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The historic centre of Vienna has been added to UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage list. Thus, St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Imperial Palace and many oth?er historic buildings are now recognized as being among the 700 outstanding cultural and natural monuments of mankind―others include the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur, the historic centre of Rome, the Kremlin with the Red Square, the Chinese Wall, the Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon.

Vienna's historic centre, in its unity, is considered one of the most beautiful city landmarks in Europe. Three eras left their mark on the former residence of the Habsburgs ： the Middle Ages with Gothic St. Stephen's Cathedral whose spire points towards heaven, one of Vienna's landmarks; the Baroque whose most important achievement is the Imperial Palace with its sumptuous cupolas (奢华的圆顶)；the Ring Boulevard era of the late nineteenth century, when such splendid buildings as the Vienna State Opera and the Museum of Fine Arts were built to replace the former city walls.

The imperial flair of the centre of Vienna is en?hanced (加强)by numerous churches, mansions and parks, as well as by rich art collections gathered by wealthy rulers. And the centuries-old musical tradition ranges from the Court Chapel of the Imperial Palace to Mozart's immortal (不朽的)music and the waltzes of Johann Strauss. Also inseperably linked to the centre of the city are the delights of Viennese cuisine, the gemiitlichkeit of Viennese coffeehouses and nostalgic shopping at former purveyors (伙食承办商)to the im?perial court.

5.  Which of the following is not mentioned as cultural and natural monuments of mankind?

A.The Taj Mahal.

B.The Pyramid Fields.

C.The Kremlin with the Red Square.

D.The Court Chapel.

6.The second paragraph is developed mainly by .

A.following the order of place

B.providing examples

C.making comparisons

D.analyzing causes

7.What do the underlined words "imperial flair" in the last paragraph mean?

A. Culture atmosphere.     B.   Art style.

C.  Royal style.  D.  Royal palace.

8.What is the passage mainly about?

A.The universal value of the world heritage in Vi?enna.

B.Vienna's becoming one of the cultural and natu?ral monuments of mankind.

C.The introduction of the historic centre of Vienna.

D.The special culture atmosphere of the historic centre of Vienna.

【文章大意】本文主要介绍了维也纳历史中心，包括城市的风

格、美食以及与皇室的联系等。

D细节理解题。根据第一段提到"Thus, St. Stephen's Ca?thedral ，the Imperial Palace and many other historic buildings are now recognized as being among the 700 outstanding cul-tural and natural monuments of mankind―others include the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur, the historic centre of Rome, the Kremlin with the Red Square, the Chinese Wall, the Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon."可知这些地方被认为是人类文明优秀的遗迹，故选择D项。

B推理判断题。根据第二段一开始提到维也纳历史中心被认为是欧洲最漂亮的遗迹之一，而后进行了具体举例，故选择B项。

C 词义猜测题。根据最后一段提到"The imperial flair of the centre of Vienna is enhanced (加强)by numerous chur?ches* mansions and parks, as well as by rich art collections gathered by wealthy rulers."可知维也纳中心这种皇室风格也被众多的教堂、豪宅、公园，和富有的统治者的丰富的艺术收藏得以加强，故选择C项。

C主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了维也纳历史中心，包括城市的风格、美食以及与皇室的联系等，故选择C项。

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I.阅读理解

A [2015 ■盐城时杨中学三调] When I was a child, I had an old neighbour named Doc?tor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.

When Doctor Gibbs didn't save lives, he planted trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: "No pain, no gain."He hardly wa?tered his new trees, an attitude which flew in the face of con?ventional wisdom.

Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the stron?gest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not wa?tered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water.

So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the trees' attention.

Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Ev?ery now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some 25 years ago. They were tall and strong.

I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of tending these trees meant they grew up weak. When?ever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity seemed to benefit Doctor Gibbs' trees while comfort and ease never could.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my chil?dren are going to encounter hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is pray for deep roots, so when the rain falls and the wind blows* we won't be torn apart.

1.With those trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often .

 A.     kept watering them every morning

B.     talked to them to get their attention

C.     paid little attention to them

D.     beat them to make them grow deep roots

2.What does the underlined word "Adversity" mean in the sixth paragraph?

 

A.     Difficult living conditions.

B.     Lack of moisture.

C.     Enough care or attention.

D.     Bad weather.

3.  Which prayer does the author wish for his sons?

A.     Have an easy life, without too much to worry about.

B.      Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.

C.      Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their lives.

D.     Meet people like Doctor Gibbs in the future.


B  [2015.四川新津中学高三一诊]

   A group of Russian criminals have stolen 1. 2 billion use-rname and password combinations for more than 500 million e-mail addresses. It's the largest known theft on the Inter?net, according to a report of The New York Times.

