2013屆高三英語上學期復習理解試題：理解（一）
一.（ 金華一中2012學年第一學期期中考試）
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Our listener question this week coes fro Vietna. Quang Khoi asks about urphy’s La urphy’s Law says: “Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong.” Like any other popular sayings, it is difficult to find one explanation for it.
Those trying to explain urphy’s Law agree that it began in the United States Air Force, which says the expression was naed after officer Edward urphy. He was an engineer working on a project in space flight research in 1949. One story says Captain urphy was coenting about the failure of soe equipent he was using in an experient. He reportedly entioned the worker responsible by saying: “If there is a way to do it wrong, he will find it.” Another official heard this and called it urphy’s La
Another story is found in a book called A History of urphy’s Law by Nick Spark. It says ebers of the research tea working with Captain urphy created a siilar phrase: “If it can happen, it will happen.” They called this urphy’s La But Spark later said there are in fact any different explanations about who invented the expression.
Still, any stories say the first use of the ter urphy’s Laas at a press conference several weeks later. John Stapp was an Air Force captain at the tie. He spoke to reporters about the tests copleted by Captain urphy and his tea. Stapp said no one was injured during the tests because the Air Force considered “urphy’s Law” before carrying out their experients. He said this eant that they considered everything that could go wrong before a test and planned how to prevent those istakes fro happening.
Today, you can find exaples of urphy’s Law in everyday life. For exaple, you ight say that if you drop a slice of buttered bread on the floor, it will always land with the buttered side down.
41. The passage is probably taken fro______
A. a newspaper B. a history textbook C. a radio prograe D. a cultural agazine
42. According to the first explanation, we can learn that urphy was ____ the worker responsible.
A. pleased withB. dissatisfied with C. failiar with D. concerned about
43. According to Nick Spark, we can know that______.
A. nobody knows who really invented the expression
B. it was Captain urphy who invented this expression
C. urphy’s teaates created this popular expression
D. it is a waste of tie to discuss who invented the expression.
B
In Noveber of 2007, NBC Universal launched（發(fā)起） its first official Green Week. Throughout the week, NBC Universal presented over 150 hours of environentally theed content across ultiple platfors.
Now, NBC Universal is proud to present Green Week 2009. With a new thee and essage of "Green Your Routine," Here at NBC and NBC.co we celebrate our talent in the "The ore You Know" PSA capaign, presenting green-theed tips in several of our daytie life, aong several other features here on the "Green Your Routine" site.
Fashion ≈ Beauty
Throw a clothes swap party! Dying for that sweater your friend wore the other day? Well, aybe she'll trade for that old T-shirt you have. Here's a website that helps you organize a swap party (), or just plan your own!
Go natural with organic ake-up. Applying unnatural products directly on your skin wasn't exactly what nature intended. Try switching to a line of organic ake-up and cosetics for a different way to bring out your natural beauty.
Hoe
Drop a brick in your toilet tank! Literally! According to the EPA, flushing（沖洗）akes up 30 percent of a household's water use (about three to six gallons per flush). By placing a brick in your toilet tank, you can help to conserve the aount of water used during each flush.
Work
Print sarter. Printing and copying can be one of the ost costly operations in any office. To save on ink and paper costs, print double-sided and try to fit ore than one page on a sheet. ore printing tips can be found here: lifehacker.co
Turn off your coputer. Do you leave your coputer on overnight? If so, you're using up a good aount of electricity. When you can, try turning off your coputer and the power strip it's connected to. If you can't, at least shut off your onitor.
Transportation
Organize a carpool. There are any benefits to carpooling. You save on gas, reduce wear and tear on your car, and you get to ride in the HOV lanes. Get connected with your neighbours and co-workers to start sharing rides and check out this website for ore tips: .
Lose the car, get a bike. If you live close to where you work, try taking a bike instead of driving. You'll keep in shape and save on gas!
Every sall step and effort akes a difference! Be sure to GREEN YOUR ROUTINE!
44. NBC Universal holds Green Week activities ___________.
A. in a university B. in a parkC. in an office D. on the internet
45. This year, Green Week welcoes ____________.
A. advice on how to iprove the website
B. suggestions about how to ake their activities ore interesting
C. tips on what to do to ake our life greener
D. opinions on whether we should have capaigns
46. If you want to carpool with soebody, you can find ore advice and inforation at______.
A. B.
C. ww lifehacker.coD. ww NBC.co
47. Which is NOT recoended by Green Week this year?
A. Using things like cucubers to beautify your skin.
B. Reducing the roo of your toilet tank to save water when flushing.
C. Giving away your old clothes to those in need of the.
D. Printing and using coputers in an econoical way.
41-43 CBA 44-47 DCBC
二、（浙江省北侖中學2012屆高三上學期期中考試）
A
Children's Books: Hawking's fact and fiction
George F. R. Ellis ≈ Ruby
BOOK REVIEWED-George's Secret Key to the Universe
by Lucy ≈ Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Tie was a huge coercial success. Its achieveents in bringing difficult scientific ideas to a wide audience are not so clear. Now the distinguished physicist has teaed up with his daughter Lucy to produce a children's book designed to counicate conteporary physics. Will it capture the attention of young inds and teach the soe real science? Or will it be boring and over the heads of the prospective readers?
George's Secret Key to the Universe is an adventure story coplete with villains and hero and is illustrated with enjoyable line-drawings. It involves a lost pig, a huorously portrayed intelligent coputer, school bullies and a trip through the Solar Syste. Didactic discussions on aspects of odern physics, such as supernova explosions and black-hole physics are hung on this set-up. There are also fact boxes on physics and astronoy, and soe photographs of astronoical phenoena: planets, coets, galaxies and so on. Overall, the book is a serious effort to convey facts and ideas in present day astronoy and astrophysics, within a science-fiction adventure story.
The ixture is great. Children love facts and adventure stories. The cobination will catch their interest and keep the occupied for hours. After ten inutes of leafing through the book, y granddaughter Ruby was deeply absorbed and I had to proise to bring it back for her to read after I had copleted y revie Like any educational tool, it will succeed for soe and not for others. I suppose there should be ore of the forer.
41.Where do you think this passage is taken?
A. Fro a news story.B. Fro a textbook.
C. Fro a book revieD. Fro an advertisent.
42.Which of the following books is ainly reviewed in this passage?
