[苏北四市]2010届高三第二次调研考试英语试题

（苏北四市）2010届高三第二次调研考试英语试题第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）21. We were sad to hear the news that _______ eight Chinese peacekeeping policemen were killed in ______ Haiti earthquake.A. the; /B. /; theC. the; aD. an; the22. — Are your parents satisfied with your performance at home?— ______ but not exactly. They want me to do more housework.A. Kind ofB. On the contraryC. On averageD. By all means23. The ordinary girl sat silently at the corner, but when the prince came over to invite her to dance, her face immediately _________.A. cheered upB. lit upC. turned upD. made up24. The national congressman wearing traditional clothes, in _______ hotel-room I just interviewed him, comes from a remote mountain village in West China.A. whomB. hisC. whoseD. which25. — Have you seen my email about our TESL project?— Yes. Luckily, I checked my emails yesterday. Normally, I _____ my email-box for days.A. haven‟t openedB. didn‟t openC. hadn‟t openedD. don‟t open26. With your help, there is no doubt ______ our plan is meant for will work out successfully.A. that whatB. whether thatC. what thatD. that whether27. — ______ the woman with the baby come over? We have a seat here.— Thank you, sir. Actually I do have my seat here. But my baby likes to look out of the window.A. WouldB. ShallC. MustD. May28. — Mr. Smith was really helpful when you were in financial difficulty during those years.— Definitely. I can never appreciate his kindness ________.A. seriouslyB. wellC. enoughD. properly29. ______ to too much sunlight, as is generally considered, will add to the potential of catching skin cancer.A. Being exposedB. ExposedC. ExposingD. To expose30. She negotiated with her new boss and accepted the position ______ there would be opportunities for advancement.A. in case thatB. on condition thatC. for fear thatD. in order that31. —I saw your uncle take a taxi to the airport. Why didn‟t you drive him there?— I ________. But my car ________.A. would; was fixedB. would have; was fixedC. would have; was being fixedD. did; was being fixed32. A report says school maths standards in England have failed to improve in the last 30 years, ______ than those in mid-1970‟s, when only 20% of the students could pass maths exams.A. no betterB. not betterC. no worseD. not worse33. —Many people are worried that so many college graduates each year can‟t find a job.— There is no need to worry about it as the government is now making every _______ to provide more jobs.A. effortB. effectC. measureD. action34. Just as the saying goes, “_______”, computer games also have some disadvantages though they are popular among teenagers.A. No garden is without weedsB. Every little makes a nickelC. Time waits for no manD. The onlooker sees the game best35. At the conference, four speakers gave three different opinions on the present economic situation. One was optimistic, ________ was pessimistic, but ________ of the others took two-sided views.A. the other; neitherB. other; bothC. the other; eitherD. another; both第二节:完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）It‟s only too natural that personal characteristics play a vital role in the development of one's intelligence. But people 36 to realize the importance of cultivating (培养) these factors. The so-called “non-intelligence fact ors” include one‟s 37 , will, motivation, interests and habits. In their studies American psychologists 38 the main cause of differences in intelligence is not intelligence itself, but non-intelligence factors including the desire to learn, will-power and self-confidence.39 people know one should have definite objectives, a strong will and good learning habits, quite a number of teachers and parents don‟t 40 cultivating these factors.Some parents are 41 when their children fail to do well in their studies. They blame either genetic factors, malnutrition, or laziness, but they never take 42 consideration these non-intelligence factors. Some teachers don‟t inquire into such reasons as 43 students do poorly. They simply give them more courses and exercises, or 44 scold or laugh at them. After all these, students lose self-confidence. Some 45 themselves up as hopeless, feeling defeated. Others 46 take wrong or evil ways because they are sick of learning. An investigation of more than 1,000 middle school students showed that 46.5% of them were 47of learning because of examinations; 36.4% lacked persistence and 10.3% were sick of learning.It is clear that 48 of cultivation of non-intelligence factors has been a main 49__ to intelligence development in teenagers. It even causes an imbalance between physiological and 50 development among students.If we don‟t start now to 51 the cultivation of non-intelligence factors, it will not only block the development of 52 of teenagers, but also affect the quality of a