2011广东省高州市高三摸底考试

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第二部分：语言知识及运用(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：完形填空(共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项。

In 1162, deep in the heart of Asia, a child was was holding a blood clot (血块) in his hand, a sign from 21 that he was bound to be a great life was to become a 22 , his name ——Genghis Knan.

The boy, who would become Genghis Khan, was called was the son of a he was only nine years old, he 23 news that was to change his life.

Many believe that his story is simple, and that he was an evil, 24___ barbarian (野蛮人) who killed the real character of Genghis Khan is __25___ did this uneducated person 26 the separated tribes of Mongolia into a powerful nation and revolutionary weapons that finally 27 Europe? His troops ___28_ from China’s Pacific Coast to Europe’s Adriatic Sea, creating the ___29___ for one of the greatest continental empires of all why on his deathbed, did he believe his 30 remained unfulfilled? Shortly after his death, his heirs gathered their memories into a poem to memorize and sing highly of his called it the Secret History of the Mongols.

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第二节：语法填空

In many countries, ___31___ is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space.___32___, in the United States, this idea may still be considered odd.

But this type of housing, ___33___(call) co-housing, is gaining ___34___ (popular) in the United States, -housing complexes are popping up across the many people, this way of life is a relief to the busy modern lifestyle.A co-housing community has ___35___ (private) owned houses and shared e is often a “common house” with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music t 25 co-housing communities ___36___ (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned.

A co-housing complex is a place ___37___ residents shop, cook, and eat dents of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared dren have other kids to play ___38___, ___39___ many families r residents like the feeling of living in a “ village”dents also say that they can live in co-housing for ___40 ___ money than they would pay for nearby apartments.

第三部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节：阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分为30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

Americans wear black for mourning Chinese wear erners think of dragons as ese honor them as symbols of ese civilization has often shown such polarities (极性) with the West, as though each stands at extreme ends of a global in the University of California, Berkeley, psychologist has discovered deeper polarities between Chinese and American cultures — polarities that go to the heart of how we reason and discover truth.

His findings go far toward explaining why American cultures seem to contentious and Chinese cultures so passive, when compared to each importantly, the research opens the way for the peoples of the East and the West to learn from each other in fundamental Chinese could learn much from Western methods for determining scientific truth, said Kaiping Peng, a former Beijing Scholar, who is now a UC Berkeley assistant professor of Americans could profit enormously from the Chinese tolerance for accepting contradictions in social and personal life, he said.

“Americans have a terrible need to find out who is right in an argument,” said Peng.“The problem is that at the interpersonal level you really don’t need to find the truth, or maybe there isn’t any.” Chinese people, said Peng, are far more content to think that both sides have flaws and virtues, because they have a holistic awareness that life is full of do far less blaming of the individual than do Americans, he added.

In studies of interpersonal argument, for example, when subjects were asked to deal with contradictory information stemming from conflict between a mother and a daughter or a student and a school, Peng found that Americans were “non-compromising, blaming one side — usually the mother — for the causes of the problems, demanding changes from one side to attain a solution and offering no compromise” in dealing with the ared to this angry, blaming American stance, the Chinese were paragons (模范) of compromise, finding fault on both sides and looking for solutions that moved both sides to the middle.

Paragraph 1, the author sets examples in order to _____.

se the contradiction between Chinese and Americans

the differences between Chinese culture and American culture

the reason for the differences

ralize the main idea of the passage

underlined word “contentious” in Paragraph 2 probably means _____.

ervative essive

ctive mistic

ared with Americans, Chinese are _____.

ly to find the truth in life

ctant to admit their own failure

ctant to have a general idea of things

ly to know advantages and disadvantages of things

studies show that _____.

American treats his or her mother badly

erent ideas of treating the aged

erent personality of Chinese and American

erent conflicts of Americans and Chinese

main idea of the passage is _____.

rities between American and Chinese culture

rities of American culture to Chinese

erent attitudes towards the aged

erent manners in social occasions

B

The earth’s most rich resource — water has become one of the most precious resources in the United States as rivers, lakes, and freshwater reservoirs are increasingly exploited for human equently, using precise farming techniques to refine “irrigation scheduling” is a research area of particular interest to Susan Moran, a researcher with the US department of explains that in the southwest, irrigation is both difficult and e, she says, farmers have a tendency to over irrigate, spending both more time and money than is necessary.

“I’m trying to provide new information that could be used by farmers to schedule irrigations to improve their profitability and use less water,” Moran says.“Farmers often look at weather changes and then schedule irrigation based on that if they had better information, they could use scientific models to compute more precisely how much water their crop is using.”

Rather than guessing their crop’s potential need for water based upon weather changes, farmers can use remote sensors to measure how much water their crop is actually would give them a more accurate measure of how much more water it needs.

Moran believes that if farmers are getting good and timely measurements of plant and air temperature, then they can program when and how much water to give each crop through an irrigation more water would be used than needed, thus saving cost and conserving water.

Moran introduces one study she conducted in Arizona to investigate the use of remote sensing data for scheduling cotton cally, those farmers irrigate ten times per growing season, but evidence showed that some of those farmers could achieve basically the same harvest with only nine irrigations.

