第1页:sectionⅠ Use of English 第2页:sectionⅡ Reading Comprehension--Part A 第3页:sectionⅡ Reading Comprehension--Part B 第4页:sectionⅡ Reading Comprehension--Part C 第5页:sectionⅢ Writing--Part A 第6页:sectionⅢ Writing--Part B 第7页:全真模拟试题三解析

　　Directions:

　　Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)

　　Botany（植物学）, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness 1 which humans had anything 2 the vaguest of insights. It is 3 to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from 4 we can observe of pre-industrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. This is 5 . Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the 6 of peoples, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and great many other 7 . Tribes living today in the jungles of the Amazon recognize 8 hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. To them botany, 9 , has no name and is probably nor even recognized as a special branch of “knowledge” at all.

　　10 , the more industrialized we become the 11 away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less 12 our knowledge of botany grows. Yet everyone 13 unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will 14 to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid. When our Neolithic（新石器时代的） ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10 000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer 15 the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was 16 . Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: cultivated crops. 17 , humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew 18 —and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and 19 with plants in the wild would begin to 20 .

　　1. ［A］ into ［B］ about［C］ of［D］to

　　2. ［A］ more than ［B］ rather than ［C］ less than ［D］other than

　　3. ［A］ improbable ［B］ unlikely ［C］ implausible［D］impossible

　　4. ［A］ that ［B］ which ［C］ what ［D］ how

　　5. ［A］ logical ［B］ rational ［C］ invalid ［D］ consistent

　　6. ［A］ advantage ［B］ benefit ［C］ welfare ［D］ profit

　　7. ［A］ necessities ［B］ fundamentals ［C］ objectives［D］purposes

　　8. ［A］ primarily ［B］ literally ［C］ accurately［D］sufficiently

　　9. ［A］ as such ［B］ for instance ［C］ so far ［D］ in itself

　　10. ［A］ Amazingly ［B］ Accordingly ［C］ Unfortunately ［D］ Conversely

　　11. ［A］ distant ［B］ remote ［C］ further ［D］ farther

　　12. ［A］ distinct ［B］ conspicuous ［C］ diverse ［D］ exhaustive

　　13. ［A］ gets ［B］ comes ［C］ embarks ［D］ takes

　　14. ［A］ fail ［B］ strive ［C］ manage［D］endeavor

　　15. ［A］ productivity ［B］ production ［C］ harvest ［D］ yields

　　16. ［A］ developed ［B］ taken ［C］ undertaken ［D］ advanced

　　17. ［A］ Once for all ［B］ Off and on ［C］ Sooner or later［D］From then on

　　18. ［A］ wild ［B］ rough ［C］ domesticated［D］coarse

　　19. ［A］ conception ［B］ coincidence ［C］ intimacy ［D］collaboration

　　20. ［A］ set down ［B］ fade away ［C］ pass away ［D］ break down