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江苏省南通中学2011—2012学年度第二学期
高一英练习
第一卷（满分85分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
21. —It really shocked us that he should have made such_______ rapid progress in his study in such a short time!
—No surprising. He has been making _______ most of his spare time to study.
A. a; the B. a; / C. /; the D. /; /
22. Studies show that people are more ________ to suffer from back problems if they always sit before computer screens for long hours.
A. likely B. possible C. probable D. sure
23.The speech she made ________ her future made her mother angry.
A. concerned B. concern C. to concern D. concerning
24. If your knowledge can be in some way _______ with my experience, we are sure to succeed.
A. joined B. linked C. connected D. combined
25. No one knows exactly ________ this important discovery was made.
A. that B. what C. that how D. when
26.Though having lived abroad for years, many Chinese still ________ the traditional customs.
A. perform B. possess C. observe D. support
27. Always remember to put such dangerous things as knives out of children’s _______.
A. touch B. sight C. reach D. distance
28. The new shopping mall will be located in ______ used to be a wasteland and a huge garden will be constructed ______ there were numbers of tombs.
A. where; where B. which; in which C. what; where D. which; where
29. No one can tell _______ on earth that created so colorful and amazing a world.
A. what is it B. what it is C. how is it D. how it is
30. Honesty is a basic element in friends-making and that is ______ it requires to keep ever-lasting friendship.
A. how B. what C. whether D. which
31. Eating too much fat can______ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.
A. result from B. contribute to C. attend to D. lead in
32. —What’s the matter with Christine?
—A letter from her parents in California ______ an attack of homesickness.
A. set off B. reached out C. picked up D. held up
33. All the efforts finally ________ in 2007, when the band’s first album won lots of awards.
A. took off B. ran off C. set off D. paid off
34. Human beings are different from animals _______they can use language as a tool to communicate.
A. in that B. for that C. in which D. for which
35.—Do you enjoy your present job?
—_______. I just do it for a living.
A. Of course B. Not really C. Not likely D. It all depends.
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
My mother had been a true inspiration to me and changed the way I look at life. Since my birth she has made it evident that I would become ___36___ so that I would be one of the great ones. She has taught me that I can do anything if I put my ___37___ to it.
As a young boy, I struggled to achieve tasks that seemed ___38___ to others . I had problems with writing, reading, and especially speaking. I did not talk the way ___39___ kids did and did not respond to questions or stay alert(敏感的) to my surroundings. My reading was poor ___40___ with teachers helping me, and my speech was hard to ___41___. My writing was not at the ___42___ it should have been. Even simple things like knowing my left from my right or being able to snap my fingers were ___43___.
My mother ___44___ all my challenges and, as a professor with a PhD, decided to ___45___ the situation early in my development. She did not want me to ___46___. After a while, ___47___ did indeed conquer all the problems that had troubled us. She spent hours every day ____48___ me everything I needed to know, determined to help me learn. ___49___ her I would not be anywhere close to the level I am now.
In addition, she gave ___50___ for my life. She told me what to do and what not to do. Her expectations have always been high ___51___ she knows that I can do it. For that, I thank her. She would not allow her son to be incapable. She never ___52___ on me, and to this day she tells me education is a must. I will be a ___53___ person if I continue to follow her lead. She ___54___ me to work for my grades and attend college.
She used her gifts as a ___55___ to help a child —her child — and now I have the opportunity to become something.
36. A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothing
37. A. mind B. brain C. feelings D. work
38. A. smooth B. strong C. frequently D. easy
39. A. average B. ordinary C. normal D. common
40. A. just B. even C. ever D. only
41. A. hear B. write C. read D. understand
42. A. level B. length C. speed D. degree
43. A. problems B. excuses C. worries D. duties
44. A. suffered B. observed C. removed D. experienced
45. A. study B. find C. change D. keep
46. A. fight B. strike C. struggle D. challenge
47. A. it B. I C. they D. we
48. A. teaching B. giving C. supporting D. reminding
49. A. Without B. Except C. Besides D. Beyond
50. A. information B. advice C. promise D. expectation
51. A. before B. though C. because D. unless
52. A. set up B. pushed up C. gave up D. looked up
53. A. rich B. famous C. successful D. powerful
54. A. suggests B. encourages C. demands D. hopes
55. A. woman B. doctor C. sister D. teacher
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A．
Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次） are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”
The hours she’ s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself——and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”
56. Margaret left her job as a nurse because _______
A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
57. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.
