福建省泉州一中2011届高三上学期期末考试卷英语(2)

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54. A. offered 55. A. explained

B. served B. apologized

C. controlled C. imagined

D. taught D. realized

第三部分 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Many Americans have been leaving their cars at home and riding to work on bicycles. They are doing this because of gas prices, a slowing economy and concerns about the environment. Andy Clark is the executive director of the League of American Bicyclists. His group supports bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation.

Mister Clark says this is good news for the environment. He says riding a bicycle to work does not burn fossil fuel or create dangerous pollutants. Experts say the effects are the most important on short trips. The Department of Transportation says fifty percent of Americans drive eight kilometers or fewer to work. Shorter car trips release more pollution into the air for each kilometer driven. This is because the device in a car that produces the harmfulness of emissions needs to warm up before it can work well. Last year, the Pacific Northwest city of Portland, Oregon, had the highest percentage of bicycle commuters(通勤者) in the United States. Portland has been doing progressive city planning for many years to create special paths for bike riders. Andrew Land is one of Portland’s citizens who bikes to work every day. Mister Land is thirty-three years old and has never owned a car. He has biked to work for twelve years. Before moving to Portland six years ago, he lived in Washington D.C. But he was hit by a car twice while biking to work there. That has not happened in Portland where there are special; roads for bicycles. Mister Land bought a house near these special bike lanes. He rides almost five kilometers to work each day. He also uses the sixty-four kilometer bike path around the city.

Andrew Land rides a cyclocross bike. He says it combines the best parts of a racing bike and a mountain bike. You might say that Andrew Land is “ into bikes”. He recently attended a show of handmade bicycle frames (结构)。 It was organized by thirty bicycle frame

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builders in Portland. And he attended a legal rights workshop for bicyclists.

56. What is the correct explanation of “ Shorter car trips release more pollution into the air for each kilometer driven”？ A. Shorter trip cars run too slowly

C. Shorter trip cars waste too much fuel 57. What can be inferred in the third paragraph? A. Portland has more bikes than any other city in the USA B. The people in Portland are very poor C. The traffic in Portland is very good D. Cars are not allowed to run in Portland

58. Why Andrew Land was hit by a car twice while biking to work in Washington D.C? A. Because he was too careless B. Because there were no special paths for bike riders C. Because the road there was too crowded

D. Because he just did it for fun B. Shorter trip cars are usually bad ones

D. Shorter trip car drivers are not skilled

59. What is the suitable meaning of “ into bikes” in the last paragraph? A. He is fascinated with bikes B. He lives in a house made from bikes C. he likes to run into bikes D. He is good at making bikes B

Children are a secret weapon for making investment decisions. In a nod to the wisdom of youth, many wealthy and well-educated technology investors are seeking advice and investment tips from their children, summer interns(实习生) and twenty something receptionists.

Unlike the formal consumer tests that focus groups at large companies, these inquiries are taking place closer to home, with friends and family. But their impact can be broad, because investors not only help promote the development of new ideas but also invest billions of dollars in those ideas on behalf of investment groups and wealthy individuals.

These investors say there is a good reason to ask young people to help them assess new technology: as the investors themselves are aging, the technology ----including social networking websites and mobile gadgets--- is designed for, used by and sometimes built by people half their age.

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And the trend may indicate the rise of something new in the venture capital industry itself. The investors said asking the younger people for advice would have been unheard of in the dot-boom of the 1990s. Then, investors were engaged themselves in the very technology they were financing, ordering books on Amazon, downloading music from Napster and buying and selling on eBay. But now, in the so-called Web 2.0 era, investors’ personal interests have strayed away from new innovation: websites like Myspace intended to connect people, free Internet calling tools like Skype or software for mobile phones.

And people now in junior school and high school have spent their lives with technology. “ This is the first generation for whom the computer is a native language,” said Jim Gauer, managing director of Palomar Ventures, a Los Angeles firm. “ We are all going to have to get re-educated and learn that language.”

Or they can do what Palomar have done: hire a native speaker . Last summer, the firm had an intern, Adam Gottesfeld, 21, who was heading into his senior year at Princeton. Mr Gottesfeld so impressed the firm with his technological knowledge that it has offered him a job as an associate when he graduates.

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