安徽省2010届高考考前调研卷（7-7）（英语）

-- Sorry, I can't return your book today. I am only half way through it.

-- ________. I have plenty of other books to read.

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China has made efforts to respond to _______ climate change, and set targets to control greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

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A strong earthquake struck Chile's central-south coast on February 22, ________ great damage to buildings

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Ten giant pandas are heading to the Shanghai Expo, _________ they will go on year-long display.

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Because of global warming, the ice that polar bears depend on for survival _______.

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Wang Meng's winning women's 500m short track at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was an exciting moment, ________ all Chinese will never forget.

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While we were listening to the speech attentively, a voice ________ to announce the result of the election

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It is generally accepted that Chinese were the earliest ________ football while the European established the modern rules for football.

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________ that we can’t afford to waste it.

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The work is not very profitable __________ cash, but I am getting valuable experience from it.

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Since you have accepted the job, you have no _______ but to do it well, however difficult it is.

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-- Isn't it amazing that I met Francis at the Christmas party?

-- Really? For how many years ________each other?

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第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

When my son was 11 years old, he got a small job helping out with a traveling carnival in our town. He didn't come home at lunch time, phoning  36  to tell me he was fine and had found a few days' work  37  out at an exhibit. However, after he finished work he  38  for supper as usual.

I asked him how he had  39  at lunch and he told me he had made some new  40  at the carnival, some young men who were twin brothers, and their mom and dad. They had  41  him a few dollars and invited him for lunch  42  for helping them set up their exhibit and wanted him to  43   the next day to help with other chores (杂务).

I was glad he had found new friends but a little  44  about the type of people who might be traveling in a carnival. "Oh, Mum, these are just  45  everyday people like anyone else. They  46   work at a carnival instead of in a store or something". "Come down tomorrow and  47  them yourself," he said.

So the next day I went to the carnival and to the exhibit he had  48  me to. The twin brothers   _49  out to be Siamese (连体的) twins, joined at the chest. He hadn't thought this  50  was noteworthy enough to mention. When I brought it to him, he said, "yes, I  51  that too. Do you know that their mum has to make all their clothes  52  it's so difficult to find anything to fit them? They're also really good  53  . Today, Joe, one on the fight, made me spaghetti (意大利面条) for lunch. "

What others see first in a person is not what a child considers  54  . Where I saw Siamese twins, he saw people having difficulty buying clothes that fit, and young men who were good cooks. It was a   _55  I have thought about many times over the years.

36. A. instead                B. even              C. also              D. besides

37. A. helping             B. helping                    C. taking             D. showing

38. A. did up                       B. gave up                    C. took up                    D. turned up

39. A. sought                       B. managed                  C. worked                    D. acted

40. A. clothes                       B. friends                            C. choices                     D. differences

41. A. paid                          B. charged                    C. lent                          D. owed

42. A. by chance                  B. in return                   C. by turns                   D. in advance

43. A. return                        B. promise                    C. consider                   D. decide

44. A. excited                      B. regretful                   C. worried                    D. optimistic

45. A. humorous                  B. obvious                    C. particular                 D. normal

46. A. just                           B. never                       C. hardly                      D. always

47. A. teach                         B. meet                        C. affect                       D. join

48. A. ordered                      B. directed                    C. forced                      D. persuaded

49. A. worked                      B. left                          C. came                        D. turned

50. A. expression                  B. change                            C. fact                          D. idea

51. A understood                  B. made                       C. noticed                     D. formed

52. A. before                       B. if                             C. after                        D. because

53. A. cooks                        B. doctors                     C. artists                       D. singers

54. A. necessary                   B. important                 C. impossible                D. unlucky

55. A. lesson                        B. festival                     C. task                         D. match

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Jim Lehrer hosts The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS ( Public Broadcasting Service) and has written 18 novels, two memoirs (回忆录), and three plays. And in his spare time…

What He's Working On

Oh, Johnny (Random House, $ 25), his hovel about a young Marine in 1944. "On his way to war, Johnny met the most beautiful and wonderful girl he'd ever seen. It changed his life. "

Where He's Surfing

"I'm on the computer all day long for nay job, checking the telegraphs, reading the news, send the news eBay because I collect bus memorabilia (值得纪念的东西): toy buses, bus stop signs, and bus driver caps. I've bought quite a bit."

What He's Watching

"I love all the Mystery Series on PBS, including Poirot. My wife and I just love those people. I’m a huge fan of The Sopranos. These are serious stories about high school football in small-town Texas and the challenges these kids have. It's very exciting. "

What He t s Listening To

"I'm always amazed when people say they have 3,000 songs on their iPod, 1 like music, but it’s not a part of my life. 1 am always listening to books on tape, I'm about to begin American Lion, Jon Meacham’s biography (传记) of Andrew Jackson. "

What He's Reading

"At present, I am reading Home, which is set in small-town Iowa. Marilynn Robinson writes about the simple things that are the most complicated of all within the human spirit. Her characters are so alive and real. Not long ago, 1 just finished The Spies of Warsaw, Alan Furst's terrific novel set in pre-World WarⅡ."

