广东省实验中学2012届高三阶段检测试题

广东省实验中学2012届高三阶段检测试题英语本试卷共10页，满分135分。

考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和学号填写在答题卡和答在密封线内相应的位置上，用2B铅笔将自己的学号填涂在答题卡上。

2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干诤后，再选涂其他答案：不能答在试卷上。

3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔在答卷纸上作答，答案必须写在答卷纸各题目指定区域内的相应位置上，超出指定区域的答案无效：如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案：不准使用铅笔和涂改液。

不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁和平整。

5.信息匹配选项，E项请在答题卡上填涂AB;F项请在答题卡上填涂CD。

I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）第一节完形填空（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Ben Franklin was right, at least on the healthy part."Early to bed and early to rise"appears to have helped a cross-section of early-bird Australian 1 keep slimmer and more physically active than their night-owl peers, even though both groups got the _2_amount of sleep. A study in the Oct. 1 issue of the journal Sleep___3___the bedtimes and wake times of 2,200 Australian participants, ages 9 to 16, and compared their weights and___4__of free time over four days. Children who went to bed___5___and got up late were 1.5 times more likely to__6__obese than those who went to bed early and got up early.Furthermore,late-nighters were almost twice as likely to be physically__7___and 2.9 times more likely to sit in front of the TV and computer or play video games for more hours than guidelines.__8__. "The children who went to bed late and woke up late, and the children who went to bed early and woke up early got virtually the same amount of sleep__9___," said co-author Carol Maher,PhD,a postdoctoral fellow with the University of South Australia. "Scientists have__10___in recent years that children who get less sleep__11__to do worse on a variety of health outcomes,including the risk of being overweight and obese. Our study suggests that the__12__of sleep is even more important.""It is widely accepted that the sleep patterns of adolescents are___13__different from children and adults, and that it is normal for adolescents to stay up very late and sleep in late in the morning,"Maher said."Our findings show that this sleeping pattern is associated with___14__activity patterns and health outcomes, and that the adolescents who don't__15___this sleep pattern do better."1. A. people B. adults C. youths D.children2. A. different B.great C. little D. same3. A. published B.stated C. wrote D. recorded4. A. possession B. uses C. control D. opinions5. A. late B. early C. more D.less6. A. have B. become C. avoid D. start7. A.healthy B. fat C. inactive D. ill8. A. recommend B. promote C. claim D. encourage9. A.in time B. in total C. all over D. all around10. A. predicted B. studied C. surveyed D. realized11. A. get B. learn C. used D. tend12. A. amount B. timing C. place D. quality13. A. fundamentally B. equally C. potentially D. mainly14. A. beneficial B. unfavorable C. desirable D. changeable15. A. do B. make C. follow D. fall第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题15分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为16～25的相应位置上。

