2013届高三英语一轮总复习考点提升训练试题集(三十七)

2013届高三一轮总复习考点提升训练英语试题集（三十七）单项选择21.【2012届江西省六校联考】---An explosion at a coal mine killed at least 62 workers and left another 13 missing.— Yes, _________ news came as ________ shock to us all.A. the; theB. /; /C. /; aD. the; a22.【2012届河北省普通高考模拟】25. The boy________be really annoying at times，but after a while，you’ll get used to him．A. mustB. should C．shall D. can23. —You’ve worked there for half a year. What do you think of your boss? — He is a person who would try his best to _____ his purpose.A. accomplishB. settleC. performD. undertake24. The telephone was hung up ___ I could answer it.A. sinceB. untilC. beforeD. after25. I’d like to buy a h ouse—modern, comfortable, and____, in a quite neighborhood.A. in allB. above allC. after allD. at all26. You really ______ be too careful, for it’s a challenging job.A. needn’tB. cannotC. shouldD. must27. Whoever wants to go hiking this weekend, raise your hands, _______?A. do youB. don’t youC. will youD. will they28. speaking, I think spiders are indeed disgusting.A. HonestlyB. OfficiallyC. ObviouslyD. Fluently29. They made friends with each other and formed a band in 1998, but then__________ after a quarrel about its future.A. broke downB. broke upC. split awayD. departed away30. The village I grew up _________ was destroyed by the earthquake last year and is under construction now.A. inB. in itC. in thatD. in which31．John is not good at music, but when ______ comes to English, he is the best in the class.A. heB. thisC. itD. that32. The new building will be built _________ was a wasteland 30 years ago.A. in whatB. whereC. in whichD. there33． two compositions to write. you have to work really hard this weekend. A．With B．Besides C．As for D．Because of34. In students’ eyes，a good teacher should have many good virtues，but _____ ，he or she should be knowledgeable.A. above allB. after allC. first of allD. in all35. During World War Ⅱ, he took many photos, _____ some captured the emotions of both the soldiers and the civilians in war-torn Europe.A. from themB. of whichC. by whichD. among them三、完形填空（2012·山东省山东师大附中高三最后一次模拟）It was a cold winter’s night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work.I was tired and had a slight 36 .I worked in a 37 doctor’s office and t his was one of those days when the unexpected happened, making the schedule run 38 than usual. It seemed I was going to be late 39 home and my husband, being the 40 person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again. Maybe 41 I hurried, I could still make it home.I was heading inside to 42 for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter. I heard them asking for 43 to the local hospital. It was the same hospital that I had just 44 a few minutes ago.The young man at the counter was trying to be 45 in explaining how to get there, with two other people making 46 . One of them was 47 trying to give them a whole different route back. It was then that I walked over to the couple and said, “Would you like to foll ow me to the 48 ?”A look of 49 crossed the woman’s face.“I’m going right by there,” I said, which wasn’t a(an) 50 since I had just made up my mind to do 51 that.I got in my car and began the journey back. I was trying to watch to be sure they were right 52 me. It took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to 53 . I felt better than I had all day and my headache was nearly gone.Later, as I arrived home, my husband 54 , “So you aren’t ever late any more.”I said, “Sometimes it’s 55 to be late.”36. A. break B. fever C. cold D. headache37. A. foreign B. common C. busy D. noisy38. A. earlier B. later C. easier D. simpler39. A. getting B. cooking C. calling D. working40. A. tough B. punctual C. generous D. careful41. A. as B. since C. while D. if42. A. pay B. change C. wait D. search43. A. opinions B. trouble C. directions D. money44. A. reached B. visited C. called D. left45. A. skilled B. helpful C. experienced D. active46. A. comments B. promises C. jokes D. offers47. A. only B. still C. even D. ever48. A. station B. office C. hospital D. hotel49. A. panic B. relief C. sadness D. peace50. A. duty B. fact C. reason D. lie51. A. partly B. properly C. exactly D. perfectly52. A. across B. before C. beside D. behind53. A. go up B. die down C. speed up D. turn down54. A. teased B. shouted C. burst D. laughed55. A. possible B. special C. good D. safe四、阅读理解（2012·江西省上高二中高三考前热身卷）AOscar the cat seems to have an unnatural ability for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up (蜷伏) next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live. "Many family members take some comfort from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a doctor and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.The 2-year-old cat was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia (痴呆) unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where the facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd smell and observe patients, then sit beside people who would end up dying in a few hours. Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said."Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work here," said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill. She was convinced of Oscar's talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn't eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish color, signs that often mean death is near. Oscar wouldn't stay inside the room, though, so Teno thought bis streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor's prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient's final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill that they probably don't know he's there, so patientsaren't aware he's a predictor of death. Most families are grateful for the advance warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.No one's certain if Oscar's behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat senses mysterious scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him. Nursing home staff aren't concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying. The staff recently gave Oscar a wall sign publicly praising his "sympathetic care."56. What makes Oscar the cat so special?A. He observes the cases of dying patients.B. He curls up next to the patients.C. He calls family members to the hospital.D. He senses when patients are to die.57. The passage tells us Oscar_____.A. would go round and observe patientsB. may sometimes fail to predict deathC. is friendly and liked by every nurseD. was born and grew up in the hospital58. The underlined words "his streak was broken" probably mean ____.A. his bones were severely injuredB. his magic power stopped workingC. his devotion to work got changedD. his friendship with patients ended59. From the passage, we learn that_____.A. Oscar's behavior is scientifically significantB. Oscar can read something of the nurses' behaviorC. Oscar might like to stay with the dying patientsD. Oscar is sympathetic to the dying patients60. The best title for this passage is "____".A. Cats Can Be Used for Looking After PatientsB. Oscar, the Sweet-Faced, Gray-and-White CatC. As Death Comes Calling, So Does Oscar the CatD. Oscar the Cat, the Best Helper of Our HospitalB1 Day Fly-Fly Aboriginal Rock TourTour DetailsOperator: Adventure North AustraliaDestination: CooktownDeparts From: CairnsTour DescriptionVoted as one of Australia's Must-Do-Experiences. Treat yourself to an amazing day out with Aboriginal Elder Willie Gordon.Depart Cairns Domestic Airport for the Skytrans Flight to Cooktown. Flight departs Cairns at 6:45 a.m.Enjoy a 45-minute flight with wonderful views from Cairns to Cooktown as you fly along the coast between the World Heritage rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. On arrival in Cooktown you will be met by Willie Gordon, the traditional storyteller of the Nugal-warra clan(部落).Willie Gordon takes guests to his ancestral rock art sites, set high in the hills above Hope Vale, outside Cooktown. Here he shares the stories behind the art, and explains how the paintings speak of the most basic and important quality of life and the knowledge of his people.The tour takes you through an impressive view of six rock art sites, including an ancestral Birth Cave and the Reconciliation Cave. This includes a 30-minute bush walk on generally easy terrian(地形). (Covered closed-on shoes must be worn.) Return to Cooktown at 1:15 p.m. where Willie will take you to the Nature Power House Museum, Cooktown's Visitor Information Centre. Lunch is included at the Verhandah Cafe.The rest of the afternoon is free to explore historical Cooktown before your transfer to Cooktown airport and return flight to Cairns. Flight arrives at CairnsDomestic Airport at 6:40 p.m. Own arrangements on arrival in Cairns.PricesAdults: $ 549.00Children: $ 390.00Families(2 adults and 2 children): $ 1,869.0061. According to the passage, how will tourists arrive in Cooktown?A. By ship.B. By car.C. By air.D. By train.62. What do we learn about Willie Gordon?A. He acts as the guide of the tour.B. He is the owner of the VerhandahCafe.C. He works in the Nature Power House Museum.D. He is the manager of Adventure North Australia.63. After viewing rock art, tourists will go to__________.A. the World Heritage rainforestB. the Great Barrier ReefC. rock art sites outside the townD. the Nature Power HouseMuseum64. We learn from the passage that the whole trip lasts about__________.A. six hoursB. eight hoursC. ten hoursD.twelve hours65. From the passage, the tour is designed to let the tourists__________.A. learn about the customB. enjoy the ancient artC. taste the delicious snacksD. experience the lifestyleCThese days we are all conditioned to accept newness, whatever it costs. Very soon, there is no doubt that Apple's tablet (平板电脑) will seem as a vital tool of modern living to us as sewing machine did to our grandparents. At least, it will until someone produces an even smarter, thinner and more essential tablet, which, if recent history is any guide, will be in approximately six months' time. Turn your back for a moment and you find that every electronic item in your possession is as old as a tombstone. Why should you care if people laugh just because you use an old mobilephone? But try getting the thing repaired when it goes wrong. It's like walking into a pub and asking for an orange juice. You will be made to feel like some sort of time-traveler from the 1970s. "Why not buy a new one?" you will get asked.And so the mountain of electrical rubbish grows. An average British person was believed to get rid of quite a number of electronic goods in a lifetime. They weighed three tons, stood 7 feet high, and included five fridges, six microwaves, seven PCs, six TVs, 12 kettles, 35 mobile phones and so on. Even then, the calculation seemed to be conservative. Only 35 mobiles in a lifetime? The huge number of electronic items now regularly thrown away by British families is clearly one big problem. But this has other consequences. It contributes greatly to the uneasy feeling that modem technology is going by faster than we can keep up. By the time I've learnt how to use a tool it's already broken or lost. I've lost count of the number of TV remote-controls that I've bought, mislaid and replaced without working out what