高三英语限时训练

高三英语限时训练（四）
By Tian Zhuang Li
完形填空(共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When middle-aged Alex quit his job and made up his mind to become a freelance writer (自由作家), no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not. He found a cold storage room in a building, set up a 31 typewriter and settled down to work.
After a year or so, however, Alex began to 32 himself. He found it was difficult to earn his living by 33 what he wrote. But Alex determined to put his dream to the test 34 it meant living with uncertainty and fear of 35 . This is the shadow land of hope, and 36 with a dream must learn to live there.
One day Alex got a(n) 37 , “We need an assistant, and we’re paying＄6,000 a year.” ＄6,000 was 38 money in 1960. It would enable Alex to get a nice apartment, a second-hand car and more. 39 , he could write on the side. 40 the dollars were dancing in Alex’s head, something 41 his senses. He had dreamed of being a(n) 42 — full time. “Thanks but no,” Alex said 43 , “I’m going to stick it out and write.”
After Alex got off the phone, he 44 everything he had: two cans of vegetables and 18 cents. Alex put the cans and cents into paper bag, saying to himself, “There’s everything you’ve made of yourself so far.”
Finally his work was 45 in 1970. Instantly he had the kind of fame and success that few writers 46 experience. The shadows had turned into limelight (聚光灯).
Then one day, Alex 47 a box filled with things he had owned years before. 48 was a paper bag with two cans and 18 cents. Suddenly he 49 himself working in that cold storage room. It reminds Alex, and anyone with a dream, of the 50 and persistence it takes to stay the course in the shadow land.
31. A. simple B. wasted C. good D. used
32. A. doubt B. check C. teach D. hate
33. A. collecting B. selling C. reading D. showing
34. A. in case B. now that C. even if D. as if
35. A. failure B. difficulty C. loss D. danger
36. A. someone B. nobody C. anyone D. another
37. A. email B. message C. letter D. call
38. A. certain B. real C. right D. high
39. A. Still B. Besides C. However D. Therefore
40. A. If B. Once C. As D. So
41. A. cleared B. controlled C. insured D. struck
42. A. writer B. dancer C. driver D. assistant
43. A. happily B. slowly C. firmly D. peacefully
44. A. pulled down B. pulled out C. carried down D. carried out
45. A. published B. completed C. written D. stopped
46. A. even B. ever C. always D. actually
47. A. picked B. searched C. threw D. found
48. A. Alongside B. Around C. Inside D. Above
49. A. reminded B. told C. described D. pictured
50. A. honesty B. courage C. intelligence D. humour
第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Ideas about polite behavior are different from one culture to another. Some societies, such as America and Australia, for example, are mobile and very open. People here change jobs and move houses quite often. As a result, they have a lot of relationships that often last only a short time, and they need to get to know people quickly. So it’s normal to have friendly conversations with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that other cultures would regard as personal.
On the other hand there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long-term relationships are more important. A Malaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start business. But when you do get to know each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society.
To Americans both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first. On the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society puts it, it’s no fun spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you all about his or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you don’t want to answer.
Cross-cultural differences aren’t just a problem for travelers, but also for the flights that carry them. All flights want to provide the best service, but ideas about good service are different from place to place. This can be seen most clearly in the way that problems are dealt with.
Some societies have ‘universalist’ cultures. These societies strongly respect rules, and they treat every person and situation in basically the same way.
‘Particularist’ societies, on the other hand, also have rules, but they are less important than the society’s unwritten ideas about what is right or wrong for a particular situation or a particular person. So the normal rules are changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person.
This difference can cause problems. A traveler from a particularist society, India, is checking in for a flight in Germany, a country which has a universalist culture. The Indian traveler has too much luggage, but he explains that he has been away from home for a long time and the suitcases are full of presents for his family. He expects that the check- in official will understand his problem and will change the rules for him. The check- in official explains that if he was allowed to have too much luggage, it wouldn’t be fair to the other passengers. But the traveler thinks this is unfair, because the other passengers don’t have his problem.
51. Often moving from one place to another makes people like Americans and Australians_____.
A. like traveling better B. easy to communicate with
C. difficult to make real friends D. have a long-term relationship with their neighbors
52. People like Malaysians prefer to associate with those_______.
A. who will tell them everything of their own
B. who want to do business with them
C. they know quite well
D. who are good at talking
53. A person from a less mobile society will feel it _______ when a stranger keeps talking to him or her, and asking him or her questions.
A. boring B. friendly C. normal D. rough
54. Which of the following is true about “particularist societies”?
A. There is no rule for people to obey.
B. People obey the society’s rules completely.
C. No one obeys the society’s rules though they have.
D. The society’s rules can be changed with different persons or situations.
B
People who are taking aspirin regularly to thin their blood and are about to undergo coronary artery bypass surgery (冠状动脉旁路搭桥术) are usually to stop the aspirin a week before the operation – but they could be better off if they keep taking it.
