北京市朝阳区高三年级第二学期统一考试

--- Wow, so many new houses! I can’t believe that. It used to be a poor village.
--- Yes.          has changed here.

---          potato salad is good.
--- I’m very glad you like it. I used         special cheese to make it.

The performance will be given next week. You can go to the student union       tickets.

With the speedup of the railway, now you can get to your destination       by train.

--- Did you see a girl in white pass by just now?
--- No, sir. I         a newspaper.

I will appreciate it        you can change your plan a little bit to make it more workable.

It has been proved          taking exercise regularly does good to one’s health.

The flowers        sweet in the garden attracted the visitors to the beauty of nature.

It is the only time in history that two Nobel Prizes        to the same person.

I suggest you save       you find with an electronic bookmark so you can return to it later.

       for his expert advice, John is often asked to help others with their personal affairs.

These interesting articles were written by Anna, who        for our magazine these years.

Unless you have planted something, you won’t be able to know the pleasure of watching the thing you have planted           .

The topic,        we devoted a full discussion, is to be presented to our teacher at class.

--- Oh, my God! We just missed the last bus back home.
--- I’m sure we            it, but you were not in any hurry.

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s   36 filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so   37  that I decided to write an article about her.
I   38  Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk her career. She   39  and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I   40  I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there   41 , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that   42  Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The   43  was almost unbearable. I struggled for days   44  draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long. My manuscript   45 . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I   46  in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t   47  the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later, I was moving to California. While   48  my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in   49 :
Dear Ms Profit,
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some   50  materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to   51  your story soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to   52 . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of   53  writing. Today, I have become a full – time writer. Looking back on this   54 , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t   55  to doubt yourself.
36．A．joy                     B．voice                  C．speech                 D．smile
37．A．proud                 B．active                  C．satisfied              D．moved
38．A．visited                B．emailed               C．phoned                D．interviewed
39．A．agreed                B．refused                C．hesitated              D．paused
40．A．replied                B．discovered           C．explained            D．knew
41．A．seriously             B．patiently              C．nervously            D．quietly
42．A．blaming              B．fooling                C．inviting               D．urging
43．A．hardship              B．failure                 C．comment             D．pressure
44．A．with                   B．by                      C．on                      D．in
45．A．disappeared         B．returned              C．spread                 D．improved
46．A．compare              B．struggle               C．survive                D．compete
47．A．ignore                 B．deliver                C．face                    D．receive
48．A．decorating           B．repairing             C．cleaning              D．leaving
49．A．disbelief              B．anxiety                C．horror                 D．trouble
50．A．subjective            B．relevant               C．private                D．reliable
51．A．broadcast            B．create                  C．publish                D．assess
52．A．recover               B．prepare               C．escape                 D．concentrate
53．A．energetic             B．endless                C．typical                D．enjoyable
54．A．experience           B．success                C．benefit                D．accident
55．A．attempt               B．afford                 C．expect                 D．pretend

Congratulations on selecting our wireless mighty mouse. The mouse is of high quality. Only the scroll ball is visible at first glance, but it is actually a four – button mouse. At both sides, there are a couple of force – sensing buttons which can be programmed according to your need.
Setting up the Wireless Mighty Mouse
Put the batteries in the mouse first. Then pair the mouse and the computer. Setting up the mighty mouse is simple. You just need to install (安装) the software and turn the mouse on for it to get detected by the computer.
Using the Wireless Mighty Mouse
The mighty mouse has laser (激光) tracking technology, so you can use it on most surfaces. Another new invention is the 360 – degree scroll wheel. It is a multi – directional scroll wheel that allows you to scroll in all directions. The left and right buttons require just enough touch pressure to accept the input. Once you have set in up to your comfort, it functions smoothly without any problems. You can use either the left or the right button to click, doubleclick, and drag items. Either button can also be used to display an item’s short – cut menu. You can assign a function to the side buttons and the scroll ball, which also function as a button.
Cleaning Your Mouse and Scroll Ball
Use a cloth that’s been lightly moistened (湿) with water to clean. Don’t get moisture in any openings. If your mouse stops scrolling or if scrolling becomes rough, clean the mouse scroll ball. Turn the ball while cleaning for complete coverage.
56．You have to         before setting up the mouse.
A．turn the scroll ball slightly
B．clean the mouse with a cloth
C．check the software in the mouse
D．connect the mouse and the computer
57．What can we learn about the wireless mighty mouse?
A．Its scroll wheel can move in all directions.
B．Different buttons have different functions.
C．Side buttons are more useful than left and right buttons.
D．Only the right button can display an icon’s short – cut menu.
58．The passage is probably taken from a (an)         .
A．textbook                                             B．instruction          
C．research report                                    D．scientific essay

