高三英语能力提升周练六

出题人：Magic.清 人生为棋，我愿为卒，行动虽慢，可谁曾见我后退一步！ 2013年1月29日

Practice6（本试卷仅供第六小组所有成员使用）2013.2.2 name：

一、单项选择题：

1．---Is there any possibility of _______ the match? ---I’m not sure.

A. our team to win B. our team winning C. our team will win D. our team won 2. –Did all these funny things happen in your club? --No, it was in the class _______I studied English.

A. when B. where C. that D. which

3. The exam turned out to be very easy, ____I hadn’t expected. A. as B. what C. which D. it

4. The bus rolled into the valley, _______ over 20 deaths.

A. caused B. having caused C. causing D. to cause 5. He was glad that his experience in the army finally ________. A. paid back B. paid for C. paid about D. paid off 6. Make marks _______ you have questions.

A. which B. in which C. where D. in where

7. I won’t give in ________ great difficulties I come across in my life.

A. however B. whichever C. whatever D. wherever 8. Please award the prize to _________comes first in the competition.

A. who B. whom C. whoever D. whomever 9. It is such a difficult problem _______ no one can work out. A. as B. that C. so D. thus

10. The manager insisted on ________ out the plan at once.

A. I carried B. me carry C. I carry D. my carrying

二、完形填空

Lightning flashed through the darkness over Sibson’s bedroom skylight（天窗）.Sibson was shaken by a clap of thunder ____11___ he knew what was happening. The storm had moved directly _____12____ his two-story wooden house. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping.

Sibson rushed down the stairs barefoot to 13 ; he opened the door to the basement（地下室）, and flames 14 out. Sibson ran back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom. “I felt 15 because the room had a separate outdoor stairway,” he explains.

But the phone didn’t work, and when he tried to go down the outdoor stairway, he was 16 by a wall of flames. Sibson realized he was trapped（困住）. Sibson’s house was three kilometers 17 the main road and was so well hidden by trees that he knew calling for help would be 18 .

Up a hill nearby lived Sibson’s neighbor, Huggons. He was lying in bed when something like a smoke alarm 19 his ears. He jumped out of bed, took his 20 and flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the 21 . That was when he saw the rolling heavy smoke.

Huggons dialed 911, and the operator warned him not to 22 the house. But Huggons said, “There is no way I am going to listen to Sibson 23 and die in that fire.”

“Anyone there?” Huggons called out. Then he heard “Help! I’m trapped!” coming from the second floor balcony（阳台）. He entered the house, but soon had to run back to catch his 24 .

After one more 25 inside the house, Huggons gave up and 26

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around back.

The wind parted the smoke just 27 for him to catch sight of Sibson. But there was no way to get to him. He 28 the flashlight into the woods and noticed a ladder. He took it over to the balcony and 29 Sibson down just as the second floor of the house fell off.

Sibson is still 30 when he tells the story. “ I was alone that night,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Huggons.” 11. A. before B. while C. since D. until 12. A. on B. in C. through D. over 13. A. hide B. wait C. check D. escape 14. A. moved B. gave C. went D. exploded 15. A. safe B. worried C. glad D. tired 16. A. burned B. stopped C. shocked D. covered 17. A. beside B. off C. across D. along 18. A. limited B. false C. fruitless D. regretful 19. A. struck B. missed C. touched D. passed 20. A. coat B. key C. basin D. phone 21. A. noise B. road C. smoke D. danger 22. A. search B. enter C. leave D. damage 23. A. call B. roll C. scream D. sigh 24. A. breath B. attention C. ladder D. flashlight 25. A. stay B. chance C. thought D. attempt 26. A. climbed B. circled C. looked D. jumped 27. A. clear B. open C. enough D. fit 28. A. led B. put C. drove D. shone 29. A. persuaded B. kicked C. pulled D. forced 30. A. nervous B. surprised C. proud D. thankful 第二部分 阅读理解

A

On a hill 600 feet above the surrounding land, we watch the lines of rain move across the scene, the moon rise over the hills, and the stars appear in the sky. The views invite a long look from a comfortable chair in front of the wooden house.

Every window in our wooden house has a view, and the forest and lakes seldom look the same as the hour before. Each look reminds us where we are.

There is space for our three boys to play outside, to shoot arrows, collect tree seeds, build earth houses and climb trees.

Our kids have learned the names of the trees, and with the names have come familiarity and appreciation. As they tell all who show even a passing interest, maple（枫树）makes the best fighting sticks and white pines are the best climbing trees. The air is clean and fresh. The water from the well has a pleasant taste, and it is perhaps the healthiest water our kids will ever drink. Though they have one glass a day of juice and the rest is water, they never say anything against that.

The seasons change just outside the door. We watch the maples turn every shade of yellow and red in the fall and note the poplars’（杨树）putting out the first green

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leaves of spring. The rainbow smelt fills the local steam as the ice gradually disappears, and the wood frogs start to sing in pools after being frozen for the winter. A family of birds rules our skies and flies over the lake. 31. What can be learned from Paragraph 2? A. The scenes are colorful and changeable.

