| | Picture this situation. It is late afternoon and you are 36 . You have an important dinner engagement that evening so you 37 to take an hour nap. Instead of setting your alarm you ask a friend who is visiting to wake you in an hour. He 38 . Two hours later, your friend wakes you. You ask, “Why didn’t you wake me after one hour?” He 39 that he thought you asked him to wake you in two hours and that is what he said. You then have to run around and get ready 40 , muttering to yourself about how you 41 have set the alarm rather than asking your friend to wake you. Had you done that, you would not have been so 42 to get ready. Your conclusion is correct. Your 43 of what happened looked at the system you used. Your friend’s 44 to wake you resulted from a miscommunication. 45 he didn’t hear you correctly or you misspoke. 46 at the situation from the point of view of being personally responsible is always better than blaming yourself or another. So how do you best be “responsible” in this situation? The answer is 47 in systems thinking. Dr. W. Edward Deming is the American statistician who is credited with 48 the quality practices to Japan. 49 his arrival in that country in 1950, the label “made in Japan” was synonymous with inferior(劣等的) quality. Now the same “made in Japan” label is synonymous(等同) with 50 quality. So what did Dr. Deming teach the Japanese that made such a 51 to the quality of their products? The answer is quite simple, yet profound. 52 on years of statistical analysis, Deming was able to validate(证明) that 94 % of all failures are not because people don’t want to do a good job. The fact is that 53 people want to do a good job. What, then, is the 54 if it’s not the people? It’s the system. The system failed in 94% of the 55 , not the people. 36. A. relaxed B. puzzled C. concerned D. tired 37. A. try B. decide C. promise D. expect 38. A. agrees B. admits C. accepts D. adopts 39. A. wonders B. doubts C. replies D. requests 40. A. carelessly B. quickly C. angrily D. suddenly 41. A. should B. could C. might D. would 42. A. slow B. rushed C. uncertain D. satisfied 43. A. understanding B. presentation C. description D. analysis 44. A. forgetfulness B. unwillingness C. failure D. fault 45. A. Either B. Neither C. Both D. Whether 46. A. Glaring B. Staring C. Glancing D. Looking 47. A. left B. found C. received D. completed 48. A. bringing B. turning C. fetching D. leading 49. A. Until B. After C. Before D. Since 50. A. different B. poor C. best D. high 51. A. difference B. destruction C. decoration D. distinction 52. A. Based B. Relied C. Focused D. Counted 53. A. few B. fewer C. more D. most 54. A. reason B. cause C. effect D. result 55. A. incidents B. accidents C. cases D. actions
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| 江苏省苏州市2010届高三上学期期末调研测试（英语）.doc | | | | | The drug came under strong attack from ___________ professional observers, who had been backed up by many doctors. A. confused B. confusing C. concerning D. concerned
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| 江苏省苏州市2010届高三上学期期末调研测试（英语）.doc | | | | | It’s Friday morning in the year of 2050, and you’re running late. You got distracted(分心) watching the music video that was playing in the corner of your bathroom mirror while you were brushing your teeth. How will you get to your office on time? A quick check of your internet-connected refrigerator magnet tells your train, which travels at speeds up to 230 miles an hour, is a bit behind schedule, too. So you decide to drive your environmentally-friendly hydrogen fuel cell car instead, or rather, let your car drive you. It’s programmed to know the way, and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, or crashing. Settling into your office chair, which changes colour to match what you’re wearing, you pick up yesterday morning’s newspaper. Printed on reusable electronic paper, it instantly rewrites itself with today’s headlines. Now it’s time for your big meeting. Uh-oh! You’ve left your handwritten notes at home. No problem. The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote. Your wristwatch videophone suddenly rings. Your best friend’s face pops up on the organic light-emitting diode screen asking what you’re doing this weekend. “Will you slap on your 3-D contact lenses and play virtual soccer with the US Olympic team?” “No, no,” Your friend says, “I want to take the elevator which is made of microscopic fibers many times stronger than steel to get into space.” Could this scene really take place in just a couple of decades? The researchers who are currently developing all this stuff think so. These gadgets(器械) may be as common in 20 years as cell phones and DVD players are today. 63. According to the passage, __________. A. your office colour will change to that of what you’re wearing B. newspapers will go electronic C. you usually go to work by car D. the digital ink pen makes writing so easy 64. You decide to use your hydrogen fuel cell car because __________. A. it is safe, quick and comfortable B. it is environmentally-friendly C. your train is late for some reason D. you are too late to catch your train 65. What will life be like in the year of 2050 according to the passage? A. Space tourism will be a reality. B. Videophones will replace face-to-face communication. C. Transportation will be trouble-free. D. People will have more time to go in for their hobbies.
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| 江苏省苏州市2010届高三上学期期末调研测试（英语）.doc | | | | | If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough. It’s good to make mistakes. That’s not a typo, folks, and I have not lost my mind. It is good to make mistakes, and here’s why. First of all, mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things. It’s always good to try new things because when you are trying new things you are growing. If you never try anything new, how can you improve? How can you expand? How can you innovate? The simple answer is, “You can’t.” Look around you. With very few exceptions, either everything you see in your physical world or every single detail of every single thing is the result of someone trying something new. Another good thing about mistakes is this, when you are making mistakes, you are learning. Consider this: Edison failed 10,000 times before he perfected the light bulb. When asked how he felt to fail that many times, he remarked that he hadn’t failed 10,000 times, but rather had learned 10,000 things that didn’t work. Finally, when you make a mistake you are that much closer to success. Why? Because when all is said and done, you will have tried some finite number of things before you succeeded. Every time you made a mistake you eliminated(消除) one of those things and are one step closer. But this all doesn’t mean that you should forge ahead with disregard for the consequences of a mistake. Quite the contrary, when you try something new you have to be willing to set some reasonable limits so that, in the event that it doesn’t work out the way you want it to, you will be in a position to try again. We all have limited resources in the form of time and money, so don’t blow them all on one approach to a problem. Realize that it probably won’t be perfect the first time and allocate these resources appropriately so you can learn, modify, and try it again. Only by embracing and using your mistakes in this way can you make significant advances in your business and your career. There is an old axiom that goes, “If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.” So go forth and make mistakes. And learn. And grow, And prosper. 59. Which of the following isn’t suitable for the passage? A. Mistakes suggest that people are trying something new. B. People can draw lessons from their mistakes. C. Mistakes mean that people are getting closer to success. D. People can afford to make mistakes as long as they limit them. 60. The underlined word “typo” means ___________. A. printing mistake B. computer error C. poor handwriting D. bad typing 61. It’s good to make mistakes as long as _________. A. people use them positively B. people avoid them quickly C. they help people get well D. they don’t have side effects 62. What does the writer mainly tell us in the passage as far as mistakes are concerned? A. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. They are unavoidable. B. Try your best to make fewer mistakes. They are expensive. C. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. They are beneficial. D. The more mistakes you make, the more advances you’ll make.
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| 江苏省苏州市2010届高三上学期期末调研测试（英语）.doc | | | | | ---It’s supposed to rain tomorrow. ---I know, but the forecast ______ be wrong. Weather forecasts are far from 100 percent accurate. A. must B. could C. should D. will
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