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1、阶段评估检测（八）选修8(120分钟 135分). 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分)第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分, 满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意然后从115各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。Today is Friday, the 29th of June. Paul told me something exciting this morning: his father helped the police catch a 1 yesterday! When Paul was waiting for the 2 with his father across th
2、e river, he heard some people arguing 3 . He looked around and saw two women and a big man 4 each other. When Pauls father asked what was going on, one of the women said they were tourists and three young men 5 her friends purse when they were buying postcards in a bookstore. The other two had run a
3、way, but they 6 the big man closely. When the ferry arrived, the big man hurried onto the ferry and the two tourists went 7 after him. Paul was angry. He wanted to go up and help the two women. But his father said he didnt want to take that ferry. Paul felt rather 8 because he thought his father was
4、 afraid of the big man and unwilling to help others! What Paul saw next changed the 9 of his father. His father hurried to a nearby ice-cream store and used their phone to 10 110. He reported the robbery to the police and gave some 11 details about the robber, the tourists and the ferry. When they 1
5、2 off the next ferry, Paul saw three 13 around the big guy in handcuffs(手铐). . . . While Paul was telling me the story, he seemed very 14 . He said he had a better understanding of his father. Although he looked 15 , he was a real hero. 1. A. robberB. theftC. touristD. murderer2. A. busB. ferryC. sh
6、ipD. boat3. A. kindlyB. angrilyC. closelyD. loudly4. A. shouting atB. fighting againstC. debating withD. talking with5. A. noticedB. stoleC. seizedD. cut6. A. caughtB. soughtC. followedD. surveyed7. A. abroadB. backC. homeD. aboard8. A. angrierB. sadderC. tougherD. tenser9. A. feelingB. ideaC. actio
7、nD. belief10. A. callB. telephoneC. ringD. dial11. A. usefulB. carefulC. fearfulD. hopeful12. A. turnedB. setC. got D. took13. A. womenB. fellowsC. policemenD. tourists14. A. delightedB. proudC. confidentD. reliable15. A. outstandingB. greatC. scaredD. ordinary第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分)阅读下面短文，按照
8、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。Although many high school dropouts leave school permanently, some dropouts later reenter school. 16 (approximate) 10 percent of the sophomores 17 dropped out between 1980 and 1982 returned to school by 18 fall of 1982. Generally, high school reentrants d
9、iffer 19 typical dropouts in several school and student characteristics. Background attributes and test score performance 20 (associate) with low dropout rates tend to be related to higher-than-average reentry rates. For example, reentry rates among 1980 sophomore dropouts were about one-fifth 21 (h
10、igh) in the Northeast and North Central regions than in the South or West. Among whites, reentry rates in the West were one-third lower than in other regions. 22 blacks, reentry rates in the Northeast (14 percent) 23 (be) substantially higher than those in the South (6 percent). Hispanic dropouts in
11、 the North Central region were three times 24 likely to return to school as those in the Northeast or West. Hispanics in the South were twice as likely to reenter as 25 in the Northwest or West. . 阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节 阅读理解(共20小题; 每小题2分, 满分40分)（A）Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty,
12、 they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins. People in California love to talk about “zero-emissions vehicles”, but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants mostly use fire to make it. Aside from the new folks who have their roo
13、fs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators. Generators are fueled by somethingusually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something. In other
14、words, those “zero-emissions” cars are likely coal-burning cars. Its just because the coal is burned somewhere else that it looks clean. It is not. Its as if the California Greens are covering their eyes“If I cant see it, its not happening. ” Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicl
15、e; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heatat the generator, through the transmission lines, etc. . A gallon of gas may propel your car 25 mile
