[重庆]2012年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语

--John, when shall we meet again, Thursday or Friday?
--___________.I’ll be off to London then.

--Kevin, you look worried. Anything wrong?
--Well, I         a test and I’m waiting for the result.

to work overtime that evening, I missed a wonderful film.

Sam has been appointed _______ manager of the engineering department to take ____ place of George.
A. /, /                 B. the, /             C the, the            D./, the

--you interrupt now? Can't you see I'm on the phone?

--Sorry sir, but it's urgent.

--The Modern Art Exhibition in the City Museum has been cancelled.
--Oh, no!           .

Food supplies in the flood-stricken area          . We must act immediately before there’s left.

We’re having a meeting in half an hour. The decision        at the meeting will influence the future of our company.

Sales director is a position         communication ability is just as important as sales.

—Coach, can I continue with the training?
—Sorry, you can’t            you haven’t recovered from the knee injury.

Before you quit your job,            how your family would feel about your decision.

It was 80 years before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic        Zheng He sailed to East Africa

The headmaster will not permit the change in the course, nor         it a thought.

Evdence has been found through years of study         children’s early sleeping problem are likely to continue when they grow up.

—Look, here comes your dream girl. Invite her to dance.
—______What if she refuses me?

I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early __36___of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to ___37____my parents.
At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with __38___at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, "something else to ___39___!" Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father ever thought it a waste of time.
At that age, I always did something ___40___to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found ____41___, I would plant a garden!
I planted some lily（百合花）seeds in the yard. But they failed to ___42___.I continued to plant sunflower seeds and roses. Wild ___43___joy, I found the first rose bloom（开花）.One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. __44___, I was touched by this land of wonder.
___45___, my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even ___46___at me because he found it was ___47___to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother's ___48__, I put in her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds ____49___flowers.
Regardless of their ___50___,I kept on planting my garden and ___51___to enjoy the pleasure of gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, they ___52____to care and love.
It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to ___53___my parents. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show which makes my parents feel very ___54_ . And now I could say it is my affection for ___55___that makes me a real gardener.

One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift . Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装).
On September 11^th ，1958，Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying, “I promised you a gift , and here it is.” What an honor！I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories .I told it over and over how much I loved it!
One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing bad been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days I Heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as “hopeless”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded ominous.
Christmas was coming. “Don’t expect any presents this year,” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. “If your baby brother lives, that’ll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes filled with tears. I’d never seen him cry before .
The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He’s all right?” He hung up and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard home !”
“Thank God !” I heard Mum cry .
From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!
what happened to the author on September 11^th , 1958?

What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean？

Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?

What is the passage mainly about ?

Top lists are lecturing people on everything from “100 places to visit” to “100 books to read ”.
Aren't you just tired of being told what to do with your time?
Now you have a list to end all lists!
Take a look at the following two examples from the list of “101 things not to do”:
Swim with Dolphins（海豚）？
Swimming with dolphins is one of the world’s most profitable tourist activities. However, every dolphin will welcome having their busy, tiring day interrupted by tourists screaming and pushing around them in the water. Worse yet, when dolphins get too near to the boats loaded with tourists, they could get caught up in ropes and killed by propellers(螺旋桨).
Here’s a little secret. Dolphins look like smiling at you, but actually they’re just opening their mouths.
Go to See the Mona Lisa?
There must be something about the mysterious(神秘的)smile. The 6 million people who visit the lady in the Louvre every year can’t all be wrong, after all. But they can be quite annoying, standing in front of you, holding up their cameras to prevent you from seeing anything. In fact, it is hard for you to see the painting clearly because you have to stay away from it for security reasons. After queuing for hours, many tourists can remain in front of the painting only for 15 seconds at most.
If the mysterious lady in the picture knew her fate, she wouldn’t just be smiling, she’d be laughing.
So, still long to see the Mona Lisa? If you want to find out more about the list, read 101 Things NOT to Do Before You Die. Visit www.not2dobeforeidie.co.uk and buy the book at a 20％ discount.
According to the passage, swimming with dolphins________.

