江苏省泰兴市第三高级中学2014届高三英语 限时训练3.docVIP

限时训练3第一部分 完形填空Almost everyone around us uses a phone. Phones provide a simple and efficient means to conduct work or 1 social arrangements from day to day.Several times in course of a work day, you may be 2 by phone with colleagues, students, lab assistants, secretaries or others on 3 matters. If you want an appointment with your department head, you would 4 call him and arrange a time with him. If you were unable to 5 your appointment, or if you found you had to be late for it, you would phone and change the 6 . In this way, no one 7 time waiting for someone who is not coming. If you want to buy something, you would “let your 8 do the walking”. That is, you call 9 to make sure the store has what you need. If it is an expensive item, you might call several stores to 10 prices. If you want to take a train or plane, after finding out 11 and prices, you can call to make a 12 ; if you want to shop for clothes after work, you might call to ask how late the store is open 13 you travel all way there.Phones are easily 14 . In streets, you can see public phones in which you 15 coins to make a call. Phones have 16 answering services; if you are not at home or in the office, or don’t wish to be 17 , you switch on a machine, which will answer the call for you. A pre-recorded 18 will say to the caller, “I’m 19 , I’m not in at the moment. Please leave your name and number and I will call you back as 20 as possible.” It’s more efficient to leave one’s name and number than to waste their time calling again and again.第二部分 阅读理解AThere was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon.One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.?How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are enterin