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1、14545分钟限时精练分钟限时精练(八八)注意事项:1.答题前,考生务必将学校、班级、姓名写在密封线内。2.请将选择题的答案根据老师批改需要填写在试卷第2页所附的答题栏内。一、完形填空Human beings enjoy challenges.Many of them like physical challenges.They askthemselves1like these:How fast can I run?How high can I climb?How deep canI dive?How far can I swim?How long can I hold my2?How much

2、 can I lift?How highcan I jump?Because people enjoy challenges,they like to play3and watch otherpeople play sports.They like climbing,running,diving,lifting,jumping,and so on.Every four4millions of people all over the world enjoy the international sports5called Olympics.There are challenges that are

3、 not physical challenges.There aresocial and intellectual challenges,too.Leonardo da Vinci,who6in Italy duringthe 15th century,enjoyed every possible challenge.He was a(n)7and painted thewell-known picture,the Mona Lisa.He was an engineer who made8for a city withroads under the street for traffic.He

4、 was an inventor who invented a device to letpeople9under water.He was a scientist,and he learnt a great deal about humanstructure.Another kind of challenge10the Egyptians between 4,000 and 5,000 years agowhen they decided to build the Great Pyramid.They11six million tons of rock.That is enough to b

5、uild a foot wall around all of France.Four hundred thousand men12for twenty years to build it.So,for thousands of years,people13challenges.Today we still have manychallenges before us.Medical science faces the challenges of conquering many14which still attack human beings.Engineers and planners must

6、 build new cities and newkinds of15.()1.A.answersB.questionsC.ordersD.hates()2.A.airB.belowC.heatD.breath()3.A.cardsB.chessesC.sportsD.exercises2()4.A.yearsB.weeksC.monthsD.decades()5.A.quizB.contestC.competitionD.fight()6.A.stayedB.studiedC.workedD.lived()7.A.carpenterB.artistC.actorD.explorer()8.A

7、.adviceB.suggestionC.plansD.decision()9.A.swimB.floatC.takeD.breathe()10.A.welcomedB.facedC.introducedD.invited()11.A.usedB.wastedC.spentD.cost()12.A.livedB.lastedC.insistedD.worked()13.A.refusedB.receivedC.acceptedD.considered()14.A.disastersB.diseasesC.droughtsD.memories()15.A.farmsB.schoolsC.tran

8、sportationsD.museums二、语法填空A US father has named his son after a computer software term(术语).Jon Blake Cusack,from Mocjogam,told the local newspapers the US traditional way of adding“Junior”16“”after a boys name was too common.So,when his son was born last week,he decided on the name Jon Blake Cusack

9、2.0,as if he were an upgraded software,whichwould leave a deep impression on17heard the name.Mr Cusack admitted that it took months to persuade his wife,Jamie,18university teacher,to accept the idea.Mrs Cusack said she asked several friends whether they could accept this name.All the men,she said,19

10、(feel)the name was“cool”.However,her women friendsdid not think so.“20think the women will end up liking it,”she said.Mr Cusack told the local newspaper he got the idea from a film calledThe Legendof 1900,21an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to remember the year of22birth.“I thought that if th

11、ey could do it,why couldnt we?”he stressed23(repeat).After little Jon Version 2.0 was born,Mr Cusack even sent a celebratory emailto the family and friends24(design)to look as though he and his wife had createda new software.“I wrote things25There are a lot of new features from Version 1.0 with3addi

12、tional features from Jamie,”he said.16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.三、阅读理解AThis week,SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveralin Florida.The launch vehicle and its reusable Dragon capsule were carrying suppliesfor the International Space Station.The National Aeronautics and

13、SpaceAdministration(国家航空航天局)is turning to private companies to provide serviceslike bringing supplies to the space station.NASA official Bill Gerstenmaier spoke to reporters after the launch.He said NASAhas already signed agreements with SpaceX for the companys services.“Weve alreadybegun the contra

14、ct for twelve flights with SpaceX going forward under CommercialResupply Services and those are already in place,”says Bill Gerstenmaier.The contractis worth 1.6 billion dollars.Mister Gerstenmaier said the United States no longer paysRussia to carry out such operations.The headquarters of SpaceX li

15、e in Hawthorne,California.Elon Musk started thecompany in 2002.But,it is not the first company founded by the South African-bornbusinessman.He also started the Internet payment service,PayPal,which is now ownedby online auction(拍卖)store,Ebay.His other company,Tesla Motors,makes electriccars.Speaking

16、 to reporters,Mister Musk likened(比喻)space travel to where Internettechnology was in the 1990s.At that time,businesses were just starting to think abouthow to sell goods and services on the World Wide Web.Today,billions of dollars ingoods and services are sold online.But after the launch,Elon Musk t

17、ried to keep hisattention on the job at hand.ELON MUSK:“Well,I think right now our focus is very much on serving theInternational Space Station with cargo(货物)and then to crew and then advancing thestate of our rocket technology.I think the critical breakthrough in rocket technologyis to make full an

