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2002年武汉市首届中学生信息知识和网络英语大赛
(英语知识部分)
全卷满分为100分；考试时间为60分钟。
阅读与表达
I. 完形填空 （共20小题，每小题2分；满分40分）
阅读下面短文， 从A、B、C、D 4个选项中，选出能填入相应空白处的最
佳答案。
Sometimes patients get different advice. American medical researchers have just (1)
the first scientific proof that a small amount of exercise will help us (2) longer.
The study was carried out not only by scientists at Harvard and Stanford universities.
It involved about 7000 (3) who entered Harvard University between 1956 and 1960. The
scientists began their (4) in 1960. They studied the medical(5) of every one in the study
(6) of those living and dead. (7) of the group reported how much they walked, how many
steps they(8) and what kind of (9) they had each week.The scientists checked (10)about
height, weight,blood pressure and (11) history of heart disease.Their researches showed
exercise helped (12) the chance of death from a number of (13).
They found that two thirds of (14) attack victims were people who (15) exercised. One
of the scientists said the most important (16) was that people who do not exercise (17)
more heart disease. And he (18) said that it might be easier now to (19) people to
exercise when doctors (20) them to.
1. A. received B. reported C. believed D. known
2. A. live B. work C. sleep D. sit
3. A. patients B. students C. workers D. professors
4. A. teaching B. experiment C. research D. result
5. A. disease B. book C. history D. operation
6. A. class B. team C. university D. group
7. A. One B. Scientists C. Doctors D. Members
8. A. remembered B. spent C. climbed D. checked
9. A. food B. lessons C. sports D. medicine
10. A. note B. message C. information D. knowledge
11. A. hospital B. family C. friend D. their own
12. A. increase B. reduce C. discover D. bring
13. A. reports B. researchers C. universities D. diseases
14. A. strong B. body C. sudden D. heart
15. A. never B. sometimes C. successfully D. carefully
16. A. invention B. Discovery C. sport D. medicine
17. A. learn B. find C. have D. fight
18. A. hardly B. also C. unhappily D. always
19. A. teach B. organize C. join D. get
20. A. advise B. agree C. invite D. cause
II. 阅读理解 （共25小题。满分60分）
第一节
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的4个选项中，选出最佳答案。（共15小题。每小题2分）
A
From the living room and family auto to the supermarket and office, it's impossible
to escape the electronic revolution that is transforming the way people live and work.
Already, technological gains are bringing to people products, services, and
recreation they never dreamed of just a few years ago: stereophonic television, TV sets
that can be carried in a coat pocket, portable radios with stereo sound, home telephones
that signal when another caller is on the line and forward calls from to business,bill
paying without the paperwork.
Outside the home, the dazzle of electronics is no less brilliant: a perfectly typed
letter at the touch of button, building and auto designs from a computer, cash from
the bank at any hour, instant access to thousands of reference sources.
All this comes at a price. Robbery by computer now is the primary white-collar crime,
according to some criminologists, and costs society anywhere from $00 million to $3
billion a year.Another problem raised by the use of more part of many workers that their
jobs will be taken by computerized robots or some other form of automation.
The computer industry can trace its beginning to 906, when inventor Lee DeForest
perfected the three-element vacuum tube.
That device, the triode, made it possible to use one electric current to control the
flow of another.From that development ninety-six years ago has evolved a $ 20-billion-a-year
electronics industry that includes everything from laser beams for medicine and industry
to guidance system for weapons and video games.
This business, in which technological discoveries come out with regularity,is on its way
to becoming a bedrock of the U.S. becoming a bedrock of the U.S. economy. By the end of
the decade,according to some estimates,its sales will rival those of American's basic
industry- steel, autos and chemicals.
Currently, about 0 percent of all electronic-products ales are in consumer, rather than
business-oriented, products. But at the rate advance are made in radio, TV sets, computers,
and telephones,people's living will be changed more and more by electronics.
21. "Escape the electronic revolution" in the first sentence means ______.
