高三英语精品试卷

或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为16--25的相应位置上。

For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a it-list of to eat? species are becoming 19 a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more abundant, not less so. Second, Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected ( disappear ) in the next 50 years, not 25~50%, as has so often been predicted. And finally, most forms of early stages of industrialization. problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it. Yet opinion polls suggest that many people develop the ( believe ) that environmental standards are declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction. 172

II. 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Forty-three years seems like a long time to remember the name of a mere acquaintance. I have forgotten the name of an old lady, who was a customer on the paper route in my home town when I was a twelve-year-old boy. Yet it stays in my memory, for she taught me a lesson of forgiveness that I shall never forget.

On a winter afternoon, a friend and I were throwing stones onto the leaning roof of the old lady's house from a spot near her backyard. The object of our play was to observe how the stones changed to missiles as they rolled to the roof's edge and shot out into the yard. I found myself a perfectly smooth rock and threw it out. The stone, however, slipped from my hand and headed straight for a small window on the old lady's back porch. At the sound of fractured glass, we knew we were in trouble. We ran as fast as possible.

I was too scared about getting caught to be concerned about the old lady with the broken window in winter. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn't been discovered, I started to feel guilty for her misfortune. She still greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the paper, but I was no longer able to act comfortably in her presence.

I made up my mind that I would save my paper delivery money, and after three weeks I had the seven dollars that I thought would cover the cost of her window. I put the money in an envelope with a note explaining that I was sorry for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the cost. I put the letter through the letter slot in her door. My soul felt and I could have the freedom of, once again, looking straight into the old lady's kind eyes. The next day, I handed the old lady her paper and was able to return the warm smile that I was receiving from her. She gave me a bag of cookies. I thanked her and felt an envelope in it. When I opened the envelope, inside it were the seven dollars and a short note reading, "I'm proud of you." 386

26. How old is the writer now? _________