【难度】一般
65. How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed? A. By giving descriptions. B. By flowering time order. C. By analyzing causes. D. By making comparisons. 65.【答案】A
【试题解析】浏览短文第2段，会发现作者以描写的方式来展开内容要点的。由此可知，A选项符合题意。因此，正确答案为A选项。 【难度】一般
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. 66.【答案】C
【试题解析】短文最后一段提到“Ben Nevis is the highest of mountains…And it is the single most important ingredient(原料) in Scotland’s best know whisky.”。由此可知，Ben Nevis的特别之处在于它的水纯正，是生产威士忌的最重要原料。在选项中，C选项内容与此相符。因此，正确答案为C选项。 【难度】一般
67. What 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. 67.【答案】B
【试题解析】浏览全文，不难发现短文的主要目的是想向读者展示苏格兰的这座胜地。由此可知，C选项符合题意。因此，正确答案为C选项。 【难度】一般
D
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians（基督教徒）ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil（邪恶的）.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 out of 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 （地狱）.What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil
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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 interesting 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.” What 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. 【考点】社会生活类——夹叙夹议
【文章大意】西红柿开始被人类食用是经历了一个非常复杂的过程，短文主要介绍的西红柿从最初的被认为是邪恶的水果到被接受的过程。
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 68.【答案】D
【试题解析】根据短文第1段内容可知，西红柿被被教徒们认为是邪恶的水果，而被御之门外。由此可知，D选项内容与文意相符。因此，正确答案为D选项。 【难度】一般
69. What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3 ? A The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down B There was little progress 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 69.【答案】C
【试题解析】短文第3段提到“Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s…”。由此结合语境可知，西红柿在大部分西方国家仍然遭受拒绝。C选项内容与此相符。因此，正确答案为C选项。 【难度】一般
70. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly ? A To make himself a hero
B To remove people’s fear of the tomato C To speed up the popularity of the tomato
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D To persuade people to buy products from his factory 70.【答案】B
【试题解析】根据短文最后一段内容可知，Robert Johnson当众吃西红柿的主要原因在于他想让人们摆脱对西红柿的恐惧。因此，正确答案为B选项。 【难度】容易
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 71.【答案】C
【试题解析】浏览全文，短文主要介绍的是人们对于西红柿的态度的变化，从不接受到最后接收。由此可知，C选项符合文意。因此，正确答案为C选项。 【难度】一般
E
In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren “, John Keynes, economist, rewrote that human needs fall into two classes: absolute needs ,which are indeed what other have , and relative needs ,which make us feel superior to our fellows. He thought although relative needs may indeed be insatiable (无止境的) this is not true of absolute
Keynes was surely correct that only a small part of total spending id decided by the super- iority He was greatly mistaken, however, in seeing this derive as the only source of demands
Decisions to spend are also driven by ideas of quality which can influence the den almost all goods, including even basic goods like food. When a couple goes out for an 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 speed 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 improvements 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 negation demands, Keynes actually reduced such demands. However, the desire for higher quality has natural limits. 【考点】议论文
【文章大意】经济学家约翰·凯恩斯把人类的需求分为两类：绝对需求和相对需求。相对需求可能确实是无止境的。短文举出了几个具体的实例来阐述这一观点。
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72. According to the passage, John Keynes Believed that_______. A. desire is the root of both absolute and relative needs B. absolute needs come from our sense of superiority C. relative needs alone lead to insatiable demands D. absolute needs are stronger than relative needs 72.【答案】C
【试题解析】短文第段提到“He thought although relative needs may indeed be insatiable (无止境的) this is not true of absolute”。由此可知，C选项内容与此相符。因此，正确答案为C选项。 【难度】一般
73. What do we know about the couple 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. 73.【答案】D
【试题解析】短文第3段提到“The goal is to share a special meal that stands out from other meals.”。由此可知，这对夫妇出去就餐的只是改善一下。在四个选项中，D选项内容与此相符。因此，正确答案为D选项。 【难度】一般
74.What does the underlined word “escalation” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A. Understanding. B. Increase C. Difference D. Study 74.【答案】B
【试题解析】根据短文，人们对于质量的需要呈上升的趋势，由此可推测划线词的词义与B选项的词义相符。因此，正确答案为B选项。 【难度】一般
75. The author of the passage that ______. A. absolute needs have no limits B. demands for quality are not insatiable C. human desires influence ideas of quality D. relative needs decide most of our spending 75.【答案】A
【试题解析】浏览全文，短文主要探讨的是绝对需要无止境，A选项与此相符。因此，正确答案为A选项。 【难度】一般
四、写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
以下标有题号的每一行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下列情况改正；
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此行多一个词，把多余的词用斜线（\\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。 此行缺一个词，在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。 此行错一个词，在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。 注意：请在答题卡上作答。 Dear Grandpa,
How are you those days? I have been missing you very 76._________ much after I went to college a year ago. Whenever I think of 77._________ the old days, I feel very happily. I still remember when I 78._________ was child, you always held me in your arms and told me stories 79._________ till I fall asleep. We often went to the fields to enjoy the pleasant 80._________ view there. You told me the name of different plants and their 81._________ characteristics. Gradually, I became interesting in biology 82._________ and chose to learn biology when I entered into the college. Now 83.________ my friend Ann, together with me, are going to do field study 84.________ and the findings will be use as materials for our research. Since 85.________ we’ll do the study in our hometown, I hope to see you by then. Yours, Daisy 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
某国际网站提供个人闲置物品交换服务。现在，你打算通过该网站将自己的一件闲置物品与他人交换（exchange）。请你用英文在该网站上发帖，发布物品交换信息。内容应包括：
·你将拿出什么物品进行交换 ·具体介绍该物品 ·你希望换回什么物品 ·请愿意交换的朋友给你留言 注意：
（1）词数100左右； （2）格式不限；
（3）文中不得使用考生真实姓名和学校名称。 【考点】问题解决型—提纲作文
【写作指导】在试题材料中给出了四方面的内容要点，考生需要在此基础上进行适当地发挥。试题虽然已经对写作内容进行了界定，但是仍然具有一定的开放性，给考生留有一定的自由发挥空间。写作时，应该以一般现在时为中心时态，内容充实，积极健康，应尽可能多运用学过而且熟练的词汇、短语和句型，尽量变换句式，长短句交错使用，并且恰当地穿插一些过渡性词语，以使短文上下连贯，行文紧凑，如，and, or, but, then, in a word, after all, neither…nor…, so… that…, in other words等。考生在有把握的情况下，才可以使用较高级的词汇、短语或者句
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2012年英语高考试题答案及解析-重庆