   Cyber security firm Hold Security discovered the security breach. The firm found that the group of criminals collected personal information from 420， 000 websites, including household names and small Internet sites. The criminals were based in a small city in southern Central Russia. They hacked websites inside Russia as well as big companies in the US and other countries,T/ie New York Times reported.

The criminals found hundreds of thousands of weak web?sites and attacked their coding, Hold Security said. Alex Holden is the chief information security officer of Hold Secur?ity. "The hackers do not just target US companies; they tar?get any website they can get," Holden said. "And most of these sites are still easy to attack.，，

According to Hold Security, the criminals have been using the stolen information to send junk mail through e-mail and on social networks like Twitter. They can also use the 500 million stolen e-mail addresses to plan other crimes. They could use information from bank e-mails to steal your identity or sell the e-mail addresses to other criminals to make quick cash.

The reported break-ins are the latest events to raise doubts about security in big and small companies. Last win?ter, hackers stole 40 million credit card numbers and 70 mil?lion addresses, phone numbers and other personal informa?tion from the retailer Target Corporation. The brand is still working to regain its shoppers' trust.

John Prisco is the CEO of a security firm. He says secur?ity hackings are more common than many people and compa?nies realize. "This issue reminds me of an iceberg, 90% of which is actually under water," Prisco said in an e-mailed statement. So many cyber breaches today are not actually re?ported, because companies are losing information and they are not even aware of it.

Security experts believe hackers will continue breaking into computer networks unless companies become more pro?tective of personal information.

5.What did a group of Russian criminals do according to the report?

 A.     They stole e-mail addresses of the Internet users.

B.     They destroyed the websites of some big companies.

C.     They attacked American companies in southern Rus?sia.

D.     They downloaded the secret information of some banks.

6.According to Alex Holden, the criminals entered some websites easily because .

 A.     some websites don't have their own coding

B.     most of the websites lack protective measures

C.     Russia is more developed in computer science

D.     the hackers are equipped with high technology

7.What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

 A.     The criminals are fond of using social networks.

B.     The criminals sell the stolen information for money.

C.     The stolen information causes great economic losses.

D.     The stolen information could bring harmful effects.

8. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 imply?

 A.     We cannot tell how large an iceberg is just from the part on the water.

B.     Many companies are unwilling to report their informa?tion stolen.

C.     Many companies are not aware that their information has been stolen.

D.     People usually can see just a small part of an iceberg.

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight (货运)yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can slightly 5the brightness of sunshine and what colour red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but 6 can do strange things to people.

It 7to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been 8 . I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so 9，otherwise. I don't mean that I would pre?fer to go without my 10 . I simply mean that the loss of them made me  11 more what I had.

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of12 to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more    13  his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. The hardest 14         I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was 15       . If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have 16        and become a chair rocker on the front porch (门廊)for the rest of my life.

It took me years to discover and    17    this belief. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball.   I thought he was 18    at me and I was hurt. "I can't use this," I said. " 19  it with you，，， he urged me, "and roll it around. ，， The words stuck in my head.   " Roll it around!" By rolling the ball I could hear   20 it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought   21  ； playing baseball.  At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of    22   . We called it ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my 23 It was no good to try for something I knew at the start that was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of24 . I would fail sometimes anyway but on average I made progress.

 5.A. forget                B. see

C. ignore               D. remember

6.   A. happiness            B. fortune
C. misfortune           D. wealth

7.   A. occurred             B. happened
C. agreed               D. applied

8.   A. clever               B. blind
C. foolish              D. lucky

9.   A. hardly               B. quickly
C. roughly              D. deeply

  10.   A. hands               B. arms

C. eyes                D. legs

11.   A. appreciate          B. arrive

C. believe             D. accept

12.   A. employments         B. investments
C. settlements         D. adjustments

13.   A. meaningful          B. painful
C. fearful             D. careful

14.    A. pleasure            B. lesson
C.  enjoyment           D. trouble

15.    A. unnecessary         B. horrible
C.  unpractical         D. essential

16.    A. broken out          B.  broken through
C.  broken down         D.  broken off

17.    A. strengthen          B. weaken
C.  shorten             D. darken

18.    A. smiling             B. laughing
C.  wondering           D. glaring

19.    A. Bring               B. Borrow
C.  Take                D. Lend

20.    A. where               B. when
C.  why                 D. how

 

21.    A. possible            B. potential
C.  probable            D. impossible

22.    A. basketball          B. baseball
C.  football            D. volleyballl

23.    A. conversations       B. limitations
C.  congratulations     D. educations

24.    A, achievement         B. process
C.  success             D. failure

I.阅读理解

A [2015 .江淮名校高三第二次联考] My old digital camera broke down, so I wanted to buy a new one. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the Internet, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an as?sistant, "Can I have one of those? " He looked perturbed(不安的)."Do you want to try it first? "he said. It didn't quite sound like a question. "Do 1 need to?" I replied, "There's nothing wrong with it. " This made htm look a bit offended and I started to feel bad. "No, no. But you should try it," he said encouragingly. "Compare it with the others."