A. George's Secret Key to the UniverseB. A Brief History of Tie
C. The Nature of Space and TieD. Hawking's fact and fiction
43.What is the author’s attitude towards the book being reviewed?
A. It will be less successful. B. It will be ore successful.
C. It will be a coplete failure.D. It all depends on Ruby
44.The underlined word “l(fā)eafing” (in the last paragrph) probably eans ______.
A. adding leaves to a bookB. throwing away a book
C. tearing up a bookD. turning pages of a book
B
Exercise, such as walking, can reduce the risk of diabetes (糖尿病) in people whose blood sugar is starting to rise. That outcoe was shown in a large study. Despite trying hard, those who dieted and worked out lost very little weight. But they did anage to aintain a regular walking progra, and fewer of the went on to develop diabetes.
Exercise also ay reduce the risk of heart disease. There sees to be soe effect: ost of the heart protection appears to be realized by walking regularly. ore intense exercise has been shown to provide only slightly greater benefits.
Active people are uch less likely to soke; they’re thinner and they eat differently than people who are less active. They also tend to be ore educated, and education is one of the strongest predictors of good health in general and a longer life. As a result, it is ipossible to knoith confidence whether exercise prevents heart disease or whether people who are less likely to get heart disease are also ore likely to be exercising.
Still, in rigorous studies in which elderly people were assigned either to exercise or aintain their noral routine, the exercisers were less likely to fall, perhaps because they got stronger or developed better balance. Exercise ay prevent broken bones—but only indirectly.
And what about weight loss? Lifting weights builds uscles but will not ake you burn ore calories. Jack Wilore, an exercise physiologist at Texas A ≈ University, calculated that the average aount of uscle that en gained after a serious 12-week weight-lifting progra was 2 kilogras, or 4.4 pounds. That added uscle would increase the etabolic rate (代謝率) by only 24 calories a day.
Exercise alone, in the absence of weight loss, has not been shown to reduce blood pressure. Nor does it ake uch difference in cholesterol (膽固醇) levels. Weight loss can lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, but if you want to lose weight, you have to diet as well as exercise. Exercise alone has not been shown to bring sustained weight loss. Just ask Steven Blair, an exercise researcher at the University of South Carolina. He runs every day and even runs arathons. But, he adds, “I was short, fat and bald when I started running, and I’ still short, fat and bald. Weight control is difficult for e. I fight the losing battle.”
The difficulty, Dr. Blair says, is that it’s uch easier to eat 1,000 calories than to burn off 1,000 calories with exercise. As he relates, “An old football coach used to say, ‘I have all y assistants running five iles a day, but they eat 10 iles a day.’”
45In the case of Steven Blair, running does ______ to his weight control.
A. littleB. uchC. goodD. har
46The last paragraph of the text tells us that the proble is that people tend to ______?
A. burn off 1,000 calories in a dayB. use ore energy than they get
C. get ore energy than they useD. run five iles in a football gae
47Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. Exercise can certainly prevent heart disease.
B. Exercise alone can not reduce blood pressure.
C. Lifting weight can directly prevent broken bones.
D. Walking can not reduce blood sugar in people.
48According to the text, the ore educated one is, the ______.
A. less exercise one will takeB. stronger and thinner one will be
C. ore cigarettes one will sokeD. healthier one will generally be
41-44 CABD 45-48 ACBD
三、（浙江省蒼南中學2012屆高三上學期期中考試）
A
Any foreigner who has tried to learn Chinese can tell how hard it is to aster the tones required to speak and understand. And anyone who has tried to learn to play the violin or other instruents can report siilar challenges.
Now researchers have found that people with usical training have an easier tie learning Chinese. Writing in the online edition of Nature Neuroscience，researchers fro Northwestern University say that both skills draw on the sae parts of the brain that help people discover changes in pitch(音調(diào))．
One of the study’s authors，Nina Kraus，said the findings suggested that studying usic “actually tunes our sensory syste”．This eans that schools that want children to do well in languages should hesitate before cutting usic progras，Dr.Kraus said. She said usic training ight also help children with language probles.
andarin(普通話)speakers have been shown to have a ore coplex encoding(編碼) of pitch patterns in their brains than English speakers do. This is because in andarin and other Asian languages，pitch plays a central role. A singlesyllable word can have several eanings depending on how it is intoned.
For this study，the researchers looked at 20 nonChinese speaking volunteers，half with no usical background and half who have studied an instruent for at least six years.
As they were shown a ovie，the volunteers also heard an audio tape of the andarin word “i” in three of its eanings：squint，bewilder and rice. The researchers recorded activities in their brain stes to see hoell they were processing the sounds. Those with a usic background showed uch ore brain activities in response to the Chinese sounds.
The lead author of the study，Patrick C．.Wong，said it ight work both ways. It appears that native speakers of tonal languages ay do better at learning instruents.
41. When learning Chinese，a foreigner will find ________.
A．he has a difficult tie learning usic at the sae tie
B．he has an easier tie learning usic at the sae tie
C．it is hard to aster the tones required to speak and understand
D．it is easy to use the brain to help hi discover changes in pitch
42. Why does Chinese learning have soething to do with usic training?
A．Because there is the sae difficulty in learning Chinese and usic.
B．Because skills to learn the two ake use of the sae parts of the brain.
C．Because usic training ight help people with language study
D．Because people who do well in Chinese study do well in usic.
43. The underlined word “intoned” in the fourth paragraph can be replaced by the word “____”．
A．created B．spelled
C．seeed D．pronounced
44. What would be the best title for this passage?
A．a(chǎn)ndarin Speakers Are Sarter than English Speakers
B．Skilled Ear for usic ay Help Language Study
C．Pitch Plays a Central Role in Chinese Learning
D．Schools Need to Develop usic Progras
B
Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our life that isn’t being upended by the tons of inforation available on the hundreds of illions of sites crowding the Internet, not to ention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic ail. “If the autoobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the sae pace as coputer and inforation technology,” says icrosoft, “a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 iles on a sall quantity of gas. And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza.”
Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving copanies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their custoers. Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven achines began producing ore in a day than en could turn out in nearly a year. “We view the growth of the Internet and e-coerce as a global trend,” says errill Lynch, “along the lines of printing press, the telephone, the coputer, and electricity.”
