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1、阶段评估检测（八） 选修 8 (120 分钟135 分) . 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45 分 ) 第一节完形填空 (共 15 小题；每小题2 分, 满分 30 分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意然后从115各题所给的A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳 选项。 Today is Friday, the 29th of June. Paul told me something exciting this morning: his father helped the police catch a 1 yesterday! When Paul was waiting for the 2 with h
2、is father across the river, he heard some people arguing 3 . He looked around and saw two women and a big man 4 each other. When Pauls father asked what was going on, one of the women said they were tourists and three young men 5 her friend s purse when they were buying postcards in a bookstore. The
3、 other two had run away, but they 6 the big man closely. When the ferry arrived, the big man hurried onto the ferry and the two tourists went 7 after him. Paul was angry. He wanted to go up and help the two women. But his father said he didnt want to take that ferry. Paul felt rather 8 because he th
4、ought his father was afraid of the big man and unwilling to help others! What Paul saw next changed the 9 of his father. His father hurried to a nearby ice-cream store and used their phone to 10 110. He reported the robbery to the police and gave some 11 details about the robber, the tourists and th
5、e ferry. When they 12 off the next ferry, Paul saw three 13 around the big guy in handcuffs(手铐 ). . . . While Paul was telling me the story, he seemed very 14 . He said he had a better understanding of his father. Although he looked 15 , he was a real hero. 1. A. robber B. theft C. tourist D. murder
6、er 2. A. bus B. ferry C. ship D. boat 3. A. kindly B. angrily C. closely D. loudly 4. A. shouting at B. fighting against C. debating with D. talking with 5. A. noticed B. stole C. seized D. cut 6. A. caught B. sought C. followed D. surveyed 7. A. abroad B. back C. home D. aboard 8. A. angrier B. s a
7、dder C. tougher D. tenser 9. A. feeling B. idea C. action D. belief 10. A. call B. telephone C. ring D. dial 11. A. useful B. careful C . fearful D. hopeful 12. A. turned B. set C. got D. took 13. A. women B. fellows C. policemen D. tourists 14. A. delighted B. proud C. confident D. reliable 15. A.
8、outstanding B. great C. scared D. ordinary 第二节语法填空 (共 10 小题；每小题1. 5 分，满分 15 分) 阅读下面短文， 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的 词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 Although many high school dropouts leave school permanently, some dropouts later reenter school. 16 (approximate) 10 percent of the sophomores 17 dropped out betwe
9、en 1980 and 1982 returned to school by 18 fall of 1982. Generally, high school reentrants differ 19 typical dropouts in several school and student characteristics. Background attributes and test score performance 20 (associate) with low dropout rates tend to be related to higher-than-average reentry
10、 rates. For example, reentry rates among 1980 sophomore dropouts were about one-fifth 21 (high) in the Northeast and North Central regions than in the South or West. Among whites, reentry rates in the West were one-third lower than in other regions. 22 blacks, reentry rates in the Northeast (14 perc
11、ent) 23 (be) substantially higher than those in the South (6 percent). Hispanic dropouts in the North Central region were three times 24 likely to return to school as those in the Northeast or West. Hispanics in the South were twice as likely to reenter as 25 in the Northwest or West. . 阅读（共两节，满分50
12、分） 第一节阅读理解 (共 20 小题 ; 每小题 2 分, 满分 40 分) （ A） Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins. People in California love to talk about “ zero-emissions vehicles ”, but people in California seem to be clueless about where ele
13、ctricity comes from. Power plants mostly use fire to make it. Aside from the new folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators. Generators are fueled by something usually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind
14、 farms and geothermal plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something. In other words, those “zero-emissions” cars are likely coal-burning cars. It s just because the coal is burned somewhere else that it looks clean. It is not. Its as if the California Greens are covering
15、their eyes “ If I can t see it, it s not happening. ” Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of
16、wasted heat at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc. . A gallon of gas may propel your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas won t get you nearly as far so electric cars burn more fuel than gas-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from nukes, or geothermal, or hydro, or solar, or wind, then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical, and eco