While I was in 9 th grade, I built a circuit (电路装置) for the traffic system of our city. After getting the first prize. I got this valuable advice from my father; “Do whatever interests you, and don’t let the work challenge you, make sure you are challenging that work.”
I have always preferred the projects which are challenging and related to real life problems. I clearly remember building a shipping program several years ago. I divided the whole project into several small sections. When I understood it clearly, used my brainstorming skill on it, and gave some basic ideas. Then I asked my professor for help before jumping into coding (编码). At first, I did not know how to ask questions correctly and always asked the question “How do I do it?” As I  kept working and discussed with my professor, I became more comfortable and those “how ”questions soon turned into “what if I do this and that” types of questions.
It took me four days to write the code. The desire to solve the problem kept me sleepless all nights brainstorming in even greater details. Every time I saw my program running smoothly, I exploded with joy. I still remember the last day of my work. I was getting some problem and didn’t know what to do. At that moment, a man came in to clean. He has headphones, and he was dancing while cleaning the room. Seeing this, I burst out laughing. That moment calmed me. I regained energy and interest and started to work again, and soon I fixed the problem.
My success in the project proved that breaking up a large problem into small parts could help find a possible solution. Discussing the problem with others was also very beneficial. Now I have gained the confidence to attempt any kind of project.
59．According to the passage, the writer was interested in          .
A．developing traffic systems
B．doing challenging projects
C．winning great prizes
D．writing different codes
60．The writer asked the question “how do I do it” at first because         .
A．he had no clear idea about his program
B．he was too shy to express himself
C．he wanted to he understood easily
D．he preferred this kind of question
61．We learn from the passage that the writer’s shipping program         .
A．would benefit people a lot
B．was done together with others
C．was difficult and needed patience
D．cost much money and energy
62．What would be the best title of the passage?
A．Do It Yourself
B．No Pains, No Gains
C．Learning with interest
D．Practice Makes Perfect

Why People Get Tattoos

 
CP: Central Point     P: Point     Sp: Sub – point (次要点)   C: Conclusion

If you know exactly what you want, the best way to get a job is to get specialized training. A recent report shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.
That’s especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies especially like a background of formal education coupled with work experience. But in the long run, too much specialization does not pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.
As further evidence of the erosion of corporate faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State’s Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices. Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. This sounds like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts(文科) graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch, manager of the Boston Red Sox, says that he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree. “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch.
For a liberal – arts degree, students focus on some basic courses that include literature history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior and a computer course or two. With these useful and important courses, you can feel free to specialize, “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.
67．The job market is in great need of people with          .
A．special training in special fields
B．a bachelor’s degree in education
C．formal schooling and work experience
D．an MBA degree from top universities
68．The underlined sentence in Paragrph 2 means         .
A．an MBA degree does not help in future promotion
B．MBA programs will not be as popular as they are now
C．people will not forget the degree the MBA graduates have got
D．most MBA programs fail to provide students with a foundation
69．David Birch says that he only hires liberal – arts people because          .
A．they will follow others’ ways of solving problems
B．they can do better in bundling changing situations
C．they are well trained in a variety of specialized fields
D．they have attended special programs in management
70．The author supports the idea that          .
A．on – the – job training is less costly in the long run
B．formal schooling is less important than job training
C．specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists
D．generalists will do better than specialists in management

   根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选
项。
Brain Transplants
Research on the human brain has been attracting more and more scientists in recent years.   71  If we compare a human brain to a hard disc, what the scientists are doing is to make better use of the hard disc.
The idea that a human brain could be transplanted (移植) may come from Frankenstein. In 1999, an experiment turned a bear into a dolphin (海豚).   72  They were made of the memory area in the dolphin’s brain containing information about swimming. They had a series of useful information, which was saved into a button – sized chip (芯片). Later the information was transplanted into the action memory area in the bear’s brain.   73  It proved to be a highly successful experiment and a bear was turned into a dolphin.
Recently, another memory transplant was performed at the Motor Nerve Rescarch Instance of the University of California. The experiment bad an entire transplant of the memory area.   74  The transplant was performed from a dog named Cenius to a dog named idiot. Cenius could follow up to 100 gestures and orders made by its master. It was a real genius in memorizing. However, Idiot had no contact with people since its birth. It because an animal with nothing in its brain, without any memory.
  75  When the two dogs woke up, Idiot had grasped all the abilities Cenius possessed; it was good at memorizing and sensible. It could follow every gesture and any command given by its master. But Cenius gave no response to its master, and did not recognize him at all.

E．Using the most advanced technology, detailed images were produced.
F．Discoveries show that messages are carried by the central nervous system in the brain.
G．One of the latest topics is how to change the human brain or combine it with the computer.

情景作文
假设你是红星中学高三一班的学生李华，近日你班同学参加了世界自然基金会WWF组办的“我为哥本哈根减斤碳”活动，大家开始在日常生活中减少能源、纸张等的消耗。请根据以下四幅图提供的信息，给某英文杂志写一篇以“Low – carbon Living”为题的英文稿件，介绍你们参加此次活动第一天的具体做法。
注意：1．信的开头已为你写好。
2．词数不少于60。

 
Low – carbon Living
Recently, my classmates and I participated in the activity of Low – Carbon Living organized by the WWF. On the first day                                                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                

开放作文
请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。
In your English class, your teacher shows you the following picture. You are asked to describe the picture and explain how you understand it.
提示词：放大镜：magnifier