Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′)
[2016·西安高新一中模拟]Imagine waking up in a hospital bed. And the entire left side of your body isn't movable. This was the __1__ I found myself in after my car crash. I __2__ so severely for my head and neck were twisted (扭曲) to one side and stuck in that disturbing __3__.
The prognosis (预断) for my __4__ was not good. The doctor told my family, “I __5__ to say this, but he'll be lucky to survive the next 48 hours.”
__6__ as my family was at the news, the one thing that had been holding them together was the __7__ that with the proper medical treatment, I could recover. The doctor's prognosis hit them like a hammer, __8__ any hope. The __9__ that I might die touched each of them deeply.
For the next two days, my parents kept waiting outside my room. They could __10__ eat or sleep. The doctor's prognosis __11__ heavily on their hearts. Yet with each passing hour they became slightly more hopeful that my chances of __12__ were a little bit better.
With the __13__ 48 hours passing, although I was once __14__ to the limit of my life, I __15__ to quit my life, so they felt somewhat __16__. Maybe the doctor had made a(n) __17__. After all, doctors aren't necessarily right. Bit by bit, hope began to return to them. __18__， they still had no idea what the future held for me.
My survival surprised everyone. It would not have been __19__ if not for my determination not to quit my life. __20__ will always happen around you as long as you don't give up.
这是一篇记叙文。作者在一次车祸中险些丧生，医生认为作者只能活48个小时，作者却让周围的人看到了奇迹，作者把这归功于他的坚定意志。并且告诉大家只要我们不放弃，奇迹在任何时候都会出现。
1．A.despair
B．situation
C．place
D．pain
答案：B 上文提到作者醒来在医院躺着，并且一半身体不能移动，这是作者出车祸后发现自己的一种处境(situation)。
2．A.choked
B．trembled
C．enjoyed
D．suffered
答案：D 根据上文的描述可知，作者遭受(suffered)了巨大的痛苦。
3．A.position
B．action
C．behavior
D．height
答案：A 由上文作者的头和脖子被扭到了一边可知，这里是指处于一种令人不安的姿势(position)。
4．A.spirit
B．disability
C．recovery
D．treatment
答案：C 由下文提及的作者只能幸运地活48小时可知，医生对作者康复(recovery)的预断是不乐观的。
5．A.regret
B．decide
C．tend
D．wish
答案：A 下文是提及不好的事情，所以这里是遗憾(regret)地去说这件事情。
6．A.Impatient
B．Angry
C．Confused
D．Upset
答案：D 尽管家人听到这个消息是伤心的(upset)，但是他们还是抱有一丝希望。
7．A.desire
B．intention
C．hope
D．lie
答案：C 通过恰当的医治，作者可能会康复是家人对作者的一丝希望(hope)。
8．A.offering
B．destroying
C．raising
D．abandoning
答案：B 医生的预断就像锤子一样击打着我的家人，摧毁(destroy)了他们的希望。
9．A.exception
B．choice
C．fact
D．acceptance
答案：C 由上文可知，我可能会因车祸丧生的事实(fact)深深地触动了家中的每个人。
10．A.barely
B．gradually
C．hopelessly
D．slightly
答案：A 接下来的两天，父母一直等在门外，很少(barely)吃饭和睡觉。
11．A.reacted
B．weighed
C．froze
D．expanded
答案：B 医生对作者病情的预断让作者的家人感到心碎。
12．A.promotion
B．escape
C．improvement
D．survival
答案：D 根据下文提到的作者活了下来可知，这里是家人对作者的存活(survival)抱有希望。
13．A.convincing
B．disappointing
C．exciting
D．frightening
答案：D 医生估计作者只能活48小时，所以这48小时是令人害怕的(frightening)。
14．A.directed
B．pushed
C．ordered
D．guided
答案：B 根据上文描述的作者病情很严重可知，虽然作者被推(pushed)到了生命的边缘，但是作者拒绝放弃生命。
15．A.refused
B．pretended
C．struggled
D．attempted
答案：A 作者意志坚定，拒绝(refused)放弃生命。
16．A.confident
B．satisfied
C．relieved
D．stressful
答案：C 作者度过了48小时，家人看到了希望，所以感到宽慰(relieved)。
17．A.joke
B．guess
C．apology
D．mistake
答案：D 由上文医生说作者只能活48小时可知，医生犯了一个错误(mistake)。空后的After all, doctors aren't necessarily right也有提示。
18．A.However
B．Therefore
C．Instead
D．Besides
答案：A 虽然看到了希望，但他们不知道我的未来会怎么样，前后构成转折关系，故用但是(however)。
19．A.alarming
B．possible
C．reasonable
D．pessimistic
答案：B 如果不是作者顽强地不放弃生命，作者的存活是不可能(not possible)的(前文提到：医生也曾预测作者只能活48小时)。
20．A.Accidents
B．Coincidences
C．Miracles
D．Successes
答案：C 只要不放弃，奇迹(miracles)就会发生在我们身上。一个医生预测只能活48小时的车祸伤员，竟凭着顽强的意志活了下来，堪称奇迹。
Ⅱ.阅读理解(建议用时16′)
A
[2016·育才高三联考]Winter begins in the north on December 22nd. People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the cold months. Squirrels, for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. Well, scientists have been busy gathering information about what the squirrels do with the food they collect.
