河北省正定中学2013三模英语试题及答案(3)

37. A. same B. popular C. similar D. different
38. A. managed B. wanted     C. refused      D. promised   
39. A. for      B. or        C. and     D. so 
40. A. counter    B. department    C. market       D. window 
41. A. warning  B. informing   C. reminding   D. accusing   
42. A. fair      B. familiar      C. impossible  D. random   
43. A. wrong   B. true        C. reasonable    D. meaningful 
44. A. mattered   B. happened     C. passed      D. worked 
45. A. leave    B. pay    C. find    D. obtain 
46. A. request   B. place        C. way    D. need  
47. A. answer  B. prove       C. support     D. admit 
48. A. Unless      B. And      C. Instead    D. If
49. A. ordered  B. asked      C. denied       D. given
50. A. agreed   B. prepared     C. failed       D. remembered  
51. A. struggled    B. wondered    C. hesitated    D. nodded  
52. A. totally    B. gradually      C. hardly       D. quickly 
53. A. feelings    B. goals       C. reasons     D. ideas  
54. A. design   B. cover       C. content     D. price 
55. A. deserved B. required     C. received    D. appreciated
第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
A device that stops drivers from falling asleep at the wheel is about to undergo testing at Department of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months.
The system, called Driver Alert, aims to reduce deadly road accidents by 20% - 40% that are caused by tiredness. Airline pilots can also use it to reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue.
Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband. The device, worn by drivers or pilots, gives out a sound about every four minutes during a car journey. After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing the steering wheel. A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time between the sound the driver’s response.
Tiredness is directly related to a driver’s response time. Usually, a watchful driver would take about 400 milliseconds to respond, but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting sleepy.
In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a window or stop for a rest. If the driver’s response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent until a nonstop alarm warns that the driver must stop as soon as possible.
The device has been delivered to the department’s laboratories for testing. If these tests, scheduled for six months’ time, are successful, the makers will bring the product to market within about a year.
56. According to the text, Driver Alert ______.
A. aims to reduce tiredness-related accidents
B. has gone through testing at laboratories
C. aims to prevent drivers from sleeping   
D. has been on sale for 12 months
57. How should a driver respond to the sounds from Driver Alert?
A. By sounding a warning. B. By touching the wristband.
C. By checking the driving time. D. By pressing the steering wheel.
58. We can learn form the text that the driver needs to stop for a break when his response time is ______.
A. about 400 milliseconds B. below 500 milliseconds
C. over 500 milliseconds D. about 4 minutes
59. When the driver gets sleepy while driving, Driver Alert ______.
A. moves more regularly      B. stops working properly
C. opens the window for the driver D. sounds more frequently and loudly

B
Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers.
    The seven-member Harvard Corporation elected Faust, a noted scholar on History of the American South and dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as the university’s 28th president.
    “This is a great day, and a historic day, for Harvard,” James R. Houghton, chairman of the presidential search committee, said in a statement. “Drew Faust is an inspiring and accomplished leader, a superb scholar, a dedicated teacher, and a wonderful human being.”
    Her selection is noteworthy given the heated debates over Summers’ comments that genetic differences between the sexes might help explain the lack of women in top science jobs.
    Faust has been dean of Radcliffe since 2001, two years after the former women’s college was combined into the university as a research center with a mission to study gender issues.