whole generation. Some experts have put forward 53 about how to cultivate students‟ non-intelligence factors.Parents and teachers should 54 understand teenage psychology. On this basic, they can help them to pursue the objectives of learning, 55 their interests in their studies and toughening their willpower.36. A. expect B. fail C. try D. manage37. A. feelings B. appearances C. strength D. nutrition38. A. desired B. discovered C. disclosed D. designed39. A. Though B. Unless C. Whether D. Since40. A. make use of B. get rid of C. pay attention to D. look forward to41. A. moved B. worried C. frightened D. excited42. A. for B. in C. into D. over43. A. why B. what C. when D. how44. A. ever B. even C. still D. never45. A. put B. get C. make D. give46. A. shall B. may C. should D. must47. A. afraid B. aware C. sceptical D. supportive48. A. lack B. presence C. increase D. focus49. A. storage B. tendency C. threat D. barrier50. A. intelligent B. characteristic C. psychological D. physical51. A. weaken B. support C. strengthen D. oppose52. A. performance B. diligence C. maturity D. intelligence53. A. programs B. warnings C. proposals D. decisions54. A. fully B. greatly C. mainly D. highly55. A. ensuring B. handling C. widening D. increasing第三部分: 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)AJerry was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say.One day, I went up to Jerry and asked him, “You can‟t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Every time someone c omplains to me, I can choose to accept his complaints or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”Several years later, I heard that Jerry was shot by three armed robbers. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the hospital. Finally Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. About six months after the accident, I saw him. I asked him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.“The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I choose to live.”“Weren‟t you scared?”Jerry contin ued, “The doctors and nurses were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, …He‟s a dead man.‟ I knew I needed to take action.”“What did you do?” I asked.“Well, there was a big, strong nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. …Yes‟, I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they wait ed for my reply.I took a deep breath and yelled, …Bullets!‟ Over their laughter, I told them, …I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.‟”Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I l earned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.56. Which of the following words can be used to describe Jerry?A. Impolite.B. Concerned.C. Stubborn.D. Optimistic.57. What did Jerry first think of when the robbery happened?A. He might be shot by the armed robbers.B. He shouldn‟t have left the back door unlocked.C. How he could call the policemen.D. He might be robbed of many things.58. From the expressions of the doctors and nurses, Jerry realized that _______.A. they didn‟t want to save his lifeB. he wasn‟t seriously woundedC. they thought he had little chance to liveD. he was treated as a dead manBEverywhere you look, large quantities of information in the world are pouring. This data flood is already starting to transform business, government, science and everyday life. It has great potential for good —as long as consumers, companies and governments make the right choices about when to restrict the flow of data, and when to encourage it.A few industries have led the way in their ability to gather and take advantage of the data. Credit-card companies monitor every purchase and can identify cheats with a high degree of accuracy. Stolen credit cards are more likely to be used to buy hard liquor than wine, for example, because it is easier to overlook. Insurance firms are also good at combining clues to spot doubtful claims: dishonest claims are more likely to be made on a Monday than a Tuesday, since policyho lders (保险客户) who stage accidents tend to assemble friends as false witnesses over the weekend. By combining many such rules, it is possible to work out which cards are likeliest to have been stolen, and which claims are untrue. By analyzing “basket data”, supermarkets can make promotions to appeal to particular customers‟ preferences. The oil industry uses supercomputers to help them before drilling wells.But the data flood also poses risks. There are many examples of databases being stolen: disks full of social-security data go missing, laptops loaded with tax records are left in taxis, credit-card numbers are stolen by online purchase. The result can be privacy made public, identity stolen and cheats permitted large space. Rather than owning and controlling their own personal data, they very often find that they have lost control of