You would be hard pressed to nae soething that isn’t available on the Internet. Consider: books, health care, ovie tickets, construction aterials, baby clothes, stocks, cattle feed, usic, electronics, antiques, tools, real estate, toys, autographs of faous people, wine and airline tickets. And even after you’ve oved on to your final resting place, there’s no reason those you love can’t keep in touch. A copany called FinalThoughts.co offers a place for you to store “afterlife e-ails” you can send to Heaven with the help of a “guardian angel”.
Kids today are so coputer literate that it in fact ensures the United States will reain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable future. Nearly all children in failies with incoes of ore than $75,000 a year have hoe coputers, according to a study by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Youngsters fro ages 2 to 17 at all incoe levels have coputers, with 52% of those connected to the Internet. ost kids use coputers to play gaes (soe for 30 hours or ore a week), and any teenage girls think nothing of rushing hoe fro school to have e-ail chats with friends they have just left.
What’s clear is that, whether we like it or not, the Internet is an ever growing part of our lives and there is no turning back. “The Internet is just 20% invented,” says cyber pioneer Jake Winebau. “The last 80% is happening no”
45. What can we learn fro the icrosoft’s reark?
A. Today’s cars and airplanes are extreely overpriced.
B. Inforation technology is developing at an aazing speed.
C. Inforation technology has reached the point where iproveent is difficult.
D. There’s ore copetition in inforation technology industry than in car industry.
46. According to the author, the biggest benefit of the Internet is that___.
A. it saves copanies huge aounts of oney
B. it speeds up profit aking
C. it brings people incredible convenience
D. it provides easy access to inforation
47. The author gives the exaple of FinalThoughts.co to ake the point that____.
A. there are soe genius ideas on the Internet
B. alost anything is available on the Internet
C. people can find good bargains on the Internet
D. people are free to do anything on the Internet
48. What can we learn fro the fourth paragraph?
A. There is a link between incoe and coputer ownership.
B. any Aerican children don’t put coputers to good use.
C. Studies show that boys are ore coputer literate than girls.
D. The U.S. will stay ahead in the inforation technology in years.
49. Which sentence has the phrase that has the sae eaning as the one underlined in the fifth paragraph?
A. Soe can tell you that he has changed their lives, while others think nothing of hi.
B. Think nothing of it. It was y pleasure.
C. He thinks nothing of staying up all night in the Café bar.
D. He thinks nothing of the pain in his back for the oent.
50. What is the essage the author intends to convey?
A. The Internet is going to get fir hold of our lives soe day.
B. The Internet is going to influence our lives even ore greatly.
C. We should have a positive attitude towards the changes the Internet brings.
D. Children should be well prepared for the challenges in the inforation age.
四、（浙江省慈溪市2012屆高三上學期期中考試）A
Will Nanfang University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen announce a new beginning for China’s higher education refor? It’s too early to answer.But its presence is challenging the inistry of Education.Even without the approval of the inistry it sees that the school is deterined to ove forward and enroll 50 students, so-called child prodigies(奇才), to begin classes on arch l, 2011.On graduating in 2015, these students will receive a diploa unauthorized by the inistry of Education-unlike the students of their age fro the state-run universities.
The school is coitted to odeling itself on Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, but if the governent will not approve the school, the situation could cause a lot of trouble for those 50 students if they want to do graduate studies at other higher learning institutions.Other schools could turn their applications down for their unauthorized diploas.
The difficulties, however, have not frightened students and their parents away.On Dec.18, 2010 ore than 1,000 students and their parents visited Nanfang University of Science and Technology for interviews.
Private investent arks the school out fro other higher learning institutions in the nation.Not a penny coes fro the governent. So the governent will have no voice in how the school will be run.
The inistry of Education has published a coprehensive plan for education refor and developent between 2011 and 2020.The goal is to ake China’s higher education internationally copetitive.To accoplish this goal, the governent should have the courage to let the educators who have big ideas try the out.The inistry should have applauded the independence the school in Shenzhen has shown and encouraged ore to do likewise.
Education refor in China has reached a new and crucial stage.Nanfang University of Science and Technology has a long way to go to prove itself copetitive rather than a diploa ill.
41．Over 1,000 students and parents visited the school because .
A．they believe that the school will have a bright future
B．they believe the governent is sure to approve the school
C．the school odels itself on Hong Kong University successfully
D．they will never do graduate studies at other higher learning institutions
42．The trouble the students in the school ay have is that .
A．the governent will have no voice in the school
B．they won’t receive any diploa when graduating fro the school
C．other schools are unlikely to accept their diploa fro the school
D．they will not learn how to be copetitive
43．What does the author think of Nanfang University of Science and Technology?
A．It is another kind of diploa ill.
B．It’s ipossible for the school to be copetitive.
C．It will never get the approval fro the inistry of Education.
D．Its independence fro the governent ay benefit the education refor.
44．What is the best title of the passage?
A．University of New Style. B．China’s Education Refor.
C．odeling Hong Kong University. D．Authorized or Not?
B
It was a hot suer day. y dad and I were getting ready to go out for a ride on the boat with y friend Katie and the dog when the phone call cae, the call that ade that bright, beautiful day a cold, dark, glooy one.
I had just put on y suit, shorts, and tank top, and packed y bag with sunscreen and everything else I would need for the day. I ran into y parents' roo to find Dad. When I saw hi on the phone, he was crying. I'd never seen y dad cry before. y heart sank. What possibly could have happened?
"ax, I' so sorry," I heard hi say. That's when it hit e. I knew that Suzie had died.ax has been y dad's best friend for years. Suzie, his daughter, had a rare disease that ainly affected her body. Her brain was OK. She knehat was going on; she knew that shehad probles and was different fro other kids. Once she told her dad that she wished she could die and be born in a different body. Yet although she couldn't live a noral life ，she was still happy.
When Suzie and I were little, we spent quite a bit of tie together. As we grew up, we grew apart. She lived in New York, and I lived in the idwest. When Suzie was ten she had to live ina hospital in Virginia. About eight onths before she died, ax gave us her nuber at the hospital and we talked at least twice a week until the end. Suzie was always so excited to talk to us and wanted to know every detail about y life. She wanted to know everything I did and every thing I ate. In a way, she lived through e. After we found out about her death, we ade our plans to go to New York for the funeral. When she was alive, I sent her a Beanie Baby and she sent one back to e. I had bought her another one but never had the chance to send it to her, so I took it to put in her casket(棺材).
