【北京海淀区2021年中考人数】北京海淀区2005年11月高三期中考试英语试题-2

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第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从第每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear or the music I listen to, but what I feel   36  .
Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling. As I grew older, my friends 37   me for following what was called a “man’ s soap opera.” 38   , I put my love for wrestling on the shelf. It was not until freshman year that I 39   I wasn’t being myself.
That year, I tried many new things and activities. In my town, foot¬ball was the sport, so I decided to play football, 40   it might give me a head 41   in popularity. The team started with forty-eight athletes. 42   , there were fourteen of us left. I stuck it out not because I liked it, but because I am not a quitter. That long season taught me a (n) 43  : I wasn’t a football player. More importantly, it taught me to be  44  .
After that season, I 45 back to being a wrestling fan. I came across a well-known saying: “Don’ t Dream It. Be It.” When I read this, my friend Dan and I had the 46 idea.
“What if we build a wrestling ring?” we asked. The following weekend, we met at his house. We saw our 47   in a pile in his backyard. We worked from dawn to dusk to build our great project. Our hard work paid 48   . We had a real ring. We decided to hold an "event." We practiced for hours, trying to  49   every aspect (方面) of our wrestling ability. The date was May 24th . To our surprise, about one hundred friends and fans showed up to  50 us. It was the most important night of my life and a 51   success. Since that time, we have held five shows with as many as two hundred and fifty people training out. We 52   to live this dream. We accomplished what we set out to do.
As my senior year winds down, I"ll remember all of my high school memories. But 53   will
stick out most is the memory that I did something I 54  , despite what everyone said or thought. I achieved the 55…I lived my dream.
36. A. outside   B. inside C. behind D. beside
37. A. laughed at B. talked about C. listened to D. called on
38. A.Then  B. But C. And D. So
39. A. admitted   B. noticed C. realized D. declared
40. A. thinking   B. finding C. remembering D. guessing
41. A. level   B. start C. end D. point
42. A. At the end B. At the beginning C. In return D. On one hand
43. A. art   B. truth C. fact D. lesson
44. A. oneself   B. somebody C. myself D. nobody
45. A. gave   B. went C. put D. set
46. A. original   B. perfect C. same D. correct
47. A. dream   B. success C. progress D. future
48. A. for   B. out C. off D. back
49. A. discover   B. learn C. improve D. show
50. A. praise   B. support C. teach D. follow
51. A. gradual   B. complete C. endless D. timeless
52. A. have   B. begin C. prefer D. continue
53. A. why   B. how C. which D. what
54. A. loved   B. faced C. studied D. needed
55. A. task   B. step C. goal D. game
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，共40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
(A)

Visit Nashville, Tennessee, the capital of country music and the home of the Grand Ole Opry. Forty -day motor coach tour starts from Pittsburgh.
 Departures August 23, September 13, September 27, October 11, October 25.
$185 per person based on double occupancy. Includes private motor coach from Pittsburgh, hotel rooms, reserved（预定）tickets for the Grand Ole Opiy. Country Festival Friday and Saturday nights, sightseeing tour of Nashville, admissions to places of interest.
For information, free booklets, and reservations, call 4212 — 6060. Travel and Tours, 2245 Market Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.14-day advanced booking required. Visa and Master Card payment welcome.

56. Why is Nashville an interesting city to visit? Because it is ________
 A. easy to travel around B famous for country music
 C. an old city  D. a beautiful city

57. If you plan to join the tour on September 27, on what date should you reserve your ticket?
 A. August 27. B. October 13. C. September 13. D. September 26.

58. Visa and Master Card are most probably the names of
 A. newspapers B. clubs C. telephone cards D. credit cards

59. The title that best expresses the main idea of the passage is ________
 A. Bus Tour of Nashville B. Tour of Pittsburgh
 C. Travel and Tour  D. Free Traveling

(B)
Through a series of experiments an American scientist has gained an under¬standing of the social structure of the most complex of ant societies. The ants examined are the only creatures other than man to have given up hunting and collecting for a completely agricultural way of life. In their underground nests they planted gardens on soils made from finely cut leaves. This is a complex operation requiring considerable division of labor. The workers of this type of ant can be divided into four groups according to size. Each of the groups performs a particular set of jobs.
The making and care of the gardens and the nursing of the young ants are done by the smallest work¬ers. Slightly larger workers are responsible for cutting leaves to make them suitable for use in the gardens and for cleaning the nest. A third group of still larger ants do the construction work and collect fresh leav¬es from outside the nest. The largest are the soldier ants, responsible for defending the nest.
To find out how good the various size — groups are at different tasks, the scientist measured the amount of work done by the ants against the amount of energy they used. He examined first the gathering and carrying of leaves. He selected one of the size groups, and then measured how efficiently these ants could find leaves and run back to the nest. Then he repeated the experiment for each of the other size groups. In this way he could see whether any group could do the job more efficiently than the group nor¬mally undertaking it.
The intermediate-sized (中等) ants that normally perform this task proved to be the most effi¬cient for their energy costs, but when the scientist examined the whole set of jobs performed by each group of ants, it appeared that some sizes of worker ants were not suited to the particular jobs they per¬formed.
60. According to the passage, the ants _______
 A. grow something in their nests B. go hunting for a living
 C. cut leaves to make a fire D. do each of the jobs all together

