福建省永春县第一中学学年高一暑假作业英语.docx

1、福建省永春县第一中学学年高一暑假作业英语高一英语暑假练习卷（二）第二部分：阅读部分（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）第一节：共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分AWhat steps can city officials, pedestrians (行人) and drivers take to reduce the number of accidents? The physics is easy: Slower speeds save lives. The culture is harder but its changing. With more than 250 traffic death

2、s each year in New York City, “We at City Hall dont accept this reality,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told New Yorkers on Tuesday. “So many people lost their lives that we could have saved.” The good news is that saving lives on the streets is not difficult. The better news is that people are starting to d

3、emand (要求) that the city save lives even at the cost of drivers convenience. What, or rather who, kills New Yorkers especially seniors and children as they cross the street? Drivers who speed, and drivers who dont pay attention. Five-year worth of New York crash data shows that “dangerous driver cho

4、ices are the contributing factor in 70% of pedestrian deaths,” the city reported this week. And in 53 percent of pedestrian deaths, the pedestrians were following all the rules crossing on a crosswalk with the light, for example, or sometimes just standing on the sidewalk. But a driver who was inatt

5、entive or speeding or who failed to yield (给让路) hit and killed them anyway. The biggest step that the mayor correctly put forward on Tuesday, then, was to lower and enforce (实施) speed limits. The hard part, though, will be enforcement. Police officers can write speeding tickets, and have been doing

6、so. But ticket-writing consumes officers attention. A speeder may face an officer in one block but not the next. Thats why the mayor also wants Albany to allow the city to put in place more speed cameras than the 20 New York already has. In this way police resources (警力) will be able to focus on oth

7、er dangerous behaviors, including truck drivers who come into the city without enough mirrors and drivers who talk on cell phones or text. The most important factor in saving lives, though, is a changing culture which, in turn, is affecting political (政治的) will. The car and truck once ruled the road

8、, and people, even in crowded city environments, were supposed to get out of drivers way. Now, more and more people are walking or bicycling (often before or after a subway or bus ride). New Yorkers expect to be able to raise children here or grow old here safely, even if that means a small number o

9、f drivers must do so more patiently.21. Facing the data of traffic deaths, Mayor Bill _.A. felt regretB. had his doubts C. seemed confusedD. sounded surprised22. What can be inferred from the city report?A. Drivers made dangerous choices on purpose. B. Obeying traffic rules would ensure your safety.

10、C. Some drivers made a contribution to traffic safety. D. Some pedestrians were partly to blame for their deaths.23. Among the following enforcement measures of speed limits, the mayor disapproves of _.A. educatingB. ticket-writing C. speed camerasD. police resources24. Which of the following can be

11、 considered to be a sign of the changing culture?A. Motor vehicles are disappearing. B. More people are walking or bicycling.C. City environments are getting more livable.D. New Yorkers are paying more attention to education. BBlue-eyed people have been living in Europe for at least 7,000 years, sci

12、entists have discovered.A man who lived on the Iberian Peninsula before Europeans became farmers probably had blue eyes but dark hair and skin, according to scientists who have sequenced (排序) his DNA. This surprising combination of eye, hair and skin coloring may not have been unusual during his lif

13、etime, but it is no longer seen among modern Europeans, the team reported Sunday in the journal Nature. The man, a Neolithic hunter-gatherer known to scientists as La Braa 1, is of great interest to scientists because he offers a photograph of what was in Europeans DNA before agriculture (农业) spread

14、 through the continent. Experts have understood that certain genetic (基因的) features spread quickly among humans after they led the farming lifestyle. La Braa 1 shows that at least some of their expectations were correct.The mans skeleton, along with that of a male companion, was discovered in 2006 i

15、n a cave in what is now northeastern Spain. The site, known as La Braa-Arintero, sits about 5,000 feet above sea level, and the cave provided a cold, refrigerator-like environment that preserved his DNA.In the lab, scientists were able to take out enough DNA from a single tooth to reconstruct La Bra

16、a 1s entire genome (基因组). They compared it to the DNA of other ancient Europeans and determined that he was a closer match with hunter-gatherers than with farmers.When it came to genes that would influence La Braa 1s appearance, the researchers found that their 7,000-year-old subject had versions of two skin pigment (色素) genes that are either ver