They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana. The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut trees. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.
Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student now at the University of New Mexico. The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels. Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut. So some nuts remain in the ground. Conditions are right for them to develop and grow in the following spring. Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. Professor Swihart calls “death_traps_for_seeds”．
Gray squirrels are native to Indiana. But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century.
The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade Indiana. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.
本文为科普文，分析的是两种不同类型的松鼠为过冬储备食物的种类不同的原因，以及松鼠对这些植物的影响。
1．The study done by Rob Swihart and Jake Goheen is to ________.
A．find out the living conditions for squirrels
B．do something to get rid of squirrels
C．learn squirrels' influence on black walnut trees
D．save the forests in the American state of Indiana
答案：C 细节理解题。根据第二段“The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut trees.”可知。
2．The difference between gray squirrels and red squirrels mainly lies in ________.
A．the way they gather the walnut
B．the place they store the walnuts
C．the number of the nuts they can collect
D．the fact that the gray squirrels have a bad memory
答案：B 细节理解题。根据第三段“Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way.”可知。
3．When Professor Swihart says “death traps for seeds”， he actually means that ________.
A．nuts above the ground will not develop into plants
B．red squirrels eat more nuts than gray squirrels
C．gray squirrels and red squirrels will have severe fights
D．seeds can be traps for other animals in the forest
答案：A 句意猜测题。根据第三段倒数第二句“Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground.”可知答案。
4．According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A．Gray squirrels do more harm to the forest than red squirrels.
B．Red squirrels and gray squirrels have helped the spread of walnut trees.
C．The cleaning of forest land benefits gray squirrels directly.
D．Human beings should bear some responsibility for the decreasing number of gray squirrels.
答案：D 细节理解题。利用排除法，根据第四段“...as more forests were cut for agriculture.”可知D项正确，A项未比较过；B项应是Gray squirrels有助于walnut tree的传播；C项“directly”描述错误。
1．gather vt. 收集；集合
2.affect vt. 影响
3．central adj. 中心的；中央的
4．decrease n．/vt. 减少；降低
5．invade vt. 侵略
1．a number of 许多的；大量的
2．be native to 源于……；原产于……
原文：But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture.(as引导时间状语从句)
译文：但是Swihart教授说随着更多的森林为了农耕被砍伐，它们(松鼠)的数量开始下降。
仿写：The book explains how animals and plants develop as_the_environment_changes.
这本书解释了随着环境的变化，动植物是如何进化的。
B
[2016·河南重点中学联考]A paralysed man has walked again thanks to an electronic device—a special brain cap, which connected his brain signals to electrodes attached to his legs. The 26yearold man was able to control his legs and cover almost four metres using his own muscle power. This is believed to be the first time that anyone has used their own muscles, controlled on their own.
