安徽省合肥市高三第二次教学质量检测英语试卷

— A US pilot says he saw a UFO in the shape of triangle, moving very low over bushes two days ago.
— ______, but I didn't think that’s true.

The university is saving $ 300,000 per year by its energy ______ efforts.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far ______ our abilities.

It is generally believed that communication skills are becoming ______ it takes to be a good doctor.

At the end of the game, players traditionally ______ their shirts with each other.

Just as Oprah Winfrey puts it, ______ thankful for what you have and you'll end up having more.

Teenage is an especially important stage for us, ______we are supposed to go all out to improve ourselves because anything can happen.

The virus Ebola is reported ______ over 3,000 lives in 5 countries of West Africa by now.

The nation's top health administration office is ______ an increase in the cigarette tax to control smoking in China.

— Have you got the sleeping bag needed for the camping this weekend?
— Yes, I ______ it almost the moment I heard the news.

Mother often reminds me that the best thing one can do ______ it is raining is to let it rain.

______ you keep it a secret for the time being? It’s just between us.

______ at his final score, he decided to treat himself to a big dinner.

So far, almost every possible means ______to provide accommodation and medical rescue for the people in the flood-stricken area.

— I really can't put up with what he said yesterday.
—______. He was just joking.

While I was waiting in line at a coffee shop earlier, a woman drove alongside the queue in a mobility scooter (踏板车). There was only a         space between the line of people and the tables, which she         to drive along. She drove over my foot and didn't         saying nothing at all.
I got annoyed and expected she would have        , but then I just decided to           it and got down to selecting which pastry (点心) to go with my coffee. The lady and I ended up sitting at adjacent (邻近的) tables. She was on the end of a row so that she could park her        After about half an hour, when she had         her coffee, she got up and back onto her scooter. It      start. She tried to turn the key several times        she telephoned the place she purchased it from.
An engineer           within 5 minutes. The place must have been local. I couldn't          overhearing their conversation, and it turned out she had just         the scooter that morning. This was her very first outing in it. She felt really          about driving it         , she wasn't used to its speed, nor its         , and this combination made it quite         to drive it through narrow gaps.
Suddenly, I felt          for the lady. It really didn't      me at all that she'd driven over my foot. I had made an assumption,         , that a person doing that should apologize.
Next time you're about to           someone, pause for a second and remind yourself that people have judged you without knowing what was going on in your mind or your life.

A．private B．vast C．public D．narrow

A．attempted B．promised C．declined D．guaranteed

A．call back B．give up C．look back D．cheer up

A．ignored B．apologized C．explained D．forgiven

A．dismissed B．made C．deserved D．inspected

A．truck B．bike C．car D．scooter

A．poured B．finished C．ordered D．purchased

A．needn't B．shouldn't C．wouldn't D．mustn't

A．so B．until C．unless D．before

A．broke in B．turned up C．ran away D．settled down

A．tolerate B．allow C．resist D．postpone

A．collected B．stolen C．fixed D．abandoned

A．concerned B．excited C．confident D．nervous

A．Doubtfully B．Certainly C．Fortunately D．Surprisingly

A．width B．length C．weight D．height

A．cool B．convenient C．stressful D．desperate

A．pleasure B．regret C．appreciation D．sympathy

A．strike B．bother C．satisfy D．motivate

A．otherwise B．therefore C．however D．besides

A．judge B．hug C．persuade D．tease

Dogs Don't Tell Jokes - By Louis Sachar Twelve-year-old Gary Boone knows he was born to be a comedian. He never stops joking, regardless of the fact that nobody laughs much and his classmates think he is stupid. Therefore he had no real friends at school. Due to being laughed at by his classmates, Gary Boone thought winning the school talent show would be his dream of proving himself to be a real comedian, but on the big night his dream went wrong with funny results.

Winners Never Quit - By Mia Hamm Mia Hamm, American soccer champion, tells a true-to-life inspiring story of learning that winning and losing aren't as important as being part of a team. More than anyone, soccer superstar Mia Hamm knows the value of teamwork. She shares this lesson, paired with energetic pictures by Carol Thompson, and this story is perfect for soccer kids and their soccer moms.

Shack let on s Incredible Voyage - By Alfred Lansing The astonishing adventure of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time t magazine put it, "defined heroism". To write the authoritative story, Lansing consulted with ten of the surviving members and gained access to diaries and personal accounts by eight others. The book has a first-hand account, expanded with maps and illustrations especially for this edition.

