2012年高三英语2月份百题精练（1）试题

用心 爱心 专心 1 英语试题英语试题 第三部分 阅读理解 共 20 小题 每小题 2 分 满分 40 分 A Last week Bill Gates retired from full tine rime work at the world s biggest computer software company Microsoft He will remain chairman of the company he established with Paul Allen in nineteen seventy five Mister Gates leaves Microsoft at a time of change in the computing industry Microsoft grew at a time when personal computers or PCs were replacing big mainframe computers as the main computing tools He showed that huge profits could be made in software as PCs increasingly were found on every desk and in every home Early on Microsoft understood the importance of the network effect That is software is the kind of product that increases in value as more people buy and use it Now free Internet software threatens to replace PC based software Devices like smart phones connect people to the Internet Google has become a 1eader in Internet Web searching and advertising Microsoft has struggled to change with the new computer environment Its efforts to sell music and its latest operating system Vista have not been big successes And an attempt this year to buy Yahoo for over forty seven billion dollars failed In the last several years Bill Gates has slowly given control of Microsoft to others In two thousand he gave the job of chief executive officer to Steve Ballmer a friend of his since their years at Harvard University Mister Ballmer has been with Microsoft since nineteen eighty Still it is hard to overestimate the influence of Bill Gates on computing He developed the business model that put the Windows operating system on about ninety percent of the world s one billion PCs Microsoft now has almost ninety thousand employees At fifty two years old Bill Gates is currently the third richest man in the world He is worth about fifty eight billion dollars He remains Microsoft s biggest shareholder Mister Gates will now spend most of his time working at his charity organization the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The foundation is the world s largest charity with over thirty seven billion dollars It provides money for health education and other projects mostly in developing countries 61 Bill Gates retired from full time work in Microsoft because A he had earned enough money B Google threatened Microsoft s leading place C PCs were out of fashion D of a reason that was not mentioned 62 Which of the following statements is true about Bill Gates A Bill Gates set up Microsoft on his own in 1975 B Bill Gates failed to buy Yahoo C Bill Gates was the chief executive officer when he retired D Bill Gates is the richest mall in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 63 Microsoft grew at a time when A smart phones connect people to Internet B Vista was put into market C Personal Computers were on every desk and in every home 用心 爱心 专心 2 D Computers became the main computing tools 64 Microsoft s network effect probably means A the more people use PCs the more software they will buy B the more people use Internet the more money Microsoft can make C the better product the more value D the later operating system the better software B Attention Tim Hortons Stainless Steel Travel Mug Owners Lid Recall 15 oz Stainless Steel Travel Mug A fault at the cup has been recognized The fault may result in some lids lifting slightly from the body of the mug and could probably cause injury from hot liquid leaking Therefore we have given an immediate lid recall notice This recall notice is related only to Tim Hortons15 oz stainless Steel Travel Mugs sold between October 2005 and January 2006 The bootom of the mug is stamped with distributor s 经销商 name Thermo Serv There is no printing on the handle of the mug At Tim Hortons we value out customers safely above anything else So whether your lid is leaking or not in the interest of your safety we are requesting that you bring your mug to your nearest Tim Hortons excluding Esso Tim Hortons where they will exchange the lid for a new lid that fits safely The new lids will be available February l 2006 Please do not use your mug until you exchange the lid Here s what you do Please do not use your mug until you have exchanged the lid for a new one New lids will be available February 2 2006 Return your travel mug to a Tim Hortons store Your lid will be exchanged for a new lid If you prefer to return the entire mug bring it back at any time for a full repayment If you have any questions regarding his recall please contact us at Toll Free Number l 888 508 一 77l7 8 30 a m 5 00 p m Eastern Standard Time Tim Hortons 65 This advertisement is trying to A introduce a new type of mugs B persuade people to buy a new steel mug lid C inform people of exchanging a lid D warn against the danger of using the faulty mug 66 The advertisement is mainly aimed at those who A often travel around B have 15 oz Stainless mugs C want to buy 1 5 oz Stainless mugs D are selling the Tim Hortons mugs 67 Your lid will be exchanged for a new one 用心 爱心 专心 3 A if the distributor s name is on the handle of the mug B if you go to the nearest Esso Tim Hortons C if you bought the mug in February 2006 D if your lid is not leaking 68 According to the advertisement which of the following statements is NOT true A People should stop using the Tim Hortons15 oz stainless steel travel mug immediately B People can return the lid between October 2005 and January 2006 C People can get the money back if they return the faulty mug D Tim Hortons does its duty to care about the customers safety C Space travel used to be a young man s game but when John Glenn went into space aboard Discovery four generations of men and women could gaze into the sky and think That could be me someday At the same time Glenn was looking down and doing some thinking of his own It s quite something he said to look down on this blue planet seeing that little film of air that surrounds it You fly over the Mediterranean over the Middle East and it s so beautiful You wonder why in the world humans can t solve all the problems they ve created and left to fester over the centuries I was at the Houston airport on my way back to Washington recently when this older guy walked up to me all excited He shook my hand and said Boy you re changing my life I said how s that He said I m 74 and ever since 1 was a kid I ve wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro I haven t done it and I kept putting it off And now I m gonna do it And all the time his wife is standing behind him just shaking her head So I may have killed a man on Kilimanjaro for all I know But I ve noticed something I ve noticed that maybe because of all this people are seeing themselves in a way they haven t before They re realizing that