The man, who has not been named, lost the power of both legs after his spinal cord was completely severed in a motorcycle accident five years ago. His brain was still able to generate the thoughts needed to move his legs and his muscles were healthy, but the damage to his spine stopped the brain's signals from reaching his muscles. To get_round this, the man wore a cap connected with electrodes that captured his brain activity. This information was sent wirelessly to a computer and decoded before being transmitted to electrodes around his knees. These stimulated his muscles, allowing him to swing his legs.
He needed walking frame and his pace was unnatural, but he felt confident enough while walking to chat to the US researchers who developed the technology. The man had months of training to relearn to walk, including brain training, which involved playing a video game while wearing the cap and just by thinking about moving them to control the movements of a character on screen.
This fired up the necessary part of his brain to move his legs and made him formulate the sort of thoughts he would need to control his own movements.
Paralysed people have been made to walk in the past, but this is the first time the patient has used their own legs rather than an exoskeleton—a batterypowered framework around the limbs.
British experts welcomed the breakthrough but said the work was still at a very early stage. Researcher Dr Zoran Nenadic said the new device proved promising, but they say many years of work remains.
本文是一篇科技报道。一种新型的设备为瘫痪或不能移动身体某部位的人们带来了福音，但是这项技术还需要一个较为漫长的过程才能最终得以运用。
5．What does this kind of brain cap help a paralysed man to do?
A．Recover from the injury.
B．Build up his muscles.
C．Gain the ability to walk.
D．Get the skill to think.
答案：C 细节理解题。根据第一段“A paralysed man has walked again thanks to an electronic device—a special brain cap”可知，这种帽子有助于瘫痪的残疾人获得控制自己行走的能力。
6．What does the underlined phrase “get round” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．Remove.
B．Overcome.
C．Gain.
D．Achieve.
答案：B 词义猜测题。根据第二段画线词的前面“...but the damage to his spine stopped the brain's signals from reaching his muscles.”可知，受伤部位阻止了大脑信号的正常传输，下文阐述为了克服这种障碍，瘫痪患者戴上了这种特殊的帽子，目的是为了获得大脑的指令。
7．How did the paralysed man control the character's movements on screen?
A．By using his own thought.
B．By obeying the orders of computers.
C．By imitating the human's movements.
D．By moving their muscles.
答案：A 细节理解题。根据第三段“The man had months of training to relearn to walk, including brain training, which involved playing a video game while wearing the cap and just by thinking about moving them to control the movements of a character on screen.”可知，瘫痪患者运用意念去控制电脑屏幕上人物的活动，因此本题答案为A项。
8．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．The new device has been used widely.
B．It's a long way to put the new device to use.
C．Experts are doubtful about the new device.
D．The idea of the new device is unrealistic.
答案：B 推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，专家们认为该技术正处于初级阶段，实验证明这很有希望，但还要研究很多年。因此本题答案为B项。
1．attach vt. 依附于；系上；贴上
2．capture vt. 捕抓；夺得
3．stimulate vt. 刺激
4．confident adj. 有信心的；自信的
5．breakthrough n. 突破
1．thanks to 幸亏；由于
2．on one's own 靠某人自己
原文：...but this is the first time the patient has used their own legs rather than an exoskeleton(this is＋序数词＋time＋从句)
译文：但这是首次病人用自己的双腿而不是外骨骼(一种电动的肢干周围的框架)
仿写：It's the first time that the_boy_has_spoken_to_a_foreigner.
这是小男孩第一次与外国人说话。
Ⅲ.短文改错(建议用时8′)
[2016·保定市模拟考试]Mrs White was in hurry to visit her grandson because she missed her very much. It was nearly three months when she last saw her grandson. When she was walking by a playground, a football fly in her direction. She was already in her seventy. Should she kick the ball back and should she just go past leave it where it was？Finally she gave it a kick with greatly effort and the ball went straight on into the goal. What amazing it was! She helped them win the game.
答案：
Mrs White was in
hurry to visit her grandson because she missed
very much. It was nearly three months
she last saw her grandson. When she was walking by a playground, a football
in her direction. She was already in her . Should she kick the ball back
should she just go past
it where it was? Finally she gave it a kick with
effort and the ball went straight
into the goal.
amazing it was! She helped them win the game.