高二3月月考英语试题 2.doc

2012-2013学年第二学期3月月考 英语科试卷二 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11～25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 ___11___ questions and people have been debating about it for thousands of years. Now scientists believe they have solved this ___12___. Researchers from Sheffield and Warwick Universities in England discovered the answer ___13___. They used a super computer to observe the shell-making process while a new shell was ___14___. Then they found one protein called OC17 that is ___15___ for forming eggshell. This is only found inside a chicken’s body, which is proof that the ___16___ came first. The team was ___17___ looking at how animals and birds make eggshells but suddenly made their surprising ___18___. The big question now is where chickens came from. The ___19___ is from dinosaurs. The research team said eggshells are one of nature’s most ___20___ creations. Professor John Harding from the team told reporters: “Understanding how chickens make eggshells is fascinating in itself, but it can also be ___21___ in designing new materials.” Eggshells are very lightweight but incredibly strong. Even the most up-to-date materials ___22___ by the world’s top engineers cannot produce anything as ___23___ as an eggshell. Professor Harding added that ___24___ eggshells could help to cure bone diseases and design materials for the construction industry. “Nature has found wonderful ways that ___25___ for all kinds of problems in materials science and technology — we can learn a lot from them.” he said. 11. A. strangest B. best C. oldest D. closest 12. A. puzzle B. fact C. history D. opinion 13. A. on purpose B. by chance C. without hesitation D. at work 14. A. breaking B. changing C. disappearing D. forming 15. A. necessary B. easy C. kind D. i