older people have the same ambitions hopes and dreams as anybody else I say you should live a life based on how you feel and not by the calendar 69 The word fester in the second paragraph most probably mean A get infected B become uncertain C grow worse D go rotten 70 Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage A Space travel will become older people s career B John Glenn s achievements encouraged an old man to conquer high mountains C John Glen spoke his thoughts freely about his space travel D John Glenn advised older people on how to reorganize their lives 71 John Glenn s example shows that A more and more grandparents will be astronauts someday B older people are beginning to change their normal way of life C people s ambitions should not be held back with age D older people have the same rights as young men D Today among people everywhere there is an increasing awareness and worry about the steady growth in the world s population A recent survey conducted by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities UNFPA reported that this growth will continue until the end of the next century For developing countries alone the annual average population growth is at 用心 爱心 专心 4 present 4 6 compared to 2 0 for developed countries At this rate the world s population will reach 10 2 billion by the turn of the 21st century With the growth in population is the problem of food security the guarantee of a steady supply of food The unstoppable growth in population justifies the Malthusian Doctrine that population of a region will continue to grow unless checked and this is of course alarming since it will inevitably lead to food shortages of considerable proportions Our forests are an abundant source of food and fuel two items essential in sustaining life Above 30 of the world s land surface is covered by such forests In Asia alone more than two billion people depend heavily on forest products for their subsistence and survival To maintain a reasonable balance between population growth and food supply this natural source of life sustaining food and fuel must be conserved and protected from its worst enemy mall himself It is appalling 令人震惊的 to note that in many developing countries which are themselves heavily hit by population food imbalance governments approve the cutting down of forests to meet their immediate needs for saleable timber and also for agricultural land Often the cutting down and burning of forests is conducted with total abandon owing to the absence of sound forestry techniques and management At the rate tropical forests are now being cleared each year the world s tropical forests will be completely destroyed within the next 100 years With a view to maintaining food security for the world s population the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations FAO has launched a campaign aimed at ensuring food supply maximizing stability in the flow of this supply and ensuring access to it by a11 Forestry according to the FAO plays a vital role in making it possible to fulfill all its three objectives Its most important role is that of conserving soil and water Trees provide natural protection against soil erosion 侵蚀 by absorbing the excess water brought by heavy rains 72 The first paragraph tells us that A the flow of food supply is the result of population increase B the world population has reached the 10 billion mark C the problem of population growth has caused considerable alarm in a few countries D the problem of food supply goes hand in hand with population increase 73 The Malthusian Doctrine presents as far as world population is concerned A an optimistic view of the futureB a pessimistic outlook for the future C an encouraging picture D an indifferent picture 74 In this context this natural source of life sustaining food and fuel in paragraph 2 refers to A the flow of food supplyB forests C woodland productsD man s worst enemy 75 The three fold objectives of the FAO are adapted 调整 toward A stopping population growth B increasing food production C achieving food security D ensuring maximum utilization of forests E Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness wrote Samuel Johnson a famous British writer and lexicographer 词典编写者 of the eighteenth century Today amid the large amount of worldly temptations and material sources of modem day 用心 爱心 专心 5 enjoyment people from all walks of life are still searching for the key to happiness The question How call we be happy seems to worry everyone Indeed in this day and age of scientific advancement and heavenly comforts people still do not seem able to find a definite answer to the age old problem of finding happiness Happiness seems to be a very difficult thing Solon s dictum count no man happy until he is dead seems to present both the poor and the rich with a continual threat causing them no end of anxiety In Oxford England a noted psychology professor Dr Michael Argyle has succeeded in his quest for happiness Over the past eight years he has been researching the mysterious antithesis 对立而 of depression and has found convincing clues which he has embodied in his books The Psychology of Happiness and The Social Psychology of Everyday Life Dr Argyle explains that happiness comprises three essential elements first positive emotions 1ike joy second the absence of negative emotions like anxiety and lastly the non emotional element which means a general more profound satisfaction with life The bigger source of happiness is a happy marriage Dr Argyle explains Job satisfaction he continues is another essential ingredient of happiness Do you feel you are doing a useful job Do you feel you are achieving or stand a chance of achieving your ambitions If you honestly have positive answers to these questions then eventually you will be happy if not then you can still be happy by reducing your ambitions and lowering your expectations in order to achieve happiness The fact is the higher your ambitions and dreams are the more difficult it will be for you to achieve your goals and therefore it will be harder to achieve satisfaction and happiness Dr Argyle offers other avenues people can take to find real happiness Music games or sports a drink with a friend a simple gathering at tea lunch or dinner with loved ones or simply thinking of nice things call give a person happiness if only for a few hours Surprisingly television programmes especially soap operas offers nothing but a bit of pleasurable moments Often television viewers are so carried away emotionally that they feel depressed or emotionally tired Non soap programmers on the other hand bore many viewers or sometimes deepen their misery Dr Argyle further explains that wealth and worldly success do contribute to