广东省龙川一中2011-2012年度高二3月月考英语试题.docVIP

第一部分 听力理解（共15题，每题1分，满分15分） 第二部分 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。 We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day. This is so 16 that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one 17 understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as 18 as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant 19 . We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they 20 do. As a matter of fact, they 21 to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious(神秘的) way of knowing the 22 . Their sense of time does not 23 information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”. This 24 may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also 25 , including man, have this “inner clock” which 26 the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious 27 . Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food. In the past, this did not really 28 because people lived in natural condition. In the 29 world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very 30 , then, to know more about the “inner clock”. Such things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves. 16. A. familiar B. strange C. similar D. special 17. A. partly B. personally C. really D. willingly 18. A. complex B. simple C. mature D. meaningful 19. A. quietness B. darkness C. loneliness D. sadness 20. A. finally B. completely C. physically D. normally 21. A. refused B. decide