B. There are many windows in the wooden house.

C. The views remind us that we are in a wooden house.

D. The lakes outside the windows are quite different in color.

32. By mentioning the names of the trees, the author aims to show that ______ . A. the kids like playing in trees

B. the kids are very familiar with trees C. the kids have learned much knowledge D. the kids find trees useful learning tools

33. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean? A. The change of seasons is easily felt. B. The seasons make the scenes change. C. The weather often changes in the forest.

D. The door is a good position to enjoy changing seasons. 34. What is the main purpose of the author writing the text? A. To describe the beauty of the scene around the house. B. To introduce her children’s happy life in the forest. C. To show that living in the forest is healthful. D. To share the joy of living in the nature.

B

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● The offer is of two kinds: ￡20 per room, valid（有效的）during stay period of 02/04/2012—31/05/2012 and then again 01/09/2012—31/10/2012；￡35 per room, per night, valid during stay period of 01/06/2012—31/08/2012. ● The offer is valid for a basic twin or double room only.

● The stay must be booked directly with the chosen B&Bs before 28/04/2012. ● Each voucher can only be used by the holder to book one room for one night.

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● Vouchers must be presented on arrival. If no vouchers are presented, the B&Bs may reserve（保留）the right to charge at full price for every night of stay. ● Vouchers may not be used together with any other offer.

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● The voucher holders must pay for the stay in full at the time of booking. Additional ￡10 may be paid to confirm（确认）the booking and will be returned on arrival.

● The B&Bs reserve the right to refuse voucher holders’ bookings for people under the age of 18.

35. The voucher can be used for a stay at the chosen B&B on ______.

A. 09/01/2012 B. 04/02/2012 C. 01/03/2012 D. 28/04/2012 36. How much should be paid for a two-night stay in October 2012 at a chosen B&B? A. ￡70 B. ￡40 C. ￡35 D. ￡30 37. What right do the B&Bs reserve?

A. To charge extra ￡10 for bookings with no vouchers. B. To refuse bookings for guest under the age of 18. C. To charge at full price for stays not confirmed. D. To request extra charges as tips.

38. By taking up the offer, the voucher holders can choose to ______ . A. book either a basic twin or double room at the chosen B&Bs B. have lunch or evening meal without paying extra money C. use the B&B offer together with other offers D. book the stays though B&B Daily

C

I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.

I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.

It takes confidence to make a new start — there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a navel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside. Then I met an agent（代理商）who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.

The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.

It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）.

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39. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean? A. I was waiting for good fortune.

B. I was trying to find an admirable job. C. I was being aimless about a suitable job.

D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time. 40. The author decided to write a novel ______ . A. to finish the writing course B. to realize her own dream C. to satisfy readers’ wish D. to earn more money

41. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?

A. Disturbed. B. Ashamed. C. Confident. D. Uncertain. 42. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph? A. It pays to stick to one’s goal. B. Hard work can lead to success.

C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.

D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.

D

In a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology（MIT）said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.

Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX. “Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses,” Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the plan. MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes materials from more than 2,000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people who complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program. The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.

MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source edX platform.

“Fasten your seatbelts,” Hockfield said.

Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.

The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit（非盈利的）organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.

43. According to this text, edX is _______. A. a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWare

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B. a free computer program by MIT and Harvard C. a Harvard-MIT platform of free online courses D. a free program online for universities worldwide 44. What is said about online education in the text? A. Universities have been trying online courses. B. About 2,000 online courses have been offered.

C. Over 100 million people have finished courses online. D. Stanford and Yale together have courses similar to edX.

45. The underlined part in the text probably means “ ”. A. Get ready for the difficulties

B. Get ready for this educational change

C. Get prepared to complete the online courses

D. Get prepared to make materials for the edX courses 46. What can be said about MITx according to the text? A. It is first offered as part of the edX learning program. B. It is another free MIT-Harvard online learning program. C. It is a standard to recognize online learners’ achievement. D. It is a new kind of free online course of Harvard and MIT.

E

Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted（预测）in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.

Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say.

Increased carbon dioxide（CO2）in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.

“Predicting species’ reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology,” said the researches of several U.S. universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.

The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1,634 species. It found that some experiments had underestimated（低估）the speed of flowering by 8.5 times and leafing by 4 times.

“Across all species, the experiments under-predicted the speed of the advance — for both leafing and flowering — that results from temperature increases,” the study said.

The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change, it said.

Plants are necessary for life on the Earth. They are the base of the food chain, using photosynthesis（光合作用）to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. They let out oxygen which is needed by nearly every organism on the planet. Scientists believe the world’s average temperature has risen by about 0.8℃ since 1900, and nearly 0.2℃ every ten years since 1979.

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So far, efforts to cut emissions（排放）of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to prevent the Earth heating up beyond 2℃ this century — a point scientists say will bring the danger of a changeable climate in which weather extremes are common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and rising sea levels. 47. What is the key information the author wants to give in Paragraph 1? A. Plants’ reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystem. B. The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists’ expectation. C. Climate change leads to the change of food production patterns. D. Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.

