命题：揭阳第一中学高三英语备课组

Ⅰ 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节: 完形填空 （共15小题； 每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 1―15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One night, when I was eight, my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to ___1 ___ me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done well and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to___2___ your friends. Would you say yes to your ___3___?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me___4___ for the rest of the night I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the___5___decisions adults had to make.

For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d___6___wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her ___7___and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.

During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large___8___apartment, I became aware of how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then that I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on___9___family and work. Faced with difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you made the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a___10___attitude.

Back home, I reminded myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she ___11___to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be ___12___. I learnt how to take care of myself and set high but achievable___13___.

My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the experience has really taught me. Sacrifices ___14___ off in the end. The ___15___ between us has proved to be blessing for me.

1. A. attract B. promote C. surprise D. praise

2. A. contact B. refuse C. leave D. forgive

3. A. teacher B. friend C. mother D. family

4. A. explaining B. sleeping C. wondering D. regretting

5. A. intellengent B. timely C. final D. tough

6. A. eagerly B. politely C. nervously D. curiously

7. A. patience B. presence C. intelligence D. influence

8. A. comfortable B. expensive C. empty D.modern

9. A. abandoning B. balancing C. comparing D. mixing

10. A. different B. friendly C. positive D. general

11. A. managed B. offered C. attempted D. expected

12. A. grateful B. energetic C. independent D. practical

13. A. examples B. limits C. rules D. goals

14. A. break B. pay C. cut D. turn

15. A. conversation B.attempt C. gratitude D. separation

第二节:?语法填空（共10小题；?每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。

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）

阅读下列四篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

26. The book Gone with the Wind was _________.

A. first published on a newspaper

B. awarded ten Academy Awards

C. written in “The Dump”

D. adapted from a movie

27. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to____.

A. be very pleased with B. show great respect for

C. be much taller than D. show little interest in

28. Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A. Because she was rich enough. B. Because she was injured then.

C. Because her husband didn’t like it. D. Because she wanted to write books.

29. We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.

A. her height made her marriage unhappy

B. her interest in writing continued as an adult

C. writing stopped her working as a reporter

D. her life was full of hardship and sadness

30. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.

B. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.

C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.

D. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.

B

Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don’t keep them, since they’re not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.

So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.

Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.

The store’s own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.

The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions（获得物） have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.

Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.DBCBA

31. Paragraph 1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______.

A. they are forgetful

B. they are in a hurry

C. there is no lost and found office in many airports

D. the owners of some luggage can’t be identified

32. The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that ______.

A. they have to find the owners

B. they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose

C. some bags are expensive

D. they have to keep the bags as long as possible

33. The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______.

A. there's a large variety of goods.

B. all the things there are very cheap.

C. visitors may purchase something undervalued.

D. visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.

34. What can we infer from the passage?

A. A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage.

B. The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small.

C. The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use.

D. People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store.

35. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America.

B. To introduce an attractive place to tourists.

C. To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage.

D. To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage.

C

She’s not afraid of anything. Snakes? No problem. Walking alone in the dark? Easy. We’re not talking about a superhero here -- SM is a 44-year-old mother. And she’s fearless because she happens to be missing part of her brain: the amygdala(扁桃腺).

Shaped like a pair of almonds sitting in the middle of your brain, the amygdala helps control fear and anxiety. A rare condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease left SM without her amygdala, and seems to have completely erased her sense of fear.

To try to understand how the amygdala works, a team of researchers made their efforts to scare SM. They showed her horror movies and took her to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium Haunted House in Kentucky. She pushed out one of the monsters and laughed. SM said she didn’t like snakes, but at a pet store full of poisonous creatures, she kept asking to touch them. When asked to rate her feelings, SM reported feeling surprised or disgusted, but never fearful.

“She tends to approach everything she should be avoiding,