Taking aspirin up to the day coronary artery bypass grafting (移植) is performed seems to speed lung fun_ction recovery afterwards, without increasing the risk of bleeding significantly, according to a report from Israel.
Release of a substance called thromboxane (血栓素) is associated with lung injury after heart bypass grafting, Dr Rabin Gerrah at Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv and his colleagues explained in the medical journal Chest. Aspirin is believed to inhibit release of thromboxane, so Gerrah’s group theorized that the administration of aspirin until the day of the surgery could improve outcomes.
They therefore followed 14 patients who took 100 milligrams of aspirin daily until the day of the surgery and 18 who stopped taking aspirin at least 7 days before the surgery.
Those who continued with their aspirin had significantly lower thromboxane in fluid around the heart, better oxygen levels in their blood and spent less time on a ventilator(呼吸器) than the group who discontinued taking aspirin.
On the other hand, the need for blood transfusions was no different between the groups, indicating that bleeding complications were no worse with aspirin.
The researchers had excluded patients who had suffered a heart attack and those with heart failure because patients like these have a higher level of thrombaxane. “They will probably benefit even more than its inhibition.”
Based on their findings, Gerrah’s team recommends that aspirin therapy(治疗) not be discontinued before coronary artery bypass surgery.
55. From the passage we know that_______.
A. doctors usually get people who will have coronary artery bypass surgery to stop taking aspirin 7 days before the operation
B. Aspirin is believed to increase release of thromboxance
C. taking aspirin up to the day coronary artery bypass grafting is performed seems to slow lung fun_ction recovery afterwards
D. patients suffering a heart attack have a lower level of thromboxane
56. The purpose of the passage is to introduce to us that _________.
A. aspirin can make for release of thromboxane
B. aspirin is useful for patients suffering a heart attack
C. different ways turn out to be the same result
D. aspirin may improve recovery after heart bypass
57. According to Dr Rabin Gerrah, patients who will have heart bypass surgery should _______.
A. stop taking aspirin before the surgery
B. take aspirin as much as they like until the day of the surgery
C. be allowed to take 100 milligrams of aspirin daily until the day of the surgery
D. take aspirin after the heart bypass operation
58. What does the underlined word “inhibit” in paragraph 3 mean?
A. to become larger or better than normal
B. to make something happen more slowly than normal
C. to cause to be nervous or embarrassed
D. to improve something in poor condition
C
In Western countries people have been using the installment（分期付款）plan since the first half of the twentieth century. Today, a large number of families in Great Britain buy furniture, household goods and cars by installments. In the USA, the figure is much higher than in Great Britain, and people there spend over 10 percent of their income on the installment plan.
The price of an article bought on installments is always higher than the price that would be paid by cash. There is a charge for interest. The buyer pays one quarter or one third of the price as a down payment when the goods are delivered to him. He then makes regular payments, weekly or monthly, until the full price is paid up. The legal ownership of the goods remains with the seller until the final payment has been made.
Installment buying has advantages and disadvantages. It can help couples with small incomes to furnish their homes and start housekeeping. It increases the demand for goods, and in this way helps business and employment. There is, however, the danger that when business is bad, installment buying may end suddenly, making business much worse. This may result in a great increase in unemployment. If the people on the installment plan lose their jobs, they will probably not be able to make their payments. If great numbers of people are not able to pay their installment debts there is a possibility that businessmen cannot collect their debts and will therefore lose money. If businessmen lose money or fail to make a satisfactory profit, it becomes more likely to have a depression. This is why, in some countries, the government controls the installment plan by fixing the amount of the down payment and installments to discourage people from buying more than they can pay for on the installment plan.
59. Which of the following is NOT true about the installment plan?
A. A lot of British families use the installment plan.
B. More than 10 percent American families buy things on installments.
C. Americans depend more on installment than British people do.
D. Americans spend one tenth of their income on installment buying.
60. Goods bought on installments are more expensive than goods bought by cash because .
A. the buyer has to pay extra money as interest
B. the delivery of the goods charges extra money
C. the buyer has to pay a down payment
D. the service offered by installment plan charges extra money
61. What will happen to a buyer if he fails to make the full payment for an item bought on installments?
A. He might lose his job. B. He will stop owning the item he has bought.
C. He will have to sell what he has bought D. He will go into debt.
62. The advantage of installment buying might include all the following EXCEPT that .
A. purchasing power is strengthened
B. employment might be increased
C. people develop a good habit of saving money
D. young couples are able to furnish their homes