Her funeral was very different fro any funeral I'd ever been to. After they lowered her casket, each one of us put a shovelful of dirt over her. I reeber crying so hard, I felt weak. y cheeks burned fro the tears. y whole body was shaking as I picked up the shovel, but I' glad I did it.
When Suzie and I first started calling one another, I thought it would be ore of a burden on e, but I was copletely wrong. I learned so uch fro her. She gave e ore than I could ever give to her. I will never forget her or the talks we had. I now know that I ust never take anything for granted especially y health and the gift of life.
45．The author's faily cancelled their ride because______.
A．Katie couldn't join the for the ride
B．the weather was too terrible for a ride
C．they couldn't find their dog
D．a(chǎn)x's daughter passed away
46．What does the underlined part “In a wav, she lived through e.” ean?
A．Suzie got to knohat life outside hospital was like by sharing y experience.
B．Suzie was financially dependent of e.
C．Suzie anaged to pull through her illness with the help of y faily.
D．Suzie was too weak to live her own life.
47．Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A．Suzie was the only person helping the author with difficulties.
B．The author feared that she ight also get the sae disease as Suzie.
C．The author benefited a lot fro talking on the phone with Suzie.
D．The author didn't understand Suzie was her true friend until Suzie's death.
48．What is the ost iportant lesson the author learned fro Suzie's death?
A．Never let go of a friend even if you are apart.
B．Be thankful for what we have in our life.
C．Talking with a friend can cure your illness.
D．We can learn ore fro our friends than they do fro us.
五、（浙江省杭州市七校2012屆高三上學期期中聯(lián)考）A
A siple flower ade headlines in the British press last week. How could that be?
British Prie inister David Caeron and his inisters were attending a reception hosted by Chinese Preier Wen Jiabao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. They insisted on wearing poppies(罌粟花) in their buttonholes.
What’s wrong with that?
According to the Global Ties, Chinese officials apparently had asked the UK delegation not to wear poppies. The British said that poppies eant a great deal to the on that day and they would wear the all the sae.
So what’s the significance of the poppy? It’s a flower which has different cultural and sybolic eanings for British and Chinese people.
Fro the Chinese point of view, the poppy is a sybol of China’s huiliation at the hands of European powers in the Opiu Wars of the 19th century. Britain forced China to open the borders to trade ? including in the opiu ? which was ade fro poppies grown in India.
Yet fro the British viewpoint the poppy is a reinder of the killing during World War I. Red poppies grew on the battlefields of Flanders in Belgiu where any thousands of British soldiers died or were buried. Since then, Poppy Day (Noveber 11) has becoe a tie in the UK to wear poppies and reeber the sacrifices of British soldiers and civilians in ties of war.
So you can see that the poppy sets off strong feelings in the hearts of Chinese and British people for different reasons. And it akes sense for us to try to understand each other’s standpoint.
Of course cultural differences can also be interesting and funny. And what one nation thinks is an acceptable gift ay be viewed differently by their guests fro overseas. US President Barack Obaa gave a gift of an iPod to Britain’s Queen ? a dull person with no interest in usic. Obaa also presented Gordon Brown with a fine selection of Aerican ovies. But they were in US forat and ipossible to play on British DVD players.
any countries have diploats stationed overseas. Diploats provide inforation and advice to their governents back hoe. However, soeties it would see that even diploats can overlook the cultural significance of a sall flower.
41. British Prie inister David Caeron probably attended a reception in Beijing on __________.
A. October 1 B. Noveber 11C. Deceber 31D. January 11
42. The poppy reinds the Chinese of __________.
A. the shae caused by European countries in the 19th century
B. the British soldiers who were killed and buried during World War I
C. the Chinese soldiers killed during World War II
D. the suffering caused by Britain during World War I
43. The diploatic proble in Beijing is ainly caused by __________.
A. the translation istake B. the language difference
C. the cultural difference D. the different lifestyle
44. We can infer that __________.
A. Britain’s Queen is not interested in art
B. Gordon Brown was fond of Aerican ovies US President Barack Obaa sent hi
C. US President Barack Obaa received a gift for usic
D. Britain’s Queen ay not like the iPod US President Obaa presented her
45. What is the ain idea of the 9th paragraph?
A. Cultural differences can also be interesting and funny
B. Cultural differences can cause a big proble
C. US President Barack Obaa likes to present gifts to other leaders
D. US leaders and British leaders get along well with each other
B
Dear Students:
Thank you for your interest in helping with the investigation into ups(腮腺炎) at University of East Anglia (UEA) .
Part 1: What will the oral fluid/saliva saple be tested for?
The oral fluid saple you provide will be tested for ups antibodies and ups virus. We will not be reporting results back to individual students. The inforation gathered will be used to guide public health control of ups. We will update you via eailing and final outcoe to acknowledge your contribution. If you think you have ups, you will still need to see your GP as per routine.
Part 2: What is involved in the investigation?
(1) We will be contacting you by post to request two oral fluid/saliva saples a feeeks apart and possibly a third saple.
(2) We will contact your GP to collect inforation on your vaccination records.
Participation is voluntary.
You can withdraw anytie without having to give a reason. Withdrawal will not affect your routine care.
As a public health body, the HPA data collection role is strictly governed. All data will be collected and handled in accordance with strict edical confidences.
Part 3: What to do next if you would like to enroll?
All you have to do now is:
(1) Follow the instructions on the box with regards to taking an oral fluid/saliva swab(棉簽)。
(2) Coplete the request for. If you are unable to coplete the vaccination history section, you can leave it blank.
(3) Confir your consent by signing belo
(4) Send everything (saple for, signed consent and swab saple) back in the prepaid envelope ? a stap is not required.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Chee Yung on 0208 327 7603.
Thank you for your tie and consideration.
I consent to take part in the oral fluid/saliva investigation of ups at UEA by the HPA.
Signature: __________
Full nae: __________
Date: __________
46.It can be inferred fro the passage that GP refers to __________.
