北京朝阳区高三第一学期英语试卷及答案3

第三部分，阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A
　　The 12 - year- old CEO (首席执行官) of a Web site design company will be one of 300 business and political leaders accompanying Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on a trade visit to China in March.
　　Keith Peiris, who founded Cyberteks Design in June 1999 and now has 25 clients (客户) in North America, insisted in an interview that he is “just like any other kid”.
　　He and his father will spend nine days on the Team Canada trip to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, where Chretien aims to showcase the best of Canadian business in the most populous country in the world.
　　A glance at the complex, elegant animations (动画) on his www. cyberteks, com site shows the extent of Peiris talent. “He doesn't want to be No.2,” his father Deepal said proudly.
　　His father, who is now vice president of operations at Cyberteks, said “I am teaching my son what I know. We make decisions together. I haven't done anything my son disagreed with. He makes the final decision.”
　　The company has seven offices in the United States and five part - time employees who, like the Peiris family, work from their London homes.
　　Keith Peiris admitted some potential clients change their minds when they learn his age, but the well- informed teenager tries to ignore them.
　　“suddenly, I’ve been called a whiz kid or geek, which I am not too happy about. A few people have asked if they should call me ‘mister’, but I stay casual, I am still a kid.”
　　56. Keith Peiris insisted that he is “just like and other kid”, which shows he is______.
　　A. proud B. modest C. honest D. excited
　　57. Who makes the final decision on operations at Cyberteks Design?
　　A. Keith Peiris 　B. Deepal Peiris
　　C. Jean Chretien D. Both A and B.
　　58. According to the information in the passage, which is the best and fastest way to know more about the Web giant?
　　A. We can go to Canada to pay him a visit.
　　B. We can make an international telephone call to him.
　　C. We'd better visit his web site- www. cyberteks, com.
　　D. We can write to his father for the kid's information.
　　59. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
　　A. Keith Peiris is a Canadian boy.
　　B. All the employees of the child's company work at home.
　　C. The Canadian Prime Minister means to show off Keith's success during his stay in China.
　　D. Keith always tries his best to be the best in the field of web site designing.
　　B
　　Whatever our differences as human beings are, we all think we're more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic (遗传的)structure with the simple worm.
　　But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome (染色体组).
　　To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode (线虫类的)worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent (透明的)and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.
　　What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of the cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make- up.
　　Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.
　　60. Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has______.
　　A. found that human beings are similar to the worm.
　　B. got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with he simple worm.
　　C. found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body
　　D. proved that cell death is programmed
　　61. People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body______.
　　A. grow without being instructed B. die regularly
　　C. fail to follow people's instructions D. develop in the human body
　　62. The underlined word “they”(in paragraph 5) refers to______.
　　A. cell deaths B. diseases C. instructions D. cells
　　63. What is the subject discussed in the text?
　　A. The theory of programmed cell deaths.
　　B. A great scientist -- Sir John Sulston.
　　C. The programmed human life.
　　D. Dangerous diseases.