Lake Titicaca, a famous lake in South America, is located on the border between Bolivia and Peru. But the lives of the ancient people who once lived around the lake and__16__culture was thought to be highly advanced, have long remained a secret. Recently __17__, scientists taking part in an exploration project at the lake have found__18__they believe to be a 1000-year-old temple___19__the water.Divers from the study group have discovered__20__building scientists think is the remains of a temple built by the people who once lived beside the lake. The project leaders hope to begin raising important materials from the site later this week__21__bad weather forces a change in their plans."The scientists have not yet had the opportunity to study the materials carefully,"said project director,John Aubi. "But some___22____(put) forward the idea that the remains date from this period because of their _23_ (similar) to those found elsewhere."The research team has so far this year made more than 200 dives into water 30 metres deep. During these dives,___24__have been recording the ancient remains on film. There will be a meeting,_____25___(start) later this year to review the film II 阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AWith large and small keyboards everywhere, neither children nor adults need to write much of anything by hand.That's a big problem. Study after study suggests that handwriting is important for brain development--helping kids get fine motor skills and learn to express and create ideas. Yet the time devoted to teaching penmanship in most schools has shrunk to just one hour a week. Is it time to give up handwriting? Have a look at the link between the brain and penmanship,and you may get the answer.A test among students in grades 2, 4, and 6 found that they not only wrote fasterby hand than by keyboard, but also created more ideas when composing essays with handwriting. And other research shows that the finger movements required to write by hand activate brain areas involved with thought, language,and short-term memory.A recent Indiana University study had one group of children practice writing letters by hand while a second group just looked at those letters. Then,both groups of kids entered a functional MRI (核磁共振)that scanned their brains as the researchers showed them the same letters. Researchers found that the brain activity in the first group was far more advaunced and "adult-like".Handwriting also affects other people's way they think of adults and children. Several studies have shown that the same average essay will score much higher if written with good penmanship and much lower if written out in poor handwriting. These Studies have also found that people judge the quality of a person's ideas based on his or her hand writing. And the consequences are real: On standardized tests with handwritten sections, like the SAT, all essay that is considered hard to recognize gets a big zero.Studies show that this isn't only an English-language phenomenon. Chinese and Japanese youths are suffering from "character amnesia". They can't remember how to write characters, thanks to computers and text messaging. Some experts fear that Chinese writing and reading are so closely linked in the brain that China's reading ability as a nation could suffer.26. According to the passage, it can be learned that_________.A. many researches have been done on handwritingB. essays can't be composed without handwritingC. all children write faster by keyboard than by handD. most schools are trying to teach more handwriting27. What does the Indiana University study imply?A. Children should practice writing lettersB. Handwriting can increase brain activityC. It's good for children to enter a functional MRI.D. Letters should often be shown to children28. What does the 4th paragraph mainly talk about?A. Handwriting affects both adults and children.B. Handwriting helps a person write better essays.C.SAT should be done with good handwriting.D. Good handwriting makes a person seem smarter.29. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Essays written with keyboards will get lower scores.B. The quality of your ideas depends on your handwriting.C. Chinese and Japanese youths don't know how to write.D. Less hand writing may attect China's reading ability as a nation.30. The passage tries to tell us that_________.A. keyboards are more popular than handwritingB. we shouldn't judge people by their hand writingC. handwriting is of great importanceD. it's time to give up using keyboardsBOne evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That's when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train.Her Renault Clio parked across a railway line. Seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.Ceely's near miss made the news because she blamed it on her GPS device. She had never driven the route before. It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS. But it made no mention of the crossing. "I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,"she told the BBC. Who is to-blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely's story in his book When Machines Fail US,points his finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it's not just GPS devices:Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyThe problem with his argument in the book is that it's not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes.A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map; Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention; Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system; Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the CPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn't say.It's a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computer-based locking systems for cars. He offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable. Perhaps, but maybe it's also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets.Or changing social circumstances. Or some combination of these factors.The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and complex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology.If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our machines.After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling us for just as long.31. What did Panla Ceely think was the cause of her accident?A. She was not familiar with the road.B. It was dark and raining heavily then.C. The railway workers failed to give the signal.D. Her GPS device didn't tell her about the crossing.32. The phrase "near miss" (paragraph 2 ) can best be replaced by__.A. close hitB. heavy lossC. narrow escapeD. big mistake33. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with?A. Modern technology is what we can't live without.B. Digital technology often falls short of out expectation.C. Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.D. GPS error is not the only cause for Celery's accident.34. In the writer's opinion, Stevenson's argument is________.A. one-sidedB. reasonableC. puzzlingD. well-based35. What is the real concern of the writer of this article?A. The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.B. The relationship between humans and technologyC. The shortcomings of digital devices we use.D. The human unawareness of technical problems.CIt is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as "hard", the social sciences as"soft", and the biological sciences as somewhere in between. This is interpreted to mean that our knowledge of physical systems is more certain than our knowledge of biological systems, and these in turn are more certain than our knowledge of social systems. In terms of our capacity to sample the relevant universes,however, and the probability that our images of these universes are at least approximately correct,one suspects that a reverse order is more reasonable. We are able to sample earth's social systems with some degree of confidence that we have a reasonable sample of the total universe being investigated. Our knowledge of social systems, therefore, while it is in many ways extremely inaccurate, is not likely to be seriously overturned by new discoveries.Even the folk knowledge insocial systems on which ordinary life is based in earning, spending, organizing, marrying,taking part in political activities, fighting and so on, is not very dissimilar from the more sophisticated images of the social system in the social sciences, even though it is built upon the very imperfect samples of personal experience.In contrast, our image of the astronomical universe, or even of earth's geological history, can easily be subject to revolutionary changes as new data comes in and new theories are worked out. If we define the"security" of our image of various parts of the total system as the probability of their suffering significant changes, then we would reverse the order of hardness and see the social sciences as the most secure, the physical sciences as the least secure, and again the biological sciences as somewhere in between. Our image of the astronomical universe is the least secure of all simply because we observe such a fantastically small sample of it and its record-keeping is trivial(微小的)as compared with the rich records of the social systems, or even the limited records of biological systems. Records of the astronomical universe, despite the fact that we see distant things as they were long ago, are limited in the extreme.Even in regard to such a close neighbour as the moon, which we have actually visited, theories about its origin and-history are extremely different, contradictory, and hard to choose among. Our knowledge of physical evolution isincomplete and highly insecure.36. The word "paradox"(Para. 1, Line 1) means"___________"A. implicationB. contradictionC.interpretationD.confusion37. According to the author, we should reverse our classification of the physical sciences as "hard" and the social sciences as "soft" because__________.A. a reverse ordering will help promote the development of the physical sciencesB. our knowledge of physical systems is more reliable than that of social systemsC. out understanding of the social systems is approximately correctD. we are better able to investigate social phenomena than physical phenomena38. The author believes that our knowledge of social systems is more secure than that of physical systems because__________.A. it is not based on personal experienceB. new discoveries are less likely to occur in social sciencesC. it is based on a fairly representative quantity of dataD. the records of social systems are more reliable39. The chances of the physical sciences being subject to great changes are the biggest because___________.A. contradictory theories keep emerging all the timeB. new information is constantly coming inC. the direction of their development is difficult to predictD. our knowledge of the physical world is inaccurate40. We know less about the astronomical universe than we do about any social system because________A. theories of its origin and history are variedB. our knowledge of it is highly insecureC. only a very small sample of it has been observedD. few scientists are involved in the study of astronomyDThere are few more sobering(使人清醒的) online activities than entering data into college-tuition calculators and feeling shocked as the Web spits back a six-figure sum. But economists say families about to go into debt to fund four years of partying, as well as studying, can comfortt themselves with the knowledge that college is an investment that, unlike many bank stocks, should produce huge dividends (红利）.A recent study by two Harvard economists notes that the "labor-market premium to skill"--or the amount college graduates earned that's greate than what high-school graduate earned--decreased for much of the 20th century, but has come back with a vengeance (报复性地) since the 1980s. In 2005, The typical full-time year-round U.S. worker with a four-year college degree earned $50,900, 62% more than the $31,500 earned by a worker with only a high-school diploma.There's no question that going to college is a smart economic choice. But a look at the strange variations in tuition reveals that the choice about which college to attend doesn't come down merely to dollars and cents. Does going to Columbia University (tuition, room and board $49,260 in 2007-08)yield a 40% greater returnthan attending the University of Colorado at Boulder as an out-of-state student($35,542)? Probably not, Does being an out-of-state student at the University of Colorado at Boulder yield twice the amount of income as being an in-state student ($17,380) there? Not likely.Now, in this consumerist age, most buyers aren't evaluating college as an investment, but rather as a consumer product--like a car or clothes or a house. And with such purchases, price is only one of many crucial factors to consider.As with automobiles, consumers in today's college marketplace have vast choices, and people search for the one that gives them the most comfort and satisfaction in line with their budgets. This accounts for the willingness of people to pay more for different types of experiences (such as attending a private liberal-arts college or going to an out-of-state public school that has a great marine-biology program). And just as two auto purchasers might spend an equal amount of money on very different cars, college students(or, more accurately, their parents) often show a willingness to pay essentially the same price for vastly different products. So which is it? Is college an investment product like a stock or a consumer product like a car? In keeping with the automotive world's hottest consumer trend, maybe it's best to characterize it as a hybrid (混合动力汽车); an expensive consumer product that, over time,will pay rich dividends.41. What's the opinion of economists about going to college?A.Huge amounts of money is being wasted on campus socializing.B.It doesn't pay to run into debt to receive a college education.C.College education is rewarding in spite of the startling costs.D.Going to college doesn't necessarily bring the expected returns.42.The two Harvard economists note in their study that,for much of the 20th century,_______.A. enrollment kept decreasing in virtually all American colleges and universitiesB. the labor market preferred high-school to college graduatesC. competition for university admissions was far more fierce than todayD. the gap between the earnings of college and high-school graduates narrowed43. Students who attend an in-state college or university can_______.A. save more on tuitionB. receive a better educationC. take more liberal-arts coursesD. avoid traveling long distances44. In this consumerist age, most parents_________.A. regard college education as a wise investmentB. place a premium on the prestige of the CollegeC.think it crucial to send their children to collegeD.consider college education a consumer product45. What is the chief consideration when students choose a college today?A. Their employment prospects after graduation.B. A satisfying experience within their budgets.C. Its facilities and learning environment.D. Its ranking among similar institutions.第二节信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。