it.The best way to deal with the data flood is to make more data available in the right way, by requiring greater transparency in several areas. First, users should be given greater access to and control over the information held about them, including whom it is shared with. Google allows users to see what information it holds about them, and lets them delete their search histories or modify the targeting of advertising, for example. Second, organizations should be required to disclose details of security breaches, as is already the case in some parts of the world, to encourage bosses to take information security more seriously. Third, organizations should be subject to an annual security check, with the resulting grade made public (though details of any problems exposed would not be). This would encourage companies to keep their security measures up to date.59. What is the best title for this passage?A. Information FloodB. Benefits of Data FloodC. Harms of Data FloodD. How to Use Data in a Right Way60. From the passage we can infer that ________.A. lots of data are lost because of hardware problemsB. online purchases are becoming more and more popularC. credit cards are not so secure to use and will go out of use very soonD. insurance firms have to investigate before they confirm their policyholders‟ claims61. Which of the following is the writer‟s opinion about how to deal with the data flo od?A. Personal information should be used for public benefits.B. The users should be given the right to access public information.C. Companies should update their measures to guarantee their data safety.D. Organizations should keep their resulting grade of security checks unknown to the public.62. From the passage we can conclude that _________.A. the data flood makes peoples‟ life less convenient and more expensiveB. companies and insurance firms are responsible for the data floodC. the information flood is more useful to organizations than to individualsD. the information flood has both positive and negative influence on modern lifeCaribbeants,$1,758-hourto preserve your memories of 63. According to the material above, we can learn that it is ________.A. a tourist advertisementB. a real property advertisementC. about studying abroadD. about oceanfront suite sales64. Which of the following statements is NOT included in the passage?A. You can experience at sea with $300 to spend if you book by April 1.B. You can see the sunny skies and hit the beach in the Caribbean.C. You can get 10% off some activities if you travel in Half Moon Bay.D. You can have another night free if you stay in Half Moon Bay for six nights.65. What can you enjoy for $ 1,758 in Turks and Caicos Club?A. You can stay there for six nights in an oceanfront suite.B. You can enjoy an hour massage twice a day.C. You can have daily meals and a bottle of champagne.D. You only need to pay $25 if all the pictures taken there cost $100.66. Where is the travel agency?A. In the Caribbean.B. In Norway.C. In Turkey.D. In Half Moon Bay.DA new college guide in the United States compares educational requirements in seven subjects. These include math, science, writing and United States history or government. The other subjects are economics, foreign language and literature.The free online guide is from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. The counci l is a nonprofit group that supports liberal arts education.Its president, Anne Neal, says these areas of knowledge are needed to succeed in a twenty-first century society and an increasingly connected world. Yet she told VOA‟s Faiza Elmasry it was surpri sing how many students can graduate with, in her words, a “thin education.”Forty-two of the one hundred colleges and universities surveyed received the lowest marks. This meant they required two or fewer of the seven subjects. Five schools received a top grade for requiring six subjects. These were Brooklyn College in New York City, Texas A&M, the University of Texas-Austin, West Point and the University of Arkansas.Robert Costrell is a professor of education reform and economics at the University of Arka nsas. He says many, if not all, of the top American colleges once had a core curriculum —a set of courses required for all students.But over the years, many have dropped these requirements. Or they have watered them down, Professor Costrell says, into what became known as distribution requirements. This system lets a student choose from a number of different courses to satisfy a requirement.ROBERT COSTRELL: “And in many cases these courses went too far, I would say, towards the fluffy treatment of seriou s material, and students could satisfy their requirement by taking such courses.”Professor Costrell says schools should not only re-examine what they teach. They should also measure what students have learned — for