“In those cases, one less irrigation saved more than all the cost of remote sensing data,” she states.“Both irrigation and satellite remote sensing data are then again many farmers are used to working together as a are used to sharing.I’m hoping they could do the same with remote sensing data — purchase one scene over a large area to cover many farms, which would further reduce the cost.”

does Moran think is the problem with farmers?

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gation researches. -irrigation.

can farmers get the new information about their crop?

reschedule irrigation as required.

watch weather changes regularly.

use remote sensors as researchers suggest.

use scientific models since computing is more reliable.

do farmers check upon when they decide how much water each crop needs?

itability te sensors cost temperature

’s the purpose of Moran introducing the study she carried out in Arizona?

investigate the use of remote sensing data.

support whether her viewpoint in the previous right

criticize those farmers who used too much water.

is among the best possible ways to help save farmers’ money?

ging irrigation ing sensing data

ng one computer nding the farms.

C

Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live rs say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and e is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international only was there the incident of tragedy involving murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused principally by minor national contests.

One country received its second-place medals with visible anger after the hockey e had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the losers objecting to the final were convinced that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents’ victory was r manager was in a rage when he said; “This isn’t ey and the International Hockey Federation are finished.” The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension of the team for at least three years.

The American basketball team announced that they would not yield first place to Russia, after a disputable end to their game had ended in was thought at first that the United States had won by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play.A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player popped it into the was the first time the US had ever lost an Olympic basketball appeal jury(评审委员会) debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would American players then voted not to receive the silver medals.

Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals or in non-national teams, might be too much to hope in present organization of Olympics there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism (爱国主义).

author thinks that in recent years Olympic Games have _____.

ed little international friendship tly encouraged international brotherhood

ted goodwill between the nations ted only misunderstanding and hatred

did the manager mean by saying “This isn’t ey and the International Hockey Federation are finished”?

is not a standard hockey match.

federation would not exist any longer after this match was over.

team would not enter the game in three years.

unfair decision ruined both hockey and the Federation.

basketball match showed that _____.

essive patriotism was displayed in the incident

Russian team should not have taken advantage of the last three seconds

appeal jury was too inefficient in making a decision

American team should have taken the first place

author gives two examples in the 2nd and the 3rd paragraphs in order to show that _____.

ests often end in disorder

contests are fair in Olympic Games

etition discourages international friendship

ir decisions are common in sports

h statement best summarizes this passage?

etes should compete as individuals.

organization of the Olympic Games must be improved.

team that has disrespectful behavior should be suspended.

erent teams often have disputes when fighting for the first place.

第二节信息匹配(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，按照要求匹配信息。并将答案填写在答题卷标号为56-60的相应位置上。首先，请阅读下列应用文：

请阅读以下读者的信息，然后匹配读者和他/她最适合的杂志：

travels a lot when he was that he has stopped his work, he enjoys reading about foreign people, places and customs even if he has already visited that part of the world.

is a university student studying Italian and doesn’t have much time to read anything very detailed but she is looking for something with plenty of news and information.

serves as an assistant to the general manager of an American company in Los is very interested in management and the use of high technology.

till now Brigitte has never traveled far ,so this year she has decided to go abroad for the first travel agent suggests that she should read about various countries first before choosing her holiday.

n likes is interested in buying clothes and she needs to be offered advice on clothes.

Ⅳ写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)

你是China Daily的一名记者，负责编写有关美国新当选总统巴拉克·奥巴马的英语介

绍。

[写作内容] 请根据以下中文提纲，编写一篇有关巴拉克·奥巴马的英语介绍：

[写作要求]只能使用5个句子表达全部内容

第二节：读写任务(共1小题，满分25分)

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

The Beaver and Its Goal

Last fall there was a beaver moving in the small stream beside our immediately began taking down small trees, and within a couple of weeks our small stream turned into a small y day he added more to his dam and to his house.

With the stream now dammed up and his house built, we thought that would be the last of the beaver’s busy activity as winter set ,to our amazement, he started chewing on a very large maple the winter, when the weather allowed, he kept coming back and would chew a bit more.

With spring finally arriving, we went down to see the beaver’s progress and sure enough the tree was going to come down soon! The beaver’s original goal was to build a home for the ing every day with that particular focus in mind, he achieved that the large maple tree he started chewing on last fall was a future goal----he wanted the large tree for the spring, to provide new food and branches to continue damming in anticipation of the spring ,even with the setbacks he faced over the winter, he never gave up.

Sometimes we have a goal to just survive, but we also need to set goals for is also very important that when faced with setbacks in achieving a goal, you need to stay focused and don’t let the setbacks discourage you.

写作内容

1.以约30个词概括短文的要点;

2然后以120个词以“目标与成功”为主题发表看法，并包括一下要点：

(1)你认为制定目标很重要吗?

(2)你认为制定目标后怎样才能成功;

(3)举例说明你是如何制定目标并努力去实现目标的。

写作要求

1.可以使用事例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文的句子;

2.标题自定。

评分标准：概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。