A. parent B. doctor C. colleague D. classate
47. According to the passage, the following stateents are true EXCEPT that __________.
A. all the students at University of East Anglia have to take part in the investigation.
B. you don’t need to explain why you want to withdraw fro the investigation.
C. individual students will not be infored of the test results.
D. your routine care will not be affected if you withdraw fro the investigation.
48. The data of the investigation will be __________.
A. sent to the GP by the HPA
B. collected by individual students
C. anaged according to strict edical confidences
D. strictly secret to the HPA
49. To enroll the investigation, you have to __________.
A. coplete the vaccination history section of the request for
B. send the saple for, the signed consent and the swab saple back at your own expense.
C. contact Dr. Chee Yung on 0208 327 7603
D. do as the instructions on the box about how to take an oral fluid/saliva swab
六、（蕭九中2011學年第一學期期中聯(lián)考）
A
Coso Books Ltd., 14, Woodan Road,
Hertford Estate, Two Bridges,
Rickansworth, West Sussex.
iddx.
25th February
Dear sir,
Just over six onths ago, I saw an advertiseent in the orning ail for a set of the coplete works of Willia Shakespeare. Your copany, Coso books Ltd., offered this set ( eight books of plays and two books of poetry) at what was claied to be a ‘rearkable’ price: fifteen pounds and fifty pence, including postage and packing. I had wanted a set of Shakespeare’s plays and poes for soe tie, and these books, in red iitation leather, looked particularly attractive; so I sent for the.
Two weeks later, the books arrived, together with a set of the coplete works of Charles Dickens which I had not ordered. So I returned the Dickens books to you, with a cheque for fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare. Two ore weeks passed. Then there arrived on y door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the sae set of novels by Dickens and a six book set of the plays of oliere, in French. Since I do not read French, these were of no use to e at all. However, I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you at the end of August of last year, instructing you to coe and collect all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further notice.
You did not reply to that letter. Instead you sent e a bill for forty two pounds , and a set of the plays of Schiller, in Geran. Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two weeks, the works of Goethe, the poes of ilton, the plays of Strindberg; I hardly knohat I have. The books are still all in their boxes, in the garage, and y car has to stand in the rain outside.
I have no roo for any ore books, and even if I read fro now until the Last Judgeent, I should not finish reading all the books that you have sent e.
Please send no ore books, send no ore bills, send no ore angry letters deanding payent. Just send one large lorry and take all the books away, leaving e only with the one set of the coplete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid.
Yours faithfully,
SION WALKER
41. Sion Walker wrote the letter to ________
A. coplain about sending hi books he had not ordered.
B. urge Coso Books Ltd. to take away the books he had not ordered.
C. laugh at Coso Books Ltd..
D. advise readers not to order books fro Coso Books Ltd..
42. The advertiseent that r. Walker saw in the orning ail was for ____
A. unliited nuber of Coso Books.
B. a set of 10 books of the works of Shakespeare.
C. a book containing all the plays and poes of Shakespeare.
D. fifteen pounds and fifty pence.
43. r. walker answered the advertiseent because ________
A. he wanted a set of Shakespeare’s works, and this set was cheap, and looked attractive.
B. he claied that the books were being offered at a rearkable price.
C. he had ordered the set and had been waiting for the to coe for soe tie.
D. the set he already had was not particularly attractive.
44. Coso Books have _______
A. sent bills for books that they have not sent.
B. continued to send books that r. Walker did not order.
C. still not sent r. Walker the books that he ordered.
D. ade a gift to r. Walker of several sets of books.
45. The tone of the letter is that of _______
A. bitterness B. respect C. annoyance D. huor
B
It is pretty uch a one-way street. While it ay be coon for university researchers to try their luck in the coercial world, there is very little traffic in the opposite direction. Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with failies often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when oving to a university job. For soe industrial scientists, however, the attractions of acadeia (學術界) outweigh any financial considerations.
Helen Lee took a 70% cut in salary when she oved fro a senior post in Abbott Laboratories to a edical departent at the University of Cabridge. Her ain reason for returning to acadeia id-career was to take advantage of the greater freedo to choose research questions. Soe areas of inquiry have few prospects of a coercial return, and Lee’s is one of the.
The ipact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career. Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for olecular Inforatics at the University of Cabridge, spent two years working for a pharaceutical (制藥的) copany before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher. He took a 30% salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual（知識的） opportunities.
Higher up the ladder, where a pay cut is usually ore significant, the deand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry is forcing universities to ake the transition (轉換) to acadeia ore attractive, according to Lee. Industrial scientists tend to receive training that acadeics do not, such as how to build a ultidisciplinary tea, anage budgets and negotiate contracts. They are also well placed to bring soething extra to the teaching side of an acadeic role that will help students get a job when they graduate, says Lee, perhaps experience in anufacturing practice or product developent. “Only a sall nuber of undergraduates will continue in an acadeic career. So soeone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far ore potential in the job arket than soeone who has spent all their tie on a narrow research project.”
46.By “a one-way street” (Line 1, Para. 1), the author eans ________.
A. university researchers know little about the coercial world
B. there is little exchange between industry and acadeia
C. few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university
D. few university professors are willing to do industrial research
47. The word “deterrent” (Line 2, Para. 1) ost probably refers to soething that ________.
A. keeps soeone fro taking action
B. helps to ove the traffic
C. attracts people’s attention
D. brings soeone a financial burden
48. What was Helen Lee’s ajor consideration when she changed her job in the iddle of her career?
A. Flexible work hours. B. Her research interests.
C. Her preference for the lifestyle on capus.
D. Prospects of acadeic accoplishents.
49. Guy Grant chose to work as a researcher at Cabridge in order to ________.
A .do financially ore rewarding work
B .raise his status in the acadeic world
C. enrich his experience in edical research
D. exploit better intellectual opportunities
50. What contribution can industrial scientists ake when they coe to teach in a university?
A. Increase its graduates’ copetitiveness in the job arket.
B. Develop its students’ potential in research.
C. Help it to obtain financial support fro industry.
D. Gear its research towards practical applications.
七、（浙江省南馬高中2011-2012學年第一學期期中考試）
A
A woan fro Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woan had visited ajor businesses and investent copanies in New York City and Chicago.
“I studied English before I left hoe,” she said. “But I still was not sure that people were speaking English.”
Her proble is easy to understand. Aericans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own. Soe of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed fro different kinds of work such as the theater and ovie industry.
One such saying is “get your act together”.
When things go wrong in a business, an eployer ay get angry. He ay shout, “Stop aking istakes. Get your act together.
Or, if the eployer is caler, he ay say, “Let us get our act together.” Either way, the eaning is the sae. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually eans to develop a cal and orderly plan of action.
