（2011·安徽卷）B

Think about the different ways that people use the wind. You can use it to fly a kite or to sail a boat. Wind is one of our cleanest and richest power sources（来源）, as well as one of the oldest. Evidence shows that windmills（风车）began to be used in ancient Iran back in the seventh century BC. They were first introduced to Europe during the 1100s, when armies returned from the Middle East with knowledge of using wind power.

For many centuries, people used windmills to grind（磨碎）wheat into flour or pump water from deep underground. When electricity was discovered in the late 1800s, people living in remote areas began to use them to produce electricity. This allowed them to have electric lights and radio. However, by the 1940s, when electricity was available to people in almost all areas of the United States, windmills were rarely used.

During the 1970s, people started becoming concerned about the pollution that is created when coal and gas are burned to produce electricity. People also realized that the supply of coal and gas would not last forever. Then, wind was rediscovered, though it means higher costs. Today, there is a global movement to supply more and more of our electricity through the use of wind.

60. From the text we know that windmills              .

A. were invented by European armies

B. have a history of more than 2800 years

C. used to supply power to radio in remote areas

D. have rarely been used since electricity was discovered

61. What was a new use for wind power in the late l9th century?

A. Sailing a boat. 

B. Producing electricity.

C. Grinding wheat into flour.

D. Pumping water from underground.

62. One of the reasons wind was rediscovered in the 1970s is that             .

A. wind power is cleaner

B. it is one of the oldest power sources

C. it was cheaper to create energy from wind

D. the supply of coal and gas failed to meet needs

63. What would the author probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A. The advantage of wind power.

B. The design of wind power plants.

C. The worldwide movement to save energy.

D. The global trend towards producing power from wind.

【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据末段句子Today, there is a global movement to supply more and more of our electricity through the use of wind可知，接下来作者应该谈论利用风能发电的情况，因此选择D项。

How pleased the Emperor was _____ what the cheats said.

　 A. hearing 　 B. heard  C. hear 　 D. is hear

第二节：完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分,满30分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

         Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles ,it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth .Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.

         When James was a teenager, his father   31   him to a fur factory where he worked. This was during the Great Depression. The   32  was to get James a job.

         He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the   33   had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the  34  were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying,   35  a thickened air ,and the workers,   36   the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles  37  the boss marched up and down the rows ,searching for them to go faster .James could hardly   38  . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t  39  at him , too.

         During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   40 if there was any work for his son. But   41   there was barely enough   42   for the adult labours ,for no one would give it up once he takes a job.

         Thus, for James, it was a   43  . He hated the place. He made a   44   that he kept to the end of his like: he would never do any work that brought   45   to someone else ,and he would never allow himself to   46   money off the seat of others.

         “What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.

         “I don’t know,” he   47   say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like   48   , and he ruled out medicine , because he couldn’t take the   49  of blood.

         “What will you do?”

50  , my best professor I ever had became he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

31．A．sent   B．took   C．carried       D．admitted

32．A．situation    B．condition   C．idea   D．attitude

33．A．lights B．floors C．chances     D．walls

34．A．goods         B．workers     C．machines   D．vehicles

35．A．creating     B．sending      C．taking         D．disturbing

36．A．collecting   B．pulling        C．drawing     D．sewing

37．A．as       B．after  C．if         D．though

38．A．breathe      B．see     C． walk          D．hear

39．A．attack         B．scold  C．defeat        D．scream

40．A．doubting    B．questioning        C．asking         D．demanding

41．A．also    B．still     C．yet     D．even

42．A．time   B．work  C．office D．occupation

43．A．comforting         B．regretting C．blessing     D．forgiving

44．A．request      B．promise     C．plan   D．arrangement

45．A．harm B．injury C．damage     D．inconvenience

46．A．pay     B．save   C．make D．let

47．A．should        B．would         C．could D． might

48．A．police          B．lawyers      C．judges        D．government

49．A．sight  B．feel    C．sense          D．scenery

50．A．Generally   B．Luckily         C．Eventually     D．Basically

Dear Dad,

I was very upset when I received your letter. I knew you  36  not like my results, but I didn’t realize you and Mum were so  37  with me. This has made me  38  very carefully about myself, and now I  39  how silly I have been.

My poor  40  have come from my own  41 . Of course, I want to do my best. I want you and Mum to be proud  42  me, but somehow when I get to school I just can’t keep my   43  on the subject and I stop  44  the teacher. So many other things seem so much more  45 , but I know that I must not  46  the chance you and Mum have given me. If I don’t work very hard  47  the next few months, I am going to get  48  results. So I am going to study hard this summer. And I will show Mum anything  49  I can’t understand so that she can give me help.

I  50  you will allow me to play some basketball. I think I need some exercise,   51 _ I will control the time I   52  on it properly.

If you want me to stop meeting Cindy, I will — but there is  53  serious. We are just good friends, and she often helps me  54  my schoolwork.

Dad, I am really sorry I have made you angry. I’m going to try my best to  55  my study. I promise that I will make you proud of me soon.

    Yours,

    Jimmy

1.A. will                      B. would        C. need                  D. should

2.A. angry                    B. upset         C. strict                   D. happy

3.A. talk                     B. speak          C. think                  D. hear

4.A. receive                   B. believe         C. insist                  D. realize

5.A. results                   B. memories     C. parents                 D. friends

6.A. stubbornness           B. carelessness     C. laziness                D. illness

7.A. of                   B. with           C. in                     D. for

8.A. head                      B. mind           C. eyes                 D. heart

9.A. listening to                B. to listen to      C. hearing              D. to hear

10.A. boring                  B. dull            C. beautiful            D. interesting

11.A. find                    B. share           C. waste                D. afford

12.A. during                  B. at             C. through             D. until

13.A. better                   B. best          C. poorer              D. poorest

14.A. which                   B. that          C. whom               D. what

15.A. wish                    B. advise        C. hope                D. decide

16.A. and                     B. but            C. so                 D. because

17.A. spend                  B. take           C. cost                D. pay

18.A. everything              B. something     C. anything             D. nothing

19.A. in                     B. on            C. with               D. by

20.A. develop                 B. improve              C. interest              D. finish

He didn’t _____ to the news.