example, through some form of examinations or papers.A new report this week from the College Board showed that college prices continue to rise. But Anne Neal from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni says higher prices do not guarantee a better general education. In fact, the group found that the higher the tuition, the more likely that students have to develop their own general education.The college guide is on the Web at . Anne Neal says her group is surveying more colleges. The hope, she says, is to discover what college graduates have really learned, and how ready they are to compete in the global marketplace.67. Where does the passage probably come from?A. A scientific fiction.B. A research newspaper.C. A fashion magazine.D. An entertainment newspaper.68. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni does all the following EXCEPT _________.A. support liberal arts educationB. concern itself with education in AmericaC. devote time to helping improve college educationD. make money by helping with college education69. The words “watered them down” underlined in Paragraph 6 most likely mean “_______.”A. reduced required coursesB. improved required coursesC. increased required coursesD. developed required courses70. In this passage, the new college guide mainly tells its readers that American colleges should ______.A. meet the requirements of the new centuryB. reduce the number of required coursesC. have different standards on required coursesD. cut down on their tuitions第四部分：任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）Could your cellphone give you cancer? Whether it could or not, some people are worrying about the possibility that phones, powerlines and wi-fi (路由器) could be responsible for a range of illnesses, from rashes to brain tumours.For example, Camilla Rees, 48, a former investment banker in the US, moved out of her apartment in San Francisco because of the radiation coming from next door. Rees told the Los Angeles Times that when her neighbors moved in and installed a wi-fi router she lost her ability to think clearly. “I would wake up dizzy in the morning. I‟d fall to the floor. I had to leave to escape that nightmare,” she said. Since then, she‟s been on a campaign against low-level electromagnetic fields, or EMFs（低频电磁场）.And she‟s not alone. Millions of people say they suffer from headaches, depression, nausea and rashes when they‟re too close to cellphones or other sources of EMFs.Although the World Health Organization has officially declared that EMFs seem to pose little threat, governments are still concerned. In fact, last April, the European Parliament called for countries to take steps to reduce exposure to EMFs. The city of San Francisco and the state of Maine are currently considering requiring cancer-warning labels on cellphones.If these fears are reasonable, then perhaps we should all be worried about the amount of time we spend talking on our phones or plugging into wi-fi hotpots.Some say there is evidence to support the growing anxieties. David Carpenter, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, in New York, thinks there‟s a greater than 95% chance that power lines can cause childhood leukemia. Also there‟s a greater than 90% chance that cellphones can cause brain tumours.But others believe these concerns are unreasonable paranoia (猜疑). Dr Martha Linet, the head of radiation epidemiology at the US National Cancer Institute, has looked at the same research as Carpenter but has reached a different conclusion. “I don‟t support warning labe ls for cellphones,” said Linet. “We don't have the evidence that there‟s much danger.”Studies so far suggest a weak connection between EMFs and illness — so weak that it might not exist at all. A multinational investigation of cellphones and brain cancer, in 13 countries outside the US,has been underway for several years. It‟s funded in part by the European Union, in part by a cellphone industry group.According to Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland in the US, the magnetic waves aren‟t nearly powerful enough to break apart DNA, which is how known threats, such as UV rays and X-rays, cause cancer.Perhaps it‟s just psychological. Some experts find that the electro-sensitivity syndrome seems to be similar to chemical sensitivi ty syndrome, which is a condition that‟s considered to be psychological.Whether EMFs are harmful or not, a break in the countryside, without the cellphone, would probably be good for all of us.英语试题参考答案I. 1-5. BBCBA 6-10. CACAB 11-15. ACBCC 16-20. A CAABII. 21-25. BABCD 26-30. AACAB 31-35. CAAADIII. 36-40. BABAC 41-45. BCABD 46-50. BAADC 51-55. CDCADIV. 56－58. DBC 59－62. ADCD 63－66. ACDB 67－70. BDAAV. 71. dangerous/harmful 72. possible 73. same 74. connection 75. destroy76. reasons 77. suggestions 78. concerned 79. reduce 80. rural。