[安徽]2012届安徽省皖南八校高三第一次联考英语卷（解析版）

To tell ______ truth, he is at ______ loss what to do currently．

—What present shall we offer Johnson for his birthday? What kind of things does he prefer, a football, an iPod, or an e-bike?
—_____. Let's give him an e-bike．

—Shall we go to the restaurant opposite the supermarket for dinner?
—No, it's the _____ place I'd like to go to．

—Amazingly, Zhuo Jun got the first place for the China's Got Talent （中国达人秀） last night．
—So wonderfully ______ in the show that he deserved it．

—Mum, is the pair of gloves _____ mine?
—Yes．You have to wear another pair．

The cigarette end thrown away by a careless farmer ______ the big fire and caused a great loss to them．

After work I went to the box office to buy the tickets for Kungfu Panda 2．only to be told there was ______ left．

Dogs are our good friends as they can keep ______ with us when we are lonely．

      the fierce competition in finding a good job in big cities, many fresh graduates are trying their fortune in medium-sized cities like Wuhu City．

Taobo is Asia's largest retail（零售的） network platform, ______ people can buy and sell many kinds of things．

      Yao Ming has retired from the NBA, the pleasure we have got by watching him play basketball at home and abroad will last long．

David must be excited about something and you can ______ it from the look on his face

—I      downtown to the shopping centre soon．Could I get you something?
—No, thanks．I will do e-shopping．

—How do you find the health club?
—I        . Everyone is saying its management is going from bad to worse

     is known to us a11 is that London will host the 30th Olympic Games next

One cold night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco．There I was walking home around one o clock m the morning after a   36   practice at the theatre With he opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines by heart. I was having   37  handling my part-time job at the bank in the daytime and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about  38  both acting and San Francisco. I had  39  too much of city life.
As I walked down the  40  streets under the tall buildings, I felt very small and cold, so I began  41  both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out  42 a few homeless people under blankets.
About a block from my  43  , I heard a sound behind me. I   44   quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me  45  so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I   46   what the noise had been. It had been my wallet  47  to the sidewalk.
Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk   48  for 15 minutes, my wallet was   49  to be found.
Just as I was about to quit the  50  , I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to  51  .when a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camcho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde man with an  52  look in his eyes. “Is this  53   you’re looking for?” He asked, holding up something like a wallet.
It was already 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I couldn’t get much sleep, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some  54  of city life. I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place  55  people were willing to help each other.

A．comfortable B．serious C．tiresome D．fortunate

A．comfort '' B．desire C．pain D．trouble

A．setting up B．giving up C．holding up D．picking up

A．expected B．changed C．controlled D．possessed

A．deserted B．crowded C．blank D．narrow

A．running B．jumping C．moving D．marching

A．towards B．except C．including D．between

A．bank B．theatre C．apartment D．office

A．stood B．walked C．turned D．left

A．satisfied B．confused C．frightened D．annoyed

A．turn out B．figure out C．give out D．pull out

A．belonging B．adding C．sticking D．falling

A．gratefully B．anxiously C．skilfully D．delightedly

A．nowhere B．anywhere C．everywhere D．somewhere

A．instruction B．training C．search D．acting

A．it B．him C．someone D．me

A．amused B．unpleasant C．uneasy D．embarrassed

A．what B．who C．whichever D．whomever

A．production B．judgment C．friendship D．appreciation

A．as soon as B．as long as C．as far as D．as well as

When middle-aged Alex quit his job and made up his mind to become a self-employed writer, no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not．He found a cold storage room in a building, set up a used typewriter and settled down to work．
After a year or so, however, Alex began to doubt himself．He found it was difficult to earn his living by selling what he wrote．But Alex determined to put his dream to the test—even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure．This is the shadowland （虚幻世界） of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there．
One day Alex got a call, "We need an assistant, and we're paying $ 6,000 a year．" $ 6,000 was real money in 1960．It would enable Alex to get a nice apartment, a used car and more．Besides, he could write in his spare time．As the dollars were dancing in Alex's head, something cleared his senses．He had dreamed of being a writer ?full time．"Thanks, but no," Alex said firmly and swiftly, "I'm going to stick it out and write．"
After Alex got off the phone, he pulled out everything he had: two cans of vegetables and 18 cents．Alex put the cans and cents into a paper bag, saying to himself," There's everything you've made of yourself so far．I'm not sure I ever felt so low．"
Finally his work was published in 1970．Instantly he had the kind of fame and success that few writers ever experience．The shadows had turned into focus of attention．
Then one day, Alex found a box filled with things he had owned years before．Inside was a paper bag with two cans and 18 cents．Suddenly he pictured himself working in that cold storage room．It reminds Alex, and anyone with a dream, of the courage and persistence （坚毅） it takes to stay the course （持续到底） in the shadowland．
Why did Alex give up his job?

