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高三英语练习三十六
命题人：许永新
一、单项填空
1. ______ fashion differs from country to country may reflect the cultural differences from one aspect.
A. What
B. That
C. This
D. Which
2. Americans eat ______ vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.
A. more than twice
B. as twice as many
C. twice as many as
D. more than twice as many
3. Please follow your supervisor’s instructions, or you’ll ______ him.
A. discourage
B. offend
C. disturb
D. bother
4. Luckily, the bullet narrowly missed the captain ______ an inch.
A. by
B. at
C. to
D. from
5. In order to gain a bigger share in the international market, many state-run companies are striving ______ their products more competitive.
A. to make
B. making
C. to have made
D. having made
6. As far as I am concerned, education is about learning and the more you learn, ______.
A. the more for life are you equipped
B. the more equipped for life you are
C. the more life you are equipped for
D. you are equipped the more for life
7. It has been announced that candidates ______ remain in their seats until all the papers have been collected.
A. can
B. will
C. may
D. shall
8. Though ______ money, his parents managed to send him to university.
A. lacked
B. a lack of
C. lacking
D. lacked in
9. It is hard for me to imagine what I would be doing today if I ______ in love, at the age of seven, with the Melinda Cox Library in my hometown.
A. wouldn’t have fallen
B. had not fallen
C. should fall
D. were to fall
10. ---When shall we start?
---Let’s ______ it 8:30. Is that all right?
A. set
B. meet
C. make D．take
二、完形填空
As a child, I was truly afraid of the dark and of getting lost; these fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments.
Maybe it was the strange __11__ things looked and sounded in my familiar room at night that __12__ me so much. There was never total __23__, but a streetlight or passing car lights __14__ clothes hung over a chair take on the __15__ of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my __16__, I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no __17__ . A tiny sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the daylight. My __18__ would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would __19__ very still so that the “enemy” would not discover me.
Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, __20__ on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home —that was no__21__ . After school __22__ ,when all the buses were__23__ up along the street, I was afraid that I’d get on the wrong one and be taken to some__24__ neighborhood. On school or family trips to a park or a museum , I wouldn’t __25__ the leaders out of my sight .
Perhaps one of the worst fears__26__ all I had a child was that of not being liked or__27__ by others. Being popular was so important to me __28__, and the fear of not being liked was a __29__one.
One of the processes of growing up is being able to__30__and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that frightened us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.
11 .A. way B. time C. place D. reason
12. A. wounded B. destroyed C. surprised D. frightened
13. A. quietness B. darkness C. emptiness D. loneliness
14. A. got B. forced C. made D. caused
15. A. spirit B. height C. body D. shape
16. A. eye B. window C. mouth D. door
17. A. breath B. wind C. air D. sound
18. A. belief B. feeling C. imagination D. doubt
19. A. lay B. hide C. rest D. lie
20. A. especially B. simply C. probably D. directly
21. A. discussion B. problem C. joke D. matter
22. A. though B. yet C. although D. still
23. A. called B. backed C. lined D. packed
24. A. old B. crowded C. poor D. unfamiliar
25. A. leave B. let C. order D. send
26. A. above B. in C. of D. at
27. A. protected B. guided C. believed D. accepted
28. A. then B. there C. once D. anyway
29. A. strict B. powerful C. heavy D. right
30. A. realize B. remember C. recognize D. recover
三、阅读理解
A
Professor Reason recently persuaded 35 people to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for two weeks. When he came to analyse their embarrassing errors, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groups.
One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning, threw her pet dog her ear-rings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer,” explains the professor. “People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the wom an’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her ear-rings. But somehow the action got reversed（颠倒）in the programme.”About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these “programme assembly failures.”
Twenty per cent of all errors were “test failures” --- primarily due to not verifying the progress of what the body was doing. A man about to get his car out of the garage passed through the back yard where his garden jacket and boots were kept, put them on --- much to his surprise. A woman victim reported: “I got into the bath with my socks on.”
The comm onest problem was information “storage failures”. People forgot the names of people whose faces they knew, went into a room and forgot why they were there, mislaid something, or smoked a cigarette without realizing it.
The research so far suggests that while the “central processor” of the brain is liberated from second-to-second control of a well-practised routine, it must repeatedly switch back its attention at important decision points to check that the action goes on as intended. Otherwise the activity may be “captured” by another frequently and recently used programme, resulting in embarrassing errors.
