上海各区2012届高三英语一模试题分类汇编-阅读理解 - 图文

69. If Alice wants her twelve-year-old daughter to learn some German in the summer vacation, it is possible for

her to send her daughter to __________. A. Dallas International School B. Summer Language Courses C. English Courses D. Gulf ESL

70. Jim is going to study in Beijing next year, so you advise him to attend ___________. A. Online School B. English Courses C. Chinese Mandarin Class D. Gulf ESL

71. If Kitty, who is a Chinese student studying in a college in the U.K., wants to stay in a local family while

studying English in the summer vacation, she can apply to _________. A. Dallas International School B. Summer Language Courses C. English Courses D. Gulf ESL

(C)

How the Grand Canyon was created remains one of the geology’s greatest mysteries. Some evidence suggests that the process was a gradual one in which the Colorado River (which runs through the canyon) slowly cut deeper and deeper into the ground over millions of years. But volcanic(火山的) rock samples taken from the canyon(峡谷) now suggest that the canyon was downcut instead.

Downcutting is when a flood of water rushes over a landscape with enough force to cut deeply into the ground and leaves behind a canyon. Such a flood is usually released when a natural or artificial dam bursts.

Robert Webb, a research geologist with U.S. Geological Survey, says natural dams seem to have formed and broken across the Colorado River several times during the last million years. The dams were built when lava(熔岩) from the eruptions(爆发) of nearby volcanoes flowed into the river. The lava hardened into hard rocks and blocked the river, causing it to back up and form a lake. Each time the lake grew so huge that it broke the rock dam, releasing a flash flood that furthered the downcutting process and deepened the canyon. The most recent dam break happened 165,000 years ago, says Webb, and released 15 million cubic(立方) feet of water per second.

Downcutting is not just an earthly event. Satellite photos sent back from Mars (a planet) suggest that the process has happened there, too, say researchers at the National Air and Space Museum.

The photos, taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, indicate that an enormous lake existed on Mars 3.5 billion years ago. The lake, which was big enough to flood Texas and California, eventually spilled into a large nearby hole. One edge of the hole broke, releasing a flash flood that quickly carved out a grand canyon about 2,100 meters deep and 885 kilometers long. Astronauts call the canyon MA’adim Vallis.

The existence of downcutting on Mars is just one more piece of evidence that the cold, dry planet was once warm and wet.

72. In the past, deep canyons were believed to have formed ___________. A. as a result of a sudden break of volcanoes B. due to river flows over millions of years C. owing to the collapse of artificial dams D. thanks to our ancestors’ creative work

73. From the passage we can guess that ___________. A. several volcanoes broke out in the Colorado River

B. several great lakes existed on the upper parts of the Colorado River C. people built high dams on the upper parts of the Colorado River D. the Colorado River crossed the Grand Canyon millions of years ago 74. From the last three paragraphs we learn that __________. A. there are great lakes on Mars

B. there are active volcanoes on Mars

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C. there might be cities on Mars D. there might be life on Mars

75. The passage can be titled as _________. A. Lakes on Earth and Mars

B. The Cause of Lake Formation C. The Force of Dam Breaking

D. Canyons—Results of Flood Cutting

65. C 66. B 67. B 68. D 69. A 70. C 71. B 72. B 73. B 74. D 75. D

(奉贤)

（A）

I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy! I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?” He looked perturbed (不安). “Do you want to try it first?” he said. It didn’t quite sound like a question. “Do I need to?” I replied, “There is nothing wrong with it?” This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad. “No, no. But you should try it, ” he said encouragingly. “Compare it with the others. ”

I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly R into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.

But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out of my chosen camera from cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.

Why do we think that new options(选择) still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.

65. The shop assistant insisted that the writer should ________.

A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it. B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others. C. get more information about different companies. D. trust him and stop asking questions.

66. What does the writer mean by “it would be worth half what I paid for it ”(paragraph 2)?

A. He should get a 50% discount.

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B. The price of the camera was unreasonably high. C. The quality of the camera was not good. D. The camera would soon fall in value.

67. The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he ________.

A. knew very little about it B. didn’t trust the shop assistant

C. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers

68. It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion, ________.

A. people waste too much money on cameras

B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life C. we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product D. famous companies care more about profit than quality

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A. people who want to do business

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(C)

On the west side of the island of Manhattan in New York City, tree by tree, leaf by leaf, a 2,500 square foot sector of the Central African Republic’s Dzanga Ndoki Rainforest has been transported to, or recreated at, the American Museum of Natural History’s new hall of biodiversity(生物多样性). When the hall opens this May, visitors will visit one of the world’s biggest and most accurate reproductions of one of nature’s most threatened creations.

To bring the rainforest to New York, a team of nearly two dozen scientists—the largest collecting expedition the museum has ever organized for an exhibit—spent five weeks in the African rainforest collecting soil, plants, and leaves; recording and documenting species; studying trees; shooting videotape and still photos; and interviewing local people. ―This area has been explored very little‖, says Hoel Cracraft who estimates that the museum will eventually collect 150 to 180 mammals, more than 300 species of birds, hundreds of butterflies, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of organisms. The exhibition may even have produced a special prize—scientists suspect they have uncovered several new species.

To give the forest a sense of realness, the back wall of the exhibit is an enormous video screen, sounds will come out from hidden speakers, and plans even call for forest smells. Computer controls will vary the effects so that no two walkthroughs will ever be exactly the same.

After the team returned to New York, the forest was reproduced with the help of the computer. Computer modeling programmes plotted distances and special relationships. Artists studied photos and brought what they saw to life. Plaster trees were made．Recreated animals began to stand in the rainforest of the hall．Flying creatures will hang from the ceiling. The light in the forest, one of the exhibit’s cleverest recreations will seem real. Long tube lights will have the correct colour and temperature to produce a natural effect. The plants and animals exhibited throughout the hall exist naturally in a perfect balance remove one, and the whole is imperfect if not endangered. The exhibit is proof to the hope that the world’s rainforests will never exist solely as a carefully preserved artifact.

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