二、图表式

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(2010·山东运河中学高三10月月考)

请根据下面所示内容，用英语写一篇短文，比较高中学生“减负”前后的有关情况。

1．短文须包括所有图表内容，可以适当增加细节，使短文连贯；

2．词数为100个左右。

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（2010·山东烟台开发区高中高三10月月考）

  最近，关于“高中取消文理分科(abolishing science-humanities division)”，引发社会广泛热议。赞成者认为取消文理分科可避免学生“跛腿”走路，扩大他们视野，从而提高他们的综合素质。反对者认为当前教学资源的不足难以实现学生全面发展的目标，要让他们将精力集中到感兴趣的学科。请你谈一下对这一问题的看法。

词数120—150。

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（2010·浙江衢州杜泽中学高三上第一次月考）

假如你是某中学高三某班学生李平，高中二年多来，经历很多次成功与失败的你觉得自己似乎一下子成熟了很多，有一种真的“长大了”的感觉，面对紧张的学习，一次次考试以及今后的打算……。你有太多的话想对关爱你的父母说。请以书信形式和爸爸妈妈谈谈。信的开头如下：参考词汇：鼓励encourage Vt. Encouragement 对…充满感激 be/feel grateful to sb

Dear Mum and Dad,

How are you doing? ________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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（2010·北京市首师大附属育新学校中学部高三10月月考）

假设你是红星中学高三一班的学生李华，为校刊英语园地写一篇题为“Our Social Practice Activity”的英语稿件。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，叙述上周你们班从准备参观首都博物馆到参观结束的完整过程。

注意：次数不少于60

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(2010`湖南省浏阳一中、田家炳实验中学高三10月联考)

假如你叫李华，是新高三学生，最近你收到来自美国的笔友Peter的来信，询问你新学期的打算，请你根据以下提示写一封短信给他。

1．新上高三既感到兴奋也紧张（略举一二说明兴奋和紧张的缘由）。

2．因英语成绩不够好，准备努力学习，并希望得到老师和Peter的支持。

3．邀请他方便的时候来中国。

注意：1．词数120词左右；  

2．开头结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter,

  Thank you for the last letter．In the letter you asked me how I plan for the new term．…………………………………………………………………………………..

Yours truly，

Li Hua

（2）提纲表格式

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（2010·山东省临港一中高三上学期10月月考）

假设你是“中学生英语报”的记者，下面是对高中新生军训活动的民意调查。请根据表中的内容，用英语写篇调查报告，并表明你的态度。

注意：1.适当增加细节，使内容连贯；

2.词数：100左右；

3.开头已给出,不计入总词数;

4．参考词汇：准时punctual   磨炼 build up

The freshmen have different opinions on the military training at the beginning of their school life. 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

25. --- Why didn’t you tell him about the meeting ?

   --- He rushed out of the room ___ I could say a word .

  A. before   B. until   C. when  D. after

B

       At 3,500 metres, La Paz, Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world．Many roads are in bad condition and accidents are frequent．One road in particular, is considered the most dangerous in the world．On one side there is a sudden drop, which is so great that anyone inside the vehicle is lucky to survive．

       But thanks to one man, the death toll （人数） has fallen．Timoteo Apaza is a man who lives in a village near the most dangerous part of the road, known as "the Devil's Bend"．Timoteo has an unusual job — he is a human traffic signal．Every morning he stands on the bend and directs the traffic．When two vehicles approach from opposite directions, they can't see each other, but they can see Timoteo．Actually no one pays him to do the job．Sometimes drivers give him a tip so that he has just enough money to live on．But often they just pass by, taking the human traffic signal for granted．

       So why does he do it? Before Timoteo volunteered to direct the traffic, he had been a driver．Then one day he was driving a lorry load of bananas when he came off the road at a bend and fell three hundred metres down the mountain．Somehow he survived, but was in hospital for months．Then, a few years later, he was called out in the night to help pull people out of a bus crashed at the Devil's Bend．This last experience had a profound effect on Timoteo．He realized that he was lucky to be alive himself, and felt that it was his mission in life to help others．So every morning, week in, week out, from dawn to dusk, Timoteo takes up his place on the bend．

60．Where does Timoteo work?                                                    

       A．In a small mountainous village．   B．At the busiest part of a road．              

       C．On a farm growing bananas．       D．At the side of a dangerous road．

61．The road is so dangerous mainly because ______．                              

     A．it is steep and in bad condition         B．it is high up in the mountain                

       C．there is heavy traffic                 D．it is often very foggy

62．What does Timoteo get for his job?                                              

       A．No payment at all．

       B．A small salary from the government．              

      C．A small amount of money from some drivers．

       D．An award from the local people．

63．Why does Timeteo voluntarily direct the traffic?                                    

       A．He loves to be a traffic policeman．     

       B．He feels it his duty to help the drivers．

       C．He isn't qualified to do anything else． 

       D．He can't drive the lorry any more．

                                    E

Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric（结构） of the American city in three fundamental ways. It catalyzed（加速） physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the omnibuses, horse railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more distant form city centers than they were in the premodern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay scarcely two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius extended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far removed from the old city center and still commute there for work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery（周围）of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago, most of them located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted outside the city limits but within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take advantage of the possibilities of commuting, real estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty years – lots that could have housed five to six million people.

Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. These excesses underscore a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass transportation: urban sprawl（建筑物无计划延伸） was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small investors who paid little heed to coordinated land use or to future land users. Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and middle-class inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it. Chicago is a prime example of this process. Real estate subdivision （再划分小区）there proceeded much faster than population growth.

72．With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?

       A．Types of mass transportation.

       B．Instability of urban life.

       C．How supply and demand determine land use.

       D．The effect of mass transportation on urban expansion.

73．Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago?

       A．To demonstrate positive and negative effects of growth.

       B．To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation.

       C．To show mass transportation changed many cities.

       D．To contrast their rate of growth.

74．According to the passage, what was one disadvantage of residential expansion?

       A．It was expensive.

       B．It happened too slowly.

       C．It was unplanned.

       D．It created a demand for public transportation.

75．The author mentions Chicago in the second paragraph as an example of a city,

       A．that is large.

       B．that is used as a model for land development.

       C．where the development of land exceeded population growth.

       D．with an excellent mass transportation system.

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）

       第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

21．In order to find _______ better job, he decided to study _______ second foreign language.

 　　A．the; a         B．a; a        C．the; the             D．a; the