What did Alex express when he answered the call?

What kind of person is Alex?

Which of the following can summarize the passage best?

Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap（水龙头）?
In America, people will include a case or two of bottled water when buying the week's groceries（日用杂货）．When they are going to a soccer game or activity, it's common for them to grab a cold bottle of water out of the fridge with them．In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, about 29 billion bottles a year．
But all these plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment．In order to make all the 29 billion bottles, producers use 17 million barrels of crude oil, which is enough to keep a million cars going for 12 months．
So why don't people drink water straight from the tap? Some people have a strong belief that bottled water is better than water out of the tap, but that's not necessarily true．In the US, the local governments make sure water from the tap is safe．There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may go into the water．
People love the convenience of bottled water．But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a reusable steel container instead of plastic．
Some argue that plastic bottle recycling can help．Recycled bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or clothing．Unfortunately, only one in six bottles is recycled．The rest make it to landfills（垃圾填坦场） or end as trash in other places．Plastic bottles take hundreds of years for them to disintegrate．
Water is important for you, so keep drinking it．But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change．
And yes, you can make a difference．Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours．
How many cars can be kept going for a year by the crude oil used to make 29 billion bottles?

Why do Americans prefer bottled water?

What does the underlined word "disintegrate" in the fifth paragraph probably mean^

The author's intention of writing this passage is to recommend Americans

Money is all surrounding us．Every day, we see it, use it, and it is on the tip of our tongue．Did you ever stop to take into consideration where the money that you carry around every day comes from?
Making new money is a very unique job and no easy task．It has up to 65 steps When the money in circulation（流通） gets dirty and worn out, it is replaced with new money The old money is taken from banks and brought to places where it is destroyed Usually, the old money is burned．The burned money is replaced by new paper money
If old money is being replaced, then new money is printed in a place called a mint（造币厂）．Large sheets 01 paper are printed with many pictures of some currency （流通货币）．These large sheets are cut into individual bills．The individual bills are then put together in big stacks and then sent to banks．
Sometimes the mint will make a new bill with a new picture （portraits of statesman and places of interest are favoured） or a new colour. It is not easy for the government to make a new bill. It takes a long time, and there are many steps to go through before a new bill can be sent to banks, first, people m the government decide that a new kind of bill is needed Then, they ask and artist to design the new bill．A different artist cuts the new picture into a soft piece of metal called a die．The dies are made and put onto large printing machines．Then, very special paper is used, which no one but the mint can have．Along with this special paper, the mint also prints currency using special colours．After the dies print the new currency onto the paper, the bills are cut, stacked, and sent off to the banks．
From the passage we know that

We can infer from the passage that a die is ____

'Which of the following shows the right order of dealing with new money?
①New money is printed in a mint．
②Bills are cut from large sheets of special paper．
③New money is sent in large amounts to banks．
④The government decides to make new money．

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

Nuclear weapons（核武器）were first developed in the United States during the Second World War to be used against Germany．However, by the time the first bombs were ready for use, the war with Germany had ended and, as a result, the decision was made to use the weapons against Japan instead．Hiroshima and Nagasaki have suffered the consequences of the decision to the present day.
The real reasons why bombs were dropped on two heavily populated cities are not altogether clear．A number of people in 1944 and early 1945 argued that the use of nuclear weapons would be unnecessary, since American Intelligence was aware that some of the most powerful and influential people in Japan had already realised that the war was lost, and wanted to discuss a Japanese surrender （投降）．It was also argued that, since Japan has few natural resources, a blockade （封锁） by the American navy would force it to surrender within a few Weeks, and the use of nuclear weapons would prove unnecessary．If a demonstration of force was required to end the war, a bomb could be dropped over an unpopulated area like a desert, in front of Japanese observers, or over an area of low population inside Japan, such as a forest．Choosing this course of action might decrease the loss of further lives on all sides, while the power of nuclear weapons would still be adequately demonstrated（展示）．
All of these arguments were turned down, however, and the general agreement was that the quickest way to end the fighting would be to use nuclear weapons against the centres of population inside Japan．In fact, two of the more likely reasons why the decision was reached seem quite shocking to us now．
The meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is that        .

