2010年高三名校精华重组英语试题（3）

— Do you think an advertisement is ____ help when you look for a new job?
— Well, it all depends. Anyway, it gives me more of ____ chance to try.

After____seemed an endless effort, the patient was finally able to carry out ___seemed a perfect normal walk.

．— Excuse me, could you tell me where I could make a call?
— Sorry, I’m a stranger here.
— ____.

English is a language that many people around the world ____ not speak perfectly but ____ at least understand.

— Which of those electronic dictionaries do you like most?
— ____. They are both expensive and of little use.

After the long journey, the Smiths returned home, ____.

— We didn’t find the Blacks _____ the lecture.
— No one had told him about ____ a lecture the following day.

— What do you think of the price of these computers?
— They are at least equal in price to, if not cheaper than, ____at the other companies.

— It’s getting dark earlier than before, isn’t it?
— Yes. I think so. I see ____ is on already.

— Joan was badly injured in the accident yesterday and she was sent to hospital.
— Oh, really? I ____. I ____ visit her.

．— I ____ to your birthday party last Sunday.
— Unfortunately, you were out on business.

However, at times this balance in nature is disturbed, _    ___ a number of possibly unforeseen effects.

The artist __ the judge gave a prize is the teacher __ I have been taught painting for over three years.

— How about the concert last night?
— Well, at least it’s ____ the one I saw last time with Joan.

They have _____ most carefully the time and money needed to complete the project.

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项
Time is the easiest thing in the world to waste—the most difficult to control. When
you look ahead, it may appear you have 36        you need. Yet it has a way of slipping 37        your fingers like quicksand. You may suddenly find that there is no way to stretch the little time you have 38        to cover all your obligations. For example,
39           a beginning student looking ahead to a full term you may feel that you have an oversupply of time on your hands.40         toward the end of the term you may be
41         because you are running out of time. How can you do? —Control!
Time is 42        . If you don't control it, it will control you. If you don't make it work for you, it will 43        you. You must become the master of time, not the servant. “Study hard and play hard” is an old saying, but it still 44       . You have plenty of time for classes, study, work, and play if you use your time 45        . It is not how much time you 46          for study that counts but how much you learn when you do study.
Too much wasted time is 47         medicine. The more time you waste, the easier it is to continue wasting time. Soon, doing nothing becomes a habit you can't 48        . You will be 49        to wasting time. When this happens, you 50       your feeling of accomplishment and you fall by the wayside. A full schedule is a good schedule. Some students 51          to hear the time message. They refuse to 52        the fact that college life demands some53             of time control. There is no escape. So what's the next step? If you seriously want to get the time message, the next passage will give it to you. 54           — it will not only improve your grades but also free you to        55         college life more.
36．A．less than            B．more than         C．rather than        D．other than
37．A．by                B．between           C．through           D．on
38．A．saved            B．left               C．remained          D．wasted
39．A．since              B．because            C．for              D．as
40．A．Although          B．But                C．Therefore         D．Otherwise
41．A．angry             B．brave              C．worried           D．eager
42．A．money            B．friendly            C．enough           D．dangerous
43．A．work out           B．work on           C．work at            D．work against
44．A．makes sense         B．makes no use        C．makes up          D．makes it
45．A．immediately        B．properly            C．apparently         D．shortly
46．A．allocate            B．spend              C．save              D．take
47．A．bad               B．good           C．useful             D．alternative
48．A．get along with      B．get close to         C．get rid of          D．get down to
49．A．crazy              B．achieve             C．catch              D．lose
51．A．hesitate            B．refuse              C．.like              D．want
52．A．accept             B．receive            C．ignore             D．imagine
53．A．disagreement        B．agreement         C．degree             D．standard
54．A．Forget             B．Remind           C．Think             D．Remember
55．A．hate               B．enjoy              C．dislike             D．assess