A. "ignores the progress in the electronic industry:
B. "resist the influence on the electronic industry"
C. "refuse using all electronic products"
D. "stay the same with the electronic revolution all fields"
22. Which of the following is NOT a result of the electronic revolution?
A. Robbery by computer.
B. Stereophonic radio.
C. TV sets small enough to be put in a pocket.
D. A rise in prices.
23. All of the following is part of the electronics industry except ______.
A. the three-element vacuum tube
B. laser beams for medicine and industry
C. guidance system of weapons
D. autos and auto parts
24. "A bedrock of the U.S economy" means _______.
A. "foundation of the U.S. economy"
B. "unsteady ways in the U. S. economy
C. "power for the development of the U.S. economy"
D. "bad result of the U.S economy"
25. It is implied that the economic revolution _______.
A. has progressed rapidly
B. has seen a gradual change
C. has just got under way
D. has reached the summit
B
People all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the
problem of pollution. Pollution is caused by man's release of completely new and often
artificial substance into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of
a natural substance, such as oil from oil tankers into sea.
The whole industry process which makes many of the goods and machines we need and use
in our daily lives,is bound to create a number of waste products which upset the environmental
balance, or the ecologicalbalance as it is also known. Many of these waste products can be
prevented or disposed of sensibly,but clearly while more and more new and complex goods are
produced there will be new,dangerous waste to be disposed of, for example, the waste
products from nuclear power stations. Many people,therefore, see pollution as only part of
a larger and more complex problem, that is, the whole process of industrial and consumption
of goods. Others again see the problem mainly in connection with agriculture, where new
methods are helping farmers grow more and more on their land to feed our ever-increasing
population. However, the land itself is gradually becoming worn out as it is being used,
in some cases, too heavily, and artificial fertilizers cannot restore the balance.
Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused
could be control if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts.
In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up
three or four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly
sold in bottles or tins which cannot be reused. This not only causes a litter problem,but also
is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, meals and paper.Advertising has helped this
process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also
to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can
help to solve by cutting out unnecessarybuying, excess consumption and careless disposal of
products we use in out daily lives.
26. What do you think will upset the environmental balance?
A. Waste products.
B. The whole industrial process.
C. Some kinds of disposable goods.
D. Some machines we need and use in our daily life.
27. The writer thinks that the more new goods, ______.
A. the less pollution
B. the harder pollution can be controlled
C. the more pollution there will be
D. the more easily pollution can be controlled
28. Many people see pollution as only part of ______.
A. a bigger problem in the production
B. the environmental balance in our daily life
C. the consumption of goods by man
D. the process of industrial production and consumption of goods
29. Food packages, bottles and tins for drinks can cause ______.
A. air and water pollution
B. both a litter problem and a waste of resources
C. excess consumption
D. unnecessary buying
30. Much of the pollution could be controlled if only ______.
A. people would pay more attention to the problem
B. government would take effective measures
C. all sides concerned would make more efforts
D. farmers would use less artificial fertilizers
C
ON A SKY HIGH
OK, so jumping out of a planes at 2700 meters above sea level, stepped uncomfortably
close to someone who holds your life in his hands might not be everyone's idea of fun.
But back from Great Keppel Island, Jim Darling is still coming down to earth.
Darling's passengers always beat his plane back to the ground. At about 2700 meters you
step outside, look him in the eye and call, "See you later, Darry!"
In the next 3 seconds you will skydive about 200km/h.
Looking from the Cessna's open door the island below is hardly bigger than a dinner plate.
There's 33 degrees of sun toasting the bathers down there on the beach at Great Keppel.
Up here with not even a flimsy cloud to keep us company it's just two degrees very windy
and noisy and horribly uncomfortable.
You're trussed up in a jump suit, a mass of harness straps and buckles and a life-jacket.
And you're attached by buckles and harness to dive master Steve Lewis, who has a massive 38
square meter parachute in a pack on his back. This is what they call tandem skydiving. You,
the passenger, call it plain terrifying.
After 20 minutes we reach drop height. And thee green light for entry into the unknown
flashes as Steve opens the Cessna's door,creating an awesome openness stretching 2700 meters
down to the ocean and the island and its 28 kilometers of beaches.
