第 5 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑2024 届广东省中山一中高三上学期其次次统测英语试题（附答案）I 语言学问及应用 (共两节,总分 45 分) 第一节 完形填空 (共 15 小题；每题 2 分,总分 30 分) 阅读下面短文,把握其大意,然后从 1～15 各题所给的 A、B、C和 D 项中,选出最正确选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is one of lifes ___1___ questions and people have been debating about it for thousands of years. Now scientists believe they have solved this ___2___. Researchers from Sheffield and Warwick Universities in England discovered the answer ___3___. They used a super computer to observe the shell-making process while a new shell was ___4___. Then they found one protein called OC17 that is ___5___ for forming eggshell. This is only found inside a chickens body, which is proof that the ___6___ came first. The team was ___7___ looking at how animals and birds make eggshells but suddenly made their surprising ___8___. The big question now is where chickens came from. The ___9___ is from dinosaurs. The research team said eggshells are one of natures most ___10___ creations. Professor John Harding from the team 第 6 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑told reporters: "Understanding how chickens make eggshells is fascinating in itself, but it can also be ___11___ in designing new materials.' Eggshells are very lightweight but incredibly strong. Even the most up-to-date materials ___12___ by the worlds top engineers cannot produce anything as ___13___ as an eggshell. Professor Harding added that ___14___ eggshells could help to cure bone diseases and design materials for the construction industry. "Nature has found wonderful ways that ___15___ for all kinds of problems in materials science and technology we can learn a lot from them.' he said. 1. A. strangest B. best C. oldest D. closest 2. A. puzzle B. fact C. history D. opinion 3. A. on purpose B. by chance C. without hesitation D. at work 4. A. breaking B. changing C. disappearing D. forming 5. A. necessary B. easy C. kind D. impossible 6. A. egg B. eggshell C. chicken D. dinosaur 7. A. obviously B. originally C. thoughtfully D. surprisingly 8. A. invention B. mistake C. statement D. discovery 9. A. answer B. research C. road D. egg 第 7 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑 10. A. common B. ridiculous C. funny D. amazing 11. A. interesting B. helpful C. normal D. correct 12. A. bought B. cut C. designed D. carried 13. A. brilliant B. ordinary C.1ight D. small 14. A. finding B. watching C. studying D. making 15. A. happen B. work C. wait D. look