31. The purpose of Professor Reason’s research is __________.
A. to show the difference between men and women in their reasoning
B. to classify and explain some errors in human actions
C. to find the causes which lead to computer failures
D. to compare computer functions with brain workings
32. Which of the follow ing might be grouped under “programme assembly failures”?
A. A woman went into a shop and forgot what to buy.
B. A man returning home after work left his key in the lock.
C. A lady fell as she was concentrating on each step her feet were taking.
D. An old man, with his shoes on, was trying to put on his socks.
33. The word “verifying” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.
A. improving
B. changing
C. checking
D. stopping
34. According to the passage, the information “storage failures” refer to __________.
A. the destruction of information collecting system
B. the elimination of one’s total memory
C. the temporary loss of part of one’s memory
D. the separation of one’s action from consciousness
B
Imagine that the genome (基因组) is a book. The book consists of 23 chapters with thousands of stories made up of paragraphs, words and letters on different levels. There are one billion words in the book, which makes it longer than 5,000 volumes the size of this book or as long as 800 Bibles. If I read the genome out to you at the rate of one word per second for eight hours a day, it would take me a century. If I wrote out the human genome, one letter per millimeter, my text would be as long as the River Danube. This is an enormous document. A huge volume, a cook book of great length, and it all fits inside the extremely small nucleus (核) of a tiny cell that fits easily upon the head of a pin.
The idea of the genome as a book is not, strictly speaking, even a metaphor (比喻), it is true to a great extent. A book is a piece of digital information, written in one-directional form and defined by a code that translates a small alphabet of signs into a large dictionary of meanings through the order of their groupings. So is a genome. The only complication is that all English books read from left to right, while some parts of the genome read from left to right, while some parts of the genome read from left to right, and some from right to left, though never both at the same time. While English books are written in words of different lengths using twenty-six letters, genomes are written entirely in three-letter words, using only four letters. And instead of being written on flat pages, they are written on long chains of DNA molecules (分子). The genome is a very clever book, because in the right conditions it can both photocopy itself and read itself.
35. How do human genomes read according to the passage?
A. Only from left to right.
B. Only from right to left.
C. From both directions at the same time
D. From one direction at a time
36. It can be concluded that the passage is mainly written for ________..
A. specialists in the field
B. general readers
C. natural scientists
D. readers with academic background
37. The real purpose of the author’s comparison of the genome to a book is________.
A. to focus on the differences between the two
B. to lay emphasis on the similarities between the two
C. to simplify the concept of the human genome
D. to give an exact description of the human genome
四、任务型阅读
What is waste and why does it matter?
Waste or rubbish is something that people throw away because they no longer need it or want it. Almost everything we do creates waste and as a society we are currently producing more waste than ever before. We do this at home and at work. The fact that we produce waste, and get rid of it, matters for the following reasons
When something is thrown away we lose the natural resources, the energy and the time which have been used to make the product. The vast majority of resources that we use in manufacturing products and providing services cannot be replaced. The use of these resources cannot go on indefinitely—we would run out.
When something is thrown away we are putting pressure on the environment's ability to cope —in terms of the additional environmental impacts associated with extracting the new resources, manufacturing and distributing the goods, and in terms of the environmental impacts associated with getting rid of our rubbish.
When something is thrown away we are not able to see it as a resource. It is well understood that what is waste to one person may not be viewed as waste by another. A good example of this is scrap metal which has been recycled for many years. Increasingly people are realizing that it makes economic sense as well as environmental sense to use "waste" rather than just throw it away.
The process of using up the earth's natural resources to make products which we then throw away, sometimes a very short time later, is not "sustainable"—in other words, it cannot continue indefinitely.
The way we consume materials will affect whether we have a sustainable society that leaves resources available for future generations to use. As consumers and producers, we are central to the concept of sustainability. We need to think about how we can get more out of less, how we can use less and throw away less and how we can do better things with our so-called "waste" than
高三英语练习三十六
一、单项填空
1—5 BDBAA 6---10 BDCBC
二、完形填空
11—15 ADBCD 16---20ABCDA 21----25BACDB 26---30CDABC
三、阅读理解
31---34 BDCC 35---38 DBC
四、任务型阅读
1. what
2. impacts/effects
3. lost
4. used
5. under
6. fail
7. instead
8. available
9. Suggestions/Tips/Advice 10. sense/concept。