2011高三质量检测二英语试题2011高三质量检测二英语试题.doc

2011年佛山市普通高中高三教学质量检测（） 英 语 2011.本试卷共1页，满分135分．考试时间120分钟． 注意事项：1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考号填写在答题卡上．用2B铅笔将答题卡试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡上，并在答题卡右上角的“试室号”和“座位号”栏填写试室号、座位号，将相应的试室号、座位号信息点涂黑． 2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案答在试题卷上无效． 3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答卷上各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液．不按以上要求作答的答案无效． 4．考试结束后，将答卷和答题卡一并交回． I语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is one of life’s 1 questions and people have been debating about it for thousands of years（oldest）. Now scientists believe they have solved this 2 . Researchers from Sheffield and Warwick Universities in England discovered the answer 3 . They used a super computer to observe the shell-making process(forming) while a new shell was 4 . Then they found one protein(蛋白质) called OC17 that is 5 for forming eggshell. This is only found inside a chicken’s body(chicken), which is proof that the 6 came first. The team was 7 looking at how animals and birds make eggshells but suddenly(originally) made their surprising 8 . The big question(answer) now is where chickens came from. The 9 is from dinosaurs. The research team said eggshells are one of nature’s most 10 creations. Professor John Harding from the team told reporters: “Understanding how chickens make eggshells is interesting in itself, but it can also be 11 in designing(designed) new materials.” Eggshells are very lightweight but unbelievably strong(brilliant). Even the most up-to-date materials 12 by the world’s top engineers cannot produce anything as 13 as an eggshell. Professor Harding added that 14 eggshells could help to cure bone diseases and design materials(studying) for the construction industry. “Nature has found wonderful ways(work) that 15 for all kinds of problems in materials science and technology—we can learn a lot fromthem(work)