16、s. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas wont get you nearly as farso electric cars burn more fuel than gas-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from nukes, or geothermal, or hydro, or solar, or wind, then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical, and
17、economic reasons, we dont use much of those energy sources. In addition, electric cars batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill. And finally, When cars are the polluters, the pollution is spread across all the roads. When its a power plant, though, all the j
18、unk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot. 26. What does “clueless” mean in paragraph 2? A. People are seeing the California Greens everywhere. B. People in California love to talk about
19、 zero-emissions vehicles. C. People in California love to have their roofs covered with solar cells. D. People there have no idea that so far electricity mainly comes from burning coal, oil, etc. . 27. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Electric cars are not clean at all. B. Electric cars are
20、better than gasoline-powered ones. C. People cast doubts on electric cars batteries. D. Gasoline is an efficient way to power a vehicle. 28. The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our car run _. A. not less than 25 miles B. more than 25 milesC. no more than 25 miles D. not more than 25
21、 miles29. According to the passage, electric cars _. A. do not burn fuel and are more environment-friendlyB. are poisonous because it is difficult for nature to clean the garbage up when their batteries are buried in one spotC. are very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentratedD. are
22、poisonous for a long time and will eventually end up in a landfill30. It can be inferred from the passage that _. A. being green is good and should be encouraged in communicationB. electric cars are not clean in that we get electricity mainly by burning somethingC. zero-emissions vehicles should be
23、chosen to protect our environmentD. electric cars are now the dominant vehicle compared with gasoline-powered cousins（B）LONDON (Reuters)Quiet pleaseBritain s Queen Elizabeth is preparing to have her swans counted. Buckingham Palace has announced that the annual Swan Upping, a tradition dating back t
24、o the 12th century which involves a census of the swan population on the River Thames, will be conducted by the Queen s official Swan Marker from July 2024. “With the assistance of the Queen s Swan Warden, Professor Christopher Perrins of the University of Oxford, the swans and young cygnets (小天鹅) a
25、re also assessed for any signs of injury or disease，” Buckingham Palace said in announcing the count. The process involves the Swan Marker, David Barber, rowing up the Thames for five days with the Swan Warden in traditional skiffs while wearing special scarlet uniforms and counting, weighing and me
26、asuring swans and cygnets. It may seem eccentric, but it is very important to the Queen. According to custom, Britain s sovereign owns all unmarked, mute swans in open water, but the Queen now exercises the right only on stretches of the Thames and its nearby tributaries. In medieval times, the Swan
27、 Marker would not only travel up the river counting the swans, but would catch as many as possible as they were sought after for banquets and feasts. This year, the Swan Marker and the Swan Warden are particularly keen to discover how much damage is being caused to swans and cygnets by attacks from
28、dogs and from discarded fishing tackle (渔具)It is also an important year because Queen Elizabeth has decided to join her team of Swan Uppers for part of the census. She will follow them up the river and visit a local school project on the whole subject of swans, cygnets and the Thames. “Education and
29、 conservation are essential to the role of Swan Upping and the involvement of school children is always a rewarding experience，” Buckingham Palace said. 31. In medieval times，_. A. swans were better protected than nowB. a lot of swans were killed by dogsC. swans were a delicious dish on royal banque
30、tsD. common people could catch the swans32We can infer from the passage that the process of counting the swans _. A. remains almost unchanged in the past yearsB. involves a lot of royal membersC. sometimes lasts longer than beforeD. is always guarded by special soldiers33This year, the Swan Marker a
31、nd the Swan Warden mainly want to find out _. A. the exact number of swans and cygnetsB. how a local school project is going onC. how much damage the swans and cygnets sufferD. how education and conservation are carried out along the Thames34Which of the following is the main idea of the passage? A.
