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用心 爱心 专心 1 20122012 届高考英语二轮专题复习精品阅读理解部分之限时训练 九 届高考英语二轮专题复习精品阅读理解部分之限时训练 九 阅读理解阅读理解 Garden Route South Africa Take in fresh sea air in this beautiful coastal setting as you cruise the famous Garden Route in the Western Cape in South Africa A wildlife break is a must as is enjoying great meal stops along the route There are wildlife reserves throughout the Graden Route National Park you can swing into and spend a sleepy morning in a car looking for giraffes and lions And just over your shoulder in the big blue there are whales to be watched if the season is right Top tip Add a trip to the Eastern Cape to your Garden Route trip It is much less known than the Western Cape and full of great landscapes The gas station is occasionally seen Great Ocean Road Australia Sweep along this dramatic coastal road in Austrlia with views of the Southern Ocean from Geelong to Portland in Victoria and you won t regret it Anyone who has driven it just can t stop talking about it and with good reason There re loads to see and plenty of great stops There s whale watching here too and other natural life And to top it all there ll be plenty of good old Aussie kindness and welcome when you pull in for lunch or a coffee stop Top tip Rent an open top car so you can really drink in that sea air Stelvio Pass Italy If you like snake like paths and mountain passes you ll love this Stelvio in Italy The mountain slopes stretch away on either side of the road with snow topped peaks within sight There s a great view down the pass And from the top it s just a short sweep away from the Swiss border so if you are gripped by mountain road driving you can drive from here down to Swiss ski resort of Davos Stelvio has 48 hairpins 急弯 on the north side and 12 on the descent 陡坡 to Bormio so this route is not recommended for new drivers or those with a fear of heights This descent is often featured in the Giro d Italia the Italian version of the Tour de France so you may have glimpsed it on the television Top Tip Take some Swiss Francs as well as some Euros so you can make the trip a cross border experience 45 In which travel routes can one enjoy whale watching A Stelvio Pass Italy and Garden Route South Africa B Great Ocean Road Australia and Stelvio Pass Italy C Garden Route South Africa and no other route D Great Ocean Road Australia and Garden Route South Africa 46 The tips in the ad are meant to A introduce a new route to the drivers B help drivers find gas stations on the route C give useful advice to make the trip more pleasant D warn drivers of the possible dangers on the road 用心 爱心 专心 2 47 Compared with the other two routes Stelvio Pass is special in that A it s more winding and challenging B it s safe and more suitable for new drivers C it has lots of wild animals on either side of the road D it s often featured in Tour de France and thus more famous 48 What s the best title for the travel advertisement A Drive to South Africa Man B Drive travel for Whale Watching C A Travel to Three Continents D Exciting Drive Travel in the Wild 完形填空 共 20 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 20 分 In a village near Nuremberg lived a family with eighteen children Merely to keep food on the table the goldsmith father worked eighteen hours a day Despite their 21 condition two of Durer s children had a dream to seek their talent for 22 but they knew well their father would never be able to send 23 of them to Nuremberg to study at the Academy The two boys finally worked out an agreement They would toss 扔 a coin The 24 would work in the nearby mines to support his brother Albrecht Durer 25 the toss and went off to Nuremberg Albert went into the dangerous mines and for the next four years financed his brother 26 work at the academy was almost an 27 success Albrecht s woodcuts and oils were 28 better than those of his professors and he soon was earning considerable fees 29 his works When the young 30 returned home the Durer family held a festive dinner Albrecht rose to toast to his beloved brother Now Albert it is your 31 to seek your dream I will support you All heads turned to the far end of the table where Albert sat tears streaming down his pale face while he 32 and repeated No no Finally Albert rose and 33 the tears from his cheeks He said softly I 34 go to Nuremberg brother It is too late for me Look what four years in the mines have done to my hands The bones in every finger have been smashed at least once and I cannot even hold a glass to 35 your toast Today Albrecht Durer s masterful works 36 in every great museum in the world but chances are great 37 you like most people are familiar with only one of them Albrecht Durer drew his brother s abused hands with palms together and thin 38 stretched skyward He 39 it The Praying Hands Next time you see that touching creation take a second look Let it be your reminder if you still need one that no one ever makes it 40 21 A hopeful B lucky C disappointed D hopeless 22 A music B art C mining D farming 23 A all B both C each D either 24 A painter B loser C winner D failure 25 A lost B got C won D beat 26 A who B his C whom D whose 27 A arbitrary B immediate C attractive D ordinary 28 A far B quite C very D more 用心 爱心 专心 3 29 A for B to C in D at 30 A miner B worker C artist D professor 31 A luck B turn C move D moment 32 A sobbed B nodded C smiled D laughed 33 A recovered B wept C wiped D handed 34 A can t B mustn t C can D have to 35 A hold B return C move D turn 36 A hang B represent C present D visit 37 A when B that C which D as 38 A figures B hands C fingers D arms 39 A said B loved C told D called 40 A yet B out C alone D before 任务型阅读 请认真阅读下列短文 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的 单词 注意 每空格只填一个单词 If environmental trends continue on a positive track some day children may ask Mommy what was pollution But between that day and ours stands the environmental problem global warming Fighting an artificial greenhouse effect is the greatest of environmental challenges because the cure will not be possible unless almost every nation on the Earth participates Will global warming cause harm Some computer models suggest the world might warm by 5 degrees or more during this century which might be dangerous Melting polar ice could raise sea levels while global warming might cause more intense storms and disrupt the weather patterns that bring rain to agricultural regions Computer models are just a guess of course but when the farming areas that we all depend upon for food rely on current temperatures rolling the dice 骰子 with the climate cannot be wise Yet today the United States has no national law regulating greenhouse gases There are methods to reduce global warming For instance individuals can make lifestyle changes Replace an SUV with a regular car an SUV gives off 100 tons of greenhouse gases over its lifetime which is far more than a car does Moderate your use of home heating and air conditioning most of which is powered by fossil fuels and upgrade appliances to energy saving models Besides emissions 排放 trading is a good measure In 1990 rising levels of acid rain were considered an emergency problem Congress passed an emissions trading program which allowed industrial managers to buy and sell permits to emit a limited amount of pollutants that cause acid rain The acid rain trading program created a financial motivation to invent technology to reduce acid rain if a factory or power plant cut its emissions below the limit it could sell the extra credits at a profit Once there was money to be made by reducing acid rain human creativity came into play The results were spectacular PresentFuture Stages of Environment We are faced with the greenhouse effect which causes global warming And if all the If environmental trends continue in a positive way there will 用心 爱心 专心 4 people in the world don t 2 in the fight against it the problem can t be solve