The Alchemist - By Paulo Coelho The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, continues to change the lives of its readers forever. It tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andulusian shepherd-boy (牧童) who desires to travel in search of treasure. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts and above all, following our dreams.

Why did Gary Boone want to win the school talent show?

From Shackletoris Incredible Voyage, we know the main character ______.

If you want to know more about teamwork, you can read ______.

What do we know about The Alchemist?

Severely disabled people may soon be able to use their noses to write, drive a wheelchair or surf the Internet, thanks to a device (装置) developed by doctors in Israel.
The device will be used by breathing in and out through the nose, according to a study. Healthy people who tested the device quickly learned to play computer games and write sentences by sniffing. Encouraged by the results, the researchers decided to test their device on people who are paralyzed (瘫痪) but whose intelligence remains normal. Ten paralyzed who tested the device quickly learned to use their noses to write words, open a webpage, copy words and put them into a search engine.
With their success in helping severely disabled people to communicate * the researchers decided to make use of the new technology to design an electric wheelchair to be driven by sniffs.
Ten healthy people easily mastered sniff—driving a wheelchair through a maze (迷宫), and a 30-year-old man who had been paralyzed from the neck down for six years was as good a sniff-driver as the healthy participants at his second attempt. In other words, a paralyzed person could use the sniff controller to drive an electric wheelchair.
At the moment, sniff-controlled technology is still in the stage of development, and the Weizmann Institute has already applied for a patent on the device. "Ill be very happy if it can help us to make money, but the real problem is that I hope someone will develop it, because this would help a lot of people," said Sobel, one of the lead researchers of the study.
What’s the purpose of the passage?

In the test, the paralyzed people with normal intelligence can use their nose to ______.

With the help of the sniffing device, a 30-year-old disabled man ______.

From the last paragraph, we can infer that the sniff-controlled technology ______.

Whenever someone begins to talk to me about how horrible it is to eat meat and suggests that a nice piece of tofu would be just as good, I just smile and show them those nice pointy teeth we all have in the corners of our mouths. They are called canines (犬牙), and they are there only for the purpose of eating meat.
When it comes to satisfying this kind of desire, soy (豆类) food can never match a well-prepared tri-tip (also know as triangle beef steak ). Just the thought of the beef, burning on the grill (烤架) with the smell of wood smoke gets the mouth watering and brings back memories of summer barbecues. When the knife cuts through the tri- tip, exposing the red meat bursting with juices, it's more than just cooking. It's a cultural event, showing we are at the top of the food chain, like no other food can.
Nutritionally speaking, the tri-tip is one of the better cuts of beef. It is lower in fat than many other cuts, and the proteins (蛋白质) you get from eating meat are more complete than those that come from vegetables, making meat a better choice for building and keeping up your muscle tissue healthy.
According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, one thing to be aware of with soy products in general is that while they are high in iron, a necessary mineral for the body, they also contain something that blocks the body's absorption of iron. We can cook them in various ways to make them tasty. Anyway, the tri-tip goes a lot better with ice-cold beer than a large piece of bean-curd cheese would, no matter how you cook it.
I guess I should say at least
e good thing about tofu. If you cook it just right, you can make it taste a little like the tri-tip, but only a little.
What's the author's attitude towards eating meat?

From the second paragraph, we learn that a well-prepared tri-tip ______.

Compared with tofu, the tri-tip is ______.

The best title of the passage is ______.

Personal money-management website Mint.com suggests recently that responsible parents should give their kids credit cards—possibly starting as young as middle school. The website says a credit card will help children master responsible spending habits and give parents the chance to teach them some valuable lessons.
It’s absolutely true that kids should learn about how a credit card works and how to use it responsibly. But the idea that they need a card of their own to practise this is questionable.
Yes, credit cards are a teaching tool, but it’s the time you spend educating them about money management that does the teaching, not the piece of plastic. Sit down with your child—here we are referring to teens and walk them through your credit card statements. Point out important things like the due date, late fee warning, and APR (年贷款利率).
If you have good credit, adding a child as an authorized user onto one of your credit cards also provides teachable moments. Allow kids to use the card to make specific purchases and require their participation in payment.
Since the card is still in your name, you can take them off it at any point and cut off their access if they're not able to handle the responsibility.
Another option is to set them up with an account at a local bank that offers free use of a debit card (借记卡). Unlike credit card, the debit card has no overdraft (透支) function.
Children can only use the card to pay for things and the money is taken directly from their bank account. If the account is empty, the worst that will happen is the card being declined at a cash register.
Why does Mint.com advise parents to give middle school kids credit cards?