60. What job does Jim Lehrer do?

A. A TV host.                 B. A novelist.          C. A reporter.          D. A play - writer.

61. Why does Jim Lehrer spend much time on Google?

A. To collect information for his novel.             B. To collect bus memorabilia.

C. To better carry out his job.                D. To read his favorite novels.

62. In his spare time, Jim Lehrer does all the following things EXCEPT ________.

A. surf eBay for his hobby                                B. watch exciting TV series

C. listen to music on his iPod                     D. work on his own novel

63. Which of the following books is based on a real person?

A. Oh, Johnny.      B. American Lion.         C. Home.         D. The Spies of Warsaw.

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If eighteen-year-old Karki doesn't turn out to be the next Edison, I'll chop off my locks This kid invented a solar pane (嵌板) which uses human hair as a conductor and could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, solving the energy crisis.

Karki, a Nepal teenager, who lives in a village in Rural Nepal, used human hair to replace silicon, which is a common but expensive component of solar panels.

By using hair as a replacement, Karki says solar panels can be produced for around 23 pounds. But if they were mass-produced, Karki says they could be sold for less than half that price, which could make them a quarter of the price of those already on the market.

The solar panel works because melanin, the substance giving hair its color, is light sensitive and can act as an electrical conductor. Karki was inspired to follow this route by a Stephen Hawking book, which explained how to create energy from hair.

The device (设备) Karki has shown is able to produce 9V or 18W of energy -- plenty to charge a mobile phone. Half a kilo of hair can be bought for only 16p in Nepal and lasts a few months, where as a pack of batteries would cost 50p and last a few nights," according to Karki.

Karki has now sent out several devices to other districts near his village for testing. "First I wanted to provide electricity for my home, then my village. Now I am thinking for the world," he said.

Karki says the idea is more important than ever because of the urgent need for renewable energies in the face of limited power sources and global warming. Slowly, natural resources are decreasing. One day we will be in a great crisis. This is an easy solution for the crisis we are having today.

64. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Introduction of Solar Panels            B. Functions of a New Solar Panel

C. Special Solar panel Materials                      D. Karki Invented a New Solar Panel

65. Why did Karki want to invent a solar panel with hair?

A. Because hair is not very expensive.

B. Because silicon is hard to find.

C. Because he wanted to provide electricity for his home.

D. Because the energy crisis is very serious in his home town.

66. From the last paragraph we can know ________.

A, Karki s invention is of great importance

B. Karki can predict what will happen in the future

C. the energy crisis will disappear in the future

D. Karki's invention will make him wealthy

67. The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A. Karki for his great invention          B. introduce a new solar panel

C. promote the sales of solar panels        D. warn people of the energy crisis

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The United States has about 475,000 school buses -- all painted yellow. Each day they carry more than 25,000,000 children, half of all schoolchildren in the country. But these buses, on average, use four liters of diesel (柴油) fuel to travel less than sixteen kilometers. When the school year began last fall, diesel averaged 55 cents a liter nationally. The price nearly doubled, to a dollar and 8 cents, by the end of school in June.

Bob Riley speaks for the American School Bus Council. He says fuel prices for schools arc not much lower than others have to pay. As a result, schools are looking for ways to reduce transportation costs. Bus routes are being redrawn or, in some cases, canceled. Some areas are buying buses that use natural gas or other alternative fuels. Other steps include fewer field trips and less travel by sports teams. And some school districts may end any bus service not required by law.

Studies show that school buses are the safest form of transportation to and from school. The American School Bus Council says cuts in bus service are bad for children and possibly the environment. It says removing buses from the road will mean an increase in other vehicles transporting students. Spokesman Bob Riley says another concern is that reducing bus services might reduce attendance.

But it could also get more children to walk or bicycle to school. And that would surely make people happy at the National Center for Safe Routes to School. More kids walking or biking safely to school is the aim of a three-year-old federal program, part of an international movement. The goal is to increase physical activity and reduce air pollution. The United States will celebrate Walk to School Day on October eighth this year. But for some students, high fuel prices could make every day a walk-to-school day.

68. What does this passage mainly tell us?

A. High fuel prices' influences on school buses.  B. New measures to transport school students.

C. The safest form of student transportation.          D. The origin of Walk to School Day.

69. Which of the following information is implied in the first paragraph?

A. There are too many school buses in the United States.

B. There are too many students in the US.

C. Diesel prices are going up too rapidly in the US.

D. School buses consume too much diesel in the US.

70. In order to cut down transportation cost, many schools take the following measures EXCEI _____.

A. changing some bus routes                B. stopping some bus routes

C. asking parents to drive children to school     D. using other types of fuels

71. The National Center for Safe Routes to School encourages more children to walk or bike to school in order to ________.

A. save more fuels and diesel for the country.

B. keep the children safe on their way to school

C. make the children live a simple life

D. keep the children healthy and the environment clean

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第二节书面表达(满分25分)

最近许多名校成为旅游景点，为此你班展开有关"Should the university campus be open to tourists?”的讨论。请你根据下表所提供的信息，给China Daily报社写一封信，介绍讨论情况并发表白己的看法。

注意：1．词数：120左右。信的开头和结尾已经给出，但不计人总词数；

2．短文须包括表中的全部内容，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．参考词汇：文化交流cultural exchange。

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Dear Editor,

I'm writing to tell you about the discussion we've had about whether the university campus should be open to tourists.

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