit David one evening If only his mother s cane 手杖 didn t slip on the ice he thought That s it David realized 26 I fixed your cane so a nail stretched out of the bottom he asked his mother Would it scratch floors No Mom I could make But the sharp end Mary said It s like a ball point pen You take your hand off the 27 and the nail returns back up Hours later the cane was finished David and his father Jeff 28 as Mary used it to walk 50 feet across the 29 It works she said In July 2006 David was 30 national winner at the 21 A 21 A B B C C D D 1 1 57 A 57 A B B C C D D 3 3 56 A 56 A B B C C D D 22 A 22 A B B C C D D 58 A 58 A B B C C D D 57 A 57 A B B C C D D 23 A 23 A B B C C D D 59 A 59 A B B C C D D 58 A 58 A B B C C D D 24 A 24 A B B C C D D 60 A 60 A B B C C D D 59 A 59 A B B C C D D 25 A 25 A B B C C D D 60 A 60 A B B C C D D 26 A 26 A B B C C D D 2 2 68 A 68 A B B C C D D 56 A 56 A B B C C D D E E F F 27 A 27 A B B C C D D 69 A 69 A B B C C D D 57 A 57 A B B C C D D E E F F 28 A 28 A B B C C D D 70 A 70 A B B C C D D 58 A 58 A B B C C D D E E F F 29 A 29 A B B C C D D 59 A 59 A B B C C D D E E F F 30 A 30 A B B C C D D 60 A 60 A B B C C D D E E F F 2 annual INVENT AMERICA ceremony in Washington D C Today David is nearly free of his speech defect and his cane is waiting to be widely used 21 A hiding B secret C possible D certain 22 A dilemma B trouble C demand D disease 23 A usual B special C strange D common 24 A make out B find out C put up with D come up with 25 A children B people C genius D disabled people 26 A What if B How about C What about D How come 27 A press B bottom C switch D button 28 A guided B watched C listened D supported 29 A ice B road C yard D land 30 A declared B announced C elected D accepted 二 阅读 共两节 满分 40 分 A A 2009 浙江 E Four people in England back in 1953 stared at photo 51 it wasn t much a picture showing a black X But three of these people won the Nobel prize for figuring out what the photo really showed the shape of DNA The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson Francis crick and Maurice Willkins The fourth the one who actually made the picture was left out Her name was Rosalind Franklin she should have been up there says historian Mary Bowden if her photo hadn t been there the others couldn t have come up with the structure one reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision But now scholar doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitions At Cambridge university in the 1950s Watson and Crick tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA s parts and then putting them together In the meantime at king s college in London Franklin and Wilkins shone X rays at the molecule 分子 The rays produced patterns reflecting the shape But Wilkins and Franklin s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project What she did was produce X ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of 3 their early models was inside out And she was not shy about saying so That angered Watson who attacked her in return Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend Clearly she had to go or be put in her place As Franklin s competitors Wilkins Watson and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers says historian Pnina Abir Am In 1962 at the Nobel prize awarding ceremony Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin Watson wrote his book laughing at her Crick wrote in 1974 that Franklins was only two steps away from the solution No Franklin was the solution She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of DNA She must be considered a co discoverer Abir Am says This was backed up by Aaron Klug who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself Once described as the Dark Lady of DNA Franklin is finally coming into the light 57 What is the text mainly about A The disagreements among DNA researchers B The unfair treatment of Franklin C The process of discovering DNA D The race between two teams of scientists 58 Watson was angry with Franklin because she A took the lead in the competitionB Kept her results from him C proved some of his findings wrongD shared her data with other scientists 59 Why is Franklin described as Dark Lady of DNA A She developed pictures in dark labs B She discovered the black X the shape of DNA C Her name was forgotten after her death D Her contribution was unknown to the public 60 What is the writer s attitude toward Wilkins Watson and Crick A DisapprovingB Respectful C AdmiringD Doubtful B B 2009辽宁 D It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some more But in order to work up the desire to rewrite it is important to learn to like what you write at the early stage I am surprised at the number of famous writers I know who say that they so dislike reading their own writing later that they even hate to look over the publishers opinions One reason we may dislike reading our own work is that we re often 4 disappointed that the rich ideas in our minds seem very thin and plain when first written down Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work Different from popular belief we do not usually think in the words and sentences of ordinary language but in symbols for ideas known as mentalese and writing our ideas down is an act of translation from that symbolic language But while mentalese contains our thoughts in the form of a complex tapestry 织锦 writing can only be composed one thread at a time Therefore it should not be surprising that our first attempt at expressing ideas should look so simple It is only by repeatedly rewriting that we produce new threads and connect them to get closer to the ideas formed in our minds When people write as if some strict critics 批评家 are looking over their shoulder they are so worried about what this critic might say that they get stuck before they even start Peter Elbow makes an excellent suggestion to deal with this problem When writing we should have two different minds At the first stage we should see every idea as well as the words we use to express it as wonderful and worth putting down It is only during rewrites that we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage and check for weaknesses 68 What do we learn from