According to Paragraph 2, a blockade would have been successful because

The last paragraph tells that         .

What would probably be discussed in the paragraphs that follow?      

Beijing ?（13, July） China sent up a new data relays atellite （数据中继卫星）, Tianlian I -02, on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in South-western Sichuan province．The new satellite will promote the country's satellite communication network for space docking （对接）．
The satellite was launched on a Long-March-SC carrier rocket at 11:41 p．m．, sources at the centre told Xinhua News Agency．The satellite separated from the rocket 26 minutes after its launch and was then successfully delivered into a geostationary transfer orbit （地球同步转移轨道）.
Developed by the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the satellite is the country's second data relay satellite．The first, Tianlian I -01, was launched on April 25．2008．
The two satellites will form a network to improve communications between China's spacecraft and bases on Earth, according to the centre．They will also be used to help the nation's first space docking, scheduled for the second half of this year．
As planned, China will launch space module Tiangong-I （天宫1号）, which was designed as a platform that will dock with an unmanned spaceship, Shenzhou, for the county's first space-docking mission this year．
Two more Shenzhou spaceships will dock with Tiangong-I next year, and one will be manned by two or three astronauts, according to China Manned Space Engineering Office, which was the main user of the Tianlian I series data relay satellites．
"The new satellite can cover a greater area to track and command the country's space vehicles m low-Earth orbits, such as manned spacecraft and remote sensing satellites, from a higher position m outer space．Only three satellites of this kind are needed to form a global communication network, and China has two now．" Pang Zhihao, a researcher and deputy editor-in-chief of Space International, said．
The satellite could also equip astronauts with real-time communications, which will benefit the county s future manned space flights, he said．
What is the main purpose to send up Tianlian I -02 ?

From the passage we know           .

Which of the following is TRUE according to the news report?

The best title of the passage could be _____．

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
We all need physical exercise. Exercise uses up food we eat and keeps the body full of energy. It works your muscles and makes your heart work hard so as to send blood to your muscles. So, exercise makes your heart and muscles strong. Exercise also makes you feel refreshed. If you exercise a couple of times a week, you will stay happy and healthy.
Some Western countries, such as the United States, have problems with exercise. In the US, many people don’t have enough exercise because it is hard for them. People have to work from dawn till dusk, so they don’t have time to take exercise. They work in office buildings sitting in chairs all day long in front of computers. They cannot get much exercise sitting at desk passively.
Some Westerners can get exercise walking from their homes to work. However, the majority of people cannot do this. It is too far from their homes to their offices. They have no choice but to drive to work. In fact, some have to drive one or two hours to their offices. This is unfavourable in two ways. First, these people don’t have a chance to exercise because they are sitting in their cars for two to four hours each day. Second, driving is challenging especially in rush hours and calls for too much attention. It makes a person worn out. So, when these people arrive home at night, they don’t have the desire to take exercise after work.
Today, many people in the West are overweight, which causes health problems for them. Doctors say exercise can help people both lose weight and improve their health. So many people are trying to get more exercise. But it takes time to change, and when people don’t see a difference right away, they will lose heart and stop exercising.

Tiltle	Westerners        Exercise
The        people can get from exercise	·Keep your body         . ·Make you feel good. ·Help you stay healthy and happy if you exercise    . ·Help you lose weight and get your health      .
One        for not getting enough exercise for some westerners	Some people at work are too        to exercise.
The difficulty those who drive to work have in exercising	Some live too        away from their workplace so they have to drive to work. After driving back at night, they are too      so they don’t want to exercise.
The wrong attitude to exercise some people have	Some would be      if they don’t see a difference within a short time.

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