2013重庆高考英语试题【word真题试卷】(5)

Wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads(泊油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.
64.What might explain why transport wheels didn’t become popular for some time?
       A.Few knew how to use transport wheels.
       B.Humans carried farming tools just as well.
       C. Animals were a good means of transport.
       D. The existence of transport wheels was not known.
65. What do we know about road design from the passage?
       A. It was easier than wheel design.
B. It improved after big changes in vehicle design.
C. It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles.
D. It provided conditions for wheel design to develop.
66. How is the last paragraph mainly developed?
A. By giving examples.
B. By making comparisons.
C. By following time order.
D. By making classifications.
67.What is the passage mainly about?
       A.The beginning of road deaign.
       B.The development of transport wheels.
       C.The history of public transport.
       D.The invention of fast-moving vehicles.
D

       Not all bodies of wather are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Weatern civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.
       “Strm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind’s earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.
       When the wind is from the west
       All the waves that cannot test
              To the east must thunder on
              Where the bright tree of the sun
       Is rooted in the osean’s breast.
As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull. It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly. It makes all kinds of noise-it is forever thundering,boiling, crashing,and whistling.
       It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath-perhaps not so noticeably out in mid –ocean,but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach. It mimics(模仿)nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature. It is filled with symbiotic existences,too; unimaginable quantities of creatures,little and large alike,mix within its depths in a kind of oceanic harmony, giving to the waters a feeling of heartbeat, a kind of sub-ocean vitality. And it has a psychology. It has personalities: sometimes peaceful and pleasant, on rare occasions rough and wild; always it is strong and striking.
68.Unlike real inland seas, the Atlantic Ocean is __________.
       A.always energetic
       B.lacking in liveliness
       C.shaped like a square
       D.favored by ancient poets
69.What is the purpose of using the poem”Storm at Sea” in the passage?
       A.To describe the movement of the waves.
       B.To show the strength of the storm.
       C.To represent the power of the ocean.
       D.To prove the vastness of the sea.
70.What does the underlined word”symbiotic” mean?
       A.Living together.
       B.Growing fast.
       C.Moving harmoniously.
       D.Breathing peacefully.
71.In the last paragraph, the Atlantic is compared to __________.
       A. a beautiful and poetic place
       B.a flesh and blood person
       C.a wonderful world
       D.a lovely animal
E

       It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.
Bill Bryson, for ezample, concludes that,as the English weather is not at all exciting,the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that”To an outsider,the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.
       Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says,because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena.”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.