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.
The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.
Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.
Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.
Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.
Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.
56．Which of the following is not true?
A．Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.
B．There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet.
C．There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet.
D．There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet.
57．The survey shows that__________.
A．Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email.
B．Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment.
C．All of the people reported like to play games on-line.
D．Most of the people reported read online news.
58．Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?
A．TV    B．Sina  C．telephone  D．QQ
59．The underlined word “exceeded” means             .
A．increased to     B．increased by     C．risen  D．decreased

In the early part of the twentieth century, racism was widespread in the United States. Many African Americans were not given equal opportunities in education or employment. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an African American woman who gained fame as a concert singer in this climate of racism. She was born in Philadelphia and sang in church choirs during her childhood. When she applied for admission to a
local music school in 1917, she was turned down because she was black. Unable to attend music school, she began her career as a singer for church gatherings. In 1929, she went to Europe to study voice and spent several years performing there. Her voice was widely praised throughout Europe. Then she returned to the US in 1935 and became a top concert singer after performing at Town Hall in New York City.
Racism again affected Anderson in 1939. When it was arranged for her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed it because of her color. She sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial for over 75 000 people. In 1955, Anderson became the first black soloist to sing win the Metropolitan Opera of New York City. The famous conductor Toscanini praised her voice as “heard only once in a hundred years”. She was a US delegate to the United Nations in 1958 and won the UN peace prize in 1977. Anderson eventually triumphed over racism.
60．According to this passage, what did Marian Anderson do between 1917 and 1929?
A．She studied at a music school. B．She sang for religious activities.
C．She sang at Town Hall in New York.      D．She studied voice in Europe.
61．Toscanini thought that Marian Anderson             .
A．had a very rare voice      B．sang occasionally in public
C．sang only once in many years  D．was seldom heard by people
62．Anderson’s beautiful voice was first recognized         .
A．at the Lincoln Memorial  B．in Washington, DC.
C．in Europe        D．at the United Nations
63．This passage shows that Anderson finally defeated racism in the US by                   .
A．protesting to the government  B．appealing to the United Nations
C．demonstrating in the streets     D．working hard to perfect her art

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: “I’m only a 1050. ”The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT）, which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all. The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus at this time of their life.
It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over. The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life’s doors will remain forever closed.
According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student’s future performance in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indicators——like a student’s high school grades. Even if standardized tests like the SAT could show a student’s academic proficiency（学业水平）,they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student’s potentialities（潜力）. This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process. The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students. However, it should be only one of many methods used.
64．The purpose of the SAT is to test students’   .
A．strong will                   B．academic ability
C．full potentialities             D．confidence in school work
65．Students’ self-respect is influenced by their   .
A．scores in the SAT                B．achievements in mathematic
C．job opportunities                    D．money spent on education
66．“A prestigious university”is most probably     .
A．a famous university              B．a technical university
C．a traditional university            D．an expensive university
67．This passage is mainly about  .
A．how to prepare for the SAT        B．stress caused by the SAT
C．American higher education        D．the SAT and its effects

Language as a System of Symbols
Of all systems of symbols(符号）, language is the most highly developed. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual(相互的）dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs, throats, tongues, teeth, and lips systematically stand for certain happenings in their nervous systems. We call that system of agreements language.
There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which it stands for. Just as social positions can be symbolized by feathers worn on the head, by gold on the watch chain, or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in, so the fact of being hungry can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in.
However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other, yet we all have a way of feeling as if, and sometimes acting as if, there were necessary connections. For example, there are people who feel that foreign languages are unreasonable by nature; foreigners have such funny names for things, and why can’t they call things by their right names? This feeling exhibits itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough. Like the little boy who is reported to have said: “Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals,” they feel that the symbol is inherently(内在地） connected in some way with the things symbolized.
68．Language is a highly developed system of symbols because human beings ______.
A．have made use of language for centuries      
B．use our nervous systems to support language
C．have made various noises stand for any events
D．can make anything stand for anything by agreement
69．What can we conclude from Paragraph 2?
A．Different noises may mean different things. 
B．Our culture determines what a symbol stands for.
C．The language we use symbolizes our social positions.
D．Our social positions determine the way we are dressed.
70．In Paragraph 3, “take special pains” probably means “_____”.
A．try very hard    B．take our time    C．are very unhappy     D．feel especially painful
71．The example of the little boy is used to show that _____.
A．adults often learn from their young   
B．“pig” is a dirty word because pigs are dirty
C．words are not connected with the things they stand for
D．people sometimes have wrong ideas about how language works