31. The title "On a Sky High" suggests that the writer ______.
A. found the experience exciting
B. jumped from a high altitude
C. was afraid of skydiving
D. was not in control
32. Apart from landing on the ground, "coming down to earth" also means ______.
A. giving up a dream
B. returning to reality
C. working on a problem
D. accepting what has happened
33. The height at which the parachute begins to open is _____ meters above sea level.
A. 200
B. 500
C. 2700
D. 3800
34. When the describes the openness as being "awesome", this shows that _____.
A. the view from the plane was vast
B. he was frightened of heights
C. the plane was traveling at great speed
D. he was surprised by what he saw
35. The main purpose of paragraph 6 is to ______.
A. discourage people from jumping
B. describe the equipment that is needed
C. show that showing skydiving is not enjoyable
D, explain what is involved in tandem skydiving
第二節
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的4个选项中，选出最佳答案。（共10小题。每小题3分）
D
Some people believe that international sports create goodwill between the nations and
that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that
the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead
to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in
recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sport encourages
international brotherhood. Not only was there the tragic incident involving the murder of
athletes, but the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused principally by minor
national contests.
One country received its second-place medals with visible indignation after hockey
final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of hockey match, the losers objecting to
the final decisions. They were convinced that one of their goals should not have been
disallowed and that their opponents' victory was unfair. Their manager was in rage
when he said, " This wasn't hockey. Hockey and the International Federation are finished."
The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in suspension
of the team for at least three years.
Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather
than for the love of the game. The suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals,
or in non-national teams, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization
of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism.
36. According to the author, recent Olympic Games have ______.
A. created goodwill between the nations
B. bred only false national pride
C. hardly showed any international friendship
D. led to more and more misunderstanding and hatred
37. What did the manager mean by saying, "Hockey and International Federation are finished?
A. His team would no longer take part in international games.
B. Hockey and the Federation are ruined by the unfair decision.
C. There should be no more hockey matches organized by the Federation.
D. The Federation should be ended.
38. The writer gives the example in Paragraph 2 to show ______.
A. how false national pride sometimes led to incidents
B. the sports have been more nice than they used to be
C. some sports games discourages international friendship
D. that the false decision are common in Olympic games
39. Obviously the writer wants to tell ______ about the international games of recent years.
A. nothing B. something good C. bad sides D. all sides
40. What conclusion can be drawn from the passage?
A. The organization of the Olympic Games must be improved.
B. Athletes should compete as individuals in the Olympic Games.
C. Sports should be played competitively rather than for the love of the game.
D. None of the above.
E
Equally ridiculous are some of the hopes voiced by certain biologists with wild
imaginations: They have been foreseen a more positive use of cloning ? to improve the
human genetic stock. The technique could be used to "fix" good characters. This, after
all, is why plant breeders take cutting: they use sexual reproduction for genetic
experiments, to mix genes and produce favorable recombinations by chance; then, when a
good variety appears, they fix it by taking cuttings and making copies. So why not do
the same with humans?
In other words, when a Newton or an Einstein appears, why not ensure more Newtons and
Einsteins? One needs only a few cells ? from inside the mouth say ? to get hold of their
"superior" genes, and with freezing they could be used indefinitely, long after their
original owner's death. Of course,a Newton or an Einstein is not entirely the product of
his genes; environment and education also have to be taken into consideration.So several
biologists take the idea further. I.B.S. Haldane, for example, predicted that "superior
individuals" will spend their later years educating their own clones. Just imagine a
school where every class is full of identical twins. And, in their teacher, they would
see not only their parent but also themselves in thirty or forty years' time. Being
genetically identical, teachers and pupils would understand each other with great ease
and progress would be very fast. Or so the imaginative biologists would like us to believe.
41. According to the author, the idea of cloning human being is _____.
A. imaginative B. positive C. fun D. superior
42. Plant breeders, by means of taking cutting is to_____.
A. produce a good variety
B. improve genetic stock
C. mix genes
D. make copies
43. In addition to genes, a superior individual must have _____.
A more cells
B. imagination
C. ease
D. good environment and education
44. Why is it thought that clones would work well together?
A. Because they are similar to each other.
B. Because they are genetically identical.
C. Because their teacher is a clone.
D. Because they are identical twins.
45. The hope of some imaginative biologists for cloning human beings is to _____.
A. fix a good variety
B. preserve the abilities of great people
C. breed or copy individuals
D. produce favorable recombinations
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