18、d rapidly reusable rocket.”The Dragon capsule is designed to be able to carry both astronauts and cargo.SpaceXsays it has forty launches planned over the next few years and contracts worth four4billion dollars.It says sixty percent of its upcoming flights are for businesses,notthe government.()26.Th

19、e best title of the passage may probably be.A.SpaceX is Doing Business in SpaceB.The US No Longer Pays RussiaC.The Breakthrough in Space RocketD.Private Companies Matter in Space()27.The resupplies of the International Space Station used to be carried outby.A.the USB.RussiaC.AfricaD.SpaceX()28.From

20、the passage,we can learn that SpaceX.A.is the first company by Elon MuskB.is based in Hawthorne,CaliforniaC.will turn to the governmentD.has completed forty launches()29.By comparing space travel to Internet technology in the 1990s,Elon Muskreally meant.A.the way goods and services are sold has chan

21、ged a lotB.space travel is bound to have a bright futureC.nothing is impossible with a big heartD.space travel has a long way to go()30.According to Elon Musk,SpaceX focus finally on.A.carrying both astronauts and cargoB.making full and rapidly reusable rocketC.improving the Dragon capsuleD.getting

22、contracts worth more from the governmentBWhen Dr Harveen Kaur Sidhu travels from her home in a neighborhood of thenorth-western Indian city of Chandigarh,she always carries her gun in her bag.Thegun is a new purchase-Sidhu got her license only a year ago-but now the 33-year-olddentist wont travel wi

23、thout it.“I dont have faith in the police to protect me.There are so many attacks onwomen these days.Its everybodys right to defend themselves,”Sidhu said.She isnot alone.A growing number of well-off,educated Indian women are turning to firearmsfor protection.There are estimated to be 40 million gun

24、s in India,the second highestnumber in the world after the US.Licenses are hard to obtain and most are illegal weapons.5Ownership levels per person remain low-three guns for every 100 people in India-butthere is strong evidence that middle-class interest in firearms is rising fast.One sign is the em

25、ergence of groups such as the National Association for Gun RightsIndia,founded in 2009,which asks for fewer restrictions on ownership of firearms.“We are looking at it as a way to protect ourselves,”said Rakshit Sharma,the groupssecretary general.His group,he said,receives“many inquiries from women

26、who wantto know how to obtain a gun and stay within the law”.The local taste for conspicuous(挥霍性的)consumption has also boosted sales.“People buy weapons,10%for security and 90%for status.People will happily spend80,000 rupees(9,600)on a foreign-made handgun,”said Satish Kumar,a gunseller inChandigar

27、h.Kumar said only one in 50 purchases were made by women but the number was rising.The phenomenon may in part be a response to the failure of the state to inspire confidenceamong many middle-class Indians,particularly women.Almost all women interviewed bythe Guardian said they felt an increased leve

28、l of threat.“There are so many incidents,especially in Delhi.Women who are working or whoare travelling should definitely have a gun,”said Sidhu.She explained that changinglifestyles were making women more vulnerable(脆弱的),particularly single womenworking or coming home late at night.()31.What messag

29、e is mainly expressed in the passage?A.Indian women take up firearms.B.Guns have become a must in India.C.A new way to seek for protection.D.The increasing crimes in India.()32.According to the second paragraph,we can know.A.the Indian police fail to protect womenB.Sidhu never travels from home whil

30、e aloneC.badly-off Indian women are relatively saferD.middle-class women take more interest in guns()33.What does the underlined word“it”in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?A.Using guns.B.The group.C.Restricting firearms.D.Knowing law.()34.The majority of middle-class Indians buy guns to.A.ensure their

31、 securityB.show their status6C.gain much confidenceD.follow the fashion()35.According to Sidhu,the possible victims of threat may be those womenwho.A.travel long way to workB.belong to middle classC.change their lifestylesD.return home late from work alone45分钟限时精练(八)一、完形填空本文是一篇议论文。文中用事例论述了人类喜欢体力、社会和

32、智力等各种各样的挑战,而且今天面临的挑战仍然有很多。1.B2.D3.C4.A5.C6.D7.B8.C9.D10.B11.A12.D13.C14.B15.C二、语法填空一位父亲给儿子起名字用了一个计算机软件的术语名词,从而引发了一些人的不同看法。16.or17.whoever18.a19.felt20.I721.where22.its23.repeatedly24.designed25.like三、阅读理解A美国的航天业开始向私营企业开放。这个星期,一家私营企业,SpaceX公司赢得了美国航空航天局的给国际空间站运送补给的订单。这家公司声称未来他们六成的业务将是商业服务,而不是为政府服务。26.A27.B28.B29.B30.BB出于安全考虑,越来越多的印度妇女带枪出门,同时,也有越来越多的人希望持有枪支。31.A32.D33.A34.B35.D