There are two kinds of physical activity which require special training. The first demands exact careful movements of the muscles（肌肉）. This kind of activity must be strictly controlled because even a slight movement in the wrong direction will lead a mistake. To type quickly, for example, a person needs training; the slightest movement of a finger in the wrong direction may cause a spelling mistake. A dancer who has to dance on the point of her shoes or turn around on one foot must be trained for a long period of time before she can sense her own center and balance herself. You may have seen a girl walking on a rope across an empty space, which, too, requires a lot of practice.
The second kind of physical activity needs greater strength or extra effort. Most of us get tired if we try to run half a mile without stopping, but a specially-trained person can do this without much effort. Three years ago, some scientists carried out experiments, which produced meaningful and unexpected results. They wanted to find out whether a certain amount of physical exercise would injure those suffering from heart problems. They selected some male patients and trained them in continuous bicycle riding. They were surprised to find that the harmful effect of given amount of physical effort was actually less on the hearts of these trained patients than on those of the patients who were not similarly trained. This is important because it shows that regular physical exercise enables us to make better use of the oxygen（氧气）we breathe in and that this training, in fact, reduces the amount of work our hearts do. Many tasks which are hard for untrained people are not hard at all for trained people.
72．The first kind of physical activity must be strictly controlled because _________.
A．a mistake in the wrong direction is dangerous to the fingers
B．a wrong movement in a direction will cause no mistakes
C．a movement in the wrong direction will cause a mistake
D．a slight movement of a finger will lead to a mistake
73．What must a dancer do before she can balance herself?
A．She must dance on the point of her shoes.     B．She must receive long-time training.
C．She must turn around on one foot.         D．She must perform again and again.
74．The experiments done by some scientists showed that ________.
A．some male patients were asked to ride bicycles regularly in the experiments
B．the physical exercise had more harmful effect on the hearts of the untrained patients
C．the physical exercise was harmless to the male patients with heart trouble
D．the physical exercise could be helpful for the patients to take in more oxygen
75．What would be the best title for this text?
A．Training Our Bodies                B．Physical Activities
C．Movement Training                 D．Extra Body Effort

第二卷（两部分，共35分）
第一节 请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，在方框的右栏标有题号的横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确的形式，使对话通顺。
Jack(J)：Where have you been, Laura?
Laura(L): Oh, I’ve just been to a s   76      made76_________________
by a famous p   77    from Beijing University77_________________
J: What is it about?
L: He mentioned something c    78    the concept of “harmonious society” in his speech.
78_________________
J: Oh, that’s something people keep t   79    about
nowadays! Then what did he say about it?79_________________
L: He said that we should not only get a   80   well with
other people, but also live in harmony with n  81     .80_________________
81_________________
J: I’m in complete a  82     with him. While developing 82_________________
the economy, we are i   83     with the ecology.    83_________________
L: Yes. It’s high time we considered doing something
to improve the environment p   84    by human beings.  84________________
J: Hopefully, our government is taking m   85     to
deal with the consequences.85________________

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华。你班最近就“大学生是否经济独立”话题展开讨论，大家发表了不同的看法。请你根据下面所给内容，写一封信给《21世纪报高中生版》”Your Words”栏目，反映讨论情况。

15%的同学（包括你在内）觉得双方的观点都有一定的道理，但又不完全赞同。请简述你自己的看法。
注意：1．文章的起始句已经给出；
2．词数100左右（不包括起始句）；
3．参考词汇：报答：repay ；学费：tuition fee；经济独立: financially independent
Dear Editor,
I’m writing to tell you about a recent discussion we have had on whether or not university students should be financially independent.
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Thank you for reading my letter.
Yours,