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2009届梅陇中学高考英语特训班晚练（20） 2009.5.12 Ⅱ语言知识及应用(共两节，满分35分) 第一节：完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2l-30各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 It’s an age-old saying: Men are from Mars; women are from Venus. Males and females __21_ different behaviors almost from birth. Researchers say these behaviors are due to basic differences in __22_ structure and activity. Studies show men are better at hitting targets and __23__ math problems while women are better at memorizing words and_24__faces. Why the differences? A test of the brain’s electrical activity shows that women commonly use both sides of their brain while men rely more on one. Scientists already know that the two sides of the brain control different functions---one controlling the sense of space, __25__, the other controlling language. Some researchers believe that the different ways men and women use their brains _26__from ancient times, when cave men hunted and women cared for the children. Men had to have good aim. Women had to talk to the kids. Whatever the __27__, the battle of the sexes continues. And although their brains are constructed __28__ differently, men and women may be equally capable. They may simply __29__different abilities. Take a couple arguing over the location of their car in a parking lot. The man might use his sense of space to find it, while the woman relies on her __30__ of landmarks. Both of them find the car. But chances are, they’ll still argue about who’s the better driver and who’s better at finding the way home. 21. A .build B. form C. choose D. show 22. A. brain B. muscle C. heart D. head
23. A. testing B. finding C. making D. solving 24. A. realizing B. recognizing C. describing D. painting 25. A. at least B. as a result C. above all D. for example 26. A. grew B. developed C. invented D. produced 27. A. consideration B. decision C. imagination D. explanation 28. A. slightly B. heavily C. greatly D. quite 29. A. show off B. take on C. depend on D. keep up 30. A. drawing B. memory C. thinking D. setting
第二节：语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分) 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31-40的相应位置上。 Many patients who don’t want to tell their doctor how much they really drink are often more honest with a computer. The computer __31__ (use) for this purpose is programmed to be friendly. For example, if a patient called Ann says that __32__ her parents are dead, the computer will say: “I’m sorry to hear that, Ann.” Apart from expressing sympathy, the computer __33___ also question and remind. If a patient says he __34__ drinks alcohol, the computer can ask him, “Never? Not even at parties or at Christmas?” Does this direct contact __35__the patient and the computer mean that we do not need doctors any more? It depends. Computers are useful __36__ they do not look shocked if you say you drink two bottles of whisky __37__day. And they do not stop to talk on the phone as doctors often do. But ___38___ a doctor said, “We smile and we give a patient a handkerchief or put arm around her shoulder if she __39__ (cry). That is ___40___ people will always want us.”
III. 阅读 (共两节，满分40分) 第一节：阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 （A） In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (=drink) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw material for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound end up buried in landfills(垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic. Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence post, paint brushes, etc. As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard unti1 somebody figures out how to give it a second life — and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life va1ue.Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for used materials. Shrinking landfill space and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and reduces the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material. 41. What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers? A. A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling. B. Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling. C. Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them. D. Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles. 42. The returned plastic bottles in New York used to . A. be turned into raw rnateria1s B. be separated from other rubbish C.&nb