What does the author think about going to see the Mona Lisa?

The list of “101 things not to do” is made most probably because its author_______.

What is the main purpose of the passage?

There is no better way to enjoy Scottish traditions than going fishing and tasting a little bit of whisky(威士忌)at a quiet place like the Inverlochy Castle. When Queen Victoria visited the castle in 1873, she wrote in her diary, “I never saw a lovelier spot ,” And she didn’t even go fishing.
Scotland is not easily defined. In certain moments, this quiet land of lakes and grasses and mountains changes before your very eyes. When evening gently sweeps the hillside into orange light, the rivers, teeming with fish, can turn into streams of gold . As you settle down with just a fishing pole and a basket on the bank of River Orchy, near the Inverlochy Castle , any frustration(烦恼) will float away as gently as the circling water. It’s just you and purple, pink, white flowers, seeking a perfect harmony. If you are a new comer to fishing, learning the basics from a fishing guide may leave you with a lifetime’s fun. For many, fishing is more than a sport; it is an art.
Scotland offers interesting place where you can rest after a long day’s fishing. Set against a wild mountain and hidden behind woodland, the beautiful Inverlochy Castle Hotel below the Nevis is a perfect place to see the beauty of Scotland’s mountains. Ben Nevis is the highest of all British mountains, and reaching its 1343-metre top is a challenge. But it’s not just what goes up matters; what comes down is unique. More than 900 metres high, on the mountain’s north face, lies an all-important source of pure water. Its name comes from the Gaelic language “usquebaugh” or “water of life”; and it is the single most important ingredient(原料) in Scotland’s best known drink: whisky.
The story of Queen Victoria is to show that _____.

How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?

What is Ben Nevis special for?

What is the main purpose of the passage?

To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians（基督教徒）ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil（邪恶的）. So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to be the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell（地狱）.What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Tough the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruit—or is it a vegetable?” As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an “evil fruit”.
But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert  Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. “What are you afraid of?” he shouted. “I’ll show you fools that these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.
The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ______.

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3 ?

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?

What is the main purpose of the passage ?

In his 1930 essay "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren ", John Keynes, a famous economist, wrote that human needs fall into two classes: absolute needs ,which are independent of what others have , and relative needs ,which make us feel superior to our fellows. He thought that although relative needs may indeed be insatiable (无止境的) , this is not true of absolute needs.

Keynes was surely correct that only a small part of total spending is decided by the desire for superiority. He was greatly mistaken, however, in seeing this desire as the only source of insatiable demands.

Decisions to spend are also driven by ideas of quality which can influence the demands for almost all goods, including even basic goods like food. When a couple goes out for an anniversary dinner, for example, the thought of feeling superior to others probably never comes to them. Their goal is to share a special meal that stands out from other meals.

There are no obvious limits to the escalation of demand for quality. For example, Porsche, a famous car producer, has a model which was considered perhaps the best sport car on the market Priced at over $120,000, it handles perfectly well and has great speed acceleration. But in 2004, the producer introduced some changes which made the model slightly better in handling and acceleration. People who really care about cars find these small improvements exciting. To get them, however, they must pay almost four times the price.

By placing the desire to be superior to others at the heart of his description of insatiable demands, Keynes actually reduced such demands. However, the desire for higher quality has no natural limits.

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Dear Grandpa,
How are you those days? I have been missing you very
_________
much after I went to college a year ago. Whenever I think of
_________
the old days, I feel very happily. I still remember when I
_________
was child, you always held me in your arms and told me stories
_________
till I fall asleep. We often went to the fields to enjoy the pleasant
_________
view there. You told me the name of different plants and their
_________
characteristics. Gradually, I became interesting in biology
_________
and chose to learn biology when I entered into the college. Now
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my friend Ann, together with me, are going to do field study
________
and the findings will be use as materials for our research. Since
________
we’ll do the study in our hometown, I hope to see you by then.
Yours,
Daisy

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