齐鲁教科研协作体山东省、湖北省部分重点中学20xx届高三下学期高考冲刺模拟二英语试题word版含答案

齐鲁教科研协作体山东省、湖北省部分重点中学20xx届高三下学期高考冲刺模拟二英语试题word版含答案内容摘要：

ll Street emerged. It was when industrial manufacturing started properly. It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy functioned were broken and remade. What that list says is that it really matters how old you were when that transformation happened. If you were born in the late 1840’s, you missed it. You were too young to take advantage of that moment. If you were born in the 1820’s, you were too old: your mindset was shaped by the preCivil War pattern. But there is a particular, narrow nineyear window that was just perfect for seeing the potential that the future held. All of the 14 men and women on that list had vision and talent. But they also were given an extraordinary opportunity. 28. What does the author think of the fact that 14 of the 75 richest people were born in USA? A. Surprising. B. Exciting. C. Unfair. D. Proud. 29. What does the author think leads to the great wealth of the richest people in the USA? A. Their strong hardwork. B. Their talented mindset. C. The industrial tradition. D. The economic transformation. 30. What does the author think is the most important to the 14 richest Americans in the last paragraph? A. Talent. B. Vision. C. Opportunity. D. Potential. 31. What is right about the 14 Americanborn richest people on the list? A. They were chosen throughout USA. B. They were born from 1831 to 1840. C. They were shaped by the Civil war. D. They were interesting and wealthy. D About 100 years ago the horsemanure(马粪 ) crisis drove most observers to despair. 19thcentury cities depended on horses for daily functioning. In New York in 1900, 100,000 horses were used in all transport, and in delivering the goods needed by the growing population. The problem was that all these horses produced huge amounts of manure. A horse on average produces 1535 pounds of manure per day. Consequently, the streets of 19thcentury cities were covered by horse manure. This, in turn, attracted huge numbers of flies, and the dried manure was blown everywhere. Every day million pounds of horse manure were produced and had to be swept up and disposed of. In 1898 the first international urbanplanning conference was held in New York. It was abandoned after three days, instead of the scheduled ten, because nobody could see any solution to the growing crisis by urban horses and their output. The problem did seem tough. The larger and richer that cities became, the more horses they needed. The more horses, the more manure. In 1894, a writer estimated that in 50 years every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure. Moreover, all these horses had to be stabled, which used up everlarger areas of increasingly valuable land. And as the number of horses grew, evermore land had to be devoted to producing hay to feed them (rather than producing food for people), and this had to be brought into cities and distributed— by horsedrawn vehicles. It seemed that urban civilization was doomed. Of course, urban civilization was not buried in manure. Because millions of horses were replaced by motor vehicles! This was possible because of cleverness of inventors and entrepreneurs such as Gottlieb Daimler and Henry Ford, and a system that gave them the freedom to put their ideas into practice. Even more important, however, was the existence of the price mechanism. When the price of horsedrawn transport rose steadily with the increasing cost of feeding and housing horses, strong incentives(动机 ) were created for people to find alternatives. 32. How would you feel if you were walking on the New York street of 1900? A. Sick. B. Lighthearted. C. Excited. D. Satisfied. 33. What was the problem that New York faced one hundred years ago? A. Heavy traffic. B. Narrow streets. C. Little valuable land. D. Horse manure. 34. What was the probable target of the first international urbanplanning conference in 1898? A. To feed more horses. B. To find a solution to horse manure. C. To reduce public buses. D. To produce motor vehicles. 35. What was the most important factor in solving the urban civilization problem of New York? A. Entrepreneurs’ freedom. B. People’s incentives. C. Price mechanism. D. Government’s appeal. 第二节（共 5小题；每小题 2分，满分 10 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。 Snowblind it39。 s a frightening word. Thankfully, it’s a condition that is totally preventable. Snow blindness is a painful, temporary loss of vision due to overexposure to the sun39。 s UV rays. Essentially, snow blindness is caused by a sunburned eye.。