A. they never clean their offices
B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully
D. they always make a mess in their offices
58. When at work, Margaret feels _______.
A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers
B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload
D. bored because time passed slowly
59. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______．
A. help care for her children
B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy (同情) for her
D. feel disappointed in her
B.
The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place
Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet”（节食） everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically (心里) and physically.
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption（消费） of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）instead. All we have to do is to swallow（吞咽） or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them .
60. From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.
A. diet products fail to bring out people’s potential
B. people have difficulty in choosing diet products
C. diet products are misleading people
D. people are fed up with diet products
61. One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _____.
A. try out a variety of diet foods
B. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods
C. pay attention to their own eating habits
D. watch their weight rather than their diet
62. In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.
A. losing weight is effortless B. it costs a lot to lose weight
C. diet products bring no pain D. diet products are free from calories
63. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.
A. are over-consumed B. lack basic nutrients
C. are short of chemicals D. provide too much energy
C.
Can people change their skin color without suffering like pop king Michael Jackson? Perhaps yes. Scientists have found the gene that determines skin color.
The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 per cent of Europeans. The other is found in 93 to 100 per cent of Africans, researchers at Pennsylvania State University report in the latest issue of Science.
Scientists have changed the color of a dark-striped zebra fish to uniform gold by inserting a version of the pigment gene into a young fish. As with humans, zebra fish skin color is determined by pigment（色素） cells, which contain melanosomes（黑色素体）. The number, size and darkness of melanosomes per pigment cell determines skin color.
It appears that, like the golden zebra fish, light-skinned Europeans also have a mutation （变异）in the gene for melanosome production. This results in less pigmented skin.
However, Keith Cheng, leader of the research team, points out that the mutation is different in human and zebra fish genes.
Humans acquired（获得）dark skin in Africa about 1.5 million years ago to protect bodies from ultra-violet rays of the sun, which can cause skin cancer.
But when modern humans leave Africa to live in northern latitudes（纬度）, they need more sunlight on their skin to produce vitamin D. So the related gene changes, according to Cheng.
Asians have the same version of the gene as Africans, so they probably acquired their light skin through the action of some other gene that affects skin color, said Cheng.
The new discovery could lead to medical treatments for skin cancer. It also could lead to research into ways to change skin color without damaging it like chemical treatment did on Michael Jackson.
64. The passage mainly tells us that ________.
A. people can not change their skin color without any pain.
B. the new discovery led to safe ways to change skin color.
C. pop king Michael Jackson often changed his skin color as he liked
D. scientists have found out that people’s skin color is determined by the gene
65. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. nowadays people who want to change their skin color have to suffer a lot from the damage caused by the chemical treatment
B. Europeans and Africans have the same gene
C. the new discovery could help to find medical treatments for skin cancer
D. there are two kinds of genes
66. Scientists have done an experiment on a dark-striped zebra fish in order to ________.
A. find the different genes of humans’
B. prove the humans’ skin color is determined by the pigment gene
C. find out the reason why the Africans’ skin color is dark
D. find out the ways of changing people’s skin color
67. The reason why Europeans are light-skinned is probably that ________.
A. they are born light-skinned people
B. light-skinned Europeans have mutation in the gene for melanosome production
C. they have fewer activities outside
D. they pay much attention to protecting their skin
D.
When I was a child I never said, “When I grow up, I want to be a CEO,” but here I am. When I look back on my career, I realize the road to becoming a CEO isn't a straight, clearly clarified path. In fact, no two paths are the same. But whether you want to be a boss one day or not, there's a lot to learn from how leaders rise to the top of successful companies.
As this series of stories shows, the paths to becoming a CEO may vary, but the people in that position share the qualities of commitment(承诺), work ethic（规范） and a strong desire for building something new. And every CEO take risks along the way—putting your life savings on the line to start a software company or leaving a big business to be one of the first employees at a startup.
I grew up in Minnesota, and learned how to be an entrepreneur（企业家）from my father, who has run a small business for almost 30 years. I went to Georgetown University and tried a lot of business activities in college with varying