61. It is observed that slightly larger ants perform more of the ________.
  A. construction tasks B. defensive work
  C. household tasks D. dangerous work
 62. The underlined word "good" probably means________.
  A. co-operating B. efficient C. hardworking D. responsible
 63. The experiments made by the scientist was based on _______.
  A. special methods B. scientific theories
  C. personal interests D. systematic observations
    (C)

If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise—and as a result, we are not aging unnecessarily soon.
Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively, early age, and how the process of aging could be slowed down.
With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes（容量）of a thousand people of different ages and jobs.
Computer technology enabled the researchers to get right measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect and emotion, and determine the human character. Contraction (收缩) of the front and side parts as cells died off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not clear in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
Matsuzawa concluded from his tests ‘that there is a simple remedy（补救）to the contraction normally  associated with age—using the head.
The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the coun¬try than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking(萎缩) brains as farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants.
Matsuzawa’ s findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need. “The best way to keep good blood circulation is through using the brain,” he says, “Think hard and engage in conversation. Don’ t rely on pocket calculators.”
 
64. The team of doctors wanted to find out _______.
A. why certain people age sooner than others
  B. how to make people live much longer
  C. the size of certain people’s brains
  D. the people with more intelligent
 65. On what are their research findings based?
  A. A survey of farmers in northern Japan.
  B. Tests performed on a thousand old people.
C. The study of brain volumes of different people.
D. The latest development of computer technology.

66. "Matsuzawa thinks that _____.
A. our brains shrink as we grow older
B. the front section of the brain does not shrink
C. sixty-year-old people have better brains than thirty-year-olds
D. the contraction of brains is connected with brain exercise

67. According to the passage, which people seem to age slower than the others?
 A. Farmers. B. Lawyers. C. Government workers. D. Shop assistants.

(D)
There are few ads that have stood the test of time. Certain ads are simple and outstanding; they are classics. Good ads work on two levels: they engage the mind of the consumer and at the same time deliver a selling message.
Spokespeople and celebrities have been an important part of many classic ads. Michael Jordan, the premier spokesperson of the 1990s, delivered believable commercials for Diet Coke, Wheaties, and Nike, to name but a few . His animated Coke ads, with a variety of cartoon characters, shown during the 1992 and 1993 Super Bowls produced awareness scores five times higher than the normal.
Drama is often an important aspect of successful advertising. One of the most dramatic advertise¬ments ever produced was a commercial for the launch of the Apple Macintosh computer that took on Apple"s  most serious competitor, IBM. The stark images of the classic George Orwell novel 1984 came alive in this commercial, which only ran once, on the 1984. Super Bowl before l00 million viewers. Not only was this ad a fascinating drama, it also demonstrated the power of a timely media buy.

Significant images are another important part of advertising. Nike, with its “Just do it” campaign has provided the intended audi¬ence—young athletic men and women, or athletic “wannabes” —with rewarding praise for the physically fit and constant inspiration ‘for the unfit to release their lethargy. These images of men and women committed to “no pain—no, gain." both inspire and challenge. This imagery is heightened through excellent photogra¬phy, the use of celebrities, and dramatic situations. It is a type of advertising called, rather literally, image advertising. Perhaps the most successful image advertising of all time, however, is the Marlboro campaign, which has been running since 1955. With great single-mindedness the campaign has focused on western imagery with cow¬boys, horses, and farms. The cowboy myth is a strong and exciting image. This campaign has been suc¬cessful both as communication and as a marketing effort. It has helped to make Marlboro the best — selling cigarette in the world.

68. In the author’ s opinion, classic ads intend to _________
A. raise the customer’ s energy and encourage them to take exercise
B. start a campaign to focus on western images and forerunners
C. include spokespersons, famous stars and lovely cartoons
D. attract customers and meanwhile send selling ideas.
69. The author says “Perhaps the most successful image advertising of all time , however, is the “Marlboro campaign” probably because of_____.
  A. the dramatic situation B. the clear photo
  C. the appealing image D. the good quality cigarettes
 70. Which of the following is true?
A. Image advertising consists of photography, famous people and dramatic situation.
B. Cartoon characters can improve awareness of social problems.
C. The ads based on literature words proves more successful.
D. Many ads can bear the test of time.

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