I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly differ?ent prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y， always trying to take Z and pos?sibly H into account at the same time. But when I had fin-ished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.

But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice ， the clever choice* and the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers…and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupt?ed to ask whether I needed to buy a carry case and a memory card as well. Why do we think that new options still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine. 

  1. The  shop  assistant  insisted  that  the  writer should

A.     trust him and stop asking questions

B.     try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it

C.     get more information about different companies

D.     compare the camera he had chosen with the others

2. What does the writer mean by "it would be worth half what I paid for it"(Paragraph 2)?

 A.     He should get a 50% discount.

B.      The price of the camera would soon fall.

C.      The quality of the camera was not good.

D.     The price of the camera was unreasonably high.

3.The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he_________ .

 A.     knew very little about it

B.     wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best

C.     didn't trust the shop assistant

D.     had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers

4.It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer's
opinion, ________ .

 A.     we waste too much money on cameras

B.     cameras have become an important part of our daily life

C.     we don't actually need so many choices when buying a product

D.     famous companies care more about profit than quality


Researchers are placing robotic dogs in the homes of lonely old people to determine whether they can im?prove the quality of life for humans. Alan Beck, an ex?pert in human-animal relationship, and Nancy Edwards, a professor of nursing, are leading the animal-assisted study concerning the influence of robotic dogs on old people's depression, physical activity, and life satisfac?tion. "No one will argue that an older person is better off being more active, challenged, or stimulated (刺激)，，，Edwards points out. " The problem is how we promote that, especially for those without friends or help. A robotic dog could be a solution.，，

In the study, the robot, called AIBO, is placed for six weeks in the houses of some old people who live alone. Before placing AIBO in the home, researchers will collect baseline data for six weeks. These old people will keep a diary to note their feelings and activities be?fore and after AIBO. Then, the researchers will review the data to determine if it has inspired any changes in the life of its owner.

"I talk to him all the time, and he responds to my voice," says a seventy-year-old lady. "When I'm watc?hing TV, he'll stay in my arms until he wants down. He has a mind of his own.,，

The AIBOs respond to certain orders. The re?searchers say they have some advantages over live dogs, especially for old people. Often the elderly are disabled and cannot care for an animal by walking it or playing with it. A robotic dog removes exercise and feeding con?cerns.

"At the beginning ， it was believed that no one would relate to the robotic dog because it was metal and not furry," Beck says. "But it's amazing how quickly we have given up that belief.，，

"Hopefully， down the road， these robotic pets could become a more valuable health helper. They will record their masters' blood pressure, oxygen levels, or heart rhythms. AIBOs may even 

one day have games that can help stimulate old people's minds.，，

5. The purpose of Beck and Edwards' study is to .

A.understand human-animal relationship

B.find the causes of old people's loneliness

C.make lonely old people's life better

D. promote the animal-assisted research

6.In the research, the old people are asked to   .

A.note the activities of AIBOs

B.keep AIBOs at home for 12 weeks

C. analyze the collected information

D. record their feelings and activities

7. What is the advantage of AIBO over live dogs?

A.It can watch TV with its owner.

B.It can help the disabled people.

C.It responds to all the human orders.

D.It is easier to keep at home.

8.The author seems to suggest that the future robotic

dogs may .

A. keep old people active

B. cure certain diseases

C. change people's beliefs

D.look more like real dogs

Ⅲ.短文改错[2015 •银川一中高三第二次模拟]

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A )，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。On a snowy winter night, a bus with 45 passenger had

an accident because the wet road. And all of them were trap?ping in the bus and what is worse, the bus ran out of gas and it was very cold in it. They could do nothing but to wait for help. A man who lived nearby saw that had happened. He and some villagers succeeded in open the door and helped ail of them out of the bus. He took them to his home but offered food and water and even some warm clothes to the children. They spent two days in their home and finally help came. All of them were thankfully for his help.

I.阅读理解

A [2015 •河南郑州高三模拟]

The year of 2014 saw smart people always busy inventing useful things, which have helped to make the world better, smarter and a little more fun. Now,let's take a look at some of the inventions.

Super banana

  Australian biogeneticist(生物遗传学家）James Dale visi?ted Uganda,a poor African country,in the early 2000s, where he found that 15%〜30% of children under 5 were at the risk of going blind because they didn't get enough vitamin A. Dale also learned that people there love bananas. They eat 3 to 11 bananas a day. So he came up with an idea to plant bananas containing added nutrition in order to improve Ugandans' health. With the help of Bill Gates' foundation,Dale developed the"super banana". He added a gene to the fruit,making it rich in vitamin A.