the text about those famous writers A They often regret writing poor worksB Some of them write surprisingly much C Many of them hate reading their own works D They are happy to review the publishers opinions 69 What do people generally believe about the way human minds work A People think in words and sentences B Human ideas are translated into symbols C People think by connecting threads of ideas D Human thoughts are expressed through pictures 70 What can we conclude from the text A Most people believe we think in symbols B Loving our own writing is scientifically reasonable C The writers and critics can never reach an agreement D Thinking and writing are different stages of mind at work C C 2009 广雅模拟 B China s consumer inflation 通货膨胀 jumped to its highest level in 11 years in November 2007 due to rising food prices official figures showed on Tuesday adding to pressure for a sixth interest rate hike increase last year The key inflation 5 indicator the Consumer Price Index 指数 jumped 6 9 percent from two years earlier the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on its website The central bank should raise the interest rate to make the real rate positive said Zuo Xiaolei chief economist of Galaxy Securities At that time China s one year saving interest rate stood at 3 87 percent well below the inflation rate indicating a loss of purchasing power for depositors Zuo suggested a rise of 54 basis points of the interest rate to control consumers inflation expectation A high expectation might lead to rush on goods thus further pushing up prices The latest figure indicates the inflation pressure is speeding up NBS chief economist Yao Jingyuan said Food prices remain the key driving forces behind the rise in November 2007 jumping 18 2 percent Among food items pork saw the biggest price increases followed by a 38 8 percent rise in poultry products Non food items went up 1 4 percent Adding to the price pressure the Producer Price Index which measures inflation at the wholesale level jumped 4 6 percent in November 2007 the biggest monthly increase in more than two years The CPI had hit a decade high of 6 5 percent in August 2007 before easing to 6 2 percent in September and rebounding to 6 5 percent in October Zuo expected the price pressure to continue this year The CPI growth in 2008 might be 4 to 5 percent as least for the first quarter due to the Spring Festival he said In the face of rising living costs the country s top leaders had decided to adopt a tight monetary policy the first shift from a prudent one in 10 years During the weekend the central bank announced a one percent hike in the bank reserve ratio to 14 5 percent the highest level since 1984 That was the 10th increase last year 56 The best title of the passage is A The Consumer Price Index jumped 6 9 percent B Interest rate jumped to its highest level due to rising food prices C The CPI growth in 2008 might be 4 to 5 percent D The reasons of consumer inflation 57 The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means A interest rate was higher than the inflation rate B the more you save in the bank the more purchasing power you will lose C the more you save in the bank the less purchasing power you will lose D depositors could get much from the high interest rate 58 Which statement is true according to the passage A The central bank should lower the interest rate to make the real rate positive B Among food items steak saw the biggest price increases 6 C The price pressure will probably continue this year D The CPI had hit a decade high of 6 5 in October 2007 59 What causes the rapid rise of Consumer Price Index A China s consumer inflation B the rise of food prices C the low interest rate D the tight monetary policy 60 We can infer from the passage that A it will be easier to borrow money from the bank this year B people will lead a richer life this year C people can buy more products using the same money this year D it will be more difficult to borrow money from the bank this year 第二节 信息匹配 共5小题 每小题2分 满分10分 TheThe informationinformation aboutabout extraextra curricularcurricular activities activities 课外活动课外活动 A A AsianAsian AmericanAmerican StudentsStudents UnionUnion Set up for more than thirty years this club has been mainly focusing on the cultural differences between Asia and America The members in this club should come from Asia or America and they will hold a meeting every Thursday evening to discuss the interesting points they have found in their daily lives Besides they will conduct some surveys among their classmates to dig the roots of the differences B B YaleYale FilmFilm SocietySociety Students who are movie lovers come here to enjoy wonderful movies together and they will learn the actors lines More than that some nice films produced by themselves will have the chance to be praised by teachers and students on the campus They will get together every Friday night to hold a small meeting where they will have their opinions exchanged and may recommend some new movies C C YaleYale AIDSAIDS WatchWatch All the members in this club should have some basic knowledge about AIDS and be interested in the serious headache for the people all around the world AIDS They will collect the latest reports on the development of the study of the disease At the same time they will have some leaflets 传单 printed to give out to the students The time for them to meet is Friday afternoon twice a month D D SocietySociety ofof WomenWomen The members are female only and they will pay attention to the problems they come across in their school lives and outside the campus All the girls are welcome to this club as long as they want to protect their rights as women They will get together every Sunday afternoon to deal with the letters from girls and try to solve their 7 problems E E YaleYale PopPop BandBand This band has been very popular among students who are keen on pop music The members introduce latest albums and most of them are good at singing and each of them plays a key role in any party They have no regular meetings but keep in touch by mail F F YaleYale CampingCamping ClubClub There are many opportunities for the members to go hiking or sightseeing If the