It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But, it is probable that it was in the theater or ovie industry. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and ade a lot of istakes. The director ay have said, “Cal down, no Get your act together.”
Word expert Jaes Rogers says the expression was coon by the late 1970s. ister Rogers says the anchester Guardian newspaper used it in 1978. The newspaper said a refor policy required that the British governent get its act together.
Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a copany eet. One copany even called its yearly report, “Getting Our Act Together.”
The Japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by Aerican business people. It is “cut to the chase”.
She heard that expression when she attended an iportant eeting of one copany. One official was giving a very long report. It was not very interesting. In fact, soe people at the eeting were falling asleep.
Finally, the president of the copany said, “Cut to the chase.”
Cut to the chase eans to stop spending so uch tie on details or uniportant aterial. Hurry and get to the good part.
Naturally, this saying was started by people who ake ovies. Hollywood ovie producers believe that ost Aericans want to see action ovies. any of their ovies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot。
Cut is the director’s word for stop. The director eans to stop filing, leave out soe aterial, and get to the chase scene no
So, if your eployer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the ain point of your story quickly.
41. After the woan visited the United States she ight feel that __________.
A. it’s difficult to ake oney B. It’s easy to aster English
C. her English was poor D. people there weren’t very friendly
42. In which situation could the words “get your act together” be used?
A. Visitors ake a tiresoe and unpleasant trip to soeplace.
B. Players perfor badly in a atch.
C. Audience is satisfied with the actor’s perforance in a ovie.
D. A task is copleted successfully
43. According to the text, the expression “get one’s act together” __________.
A. was first used by a Japanese business woan
B. was coonly read by readers in a newspaper in 1978.
C. originally cae fro a yearly report of a copany
D. was forbidden to be used in the governent policy
44. What do the sayings “get your act together” and “cut to the chase” have in coon?
A. their origins B. Their eanings C. Their uses D. their popularities
45. The text is ost likely to be found in a book about _________.
A. life attitude B. travel journals
C. successful business D. language culture
B
No woan can be too rich or too thin. This saying often attributed to the late Duchess of Windsor ebodies uch of the odd spirit of our ties. Being thin is deeed as such a virtue. The
proble with such a view is that soe people actually attept to live by it. I yself have fantasies of slipping into narrow designer clothes. Consequently, I have been on a diet for the better—or worse—part of y life. Being rich wouldn’t be bad either, but that won’t happen unless an unknown relative dies suddenly in soe distant land, leaving e illions of dollars. Where did we go off the track? When did eating butter becoe a sin, and a little bit of extra flesh unappealing, if not repellent? All religions have certain days when people refrain fro eating and excessive eating is one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins. However, until quite recently, ost people had a proble getting enough to eat. In soe religious groups, wealth was a sybol of probable salvation and high orals, and fatness a sign of wealth and well—being. Today the opposite is true. We have shifted to thinness as our new ark of virtue. The result is that being fat ?or even only soewhat overweight—is bad because it iplies a lack of oral strength.
Our obsession(迷戀) with thinness is also fueled by health concerns. It is true that in this country we have ore overweight people than ever before, and that, in any cases, being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease. These diseases. , however, ay as uch to do with our way of life and our high—fat diets as with excess weight. And the associated risk of cancer in the digestive syste ay be ore of a dietary proble—too uch fat and a lack of fiber—than a weight proble. The real concern, then, is not what we weight too uch, but that we neither exercise enough nor eat well. Exercise is necessary for strong bones and both heart and lung health. A balanced diet without a lot of fat can also help the body avoid any diseases. We should surely stop paying so uch attention to weight. Siply being thin is not enough. It is actually hazardous if those who (or already are) thin think they are autoatically healthy and thus free fro paying attention to their overall life—style. Thinness can be pure vainglory(虛榮).
46. In the eyes of the author, an odd phenoenon nowadays is that _______________.
A. the Duchess of Windsor is regarded as a woan of virtue
B. looking sli is a sybol of having a large fortune
C being thin is viewed as a uch desired quality
D religious people are not necessarily virtuous
47. Swept by the prevailing trend, the author ______.
A. had to go on a diet for the greater part of her life
B. could still prevent herself fro going off the track
C. had to seek help fro rich distant relatives
D. had to wear highly fashionable clothes
48. In huan history, people’s views on body weight _______
A.. were closely related to their religious beliefs B. changed fro tie to tie
C. varied between the poor and the rich D. led to different oral standard
49. The author criticizes woen’s obsession with thinness _______-.
A． fro an econoic and educational perspective
B. fro sociological and edical points of view
C fro a historical and religious standpoint
D. in the light of oral principles
50. What’s the author’s advice to woen who are absorbed in the idea of thinness?
A They should be ore concerned with their overall life style.
B They should be ore watchful for fatal diseases.
C They should gain weight to look healthy
D They should rid theselves of fantasies about designer clothes
CDBAD CABBA
八、（衢州一中2011學年度第一學期期中檢測試卷）A
Fro the health point of viee are living in an aazing age. We are free fro any of the ost dangerous diseases. A large nuber of once deadly illnesses can now be cured by odern edicine. It is alost certain that one day edicines will be found for the ost stubborn reaining diseases. The expectation of life has increased greatly. But though the possibility of living a long and happy life is greater than ever before, every day we witness the unbelievable killing of en, woen and children on the roads. an vs the otor-car! It is a never-ending battle which an is losing.
Thousands of people all over the world are killed or horribly killed each year and we are quietly sitting back and letting it happen.
It has been rightly said that when a an is sitting behind a steering wheel (方向盤), his car becoes the extension of his personality. There is no doubt that the otor-car often brings out a an’s very worst qualities. People who are norally quiet and pleasant ay becoe unrecognizable when they are behind a steering-wheel. They say, they are ill-annered and aggressive, willful as two-year-olds and copletely selfish. Their hidden angers and disappointents see to be brought to the surface by the act of driving.
The surprising thing is that society siles so gently on the otorist and sees to forgive his behavior. Everything is done for his convenience. Cities are allowed to becoe alost uninhabitable because of heavy traffic; towns are ade ugly by huge car parks; the countryside is ruined by road networks; and the deaths becoe nothing ore than a nuber every year, to be easily forgotten.