Coaching basketball

  Basketball is popular worldwide, partly because you only need a hoop(篮簠)and a ball to play the game. But this sim?ple game experienced a technology makeover with the devel?opment of a smart sensor basketball.

The ball, called the 94Fifty Basketball, has 9 sensors in?side. They can tell you anything from how fast you are going to how accurate your shot angles are.

With a Bluetooth chip inside, the basketball can connect to your smart phone and tell you in the voice of a coach to "snap your wrist" or "go faster", depending on the data.

The hovercraft

Thanks to the California-based company Hendo, flying past your friends on a floating board could soon become a re?ality.

The hovercraft has 4 small engines. These create a spe?cial magnetic field which produces enough force to lift the board off the ground.

At the moment ， the hoverboard (悬浮滑板)can only-float an inch off the ground for 15 minutes and must fly over a metal material. It's expensive too, at $ 10,000, but the com?pany hopes that one day the technology could be used.

Wireless electricity

  Most of us could not bear to live without wireless Inter?net. We use it every day for everything from our phones to our cars. But one company wants to go a step further by com?bining wireless technology with electricity.

That's right, no more tangled (缠绕的）wires and no more having to sit and hold your cellphone near a power sock?et (插 座) in the corner of the room. WiTricity, a US compa?ny? has invented technology that can power objects up to 2. 4 metres away. It uses a special plug-in coiK线圈)that creates a magnetic field!

1.Which of the following statements would James Dale agree with?

 A.     Children in Uganda should eat fewer bananas.

B.     Vitamin A is largely found in fruits like bananas.

C.     Super bananas are definitely a safe biological product.

D.     People's eating habits can be used to develop new food.

2.What is the biggest advantage of the 94Fifty Basketball?

 A.     The sensors hidden inside can help players run faster in a game.

B.     It can help players to improve their shooting and ball-handling skills.

C.     It allows players to connect to their smart phones while playing basketball.

D.     The Bluetooth chip inside allows its users to listen to music while playing basketball.

3.What can we learn about the hovercraft from the text?

 A.     It enables its users to float off the ground freely.

B.     It can work on many different kinds of surfaces.

C.     It still needs to improve its power and efficiency.

D.     It is an affordable means of transport for a family.

4.What do the hovercraft and wireless electricity have in common according to the text?

 A.     They create magnetic fields to produce power.

B.     They apply technologies to many things in life.

C.     They are technologies which can produce electricity.

D.     They use wireless technology to improve their prod?ucts.

B [20巧•安徽合肥高三第三次质检]

The secret to a better cup of morning coffee might simply be choosing the right coloured coffee mug(杯).

The colour of a coffee mug can have something to do with the way coffee tastes, according to a recent study, which was conducted in Australia, and tested the influence that three different coloured mugs—one white, one blue, and one clear glass―had on the perception(感知)of different tastes. The researchers served 18 participants the same cup of cof?fee, in one of the three similarly shaped but differently col?oured containers, and then asked them to rate their sweet?ness, smell, bitterness, quality, and acceptability.

It turns out specifically that the white mug was associat?ed with a more intense (浓的)or bitter tasting cup of coffee, and the clear glass mug was not. The blue mug, meanwhile, proved to be "kind of an in-between. ，， The opposite was true for perceived sweetness―participants noted less sweetness when drinking from the white mug than they did when drink?ing from both the blue and clear glass mugs.

Research published this year shows that the colour of a plate has a clear effect on taste intensity and sweetness. And the colour red specifically has even been associated with lower levels of consumption.

A red strawberry looks redder when placed against a white plate than it does against a black one. And there are as?sociations with that redness that in turn can affect taste, Spence explains. "Red might indicate heightened sweetness, because red fruits tend to be more ripe than green fruits," he said. And that indication can be enough to cause a large difference in taste.

In the case of coffee, specifically, the researchers believe that the colour brown might be something people associate with bitterness.  "The white mug may have influenced the perceived brownness of the coffee and this, in turn, may have influenced the perceived intensity and sweetness of the cof-fee," the researchers wrote. That would help explain why clear glass coffee mugs tended to have the opposite effect.

5.After being served the coffee, the participants were asked to_________ ,

 A.     distinguish the colours of the mugs

B.      exchange the ideas about the tastes

C.      judge the mug's influence on the coffee

D.     give an overall description of the coffee

6.Participants considered the coffee in the white mugs

 A.     the bitterest

B.     the least intense

C.     the sweetest

D.     neither intense nor bitter

7. According to Spence, a white container could .

 A.     get the fruit in it riper

B.     keep the taste of food inside it

C.     make the red fruit in it look even redder

D.     reduce the sweetness of the fruit in it

8. If you prefer a clear mug for drinking coffee, it might indi?cate that you .

 A.     don't mind the colour of coffee

B.     would like a sweeter taste of coffee

C.     are accustomed to the bitterness of coffee

D.     are interested in the brownness of the coffee

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