2012高考英語真題及答案(重慶卷)word版
There is no better way to enjoy Scottish traditions than going fishing and tasting a little whisky(威士忌)at a quiet place like the Inverlochy Castle. When Queen Victoria visited the in 1873 she wrote in her diary, “I never saw a lovelier spot ,” And she didn’t even go fishing.
Scotland is not easily defined. In certain moments, this quiet land of lakes and grass mountains changes before your very eyes. When evening gently sweeps the hillside into orange ,the rivers, teeming with fish, can turn into streams of gold . As you settle down with just a people and a basket on the bank of River Orchy, near the Inverlochy castle , any frustration will float away as gently as the circling water. It’s just you and purple , pink ,white flowers, a perfect harmony . If you are a new comer to fishing, Learning the basics form a fishing leave you with a lifetime’s fun. Four many, fishing is more than a sport; it is an art
Scotland offers interesting place where you can rest after a long day’s fishing. Set wild mountain and hidden behind woodland , the beautiful Inverlochy Castle Hotel below the a perfect place to see the beauty of Scotland’s mountains . Ben Nevis is the highest of mountains , and reaching its 1342-metre top is a challenge . But it’s not just what goes matters; what comes down is unique . More than 900 metres high, on the mountain’s north an all-important source of pure water. Its name comes form the Gaelic language “usqueb “water of life”; And it is the single most important ingredient(原料) in scotland’s best know whisky.
64.The story of Queen Victoria is to show that _____.
queen is rich in tour experience
Castle is a good place to go in Scotland
g whisky is better than going fishing
D.1873 is a special year for the queen
65.How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?
A.By giving descriptions.
B.By follweing time order.
C.By analyzing causes.
D.By making comparisons.
66.What is Ben Nevis special for?
A.The Inverlochy Castle Hotel.
B.The beauty of its surroundings.
C.The water from the mountain.
D.The challenge up to its top.
67.Waht is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To introduce Scottish traditions to tourists.
B.To show the attractions of Scotland to readers.
C.To explore geographical characteristics of Scotland.
D
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪惡的).So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans.
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake,a plant that was the to have come from Hell (地獄).What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”.
But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson,and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820,people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead.”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted.”I’ll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted. But he sur and,according to a local story,set up a tomato-canning factory.
68. The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ______.
A it made Christive evil
B it was the apple of Eden
C it came from a forbidden land
D it was religiously unacceptable
69. What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3 ?
A The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
B There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
C The tomato was still refused in most western countries
D Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato
70. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly ?
A To manke imself a hero
B To remove people’s fear of the tomaoto
C To speed up the popularityt of the tomato
D To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory
71. What is the main purpose of the passage ?
A To challenge people’s fixed concept of the tomato
B To give an explanation to people’s dislike of the tomato
C To present the change of people’s attitudes to the tomato
D To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence
E
In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren “, John Keynes, acconmist, ewrote that human needs fall into two classes: absolute needs ,which are indupe what other have , and relative needs ,which make us feel superior to our fellows He thought alough relative needs may indeed be insatible (無止境的) this isnottrue ofabsolute
Keynes wans surely correct that only a small part of total spending id decided by the super iority He was gretly mistaken ,however ,in seeting this desive as the only source of demands
Decisions to spend are also driven by ideas of quality which can influnce the den almost all goods, including even basic goods like food. When a couple goes out for an anm dinner,for example,the thought of feeling superior to others probably never comes to them. The goal is to share a special meal that stands out from other meals.
There are no obvious limits to the escalation of demand for quality.For example ,porsche famous car producer,has a model which was considered perhaps the best sport car on the mark Priced at over $120,000,it handles perfectly well and has great speen acceleration.But in 200 the producer introduced some changes which made the model slightly better in handling acceleration.People who really care about cars find these small improvemenmts exciting.To them,however,they must pay almost four times the price.
By placing the desire to be superior to other at the heart of his description of nisation demands,Keynes actually reduced such demands.However,the desire for higher quality has natural limits.
72.According to the passage,John Keynes Believed that_______.
is the root of both absolute and relative needs
te needs come from our sense of superiority
ve needs alone lead to insatiable demands
te needs are stronger than relative needs
73.What do we know about the couble in Paragraph 3?
A.They want to show their superiority
B.They find specialty important to meals
C.Their demands for food are not easily satisfied.
D.Their choice of dinner is related to ideas of quality.
74.What does the underlined word “escalation”in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.Understanding.
B.Increase
C.Difference
D.Study
75.The author of the passage that ______.
A. absolute needs have no limits
B. demands for quality are not insatiable
C. human desires influsnce ideas of quality
D. relative needs decide most of our spending
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