The author considers a credit card as a teaching tool because ______.

What is the purpose of adding kids as credit card authorized users?

What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

Why do people feel so rushed? Part of this is a perception (认知) problem. Generally, people in rich countries have more free time than they used to. This is particularly true in Europe, but even in America free time has been inching up. Women's paid work has risen a lot over this period，but their time in unpaid work，like cooking and cleaning, has fallen even more significantly, thanks in part to dishwashers, washing machines and microwaves, and also to the fact that men shift themselves a little more around the house than they used to.
The problem, then, is less how much time people have than how they see it. Ever since a clock was first used at a workplace to record labor hours in the 18th century, time has been understood in relation to money. Once hours are financially quantified (量化), people worry more about wasting, but tend to save or use them more profitably. When economies grow and incomes rise, everyone's time becomes more valuable. And the more valuable something becomes, the rarer it seems.
Once seeing their time in terms of money, people often grow stingy with the former to maximize the latter. Workers who are paid by the hour volunteer less of their time and tend to feel more upset when they are not working.
The relationship between time, money and anxiety is something Gary Becker noticed in America's post-war boom years. "If anything, time is used more carefully today than a century ago," he noted in 1965. He found that when people are paid more to work, they tend to work longer hours, because working becomes a more profitable use of time. So the rising value of work time puts pressure on all time. Leisure time starts to seem more stressful, as people are forced to use it wisely or not at all.
Women's time in unpaid work has fallen partly because ______.

From the second paragraph, we learn that ______.

The underlined phrase grow stingy with can probably be replaced by "______".

According to Gary Becker, what causes people feel anxious about time?

Flying out of an airport in the United States is not always easy. You will need to complete the ticketing process, baggage check, and security clearance procedures before boarding the plane.
If you are flying on an international flight, you'd better arrive two hours before your plane is scheduled to leave. You might need more time in a busy airport in a large city. If you are traveling on a domestic (国内的) flight, you may only need to arrive at the airport 90 minutes before your plane takes off.
Every airport in the States is now moving its ticketing procedure to electronic ticketing device. By using a ticketing machine, you have the chance to choose a seat you like on the plane. If you use it to check-in your bags, you will only have to talk to the ticketing agent when you turn in your luggage to be tagged (加标签). At the same time a real person will be nearby to help you if you need it.
After you have checked in, you will have to pass through airport security. Have your ID card or passport and boarding pass ready to show the security officer when entering the security checkpoint line. Airport security is getting tight in the States today. You're not allowed to travel with any prohibited things like knifes or fireworks.
After the security staff has checked your travel documents, you shall put all of your belongings through a scanning machine and then walk through a metal detector (探测器) or a full body scanner. You need to take off your coat, belt, and sometimes your shoes to go through one of these scanners. Be sure not to have any metal in your pockets. If you do not understand a question you are asked at a security checkpoint, ask the person to repeat their question until you are able to respond with an accurate answer.

Title	___ on air travel in the US
Time of ___	■ Arrive two hours before ___, and even more time in a busy airport, traveling on an international flight. ■ Arrive 90 minutes before your plane ___ for a domestic flight.
Check-in	■ Choose your seat on a ticketing machine. ■ Get the ticketing agent ___ when turning in your luggage to be tagged. ■___ to the airport staff for help if necessary.
Airport security	■___ the security officer your travel documents. ■___ taking those that are prohibited. ■ Be sure not to take any metal with you when___ through a scanner. ■ Respond ___ when questioned at a security checkpoint.

假如你叫李华, 你发现你的英国网友Alice的生活方式不太健康。你想给她提些建议。 请你用英语给写封电子邮件，内容包括:
• 用水果代替零食；
• 用水代替可乐；
• 减少使用电子产品的时间;
• 多运动；
注意：1. 词数120左右，短文的开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯；
3. 短文中不能出现与本人相关的信息。
Dear Alice,
Hope everything goes well with you.
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
Yours Sincerely,
Li Hua