It is high tie a world rule was created to reduce this senseless waste of huan life. With regard to driving, the laws of soe countries are unbelievable lenient (寬容的) and even the strictest are not strict enough. A rule which was universally accepted could only have an obviously beneficial effect on the accident rate. Here are a few exaples of soe of the things that ight be done. The driving test should be standardized and ade far ore difficult than it is; all the drivers should be ade to take a test every three years or so; the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21; all vehicles should be put through strict tests for safety each year. Even the sallest aount of alcohol in the blood can daage a person’s driving ability. Present drinking and driving laws (where they exist) should be ade uch stricter. Speed liits should be required on all roads. Governents should lay down safety specifications for car factories, as has been done in the USA. All advertising stress power and perforance should be banned. These easures ay not sound good enough. But surely nothing should be considered as too severe if it results in reducing the nuber of deaths. After all, the world is for huan beings, not otor-cars.
41. What is the ain idea of this passage?
A. Traffic accidents are ainly caused by otorists.
B. Thousands of people all over the world are killed each year.
C. The laws of soe countries about driving are to lenient.
D. Only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents.
42. What does the author think of society toward otorists?
A. Society laughs at the otorists. B. Huge car parks are build in the cities and towns.
C. Victis of accidents are nothing. D. Society forgives their rude driving
43. What does the author ean by saying “his car becoes the extension of his personality” in
Paragraph 2?
A. Driving can show his hidden qualities B. Driving can show the other part of his personality
C. Driving can bring out his character D. Driving can represent his anners
44. Which of the following is NOT entioned as a way against traffic accidents?
A. Perfect the road network B. Stricter driving tests
C. Test drivers every three years D. Raise age liit and lay down safety specifications.
45. The author’s attitude towards the traffic situation is ______.
A. confused B. discontented C. appealing D. doubtful
B
Consult the page adapted fro an English dictionary and do Questions 46-49.
46. What does the phrase “green shoots” ean in “Green shoots have begun to appear in different arkets”?
A. Signs of recovery. B. High prices.
C. Environental protection. D. Change in policy.
47. Fill in the blank in the sentence “I can’t believe this is Joshua—he’s ______ since we last et!”
A. shot out B. shot through C. shot up D. shot down
48. When you are talking about uniportant things, we say you are ______.
A. shooting yourself in the foot B. shooting the breeze
C. shooting your outh off D. shooting questions at soebody
49. Choose a word to coplete the sentence “The ______, which killed a policean and wounded a passer-by, was reported to have lasted only 13 seconds.”
A. shooter B. shoot C. shot D. shooting
41—45 DDAAB 46—49 ACBD
九、（浙江省紹興一中2012屆高三上學期期中考試）A
An idea that started in Seattle's public library has spread throughout Aerica and beyond. The concept is siple: help to build a sense of counity in a city by getting everyone to read the sae book at the sae tie.
In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求) to be enjoyed by all, the progra allows strangers to counicate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as prooting reading as an experience to be shared in failies and schools. The idea cae fro Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched (發(fā)起）the "If All of Seattle Read the Sae Book " project in 1998. Her original progra used author visits, study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to any other Aerican cities, and even to Hong Kong.
In Chicago, the ayor appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a ockingbird as the first book in the "One Book, One Chicago" progra. As a result, reading clubs and neighborhood groups sprang up around the city. Across the US, stories eerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about plot and
character.
The only proble arose in New York , where local readers could not decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population. This ay show that the idea works best in ediu-sized cities or large towns, where a greater sense of unity(一致）can be achieved .Or it ay show that New Yorkers rather issed the point ,putting all their energy and passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.
Ultiately, as Nancy points out, the level of success is not easured by how any people read a book, but by how any people are enriched by the process or have enjoyed speaking to soeone with who they would not otherwise have shared a word.
41. What is the purpose of the project launched by Nancy?
A. To invite authors to guide readers.
B. To encourage people to read and share.
C. To involve people in counity service.
D. To proote the friendship between cities.
42. Why was it difficult for New Yorkers to carry out the project?
A. They had little interest in reading.
B. They were too busy to read a book.
C. They cae fro any different backgrounds
D. They lacked support fro the local governent
43. According to the passage, where would the project be ore easily carried out?
A. In large counities with little sense of unity
B. In large cities where libraries are far fro hoe
C. In ediu-sized cities with a diverse population
D. In large towns where agreeent can be quickly reached
44. The underlined words “shared a word” in Paragraph 5 probably ean
A. exchanged ideas with each other
B. discussed the eaning of a word
C. gaed life experience
D. used the sae language
45. According to Nancy, the degree of success of the project is judged by
A. the careful selection of a proper book
B. the growing popularity of the writers
C. the nuber of people who benefit fro reading.
D. the nuber of books that each person reads.
B
any parents have learned the hard way that what sounds like open counication is often the very thing that closes a youngster’s ears and outh. One coon istake is the Lecture, the long onologue that often starts with “When I was your age….” Eighteen-year-old Kelly calls lectures “l(fā)ong, one-side discussions in which I don’t say uch.”
Kids reflexively（條件反射地） shut down in the face of a lecture. Their eyes glaze over（呆
滯）, and they don’t register any incoing inforation. Listen to 13-year-old Sarah describe her least favorite ties with her o and dad. “First, they screa. Then coes the ‘We’re so disappointed’ speech. Then the ‘I never did that to y parents’ lecture begins. After that, even if they realize how ridiculous they sound, they never take it back.”
Lines like “When you have children of your own, you’ll understand” have been seriously said by parents since tie ieorial. But any of our expert parents, like Bobby, a registered nurse and other of three, feel that by falling back on clichés（陳詞濫調(diào)） to justify our actions, we weaken our position.
Since kids are creatures of here and now, the far-off future has no relevance to the. Therefore, good counicators like Bobby suggest, “Give specific reasons for your actions in present language: ‘I’ not letting you go to the party because I don’t think there will be enough adult supervisions（監(jiān)護）.’”
Betty, who lives in issiouri, uses an indirect approach. “I find that warnings are accepted ore readily if I discuss a news article on a subject I a concerned about. y husband and I talk about it while our children absorb the inforation. Then they never think I’ preaching(布道).”
This really helped when Betty’s kids began driving. Instead of constantly repeating “Don’t drink; don’t speed,” she would talk about articles in the paper and express sypathy for the victis of a car crash. Betty ade no special effort to draw her kids into the conversation. She depended on a teenager’s strong desire to put in his opinions---especially if he thinks he isn’t being asked for the.
