2012-2013学年辽宁省盘锦市高三上学期第二次阶段考试英语试卷（解析版）

——I’m afraid I can’t finish the magazine within the required time.

——__________.

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It was at the very beginning ______ Mr Smith made a decision _____we should send for a doctor.

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How cold it is ! We’ve never had ________this winter.

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The Turners consider ________a computer, which is commonly considered _____a great help in our work and study.

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But when I got _______ the town ought to have been, all I found was a gas station．

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— We did not see him at the lecture yesterday．

— You _______ him, since I went to an international conference with him．

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---I regret _____you John has been fired．

---I can hardly believe my ears．He’s such a fine worker．

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In the past few years, My Heart Will Go On was a popular song among young people, _____were often heard singing it at parties．

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----I was riding along the street and all of a sudden, a car cut in and knocked me down.

------You can never be _____careful in the street.

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Jim , as well as his friends who ____football games, ___traveled with the team .

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The new bridge is ____the one built last year.

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____the book if you are free, and you will learn a lot about how to study English .

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I had just got up and was about to cook my breakfast ___the telephone rang loudly, but it hung up __I could answer it .

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Although he is over 65, Mr Smith has never been tired. He’s a man full of ___.

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Last Sunday a few of us arranged to meet in town, but Jenny didn’t ____.

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Mr Black once decided to travel by air on business because of some reason. He liked　16 beside a window when he was　17 ,so when he got onto the plane, he　18　 a window seat. He　19  that all of them had already been taken 20  one, and there was a soldier sitting in the seat beside this one. Mr Black was 21  that he had not taken the one by the window, but, anyhow, he at once went towards 22 .

When he 23it, however, he saw that there was a notice on it. It was written 24  ink and said,“This is reserved for proper load balance. Thank you.” Mr Black had never seen such a notice in a plane 25 ,but he thought that the plane 26   be carrying something particularly heavy in 27  baggage room which made 28  necessary to have passengers properly balanced, so he walked on and29  another empty seat, not beside the30 ,to sit in.

Two or three other people tried31   in the window seat beside the soldier, but they, too, 32  the notice and went on. Then, when the plane was nearly full, a very beautiful girl stepped into the plane. The soldier, who was 33  the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off the seat beside him－and 34   that way succeeded in  35   the company of the girl during the whole of the trip.

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Canada’s western city of Calgary is the world’s best city when it comes to healthy living, local press reported Monday.

According to an international survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, a London-based consulting firm, Calgary was put at the top of a list of 144 cities. It scored 121 points, just above Honolulu’s score of 120. Helsinki（赫尔辛基，芬兰首都） and Ottawa followed at 119.5 and 118.5 respectively.

Three other Canadian cities came in the top 20. Montreal and Vancouver tied for ninth and Toronto came in at 18th.

The scores are based on air pollution levels, availability and quality of hospitals and medical supplies, as well as the efficiency of waste removal and sewage systems.

In America, the lowest scoring city was Atlanta, which was ranked 76th. Athens was the lowest scoring city in Western Europe, ranking 120th because of its air pollution. London was ranked 59th.

1.How many Canadian cities are in the top 20?

2.Which of the following is NOT taken into account when the cities were scored?

3.Among the following cities, which is the lowest scoring one?

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Cara Lang is 13. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, in the U. S. Last Thursday, she didn't go to school. She went to work with her father instead. Every year, on the fourth Thursday in April, millions of young girls go work. This is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. The girls are between the ages of 9 and 15. They spend the day at work with an adult, usually a mother, father, aunt, or uncle. They go to offices, police stations, laboratories, and other places where their parents or other family members work. Next year, the day will include sons, too.

The Ms. Foundation, an organization for women, started the program about ten years ago. In the U.S., many women work outside the home. The Ms. Foundation wanted girls to find out about many different kinds of jobs. Then, when the girls grow up, they can choose a job they like.

Cara's father is a film director. Cara says, “It was very exciting for me to go to the studio with my dad. I saw a lot of people doing different jobs.” Many businesses have special activities for girls on this day. Last year, Cara went to work with her aunt at the University of Massachusetts. In the engineering department, the girls learned to build a bridge with toothpicks and Candy. In the chemistry department, they learned to use scales. They learned about many other kinds of jobs, too.

Right now, Cara does not know what job she will have when she grows up. But because of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, she knows she has many choices.

1.What is Cara's father?

2.According to the passage, Take our Daughters to work Day is ______.

3.On this special day, Cara has done all the following EXCEPT that ____.

4.What is probably the best title for the passage?

