文档介绍：广东中山一中
2011届高三年级第八次统测
英语试题
命题人:余玲李艳玲
本试卷共10页,三大题,满分135分。考试用时120分钟。
I 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1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Over half the world’s people now live in cities. The latest “Global Report on Human Settlements” says a ____1______change took place last year. The report____2______this week from . Habitat, a United Nations agency.
A century ago, ____3_____than five percent of all people lived in cities. By the middle of this century it could be seventy percent, or almost six and a half billion people. Already three-fourths of people in ______4_______ countries live in cities. Now most urban population______5_________ is in the developing world.
Urbanization can 6 to social and economic progress, but also put _____7______on cities to provide housing and 8 . The new report says almost two hundred thousand people move into cities and towns each day. It says worsening inequalities, 9 by social divisions and differences in 10 , could result in violence and crime unless cities plan better.
Another issue is urban sprawl (无序扩展的城区). This is where cities 11 quickly into rural areas, sometimes at a much faster rate than urban population growth.
Sprawl is 12 in the United States. Americans move a lot. In a recent study, Art Hall at the University of Kansas found that people are moving away from the 13 cities to smaller ones. He sees a 14 toward “de-urbanization” across the nation.
But urban economies still provide many 15 that rural areas do not.
1. A. significant B. strange C. deliberate D. famous
2. A. came on B. came off C. came over D. came out
3. A. more B. other C. less D. rather
4. A. prosperous B. developed C. essful D. developing
5. A. extension B. addition C. raise D. growth
6. A. keep B. turn C. lead D. refer
7. A. pressure B. load C. restraint D. weight
8. A. surroundings B. communities C. concerns D. services
9. A. pulled B. driven C. drawn D. pressed
10. A. situation B. wealth C.