盐城市20092010学年度高三年级第二次调研考试(含答案)

盐城市2009/2010学年度高三年级第二次调研考试第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）21. It is believed that ______ European chemist called Felix Hoffmann first produced ASA whichcompletely changed ______ man’s understanding of aspirin.A. an; aB. the; aC. a; /D. an; /22. — How many pages have you covered of that book on financial crises?—I have given up, for it’s ______ me.A. ahead ofB. aboveC. apart fromD. on23. — Mom, can you give me an extra 200 yuan a month?— Son, we have just bought a house, and from now on we need to practice strict ______.A. economyB. medicineC. self-controlD. patience24. Lots of coal miners died on the job last year, ______ the government to shut nearly 800 smallmines in Shanxi Province alone.A. forcedB. to forceC. forcesD. forcing25. Who ______ the fight against the H1N1 flu ______ it not been for the Chinese scientists’great efforts?A. could have won; hadB. would win; hadC. would have won; hasD. could win; has26. Now that you have accepted the task, the only thing you can do now is ______ on how tofulfill it.A. reflectB. tryC. thinkD. act27. All the teachers are well aware of the fact that most students, especially teens, need help andencouragement ______ punishment.A. better thanB. rather notC. rather thanD. more often28. — Hey! Everyone in the office was at the dinner party in honor of Mr. Charles except you.What happened?— I ______ after Mike, my colleague. He was badly ill.A. have lookedB. was lookingC. would lookD. had looked29. — How is the test that you took yesterday?— Unfortunately, not even one of the hundred students who took the test ______ passed.A. hasB. haveC. areD. is30. I have just received an invitation from a good friend of mine, asking me to pay a visit to______ we used to study together.A. whatB. whereC. howD. which31. Journalists present at the press conference all wanted to know whether she had got marriedsecretly, but she ______ the subject throughout the conference.A. kept offB. kept awayC. kept asideD. kept out32. —Mary, you don’t look very happy today. What’s up?—Oh, ______. I don’t think I can get that new job.A. I’m finishedB. I’m fineC. I’m overD. I’m all right33. We firmly believe that ______ the new examination system comes into existence, completelynew situations will arise.A. consideringB. supposedC. providingD. given34. — How could you have trusted the online dictionary that much in translating your resume?— Well, I never expected it should translate it so ______.A. literallyB. originallyC. sufficientlyD. professionally35. At the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the UN Secretary General points out that,______, the climate situation will get worse and worse.A. if not dealing with properlyB. unless dealing with properlyC. if properly dealt withD. unless properly dealt with第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）There are going to be moments in life when you must make very important decisions. You will find many people 36 to offer you advice if you ask for it (and even if you don’t), but always remember that the life you 37 is yours and nobody else’s. It’s important to decide for yourself what’s important to you and what you wan t before you 38 others. Because while there will be times 39 outside advice proves wise, there will be at least as many times when it proves completely 40 . The only way to really evaluate other folks’ advice is tofirst learn everything that you can about whatever challenge you are 41 . Once you’ve done that, in most cases you should be able to make a wise decision 42 anyway.You were 43 with the ability to decide what is and what isn’t in your best interest. Most of the time, you will make the right decision and 44 the appropriate actions, and in thinking for yourself, you will become far more successful than if you had gone against your own 45 .Early on in my investment career, I made the mistake of 46 a few important business decisions on colleagues’ opinions instead of conducting the 47 necessary to make a wise decision. It wasn’t due to 48 on my part; no one could ever accuse me of that. But, being 49 to Wall Street, I intended to assume that my more senior 50 knew more than I did, and so I 51 too much significance to their opinions.You know what happened? Each of those investments ended in 52 . Eventually I stopped allowing myself to be influenced by 53 and began doing the work myself and making my own decisions. It took me until I was almost 30 years old to 54 this—it’s never too late for a person to change his approach both to 55 and to life.36. A. easy B. ready C. unwilling D. hard37. A. lead B. lend C. take D. earn38. A. look at B. pick up C. turn to D. learn from39. A. that B. since C. when D. while40. A. useless B. useful C. priceless D. clever41. A. getting B. making C. suffering D. facing42. A. on one hand B. on your own C. on the whole D. on all sides43. A. born B. tired C. satisfied D. covered44. A. enjoy B. step C. plan D. take45. A. assumption B. judgment C. condition D. fortune46. A. basing B. depending C. relying D. focusing47. A. research B. search C. resources D. activity48. A. poverty B. laziness C. fear D. diligence49. A. used B. accustomed C. new D. old50. A. students B. brothers C. colleagues D. classmates51. A. owed B. paid