【名师解析】广东省实验中学2012-2013学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题 Word版含解析.docVIP

2012—2013学年（下）高二级第二学段模块考试 英语 I. 听力 ( 每空1分，共10分) 听录音，将所听到的内容填入题号为1-10的空格处。听录音前,你将有10秒钟的阅题时间。录音播放两遍。California has a wine history which stretches back to the 17 century when missionaries bought European wines imported by the conquistadors from Latin America. Today it’s Californian wine makers, some of (1)_________________________ in the world, constantly experimenting to push the boundaries of the quality ever higher. The main reason that California can make great wine at all is (2)_______________________: it has more than enough sunshine to (3)________________________, but the cool fogs sucked in from the long pacific coast line temper all that heat to produce ideal conditions for building complexity of grapes and making subtle, (4)___________________ wines. The best wines tend to come from near the coast, from areas such as Napa and Sonoma, just north of the San Francisco. But the so-called central coast, north of Los Angeles, also pacific cool, is growing in stature and (5)____________________________. In Napa, they make dense fruit-driven wines. The best of them, Cabernet Sauvignon, high in both (6)_____________________________, and undoubtedly world-class. West across the mountains, Sonoma County has a more diverse array of wines including fine Zinfandel in Drycrik and Pinot Noirs from the cooler Russian river valleys and Sonoma coast. There are (7)_____________________ within California that boast of arts or arrays of grape varieties, but if there is one grape that California can call its own, it’s Zinfandel. It may have originated in Croatia, and be the same as the southern italic Cupertino, but there’s no doubt that in current incarnation, it is California through and through. Zinfandel (8)____________________________ in many different ways with its extremes being a popular sweetish rosy style and a white Zinfandel at one on the scale, a powerful meaty-red with 16-percent or more about the alcohol of the other. But the best red versions (9)_________________