江西省2017届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读表达+写作（18）

　　江西省2017届高三英语二轮专项训练：阅读表达+写作（18）

　　第一节

　　Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?

　　Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists?

　　In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?

　　In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand?

　　Let's face it: English is a crazy language．There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger．Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat．

　　We take English for granted．But when we explore its paradoxes （矛盾）, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them．

　　And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese—so one moose, two meese?

　　How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?

　　English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human beings．That's why, when stars are out,_____________; but when the lights are out, they are invisible．And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it．

　　1．What's the main idea of the passage ? （no more than 8 words）

　　．Complete the following statement with proper words．（ no more than 5 words）．

　　When someone says you will have a fat chance to win the game, it means that there will

　　for you to beat your opponent．

　　．Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete （no more than 4 words）

　　．What can we probably realize if we explore the paradoxes of English?（ no more than 10 words）

　　．What does the underlined word "them" probably refer to? （no more than 3 words）

　　第二节

　　书面表达

　　假如你澳大利亚的网友Peter说，在他家乡的海边要建一座核电站。这起网友的热烈议论。看完他们的帖子后，你也用英语写一篇120单词左右的短文发到网上，内容包括下表信息和你的个人看法。

　　约60%网友的观点 约40%网友的观点 你的观点

　　核能洁净，低耗，环保，基本不会造成空气污染。 核废料的处理不当，事故或地震等造成核泄漏，产生辐射，甚至会危及生命。 ……

　　参考词汇：核泄漏 nuclear leakage，

　　核辐射nuclear radiation。

　　A nuclear power plant will be built near my net friend, Peter’s hometown by the sea. The net friends have different opinions about it .