完形填空(2)  阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从11~20各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

The theory of evolution was made by Charles Darwin. It has had a great      11       on the world today. It has caused many debates between religious authorities and those from the   12      community. This theory makes people think about their origins. It has changed the way in which they think about themselves in the environment. Charles Darwin collected and provided a lot of information to   13         his theory. His theory and research made him the most popular one in the scientific field of    14         .

Charles Darwin was born in 1809. He was the fourth child in his family. Much of Darwin’s childhood was spent   15     insects and reading books about        16       history. Charles Darwin was not a   17        student during his years at the medical college. He disliked what he was taught. But he   18       an interest in studying rocks and fossils.

Later, he had a chance to travel as a naturalist. It was this chance that made him begin his work on evolution. After a few years’ hard study, he wrote a book called The      19       of Species. In this book, Darwin explained his  20       about “natural selection” and “struggle for existence” .

11. A. effort                  B. effect                C. affect                       D. affection

12. A. scientific             B. social                C. abstract                    D. material

13. A. imagine              B. picture              C. prove                       D. discuss

14. A. heredity              B. physics              C. chemistry          D. evolution

15. A. raising         B. collecting          C. planting                    D. watching

16. A. natural         B. human              C. literature           D. universal

17. A. naughty              B. popular             C. incommunicative       D. good-tempered

18. A. found          B. realized             C. developed          D. announced

19. A. Origin         B. Beginning  C. End                         D. Result 

20. A. ways                  B. ideas                 C. opinions                   D. theory

完形填空(2)     阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从11~20各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect            11           of Chinglish. Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal(照字面意思的) translation of the Chinese greeting with a ruined English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American   12           . I was too amazed to believe her. Her words could not convince me   13           . So I did a search on www.google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages         14           “long time no see”. This sentence has been   15          used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible place. Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily.  16         , if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

  Nobody knows the   17          of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully   18         a world wide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting(引用) Confucius(孔子). “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world thanks to the popularity of these movies.

Some scholars compare America to a huge pot of stew(大熔炉). All kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together, and they   19          the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic(少数民族的) group in the United States, is also influenced some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be   20          in the mixed stew. 

11.A. word                          B. sign                         C. example                   D. change

12.A. custom                B. greeting                   C. habit                        D. proverb

13.A. almost                B. in all                        C. at all                        D. after all

14.A. publishing                  B. printing                    C. containing         D. expressing

15.A. seldom                B. hardly               C. widely                     D. deeply

16.A.Unfortunately              B. Luckily                    C. Suddenly                  D. However 

17.A. use                      B meaning                    C .expression         D. origin

18.A. did                      B. published                 C. created                     D. discovered

19. A. improve                     B. change                     C. lower                       D. promote

20.A. mentioned                  B. used                         C. considered         D. influenced

今年年初我国政府对法定节假日作出如下调整:

1. 五一节由3天调整为1天.

2. 清明节(Tomb-sweeping Day )、端午节(Dragon Boat Festival )、中秋节增设为国家法定节假日(legal holidays).

假如你是王平,是江苏省南京市育才中学高三8班学生。最近,你班举行了一个班会,对此法定节假日调整进行了一次热烈的讨论,讨论结果如下:

75% 学生支持

25%学生反对

理由:

1.作为一个有着五千多年悠久历史的古国,我们的传统节日是中华民族文化遗产的一部分;

2. 每个传统节日都有着它的特定的含义。如每年农历五月初五端午节之际,人们以包粽子、赛龙舟的方式纪念古代大诗人屈原。清明节,人们以不同方式祭祖或向已故亲人好友和英雄寄托哀思、表达崇敬之情。

理由:

1.五一黄金周的取消使很多人尤其是年轻人不能去长途旅游;三天时间度假不够尽兴。

 2.黄金周的取消对于旅游业是个不小的损失。

今天是6月8日,正好是端午节, 你的美国笔友Jack想了解有关中国节假日方面的情况,请根据以上内容,用英语给他写一封完整的英文信,向他介绍我国节假日的调整情况及你们班学生对此的不同意见,并就此调整谈谈你自己的看法.(至少两点)

参考词汇: 粽子: zongzi; 黄金周: golden week;取消:cancellation  n.

(注:本篇字数已大大超过了高考要求,内容仅供同学们做写作时参考。另外,提醒同学们注意完整的书信格式。)

第三部分:阅读理解(第一节20小题,第二节5小题;每小题2分,共50分)

第一节: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,并在答题卷上将该项标号涂黑。

Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working harder than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the great efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunch rooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever increasing output. Thus the "typical" Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comfort and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality.

Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics(批评家). They fear that “assembly line(装配线)life” will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance(优雅), and the cultivation of the good things in life to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a walk by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local café?

Since the late 1950s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the achievements of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. At times, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.

In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.

1.Which of the following is not given as a feature(特色) of the old French way of life?

A. Leisure.           B. Taste.           C. Elegance           D. Efficiency.

2. The passage suggests that _________.

  A. the smell of freshly picked apples is no more popular with the French

  B. it’s now unlikely to see a Frenchman enjoying a walk by the river

  C. in pursuing material gains the French are suffering losses elsewhere

  D. student critics are great in number than the people enjoying the new lifestyle

3. Which of the following is NOT true about Frenchmen?

A. Many of them prefer the modern life style.

B. They actually enjoy working at the assembly line.

C. They are more concerned with money than before.

D. They are more competitive than the old generation.

4.Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?

  A. Great changes have occurred in the French way of Life.

  B. The new life style in France is facing serious criticism.

C. France has been pushed in the forefront of the world economy.

D. Frenchmen used to be lazy and only enjoy life conveniences.

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