浙江省东阳中学2011-2012学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题(3)

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65. Who is this passage most probably written to? A. People apply for energy supply B. People moving home C. Persons in trouble D. Energy users of Eastern Energy 66. If you have any complaints, what should you do? A. Make a call or send a mail B. Contact Help and Advice Department C. Go the company directly D. Ask for special services 67. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? A. You are not expected to read your own gas or electricity meters B. It is now cheaper to use gas than electricity as a form of heating C. You are not charged for the call when you report supply failure

D. You should inform Eastern Energy of a change of address on arrival at your new home

(C)

The English are famous for manners. The phrase “manners makes the man” was coined by Englishman William of Wykeham back in 1324, but they’re just as important today. Books are written on the subject, advice columns in magazines tell people how to behave, and “finishing schools” still exist to ensure that young girls become young “ladies”.

The best example of English manners is in their mastery of the art of forming a queue. It is a popular joke in England to say, “If only queuing was an Olympic sport, we’d win all hands down.” No one knows exactly how and when it started, but queuing plays a necessary role in the English social make-up. School children are taught to queue for roll-call, meetings and lunch, and English people across the land form orderly queues at shops, banks, cinemas and bus-stops every day. The English obviously aren’t the only people who queue, but they seem to do it better than anyone else. As one visitor said, “I have travelled across Europe, the Middle and Far East and nowhere have I seen the single-file queues which are formed in England.” Perhaps it is best summed up by the humorist George Mikes who said, “An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”

The English are also knowingly polite when it comes to language. Whereas many other nations are more direct in their communication, the English prefer a more indirect form of asking for things. For example, an American who wants to talk to a colleague might say, “Got a minute?”; however an English person will often use a more indirect means might of requesting the chat, “Sorry to bother you, but would you possibly have a minute or so to have a quick chat if you don’t mind, please?”

68. Which of the following contributing to manners of the English are NOT mentioned?

A. Books. B. Magazines. C. Schools. D. Olympics. 69. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Queuing was once an Olympic sport, and the English won it. B. When it comes to being polite, the English are the champions. C. The English wish that queuing would become an Olympic sport. D. Queuing must become an Olympic sport some day.

70. What does George Mikes mean by saying “an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one”?

A. The English are interested in queuing. B. When an English is alone, he has to queue.

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C. The English form a good habit of queuing. D. Not queuing is illegal in England. 71. Which of the following can reflect manners of the English?

A. Wanting to talk to a workmate, he might say “Got a minute?” B. School children often crowd their way onto the bus.

C. “Excuse me, would you possibly tell me how to get to the bank?” D. When he is alone, he can’t form an orderly queue.

(D)

Global warming threatens Antarctica and its tuxedoed inhabitants（穿礼服的居民，指南极的企鹅）, whose numbers have plummeted more than 80% since 1975, a new book says.

Author and journalist Fen Montaigne chronicles(记录) his five months studying Antarctica's penguins and climate change’s impact at a research station with ecologist Bill Fraser. His book says Antarctica’s midwinter temperature has risen 11°F in the past 60 years.

In Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica (Henry Holt, $26), released this week, Montaigne shows the otherworldly beauty of one of Earth’s wildest place, its mysterious quality to explorers such as Sir Ernest Shackleton and the impact of rising temperatures.

Here’s King George Island at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where Montaigne in the three-plus decades of Fraser’s landmark research, this western region of Antarctica has warmed faster than almost any other place on the planet, causing sea ice to disappear and glaciers to retreat. The Adelie penguins depend on sea ice for survival. They use it as a platform from which they feed on krill larvae and silverfish eggs, the supply of which has been reduced because of scant sea ice. Their numbers near Fraser’s research station have plummeted from about 33,000 breeding pairs in 1975 to 5,600.

“It seems that their endless instinct and their natural intelligence can take them only so far,” writes Montaigne, senior editor of the online magazine Yale Environment 360. “Today, in at least one corner of Antarctica, the continent's iconic penguin is starting to falter（衰弱）.”

Montaigne first visited Antarctica in 2004 to cover Fraser’s research for National Geographic, spending a month with him near his base at Palmer Station, one of three U.S. research centers on Antarctica. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation to return for five months beginning in October 2005.

He says the saga of the Adelies is a “cautionary tale” and calls Fraser a “sentinel（哨兵）, working in a part of the planet that most of us will never visit and bearing witness to rapid changes that foreshadow(预示) our own futures.” For more pictures of his time in Antarctica, visit Mon …… 此处隐藏：4993字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……