most of the buttons did.And the technology changes so unbelievably fast. It was less than years ago that I spotted an energetic businessman friend pulling what seemed to be either a large container or a small nuclear bomb on wheels through a railway station. I asked. "What have you got in there? Your money or your wife?" "Neither," he replied, with the satisfied look of a man who knew he was keeping pace with the latest technology, no matter how ridiculous he looked. "This is what everyone will have soon—even you. It's called a mobile telephone."I don't feel sorry for the pace of change. On the contrary, I'm amazed by those high-tech designers who can somehow fit a camera, music-player, computer and phone into a plastic box no bigger than a packet of cigarette. If those geniuses could also find a way to keep the underground trains running on the first snowy day of winter, they would be making real progress for human beings. What I do regret, however, is that so many household items fall behind so soon. My parents bought a wooden wireless radio in 1947, the year they were married. In 1973, the year I went to university, it was still working. It sat in the kitchen like an old friend—which, in a way, it was. It certainly spoke to us more than we spoke to each other on somemornings. When my mum replaced it with a new-style radio that could also play cassette-tapes, I felt a real sense of loss.Such is the over-excited change of 21st-century technology that there's no time to satisfy our emotional needs. Even if Apple's new products turn out to be the most significant tablets I very much doubt if they will resist this trend.66. When you try getting an old mobile phone repaired, ____.A. you are travelling through timeB. you are thought to be out of dateC. you will find everything wrongD. you have got to buy a new one67. Throwing away so much electronic rubbish makes the writer feel quite _____.A. lost and upsetB. unbelievably fastC. broken or lostD. regularly wasteful68. The example of the businessman implies that____.A. the businessman mastered the latest technologyB. mobile phones used to be quite big just years agoC. the businessman was a very ridiculous personD. the writer failed to follow modern technology69. The passage is organized in the pattern of ____.A. time and eventsB. comparison and contrastC. cause and effectD. examples and analysis70. Which of the following is conveyed in the passage?A. The fast pace of change brings us no good.B. We have to keep up with new technology.C. Household items should be upgraded quickly.D. We should hold on for new technology to last.DIn the early 1950s, researchers found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. Bilingual people scored higher than monolinguals, people who speak only one language. So which is it?Researchers presented their newest studies last month at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The latest evidence shows that being bilingual does not necessarily make people smarter. But researcher Ellen Bialystok says it probably does make you better at certain skills.Ellen Bialystok said, “Imagine driving down the highway. There’re many things that couldcapture your attention and you really need to be able to monitor all of them. Why would bilingualism make you any better at that?”And the answer, she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention — a function called the executive control system.Ms. Bialystok is a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She says the best method to measure the executive control system is called the Stroop Test. A person is shown words in different colors. The person has to ignore the word but say the color. The problem is that the words are all names of colors.Ellen Bialystok said, “So you would have the word blue written in red, but you have to say red. But blue is so salient(显著的), it’s just lighting up all these circuits(电路) in your brain, and you really want to say blue. So you need a mechanism(机制) to override that so that you can say red. That’s the executive control system.”Her work shows that bilingual people continually practice this function. They have to, because both languages are active in their brain at the same time. They need to suppress(抑制) one to be able to speak in the other.This mental exercise might help in other ways, too. Researchers say bilingual children are better able to separate a word from its meaning, and more likely to have friends from differentcultures. Bilingual adults are often four to five years later than others in developing dementia orAlzheimer’s disease.71. What’s the best title of the t ext?A. Bilingual People, SmarterB. Monolingual People, SmarterC. Bilingual People, Longer LivesD. Bilingual People, Better at Some Skills72. The underlined word “override” in Paragraph 6 probably means ____.A. pay attention toB. take no notice ofC. take an interest inD. take care of73. In the Stroop Test, supposing you have the word yellow written in white, youwill have to say ____.A. whiteB. yellowC. blueD. red74. Which group of people can most likely pass the Stroop Test?A. People who can speak only Chinese.B. People who can speak only Japanese.C. People who can speak more than one language.D. People who can speak only English.75. Which of the following statements is FALSE according to the text?A. A bilingual child is better at separating a word from its meaning.B. A bilingual child can more easily make friends with a foreign child.C. Bilingual people are more able to monitor several things at the same time.D. It’s not possible for bilingual people to develop Alzheimer’s disease.五、书面表达假如你叫李华，是某市—所中学的学生，要给市长写一封信，反映学校门前交通拥挤现象，信须包括以下要点。