高考英语专项练习二.docx

1、高考英语专项练习二高中英语专项练习二Part-1Directions: Complete the passage with the words given in the table. Each word can be used only once. There is an extra one that you will find no use for.Areward Bevidence Ccurrently Daffect EBenefitFaverage Gtherapy Hphysically Isensible Jlengthen A leading researcher into ol

2、d age has warned that the dream of living forever, or at least much longer than at present, could turn into a curse（祸根）rather than a blessing. It may become possible to lengthen the 41 human life by controlling genes-but what we gain may not be worth the price we would have to pay. Professor John Gr

3、imley Evens believes that 42 , maximum life expectation is 115, but that with gene 43 it might be possible to extend this. The professor says, however, that a 44 lifestyle can extend the average lifespan of everyone at the moment. “We know a lot already about how peoples lifestyles 45 their lifespan

4、. There is increasing 46 to suggest that sensible lifestyles are effective in later life as well as in early and middle life.” “It is never too late to gain some 47 from giving up smoking, from drinking less alcohol, from taking up sensible patterns of diet and exercise and from controlling body wei

5、ght. We already know how to 48 human life.” The professor believes that the process of lengthening life by means of gene therapy might bring dangers with it. If gene therapy affected only one part of the human body but not all of it, people might be 49 capable of living longer, but would start to be

6、 worse mentally at a much earlier age.Key: 41-45 F, C,G,I,D，46-49 B, E,J,HDirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B,C or D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. With oil prices approaching the symbolic mark of $

7、100 a barrel, the world is heading towards its third energy shock in a generation. But todays rise is 50 different from the oil crises in the 1970s and 1980s. It will have a greater global impact. The 51 oil shocks were caused by sudden interruptions in exports from the Middle East. But this time pr

8、ices have been rising steadily as 52 gasoline in both developed countries and developing economies grows. This is the worlds first demand-led energy shock. Oil prices 53 $ 98.6 on the New York Mercantile Exchange before falling back to $ 96.4 at the close of trading last Wednesday. Forecasts of futu

9、re oil prices 54 widely. Virtually no one foresees a return to the $20 oil of a decade ago. It means consumers should face an era of high fuel 55 . For most of the 20th century, 56 was cheap and abundant. Throughout the 1990s, 57 ,oil prices averaged $20 a barrel. Even at todays highs, luckily, for

10、the Americans, oil is 58 than imported bottle water. The concern today is over how the 59 sector（行业）will meet the growth in demand over the longer term. China faces the 60 . Rapid industrialization has come at a price: Oil demand has increased more than three times since 1980. It turned a country th

11、at was once self-sufficient into an oil 61 . Today, however, China consumes only a third as much oil as the US, which burns a quarter of the 62 oil each day. Europe has managed to reduce oil consumption through high gasoline taxes, small cars and 63 public transportation. But Americans have not. Exp

12、erts say no one should count on oil prices rising forever. Economic 64 in the worlds major economies will probably send prices down.50Anearly Bgenerally Cfundamentally Dtraditionally51Apast Bunexpected Cworld Drecent52Asupply of Bdemand for Creservation of Dproduction of53Aremained Bstroke Cdropped

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14、mer Dproducer62Anations Bregions Cworlds Dfuel63Areducing Beffective Cefficient Dincreasing64Acontrol Bgrowth Cadvancement DslowdownsKey:50-54 CABDA 55-59 DBADC 60-64 BBCCDPart-2Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the boxEach word can only be used onceNote that there is

15、one word more than you needAdeveloped Bmarkedly Csupporting D.strong EeffectivelyFdesigner Gsimilar Hlooking Imade Japplication The Grade I-listed Clifton Suspension Bridge spans 412 meters across the Avon gorge in Bristol, with Egyptian-inspired towers _41 steel chains from which the roadway is hun

16、gA Brunel masterpiece, the bridge is a true icon of engineering But today we could grow a suspension bridge, building it out of artificial spider silk woven together to produce strong strandsIn September 2010, scientists in the US announced they had _42 transgenic silkworms capable of spinning artif

17、icial spider silkBiologists at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wyoming and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories took DNA from spiders and added it to that of silkworms to modify the silk they produceWhen these silkworms spin their cocoons, they create a combination of silkworm silk and spider

18、 silk with _43_ improved elasticity and strength “Its around five times as_44_ as steel of the same density and its now possible to produce this biopolymer on the large scale,” says architect Magnus Larsson“So it could be used for _45_ such as bulletproof vests, biomedical uses, structural fabricsev

19、en suspension bridges” Larssons redesign would recreate the suspension bridge with a spiders web-like structure_46_ from this silkThe suspension bridges towers are one of the iconic elements of its designIf they remain in our 21st-century structure, the artificial silk could be spun between them, in

20、 a _47_ pattern to a spiders web“We could also build the roadway from this material and cars could run over it,” says Larsson“Its so strongSerious experiments are being carried out _48_ at using this as a building material as we speak” “More biotecture than architecture, we would _49_ grow our new s

21、pider silk suspension bridge,” concludes Larsson“Wed create one of the most impressive feasts of human engineering in the 21st century”Key: 41-49 CABDJIGHE Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and DFill in each blank with the word or phr

22、ase that best fits the context While some of the best professional big-wave surfers in the world looked out over 40-foot waves crashing onto the shores of Oahus Waimea Bay, the _50_ seemed disappointingly clearThe Quicksilver Invitation surfing competition had to be canceledThe waves were just too_5

23、1_ But on that same late-January day, relatively unknown big-wave rider Greg Russ had to be physically _52_ by lifeguards from launching out into the biggest surf in more than a decadeThe guards were interfering with his right to make _53_, he said The incentive: $50,000 from the surf-equipment manu

24、facturer K2 to anyone who can ride the biggest wave of the year and get it _54_ From ice climbing to mountain biking to big-wave surfing, more people are becoming extreme athletes, putting their lives in danger for the_55_ thrillBut the K2 contest, and the growing popularity of extreme sports worldw

25、ide, has raised questions about the financial and human_56_ for athletes and rescuers who watch over themFor many, the incident at Waimea perfectly_57_ the dangers unleashed when big money, big egos, and big challenges are mixed Although exact figures on how many extreme athletes exist are hard to c

26、ome by, isolated statistical evidence _58_ a rapid increaseFor example, the number of climbers_59_ to climb Alaskas 20,300-foot MtMcKinley-the tallest peak in North America-increased from 695 in 1984 to 1,100 in 1997 “Its a numbers deal, and clearly there are more people getting hurt than there were

27、 when I started doing_60_ 20 years ago,” says Dan Burnett, a mission coordinator with the all-volunteer Summit County Search and Rescue Group in Colorado“Were responding in areas now that even four years ago I would have thought we didnt need to check because _61_goes there” Some strides have been m

28、ade toward creating a（n） _62_ extreme-sports worldThree years ago, Denali National Park in Alaska, _63_, instituted a mandatory $ 150 fee for climbers seeking to ascend MtMcKinleyThe fee pays for an educational program that park rangers credit with dramatically _64_ the number of search-and-rescue m

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31、Aincreasing Breducing Caccepting DpromotingKey: 50- 64 ACBBC DADBA CBDCBPart-3Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. developed B. markedly C. supporting D. strong E. effectivelyF. designer G. similar H. looking I. made J. application The Grade I-listed Clifton Suspension Bridge spans 412 meters across the Avon gorge in Bristol, with Egyptian-inspired towers _41 steel chains from which the roadway is hung. A Bru