2015安徽安庆五校联盟3月联考英语试题及答案(5)

Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.
    I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how wide the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shipping. I’m not even a big buyer, because I need friends to help me search the Chinese-language site. When I was searching my purchase history on my Chinese teacher’s iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine.
72. Alibaba’s advantage mainly lies in          .
A. its business-to-business service        B. its big size 
C. its not charging small sellers           D. its low price
73. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage?
   A. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites.
   B. Alibaba will continue to develop.
C. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers.
D. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.
74. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Alibaba’s business-to-business service earns more money than retail.  
B. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites.
C. TMall.com provides more profit than Taobao.
D. The author’s Chinese teacher is also an online purchase lover.


第四部分  写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：任务型读写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
New discoveries suggest that trade between Europe and Asia along the Silk Road probably began many centuries earlier than once thought. The findings add a fascinating new page to the epic(史诗) of the Silk Road, which spread far and wide in no time.
The latest and most surprising discovery is pieces of silk found in the hair of an Egyptian mummy(木乃伊) from about l,000 BC, long before regular traffic on the Silk Road and at least one thousand years before silk was previously thought to be used in Egypt. Other researches may extend human activity along this road back even further, perhaps a million years to the moving of human ancestors into eastern Asia.
The official origin of East-West trade along the road is usually placed in the late 2nd century BC when an agent of the Chinese Emperor Wu-di returned from a dangerous secret task across the desert into the remote high country of Central Asia. The agent, Zhang Qian, traveled as far as Afghanistan and brought back knowledge of even more distant lands such as Persia, Syria and a place known as Lijien, perhaps Rome. Historians(历史学家) have called this one of the most important journeys in ancient times. His journey opened the way for what have been thought to be the first indirect touches between the ancient world’s two super-powers, China and Rome. Chinese silk, first traded to Central Asia for war horses, was soon finding its way to the markets of Rome through a network of businessmen.
But the new discoveries show that Chinese silk apparently existed in the West long before the Han emperor started to organize trade over the Silk Road. The research could change thinking about the early history of world trade and provide comprehension into the mystery(谜) of just how and when Europe first realized the glorious culture at the other end of Eurasia.

Title: New Discovery of the Silk Road
Introduction	New findings about the 76. ________ of trade along the Silk Road are spread far and wide in no time.
Discovery	☆ The silk thread found in the hair of an Egyptian mummy from about 1,000 BC makes all feel greatly 77. ________ . ☆ The discovery suggests the trade along the Silk Road may 78. ________ back to an earlier time than once thought.
Zhang Qian’s 79. ________	☆ Being accepted as official 80. ________ of East-West commerce along the Silk Road. ☆ Opening the way for the first 81. ________ touches between the ancient China and Rome. ☆ 82. ________ Chinese silk to Central Asia and Persia. ☆ Making Chinese silk 83. ________ the markets of Rome.
Summary	☆ Show the 84. ________ of Chinese silk in the West long before the Han Dynasty. ☆ Change thinking about the early history of word trade. ☆ Help to solve the puzzle of Europeans’ first realizing 85. ________ culture.

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
感恩，是我们生活中永恒的话题。假设你校正在举行一场有关“感恩”的演讲比赛，请你在“父母、老师、朋友” 中选择一个感恩对象，写一篇英语演讲稿参加比赛。
内容要点如下：
1. 为何感恩；
2. 如何感恩。
注意：
1．词数120左右；
2．演讲稿中不能出现与本人相关的信息；
3．演讲稿的开头与结尾已为你拟好，不计入总词数。
Good afternoon, everyone! it’s a great honor to have the opportunity to be with you today. The topic of my speech is “Thank you, …”