48. We can learn from the study published on the Nature website that ______. A. plants’ flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafing B. there are 1,634 plant species on the four continents C. scientists should improve the design of the experiments

D. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change 49. Scientists pay special attention to the study of plants because _______. A. they can prove the climate change clearly B. they are very important in the food chains

C. they play a leading role in reducing global warming D. they are growing and flowering much faster than before

50. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs about the world’s temperature? A. It has risen nearly 0.2℃ since 1979.

B. Its change will lead to weather extremes. C. It is 0.8℃ higher in 1979 than that of 1990. D. It needs to be controlled within 2℃ in this century. 补全对话：

— What seems to be the problem? — 51

— How long have you been like this? — Since Saturday night. — ____ 52

— Yes, I also feel lighthearted.

— Can you think of anything you ate Saturday that might have caused it? — All I can think of is the fish I had. It didn’t taste quite right.

— ____ 53 Now I’ll give you some medicine. Take it and you should be feeling better soon. — ____ 54

— I also suggest that you follow a special diet. — ____ 55

— You should stick to eating lighter foods.

A. What’s that? B. That might be it. C. Thank you, doctor.

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D. Any other problems? E. I have a running nose. F. Have you seen a doctor?

G. I have a terrible stomachache.

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。(请注意问题后的词数要求)

When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch . I loved it, wore it for years, and haven't had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don't need one. I have a mobile phone and I'm always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices(装置) tell the time—which is why, if you look around, you'll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.

But while the wise have realized that they don't need them, others—apparently including some distinguished men of our time—are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to￡250,000 for a piece.

This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang

cheap clothes, But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions—but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years' school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?

If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds' worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.

Watches are now classified as \投资). A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly￡350,000,while 1960s Rolexes have gone from ￡15,000 to ￡30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It's a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up they've been. rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of the ￡350,000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.

56. What would be the best title for the passage.'? (within seven words)

57. Do you think it is worthwhile to buy expensive watches? Why?

58. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words. (wi-thin 3 words)

59. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

Since all the instruments tell time, it is easy to find that a lot of people don't wear watches any longer.

60. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.

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改错：

Last night when Steven and I was having a walk in the Street, we suddenly heard a painful cry for help under a tree nearby. We quickly ran to the tree and found a boy laying on the ground with a stick in his leg. He had fallen of the tree. Steven suggested we pulled the stick out at once, but I disagreed, Because I had learned little about first aid at school. The stick in the leg would help controlling the bleeding. As there was no telephone,we managed to find a taxi. We took the boy to the hospital. The doctors examined the boy fast and we got to know where the boy lived. So we telephoned his parents and left after he came to the hospital. We did a good deed.

书面表达 （每次的作文可以不写哈，把范文看看就行了）

假设你是星光中学的李华，将参加主题为\Ride Bicycles\的英语演讲比赛。请撰写一份演讲稿，主要内容包括：

1．目前汽车带来的空气污染和交通堵塞等问题；

2．骑自行车的益处：至少三点

参考词汇：低碳生活（low-carbon life）；节能（energy saving）

注意：1．词数：120词左右； 2．演讲稿开头和结尾已给出 Good morning, everyone,

I am Li Hua from Xingguang Middle School． The topic of my speech is \Ride Bicycles\．

_______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________Thank you!

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参考答案：

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31-50 ACADD BBACB DACAB CBCBD 51-55 GDBCA

56. Watches? Not for Me

57. Yes,it is. Because the expensive watch suggests I am in good condition. 或No,it isn't. Because the cheap watch can tell the correct time as well as it an expensive one. 58. better than

59. All these devices tell the time——which is why, if you look around, you'll see lots of empty wrists.

60. 按道理讲，当日本人知道怎样制造出价值五英镑而又走时准确的手表时，瑞士的手表工业就应该关门歇业了。

改错1. was→were 2. help后加from 3. laying→lying 4. of→off

5. pulled→pull6. little前加a 7. controlling→control 8. √ 9. fast→quickly 10. he→they

作文范文：

Good morning, everyone,

I am Li Hua from Xingguang Middle School. The topic of my speech is \Ride Bicycles\

As is known to us, cars bring us a lot of problems. Air pollution , the most serous one, has make it hard for humans to live in the world with good health . And with more and more people buying private cars, traffic become heavier and heavier. Therefore, it’s high time we chose another better means of transport, that is, cycling.

There are many good reasons to ride bicycles. First of all, compared to cars, bicycles are much cheaper to buy and maintain, and you don't have all the added costs of fuel, and parking. What's more, bicycles are more environmentally friendly than cars, because they hardly make noises and exhaust. Cycling has become a new trend around the world, a good way of energy saving and low-carbon life. Last but not least, cycling is an excellent way to keep fit and live longer. By riding bicycles, you can cut down your risk of heart attacks, high blood pressure and

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So I think, riding bicycles actually has great effects on us. Let's ride bicycles from today on!

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So I think, riding bicycles actually has great effects on us. Let's ride bicycles from today on!

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