2013届高三英语自选模块练习(5-8)

2013届高三英语自选模块练习（五）题号：05 科目：英语阅读理解(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)阅读下面短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。

(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)Horror stories about the food industry have long been with us –ever since 1906, when Upton Sinclair’s landmark novel The Jungle told some ugly truths about how A merica produces its meat. In the century that followed, things got much better, and in some ways much worse. The U.S. agricultural industry can now produce unlimited quantities of meat and grains at remarkably cheap prices. But it does so at a high cost to the environment, animals and humans. 1 Add to the price tag the acceleration of global warming – our energy-intensive food system uses 19% of U.S. fossil fuels, more than any other sector of the economy.And perhaps worst of all, our food is increasingly bad for us, even dangerous. 2 A food system that generates cheap, filling food at the expense of healthier produce is also a major cause of America’s widespread obesity. At a time when the nation is close to a civil war over health-care ref orm, obesity adds $147 billion a year to our doctor bills. ―The way we farm now is destructive of the soil, the environment and us,‖ says Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with the food and environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.3 Film documentaries like the highly critical Food Inc. and the work of investigative journalists like Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan are repeating Sinclair’s work, awakening a sleeping public to the uncomfortable realities of how we eat. Change is also coming from the very top. First Lady Michelle Obama’s White House garden has so far yielded more than 225 pounds of organic produce –and tons of powerful symbolism.4 Sustainable food is also more expensive than conventional food and harder to find. And while large companies like General Mills have opened organic divisions, there is worry that the very definition of sustainability will be used by those companies only for their own good.But we can’t afford to remain in philosophizing about fo od. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price of oil – which will affect everything from fertilizer to supermarket electricity bills – our industrial style of food production will end sooner or later. As the developing world grows richer, hundreds of millions of people will want to shift to the same calorie-heavy, protein-rich diet that has made Americans so unhealthy – demand for meat and poultry worldwide is set to rise 25% by 2015 – but the earth can no longer deliver. Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food, they face a future of damaged farmland, emptied-out countryside, terrifying germs, higher health costs –and tasteless diet. Sustainable food has an élitist reputation, but each of us depends on the soil, animals and plants –and as every farmer knows, if you don’t take care of your land, it can’t take care of you.第一节根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D、E中选出最合适放入短文空缺处的选项，并将序号及相应的答案写在答题纸上。

选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. Some Americans are paying attention to such warnings and working to transform the way the country eats –farmers who are raising sustainable food in ways that don’t bankrupt the earth.B. A series of recalls involving polluted foods this year –including a case of salmonella poisoning from tainted peanuts that killed at least eight people and sickened 600 – has consumers rightly worried about the safety of their meals.C. But, despite increasing public awareness, sustainable agriculture remains a tiny enterprise:according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, less than 1% of American cropland is farmed organically.D. And when the rains come, the excessive fertilizer that helped to take so much corn out of the ground will be washed into the Mississippi River and down into the Gulf of Mexico, where it will help kill fish for miles around.E. Those hidden prices are the gradual damage of our rich farmland, cages for egg-laying chickens so packed that the birds can’t even raise their wings and the horrible rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria among farm animals.第二节根据短文所给的信息，用一个完整的句子解释划线句子的意思，并将答案写在答题纸上。

5. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean?题号：06 科目：英语填空（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）阅读下列的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式，并将序号及相应答案写在答题纸。

（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）Mr. Dawson was an old man who always complained. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, because old Dawson, they said, would come ①you with his ball bullet gun. One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay ②night with her friend Amy. As they got close to Amy’s house, Amy suggested they cross over to the other side of the street. Like most of the children, Janet was scared of the old man.Amy said not to worry, Mr. Dawson wouldn’t hurt anyone. ③, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown, but when he saw it was Amy, a broad ④changed his entire face as he said, ―Hello Miss Amy. I see you’ve got a little friend with you today.‖Then Dawson offered them each a freshly ⑤apple off his tree. They gladly accepted. Dawson had the best apples in town.Janet asked, “Everyone says he’s the meanest man in town. ⑥come was he so nice to us?”Amy explained her grandma told her that if she pretended she wasn’t afraid and pretended he ⑦(smile) and she smiled back at him, he would really smile in time. She did so.We’re always trying to accomplish so much. Getting groceries, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn - there’s always ⑧_. It’s so easy to get caught up in everyday life that we forget how simple it can be to bring cheer to ourselves and others. Giving a smile ⑨takes so little effort and time, let’s make sure that we’re not the one that others have ⑩(pretend) is wearing an invisible(无形的) smile. Smiles change our life.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. _____________6. ____________7. ____________8. ____________9. _____________ 10. ____________2013届高三英语自选模块练习（六）题号：05阅读理解阅读下面短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。