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Advertising is a highly developed twentieth-century industry. The development of radio, television, cinema, magazines and newspapers has gone hand in hand with the development of advertising. Why is advertising so popular? Is it a waste of money? It has been proved again and again that repeated advertising increases product sales. Since it increases production, the price can be reduced. Therefore advertising, instead of making a product more expensive, makes it cheaper.

Advertising is now a scientific business. Once managers would say jokingly, " I know that half of what I spend on advertising is wasted, but I don't know which half." Now, all parts of an advertising program are properly measured and researched.

What makes a good advertisement? There have been major changes in advertising in the past sixty years. People read advertisements partly for information and partly for pleasure. Today's advertisements often start with a question, or a puzzle, with the purpose of attracting the reader's attention. Of course, most advertisements contain information. But this is usually contained in a text that is interesting and often funny. Humor is very important. Sometimes advertisements tell a story, or the story may be continued over a number of advertisements. However, there is a danger in this. It is possible that the reader or viewer will remember the advertisement but not the name of the product.

1.The purpose of advertising is ____.

2.Which of the following can be used in place of the underlined phrase "hand in hand" ?

3. What is meant by what managers said in the second paragraph?

4.What does the writer think of advertising?

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Because plants cannot move or talk, most people believe that they have no feelings and that they cannot receive signals from outside. However, this may not be completely true.

People who studied plants have found out that plants carry a small electrical charge (电荷). It is possible to measure this charge with a small piece of equipment called “galvanometer”. The galvanometer is placed on a leaf off the plant, and it records any changes in the electrical field of the leaf. Humans have a similar field which can change when we are shocked or frightened.

A man called Backster used a galvanometer for his studies of plants and was very surprised at his results. He found that if he had two or more plants in a room and he began to destroy one of them － perhaps by pulling off its leaves or by pulling it out of its pot － then the galvanometer on the leaves of the other plants showed a change in the electrical field. It seemed as if the plants were signalling a feeling of shock. This happened not only when Backster started to destroy plants, but also when he destroyed other living things such as insects (昆虫).

Backster said that the plants also knew if someone had destroyed a living thing some distance away, because they signalled when a man who had just cut down a tree entered the room.

Another scientist, named Sauvin, achieved similar results to Backster’s. He kept galvanometers fixed to his plants all the time and checked regularly to see what the plants were doing. If he was out of the office, he telephoned to find out about the signals the plants were sending. In this way, he found that the plants were sending out signals at the exact times when he felt strong pleasure or pain. In fact, Sauvin could cause a change in the electrical field of his plants over a distance of a few miles simply by thinking about them.

1.Backster was surprised at the results of his studies because _____.

2.The plants sent out signals _____.

3.The scientist called Sauvin _____.

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项多余选项。

51. It crossed New York from Buffalo on Lake Erie Troy to Albany on the Hudson River. 52 . The canal served as a route over which industrial goods could flow into the west, and materials could pour into the east. The Erie Canal helped New York develop into the nation's largest city.

The building of the canal was paid for entirely by the state of New York. 53  Between 1825,when the canal was opened ,and 1882,when toll charges(过运河费) were stopped ,the state collected $121,461,891.

For a hundred years before the Erie was built, people had been talking about a canal which could join the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The man who planned the Erie Canal and carried the plan through was De Clinton. Those who were against the canal laughingly called it"Clinton' Ditch(沟). 54 . He and Governor Morris went to Washington in 1812 to ask for help for the canal, but they were unsuccessful.

Clinton became governor of New York in 1817,and shortly afterwards, on July 4,1817,broke ground for the canal in Rome, N.Y. The first part of the canal was completed in 1820. 55  . The length of the canal is 363 miles.

E. Clinton talked and wrote about the canal and drew up plans for it.

F. To dig the canal benefited Americans.

G. It joined the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

As we all know that, teachers are very important to us. They not only open our eye to a wonderful world of knowledge, but also teach us how behave. It is undoubted that they are worth of our respect. We should always be grateful to them. Therefore, we ought obey the school rules. We should come to school in time and not make some noise in class when our teacher is conducting out the lesson. That is the more necessary and easiest thing which the students should do. Only by doing so can we show our really respect to our teachers.

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假定你是李华，你的朋友李明写信告诉你他因不善交友而苦恼。请根据下面提示给他写回信，提出建议。

提示：1.友善，乐于助人。

2.多与他人交流。

3.多参加活动。

注意：1.词数：100左右

2.可以适当发挥，以使短文连贯。

3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总数。

参考词汇：communicate 交流。 activity 活动

Dear Li Ming,

________________________________________________________________________                   Yours,

Li Hua

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