32、 Britain s Queen is concerned about swans. B. Britain s Queen orders a count of swans. C. An old tradition in Buckingham Palace. D. Queen Elizabeth will count swans herself. 35The underlined word “tributaries” can be best replaced by _. A. districts B. banksC. trees D. branches（C）The worlds astronom
33、ers came to their senses yesterday and approved a new definition of the word “planet” that would drop tiny Pluto from the club and relegate it instead to a lesser realm of “dwarf planets”. It was a welcome step away from a proposal that would have kept Pluto as a planet but meantime opened the door
34、for dozens of small, icy bodies on the fringes of the solar system. The important vote came after fierce debate at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union, which had been considering a proposal to define a planet as any object that orbits a star and is large enough for its own gravity to p
35、ull it into a spherical (球形的) shape. That definition was scientifically precise but led to results that offended common sense. An asteroid, a small moon, and another icy ball like Pluto would suddenly have risen to planet-hood, swelling the number of planets to 12, with many more icy rocks likely to
36、 qualify as more was learned about them. Fortunately, the astronomers have now added another requirement to the definition. Planets must not only be large enough to be round, they must also have cleared out the neighborhood around their orbits. Pluto would not qualify it orbits in a belt of icy debr
37、is on the edge of the solar system. Neither would an icy rock nicknamed Xena, which orbits in that same zone, nor Ceres, a big asteroid that marches in the company of other asteroids. Plutos moon, Charon, which had qualified under the first proposal, is also out of the running. Pluto, with its small
38、 size and oddball orbit, should never have been deemed a planet in the first place. Henceforth there will be eight planets, at least three dwarf planets, and tens of thousands of “smaller solar system bodies, ” like comets and asteroids. Our only regret is that the astronomers chose the name “dwarf
39、planets” for Plutos new category instead of abandoning the word entirely when discussing these less-than-planetary bodies. 36. We can know from the passage that the new definition of planet _. A. has been welcomed by all walks of lifeB. will kick the Pluto out of the planet group in the solar system
40、C. still makes the Pluto as a planetD. will enlarge the number of planets in our solar system into permanently 1237. After the new definition of “planet” was put forward, all of the following are regarded as planet EXCEPT _. A. VenusB. CeresC. MarsD. Jupiter 38. The writers attitude towards the new
41、definition of “planet” is _. A. welcomeB. indifferentC. hostileD. neutral 39. If the original definition of “planet” had not been changed, there would be the following consequences EXCEPT that _. A. thousands of icy rocks in space will be classified as planetsB. some asteroids big enough to pull the
42、mselves into a spherical shape will be regarded as planetsC. the Pluto will be relegated to “dwarf planet”D. there will be at least twelve or even more planets in the solar system40. We can infer from the article that the decision to apply new definition to “planet” _. A. has won universal support f
43、rom scientistsB. has been severely criticized by many astronomersC. has not been made inconsideratelyD. has been banned by the International Astronomical Union（D）2012广州模拟The drug store was closing for the night and Alfred Higgins was about to go home when his new boss approached him. “Empty your poc
44、kets please, Alfred, ” Sam Carr demanded in a firm voice. Alfred pretended to be shocked but he knew hed been caught. From his coat he withdrew a make-up kit, a lipstick and two tubes of toothpaste. “Im disappointed in you, Alfred! ” said the little gray-haired man. “Sorry, sir. Please forgive me. I
45、ts the first time Ive ever done such a thing, ” Alfred lied, hoping to gain the old mans sympathy. Mr. Carrs brow furrowed as he reached for the phone, “Do you take me for a fool? Lets see what the police have to say. But first Ill call your mother and let her know her son is heading to jail. ”“Do w
46、hatever you want, ” Alfred shot back, trying to sound big. But deep down he felt like a child. He imagined his mother rushing in, eyes burning with anger, maybe in tears. Yet he wanted her to come quickly before Mr. Carr called the police. Mr. Carr was surprised when Mrs. Higgins finally arrived. Sh
47、e was very calm, quiet and friendly. “Is Alfred in trouble? ” she asked. “Hes been stealing from the store, ” the old man coolly replied. Mrs. Higgins put out her hand and touched Mr. Carrs arm with great gentleness as if she knew just how he felt. She spoke as if she did not want to cause him any more trouble. “What do you want to do, Mr. Carr? ”The womans calm and gentle manner disarmed the once-angry store owner. “I w