2012大三英语卷

Part I阅读理解

Passage 1

1. According to the passage, a knowledge of the customs of other races .

A.is very useful

2. A person with good manners think of .

A. the older before himself

3.Which of the following is NOT true? A well-mannered person usually .

C.sits where he is when speaking to a lady

4.If you want to be well-mannered, .

D.you should speak after someone else has finished talking

5.As different countries have different manners,.

B.we should try to find out the differences in the customs

Passage2

6. When the author was a medical student, he ___

C. wanted to be a writer after graduation

7. when the author wrote his first novel, ___

B. he was still studying at the medical school

8. the author gave up medicaine because at that time ____

A. he thought he could make a living by writing

9. For the first ten years of his writing career after his graduation, the author earned an average of￡100a year, which was ____

C. a small sum

10. the manager of the Court Theatre agrred to put on the author's play because ___

C. he failed to arrange a new play in time

Passage 3

11. According to the passage, _____has changed the most in the last 500 years.

A. Food

12. “Some” in "Some still exist today." (Para. 1) means ______.

C. some shops.

13. Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine” because ____ .

D. the potato harvest was bad.

14. Coffee originally came from _____.

C. Ethiopia.

15. The Arabic legend is used to prove that _____ .

A. coffee was first discovered by Kaldi

Passage4

16. The best title for the passage would be ______.

A. Dangerous Sports: What and Why

17. More and more people today______ .

A. are trying activities such as bungee jumping

18. In bungee jumping, you ______.

C. attach yourself to a rope and fall to the ground

19. People probably take part in dangerous sports nowadays because ____.

C. their lives lack excitement

50. The writer of the passage has a _____ attitude towards dangerous sports.

C. neutral

Part II词汇语法

21. C. As22. A. went on telling

23.C. is to attend 24. D. was

25. B. you gave

26._C___ , we decided to leave at once, as we didn't want to risk missing the bus.

A. As it being pretty late

B. It being pretty late

C. It was being pretty late

D. Being pretty late

译文：(时间已晚)，我们决定立即动身，因为我们不想错过这班公交车。【点评】:考察独立主格。

27. B. who is going 28. A. needs repairing

29. C. is locked30. C. Once, till

31. B. did I make32. D. while wandering

33. C. to have kept you waiting34. A. having told

35. A. has been washed away36. A. as qualified as

37. D. left38. A. which

39. D. to find40. C. but for

41. B. will have stayed42. A. keep up

43. C. a good deal of44. C. by means of

45. D. in that46. A. results from

47. B. sports equipment48. B. defeat

49. A. mood50. D. fired