上海2013年高考预测英语试卷及答案(9)

　　That‘s good news for small bees， which in late winter have trouble getting warm enough to fly.

　　Bumblebees and honeybees prepare to fly on cold days by exercising their flight muscles to generate heat. But mining bees， which nest in the ground， are less able to do that and are more dependent on surrounding temperatures to warm them up for takeoff.

　　Spanish ecologist Carlos M. Herrera studied the relationship between mining bees and native daffodil flowers. The bees he studied could fly only if their internal body temperatures approached 72 degrees， yet they were able to forage（觅食） in 54-degree weather. Basking（取暖） in sunlight on the outside of a warm daffodil bloom was enough to get a bee airborne. Heat from flight muscles could then help keep bees in the air， but they still relied on blossom-basking to supplement their heat needs. Although a bee inside a flower has access to warmth and food， a bee basking atop a flower can more effectively raise its temperature by absorbing heat both from direct sunlight and from the flower below.

　　On those cooler days， bees spent most of their foraging time basking， but “flights between flowers were sometimes interrupted by sudden falls to the ground，” Herrera wrote in his 1995 paper. “Fallen bees crawled into some nearby flower and basked before resuming normal foraging.”

　　（Note： Answer the questions or complete the statements in No MORE THAN 12 WORDS.）

　　81. According to the passage， what can help early pollinators to survive cold weather？

　　82. Flowers on a south-facing slope usually open earlier because of ________________.

　　83. What does the “good news for small bees” in paragraph 4 refer to？

　　84. A bee can raise its temperature better at the top of a flower because both ________________ are　its sources of warmth.

　　第II卷 （45分）

　　I. Translation

　　Directions： Translate the following sentences into English， using the words given in the brackets.

　　1. 他下定决心要实现抱负。（determine）

　　2. 居民们都希望有朝一日能更方便地享受图书馆的优质服务。（access）

　　3. 老师的赞赏给了我很大的鼓舞，这对一名学生而言非常宝贵。（which）

　　4. 接完电话，他既没关门也没关灯就匆匆忙忙离开了办公室。（with）

　　5. 实验结果与我们所期望的大相径庭，但我们相信探索越多，就越可能成功。（likely）

　　II. Guided Writing

　　Directions： Write an English composition in 120—150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

　　毕业在即，你班将举行最后一次班会。请你为本次班会设计方案，方案中必须包含以下内容：

　　1. 确立班会的主题；

　　2. 描述你所设计的活动；

　　3. 谈谈活动设计的理由。

　　参考答案

　　第Ⅰ卷

　　I. Section A 1~5. DBCDB 6~10. ADCBA

　　Section B 11~13. ABD 14~16. CDD

　　Section C 17. paperwork/ work 18. February