重庆市重庆一中2014届高三上学期期中考试英语试题试卷(4)

Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed. “Most of what we know about species and ecosystems is not written down anywhere, it’s only in people’s heads,” he said. “We are seeing in front of our eyes the loss of the human knowledge base.”
Harrison was one of a team of linguists who carried out the study. The researchers traveled to Australia this year to study native languages, some of the most endangered. According to Harrison, in Australia, they were heartened to see a woman in her 80s who was one of the only three remaining speakers of the Yawuru language passing on her knowledge to schoolchildren. He said such inter-generational exchanges were the only way native languages could survive. “The children had elected to take this course, no one forced them,” he said. “When we asked them why they were learning it, they said,‘This is a dying language, we need to learn it’.” Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the Amurdag language, which had previously been thought extinct. www.ks5u.com
The researchers said all five of the hot spots identified were areas that had been successfully colonized and where a dominant language such as Spanish or English was threatening native tongues.
64. What does this text mainly talk about?
  A. A study on native languages endangered.
  B. The knowledge of native languages.
  C. People’s efforts in saving native languages.
  D. Harrison and his study on languages.
65.The underlined word“vanishing”in the second paragraph can be best replaced by
           .
  A. developing B. changing C. increasing D. disappearing
66. According to Harrison, language extinction         .
  A. causes the researchers lots of worries
  B. speeds up the pace of species extinction
  C. threatens the existing of Spanish and English
  D. brings about a loss of knowledge about the environment
67. Which of the following can be described as good news?
  A. Native languages became less endangered in Australia.
  B. A man was found with knowledge of the Amurdag language.
  C. Researchers were well received by native people in Australia.
  D. Many schoolchildren showed interest in the Yawuru language.

D
The energy crisis has made people aware of how the careless use of the earth’s energy has brought the whole world to the edge of disaster. The over-development of motor transport, with its increase of more cars, more traveling, has contributed to the near-destruction of our cities and the pollution not only of local air but also of the earth’s atmosphere.
Our present situation is unlike natural disasters of the past. Worldwide energy use has brought us to a state where long-range planning is vital. What we need is not a continuation of our present serious state, which endangers the future of our country, our children, and our earth, but a movement forward in order to work rapidly and effectively on planetary problems. www.ks5u.com
This country has been failing back under the continuing exposures of loss of morality and the revelation(揭露) that lawbreaking has reached into the highest place in the land. There is a strong demand for morality to turn for the better and for some devotion that is vast enough and yet personal enough to enlist the devotion of all. In the past it has been only in a way in defense of their own country and their own benefits that people have been able to devote themselves wholeheartedly.
This is the first time that we have been asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in cooperation with all the other people of this planet, who share with us the same endangered air and the same endangered oceans. There is a common need to reassess our present course, to change that course and to employ new methods through which the world can survive. This is a priceless opportunity.
To grasp it, we need a widespread understanding of nature if the crisis we and the world are facing is no passing inconvenience, no byproduct of the ambitions of the oil-producing countries, no environmentalists’ only fears, no byproduct of any present system of government. What we face is the result of the invention of the last four hundred years. What we need is a transformed life style. This new life style can flow directly from science and technology, but its acceptance depends on a sincere devotion to finding a higher quality of life for the world’s children and future generation.
68. Which of the following has nearly destroyed our cities?
  A. The loss of beliefs and ideas. B. More of law-breaking.
C. Natural disasters in many areas. D. The rapid growth of motors.
69. By comparing past problems with present ones, the author draws our attention to the
           .
  A. seriousness of this crisis B. ineffectiveness of laws
C. similarity of the past to the present D. hopelessness of the situation
70. Which of the following is used as an example to show the loss of morality?
  A. Disregard for law. B. Lack of devotion.
C. Lack of understanding. D. Destruction of cities.
71. The author wrote the passage in order to         .
  A. make a recommendation for a transformed life style
  B. limit ambitions of the people of the whole world
  C. demand devotion to nature and future generation
  D. encourage awareness of the decline of morality
E
Among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.