A. It does good to the joints of old people. B. It does not increase the heart rate. C. It includes learning new actions. D. It can be done in groups.
D
Ed Viesturs grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where the tallest thing on the horizon was the water tower. But on Thursday, Viesturs became the only American to climb to the top of the world’s 14 highest mountains.
His last hike was up Mount Annapurna, in Asia’s snow-capped Himalayas. At 26,545 feet, its peak is the 10th highest in the world. It is the mountain that inspired hie to start climbing.
“It tends to be the trickiest, the most dangerous,” said Viesturs. “ There’s no simple way to climb it. There are threatening avalanches(雪崩) and ice falls that protect the mountain.”
In high school, Viesturs read French climber Maurice Herzog’s tale of climbing the icy Annapurna. Herzog’s story was of frostbite(冻伤) and difficulty and near-death experiences. Viesturs was hooked right away. Viesturs got his start on Washington’s Mount Rainier in 1977, guiding hikes in the summer. Fifteen years ago, he set out to walk up to the world’s highest peaks. Finally, he’s done.
The pioneering climber talks about mountains as if they were living creatures that should be treated with respect. “You have to use all of your senses, all of your abilities to see if the mountain will let you climb it, ” said Viesturs. “ If we have the patience and the respect, and if we’re here at the right time, under the right circumstances, they allow us to go up, and allow us to come down.”
What’s next for a man who can’t stop climbing? “I’m going to hug my wife and kids and kind of kick back and enjoy the summer,” says Viesturs. But for a man who’s climbed the world’s 14 tallest mountains, he will probably soon set off on yet another adventure.
32. What record has Ed Viesturs set?
A. He has succeeded in climbing to the world’s 14th highest mountain. B. He has been to the top of the world’s 14 highest mountains. C. He has become the first to climb the height of 26,545 feet.
D. He has become the first man to climb to the top of 14 highest mountains in the
world.
33. The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by “______”. A. frightened B. discouraged C. interested D. upset 34. The author used Viesturs’ words in Paragraph 6 to support a view that ____. A. mountain climbing is a dangerous sport
B. mountain should be regarded as living creatures
C. mountain climbing needs more skills than physical energy D. those who like mountain climbing won’t stop climbing 35. What’s the next probable plan of Viesturs?
A. Stopping climbing and staying with his family.
B. Climbing to the top of the world’s 14 tallest mountains again. C. Climbing another one of the highest mountains. D. Writing down the experiences about his adventure.
第二节阅读七选五（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
As warming continues，scientists warn the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more reduced，with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life.
36 One is the simple fact that as water gets warmer，it can hold less dissolved(溶解的)oxygen. The other reason is less obvious. The entire ocean gets its oxygen from the surface—either from the atmosphere，or from photosynthesizing algae floating at the top of the sea. 37 Global warming is expected to reduce the mixing of the ocean by making surface seawater lighter. That's because in a warmer world we can expect more rainfall and more melting(融化)of glaciers，icebergs，and ice sheets. 38 The extra heat from the warming atmosphere will also make surface water expand and thus make it lighter still. 39 Instead，more of the oxygen will remain near the surface，where it will be used up by oxygen-breathing organisms.
A low-oxygen ocean may become an inescapable feature of our planet. A team of Danish researchers wondered how long oxygen levels would drop if we could somehow reduce our carbon dioxide emissions to zero by 2100.They determined that over the next few thousand years oxygen levels would continue to fall，until they declined by 30 percent. The oxygen would slowly return to the oceans，but even 100，000 years from now they will not have fully recovered. 40 A．It's not known why the oxygen level of oceans has reduced. B．Scientists point to two reasons to expect a drop in ocean oxygen.
C．Fresh water's inpouring will make the water at the ocean's surface lighter. D．The oxygen then spreads to the deep ocean as the surface water slowly sinks.
E．Global warming has caused the reduction of the oxygen content of oceans
worldwide.
F．The light surface water will be less likely to sink so the deep ocean will get less
oxygen. G．If they are right，we have every reason to worry about the major effect it has on sea life.
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文各题所给的四个选项（A、 B、 C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor cars 41a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, 42 computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of 43seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts(吹嘘) of 44 precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but 45 a cost. When we lose or 46 half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the
uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag(时差). Our bodies feel that they have been 47 behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at 48 results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit(传播) harmful 49 into our brains, a consequence we do not like to 50 about. However, how do we 51 the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it 52to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a 53 . Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen 54 to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into 55 world.
There was a time 56 some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation (耕作) of the 57 or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking (多重任务) there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a 58of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor 59 . Modern machinery has 60people from that primitive existence.
41 A get B cover C make D fly 42 A while B thus C when D as 43 A time B product C speed D transportation 44 A wasting B saving C losing D spending 45 A in B on C with D at 46 A gain B earn C drop D miss 47 A come B forgotten C left D felt 48 A airplanes B computers C sea D cars 49 A radiation辐射 B prevention C combination D destruction 50 A wish B think C tell D carry 51 A control B handle C do D deal 52 A good B difficult C uncomfortable D easy 53 A second B day C year D time 54 A quietly B meaningfully C enthusiastically D actively 55 A all B another C else D other 56 A what B which C where D when 57 A surface B water C land D island 58 A view B way C pathway D point 59 A faced B expressed C charged D based 60 A kept B remained C cleared D freed 第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
With mobile phones, these problems increase. Many times you 61 ________________ (talk) with a friend, only for your friend to interrupt the conversation to answer a call. 62 some reason, a typical mobile phone call is nearly always give greater 63 (important) than a face-to-face
conversation. Yet, once again, most mobile phone calls are about rather small matters. When 64 (ask) later what the call was about, your friend always answers, “Oh, nothing really”. If the call was really about ‘nothing’, then why was it so important as to interrupt your conversation and waste your precious time.
Using the mobile phone for text messages is the 65 (bad) . In one study, girls average 80 text messages 66 day, and boys average 30. What do people talk about in text messages? While these messages always seem important at the time, most people cannot really remember 67 the next day.
Phones and text message focus on building relationships with many people. However , these relationships are often quite 68 (stability) . Many teenagers say that 69 they have a lot of friends, they really have no best friend. Meanwhile, real relationships are often sacrificed, 70 whatever personal peace one has is destroyed whenever the mobile phone rings. 第四部分：写作（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 单句改错（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
71. They also make TV accessible to people who live far way from cities and satellite dishes can often be seen distributing throughout the countryside and remote areas. 72. The project has benefited from the country in many aspects.
73. There is something important about being together and sharing life what cannot be found over a telephone wire.
74. Not only has aspirin proved vital for reducing fever and helping stop pain, but there are also other things that aspirin can help.
75. In 1999, aspirin was over 100 years old, and yet there had been more discoveries about how it can help increase the length of people’s lives.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是李红，最近你校学生会向即将毕业的高三学生征集旧书、二手物品，由学生会组织爱心义卖活动以资助本校经济困难的学生。请根据下面的提示，为校
报英语角写一篇活动报道。
内容包括：1. 活动时间和地点；
2. 活动过程；
3. 你对活动的感悟。
注意： 1. 词数120左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇：义卖 charity sale
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