46. The purpose of the passage is to _________.
A. copare two ways of parents` counicating with their kids
B. give parents advice on how to counicate with their kids
C. explain why kids won’t listen to their parents.
D. introduce kids` reaction to the counication between the and their parents
47. Which of the following stateents is NOT right?
A. Kids won’t listen to their parents because they think what their parents say is boring.
B. any kids think they have no right to express their own opinions.
C. Soe kids think their parents should apologize when they are wrong.
D. Kids don’t like any discussion at all.
48. What does the underlined word in the first paragraph ean?
A. 獨白 B. 對話 C. 插話 D. 討論
49. Which of the following topic ay appeal to kids?
A. Parents` own experience
B. Kids possible life in the future
C. Soething related to kids’ present life
D. What parents have done to their own parents.
50. In order to ake kids follow their advice, parents should______.
A. tell their kids to listen carefully B. set out their warnings directly
C. list out as any exaples as possible D. arouse kids’ desire to express theselves.
BCDAC BDACD
十、（浙江省新昌中學2012屆高三上學期期中考試試題）
(A)
Generations of Aericans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one’s life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the faily car before starting a trip.
But for any people, the thought of food as the first thing in the orning is never a pleasure. So in spite of all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained, the nuber of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33%—fro 8.8 illion to 11.7 illion—according to the Chicago-based arket Research Corporation of Aerica.
For those who dislike eating breakfast, however, there is soe good news. Several studies in the last few years have shown that, for grown-ups especially, there ay be nothing wrong with oitting (省略) breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect work,” said Arnold E. Bender, forer professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast iprove work.”
Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly inadequate, and ost of the recent work involves children, not grown-ups. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr Earnest Polite at the University of Texas, “is poor.”
41. The ain idea of the passage is that _______.
A. breakfast has nothing to do with people’s health
B. a good breakfast used to be iportant to us
C. breakfast is not as iportant to us as gasoline to a car
D. breakfast is not as iportant as we thought before
42. For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that _______.
A. several studies have been done in the past few years
B. the oission of breakfast has little effect on one’s work
C. grown-ups have especially ade studies in this field
D. eating little in the orning is good for health
43. The underlined part “nor does giving people breakfast iprove work” eans _______.
A. people without breakfast can iprove their work
B. not giving people breakfast iproves work
C. having breakfast does not iprove work, either
D. people having breakfast do iprove their work, too
44. The word "literature" in the last sentence refers to _______.
A. stories, poes, play, etc
B. written works on a particular subject
C. newspaper articles
D. the odern literature of Aerica
45. What is iplied but not stated by the author is that _______.
A. breakfast does not affect work
B. Dr Polite works at an institution of higher learning
C. not eating breakfast ight affect the health of children
D. Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in London
(B)
any trees in the Brackha area were brought down in the terrible stors that arch. The town itself lost two great lie trees fro the forer arket square. The disappearance of such striking features had changed the appearance of the town centre entirely, to the annoyance of its ore conservative inhabitants(居民).
Aong the annoyed, under ore noral circustances, would have been Chief Inspector Douglas Pelha, head of the local police force. But at the height of that week's stor, when the wind brought down even the ature walnut tree in his garden, Pelha had in fact been in no fit state to notice. A large and healthy an, he had for the first tie in his life been seriously ill with an attack of bronchitis.
When he first coplained of an aching head and tightness in his chest, his wife, olly, had tried to persuade hi to go to the doctor. Convinced that the police force could not do without hi, he had, as usual, ignored her and attepted to carry on working. Predictably, though he wouldn't have listened to anyone who tried to tell hi so, this had the effect of fogging his eory and shortening his teper.
It was only when his colleague, Sergeant Lloyd, took the initiative (主動) and drove hi to the doctor's door that he finally gave in. By that tie, he didn't have the strength left to argue with her. In no tie at all, she was taking hi along to the cheist's to get his edicine and then hoe to his unsurprised wife who sent hi straight to bed.
When olly told hi, on the Thursday orning, that the walnut tree had been brought down during the night, Pelha hadn’t been able to take it in. On Thursday evening, he had asked weakly about daage to the house, groaned (含糊不清地說) thankfully when he heard there was none, and pulled the sheets over his head.
It wasn't until Saturday, when the edicine took effect, his teperature dropped and he got up, that he realized with a shock that the loss of the walnut tree had ade a peranent difference to the appearance of the living-roo. The Pelhas’ large house stood in a sizeable garden. It had not coe cheap, but even so Pelha had no regrets about buying it. The leafy garden had created an ipression of privacy. Now, though, the stor had changed his outlook.
Previously, the view fro the living-roo had featured the handsoe walnut tree. This had not darkened the roo because there was also a window on the opposite wall, but it had provided interesting patterns of light and shade that hid the true state of the worn furniture that the faily had brought with the fro their previous house.
With the tree gone, the roo seeed cruelly bright, its worn furnishings exposed in all their shabbiness. And the view fro the window didn’t bear looking at. The tall house next door, previously hidden by the tree, was now there, doinating the outlook with its unattractive purple bricks and external pipes. It seeed to have a great any upstairs windows, all of the watching the Pelhas' every oveent.
“Doesn’t it look terrible?” Pelha whispered to his wife. But olly, standing in the doorway, sounded ore pleased than disayed. “That's what I’ve been telling you ever since we cae here. We have to buy a new sofa, whatever it costs.”
46. Why were soe people in Brackha annoyed after the stor?
A. No arket could be held.B. The police had done little to help.
C. The town looked different.D. Fallen trees had not been reoved.
47. In the third paragraph, what do we learn about Chief Inspector Pelha’s general attitude to his work?
A. He finds it extreely annoying.
B. Не is sure that he plays an iportant role.
C. Не considers the systes are not clear enough.
D. He does not trust the decisions ade by his superiors.
48. What aspect of the Pelhas’ furniture does “shabbiness” in paragraph 8 describe?
A. its condition. B. its colour. C. its position. D. its design.
49. As a result of the stor, the Pelhas’ living-roo _____.
A. was pleasantly lighter B. felt less private
C. had a better view D. was in need of repair
50. Why did olly sound pleased by her husband’s coent?
A. It proved that he was well again. B. She agreed about the tree.
C. She thought he eant the sofa. D. It was what she expected hi to say.
41.DBCBC 46.CBABC
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