C. gave D. held52. A. disaster B. progress C. failure D. success53. A. either B. another C. each D. others54. A. think B. remember C. realize D. recall55. A. payment B. dreams C. happiness D. business第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分）AArrive EarlyPlan your trip so that you’re at the venue(place) well before the scheduled start of the event. Gates open one to two hours before the start of competition at city and Whistler venues. Gates open four hours prior to the start of the Opening Ceremony, three hours prior to the start of the Closing Ceremony and two hours prior to the start of the Victory Ceremonies.Travelling To VenuesIn Metro Vancouver, public transit is the best way to go. I f you’re heading to Whistler, options include commercial motorcoach and rideshare/carpool. Parking for spectators is at the Whistler Paralympic Park spectator(person who watches) parking lots.Dress AppropriatelyDress for cold and wet weather — warmly, in layers and in waterproof clothing. Remember to wear suitable footwear as you may have to walk on uneven, snowy or icy surfaces.Have Your Tickets ReadyBe sure to have your tickets with you as you must have a valid ticket to enter a venue. Treat your tickets like cash; lost or stolen tickets will not be replaced or refunded.Prepare For The Security ScreeningAvoid taking large bags to the venues. If you are unsure of what you can and cannot bring with you, check the prohibited and restricted items list.Your Payment OptionsVisa cards and cash are the only methods of payment accepted at Paralympic venues. AccessibilityAll venues have been reviewed for accessibility. If you have a specific need, see the nearest staff member for assistance.Be InformedAt the venue, look for way-finding signage (招牌), listen to announcements and read the message boards — this will provide you with the information you need to make the most of your experience. Is there still something you need to know? Don’t hesitate to visit o ur information booths located at each venue.56. This passage is most probably written ______.A. to attract more and more spectatorsB. for spectators to know clearly about dos and don'tsC. to remind players what to doD. for spectators to get to the venues more conveniently57. If you go to watch the games, you’d better not ______.A. take a busB. wear warm and waterproof clothesC. take large bags to the venueD. use your visa cards or cash for the payment58. Spectators must enter a venue ______.A. with valid ticketsB. with visa cardsC. with refunded ticketsD. with cashBHere’s an idyllic(田园风光的) scene: a small village where the sun always shines, crops always grow and your friends drop by to sweep your yard to the sound of guitar music. Animals do what they are told, there is no disease, and lending folks a helping hand makes you richer and wiser. Welcome to FarmVille — current population 69m and rising fast.“It reminds me of my childhood,” says one p layer, Lia Curran, 37, a chemist from London. “Right now I’m growing wheat and poinsettia, I’ve got a small orchard, and I’m keeping some chickens and some cows. I like having the animals. It’s comfortable.”Curran’s young animals, however, are nothing mor e than a collection of computer-controlled cartoons. FarmVille is an online computer game built into the social networking site Facebook and is described by its players as “addictive”. Launched last June by Zynga Game Network, FarmVille now has more player s than Twiter’s entire user base — or more than the population of the UK. The players are largely women over the age of 35.Jenny Glyn, 33, a London housewife, started playing in September. “I had a look at a friend’s farm and was hooked,” she says. “My fi rst motivation was to overtake her, but I did that pretty quickly. Now there’s something satisfying about growing crops.”FarmVille intellectually unites the worlds of social networking and gaming. Players are given a patch of ground with six fields, “cash”, a few seeds and a plough and have to build up wealth, skills and neighbors to create bigger, better, richer farms.Inviting your online friends to play means you earn more and get free gifts; you rise rapidly through the first levels but, once hooked, have to work harder and harder with no final level or goal in sight.“It’s very moreish,” says Curran. She hasn’t yet paid real-world money to advance in the game, but her friends do. One buys extra virtual currency at the exchange rate of $240 (£145) in FarmVille for $40 (£24) in the real world.“I’d expanded on FarmVille as much as I could, but I just wanted a pond and some bushes and trees around it,” says the woman, who is too embarrassed to be named. “I didn’t tell my husband I’d paid real money because he’d think I’m mad. But then he did keep me waiting in the car outside our house while he harvested his raspberries.”Brian Dudley, chief executive at Broadway Lodge, an addiction treatment centre, warns that this sort of obsessive(令人着魔的) play can lead to an addiction as severe as gambling.59. What does Curran do in the passage?A. She is a player.B. She is a farmer who grows wheat and poinsettia.C. She is a chemist.D. She is a housewife who raises chickens and cows.60. By FarmVille, the writer means ______.A. an addictive farm on which live 69 million farmersB. a London housewife’s farmC. an online computer game built into the social networking siteD. a farm on which people grow real crops and play as well61. In the last but one paragraph, the husband kept the woman waiting outside ______.A. because he was angry at his wife’s being mad about the farmB. because he himself was busy with his farmC. in order to punish his wife for her having paid real moneyD. so that his wife would wake up from her addiction to the farm62. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?A. The population of the UK is less than 69 million.B. This sort of obsessive play can cause very severe addiction.C. Once hooked, one has to make greater efforts to reach a higher level.D. Up till now, nobody has yet paid real-world money to advance in the play.CA Low-Carbon Economy (LCE) or Low-Fossil-Fuel Economy (LFFE) is an economy which has a smallest output of greenhouse gas (GHG) release into the atmosphere, but specifically refers to the greenhouse gas CO2. Recently, most of scientific and public opinion has come to the conclusion that there is such an accumulation of GHG (especially CO2) in the atmosphere due to human-related activities that the climate is changing. The over-concentration of these gases is producing global warming that affects long-term climate, with negative impacts on humanity in the foreseeable future. Globally performed LCEs therefore, are proposed as a means to avoid catastrophic climate change, and as a forerunner to the more advanced, zero-carbon society and renewable-energy economy.Some nations are low-carbon societies which are not heavily industrialized or populated. In order to avoid climate change at any point in the future, all nations considered carbon-thick societies and societies which are heavily populated, should become zero-carbon societies and economies. Several of these countries have promised to become ‘low carbon’ but not entirely zero carbon, and claim that release will be cut by 100% by offsetting release rather than stopping all release. In other words, some release will continue which will be offset, so they are not low-release.Nations seek to become low-carbon economies as part of a national global warming reduction strategy. A comprehensive strategy to manage global warming is carbon neutrality, geoengineering and adaptation to global warming.Nuclear power, or, the proposed strategies of carbon collection and storage (CCS) have been proposed as the primary means to achieve a LCE while continuing to exploit non-renewable resources; there is concern, however, with the matter of spent-nuclear-fuel storage, security and the uncertainty of costs and time needed to successfully carry out CCS worldwide and with guarantees that the stored release will not leak into the atmosphere. Alternatively, many have proposed renewable energy should be the main basis of a LCE, but, they have their associated problems of high-cost and inefficiency; this is changing, however, since investment and production have been growing significantly in recent times. Furthermore, regardless of the effect to the atmosphere by GHG releases, the growing issue of peak oil may also be reason enough fora change to a LCE.63. Low-carbon economy is encouraged for the following reasons except that ______.A. too much greenhouse gas CO2 is releasedB. the over-concentration of greenhouse gases is producing global warmingC. it can avoid catastrophic climate changeD. low carbon and zero carbon nations and societies claim for it64. The underlined word in the first paragraph probably means ______.A. warningB. pioneerC. symbolD. guide65. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?A. Nuclear power could act as one of the primary means to achieve a LCE.B. There’s worry about s pent-nuclear-fuel storage, security and the uncertainty of costs.C. The stored release will be likely to leak into the atmosphere.D. Renewable energy tends to become the only means to achieve a LCE.66. From the last paragraph, we can infer that the writer’s attitude toward the proposal ofadapting renewable energy is ______.A. negativeB. positiveC. self-confidentD. doubtfulDFor years Tom Anderson’s life was withered up(枯萎) by the memory of his part in a fraternity(友爱，互助会) adventure that resulted in the death of one of his classmates. He and his wife separated after six years of marriage. Then the news about Tom changed. His wife Betty came back; he earned a fine position. One day he told me what had changed his life. “I used to think, ‘Nothing can undo what I have done.’ The thought of my guilt would stop me in the middle of a smile or a handshake. It put a wall betw een my wife and me.”“Then I had an unexpected visit from the person I was most afraid to see — the mother of the college classmate who died. ‘Years ago’, she said, ‘I found it in my heart, through prayer, to forgive you. Betty forgave you. So did your fri ends and employers.’ She paused, and then said seriously, ‘You are the one person who hasn’t forgiven Tom Anderson. Who do you think you are to stand out against the people of this town and the Lord Almighty?’ I looked into her eyes and found there a kind of permission to be the person I might have been if her boy had lived. For the first time in my adult life I felt worthy to love and be loved.”It is only through forgiveness of our mistakes that we gain the freedom to learn from experience. But forgiving our shortcomings doesn’t mean denying that they exist. On the contrary, it means facing them honestly, realistically.Can a person be all-forgiving and still be human? A scientist I know spent four years as a slave laborer in Germany. His parents were killed by Nazi street bullies; his younger sister and older brother were sent to the gas chambers. This is a man who has every reason to hate. Yet he is filled with a love of life that he conveys to everyone who knows him. He explained it to me the other day: “In the beginning I was filled with hatred. Then I realized that in hating I had become my own enemy. Unless you forgive, you cannot love. And without love, life has no meaning.” Forgiveness is truly the saving grace.67. Tom Anderson and his wife separated after six years of marriage probably because ______.A. he had killed one of his classmatesB. he had cared more for his adventure than for his wifeC. his wife looked down upon his poor positionD. his life had been made in a great mess by his deep guilt68. The key reason for which Tom’s life changed back to normal may be that ______.A. his wife Betty came back to himB. the mother of his college classmate asked Betty to forgive him for his guiltC. he eventually learned to face his guilt honestly, realistically and forgave himselfD. he earned a fine position and finally made a lot of money69. The underlined part in the second paragraph means that ______.A. the mother of my college classmate permitted me to be a real personB. even my college classmate would permit me to be what I used to beC. I wouldn’t be a person unless my college classmate permitted me toD. I might have been a successful person if my college classmate had lived70. The best title for this passage could be ______.A. Forgiveness: the saving graceB. Hatred: unrealistic way of livingC. Love: a meaningful worthy lifeD. Guilt: unforgivable mistake第一节任务型阅读(共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分)Even British People Can’t Speak English ProperlyThere are different regional accents across the UK, and a number of regions have several different dialects, that is, they have their own unique vocabulary and grammatical phrases. There were at least six different accents born to London the last time I counted.Worse than that, it is not just where a person is born in the UK that decides their accent. Forexample, a language and its accents often vary across class or level of education. Another example is how language can differ among age groups in the UK. The words and pronunciations used by young people in the UK can be radically different compared with those used by adults.Yoof cultureThe word ‘yoof’ is a slang spelling of ‘youth’. Some people consider ‘yoof’ to be a negative term, since its pronunciation is easier and lazier than ‘youth’. Other people see the term as positive, because it describes how young people are creating their own language, concepts and identity. When people find it difficult to understand their children, the children can say more things than without censorship(审查，检查) of their parents. In this way, young people are starting to find freedom, independence and self-expression. They are creating a ‘yoof culture’.It is not possible to come up with a complete list of words used by yoof. By the time the list was completed, it would be out of date. New words come and go like fashions. However, a few features of the yoof style of language are as follows:◆instead of saying something like ‘That’s good!’ or ‘I understand’, yoof will use a single adjective like ‘Safe!’, ‘Sorted!’, ‘Sound!’, ‘Cool!’ or ‘Wicked!’.◆instead of ‘He then said no!’, yoof will say ‘She was like: no!’◆Instead of ‘She’s attractive!’, yoof will say ‘She’s fine!’ or ‘She’s fit!’◆Instead of ‘I don’t care!’, a yoof will say ‘Whatever!’.New social and political languageCertain groups of society feel threatened by ‘yoof culture’ or by the British working classes having more social freedom. As a result, a negative term now commonly used in the UK is ‘chav’. It is insult and is meant to describe someone who is uneducated and anti-social (e.g. ‘He’s a chav!’). A young person who wears a jacket with a hood(风帽，头巾) (after all, it rains a lot in the UK) is sometimes called a ‘hoodie’. It is a negative term and suggests that the young person is interested in committing crime.Where does that leave us?Learners of English often feel that the best test of their English is how well they can talk to a native speaker. Yet learners should not worry about communicating with native speakers so much. Research conducted by the British Council shows that 94 per cent of the English spoken in the world today is spoken between non-native speakers of the language. In fact, when we think about ‘international English’, there is no such thing as native or non-native speakers. The UK no longer owns the English language.盐城市2009-2010学年度高三年级第二次调研考试单选填空：21-35 CBADA ACBAB AACAD完形填空：36-55 BACCA DBADB AABCC ACDCD阅读理解：56-70 BCACC BDDBD BDCBA任务型阅读：71. regional 72. levels/classes 73. education 74. pronounced 75. Another 76. interested 77. creative 78. Examples79. Whatever 80. international/universal/global。