温州市第六十一中学2014学年第一学期期中考试高三英语试卷

第一部分：英语知识应用（共两节，满分30分）

：单项填空（共20小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分）

1. ---I'm sorry I made a mistake!

--- _____. Nobody is perfect.

A. Take your time B. You’re right C. Whatever you say D. Take it easy

2. The Professor considers ____ no good _____ without understanding.

A. it; to read B. it; reading C. that; to read D. that; reading

3. The new survey shows that the number of students ________ computer games has been increasing in recent years.

A．devoted to B．related to C．connected to D．addicted to

4. Students in Senior 3 are under _____ great stress, because no one will take ____ risk of failng in the college entrance examinations.

A. a; the B. the; / C. a; a D. /; the

5. I haven't seen ________ Mary since I came here.

A．as lovely a girl as B．so a lovely girl as

C．girl as lovely as D．as a lovely girl as

6. He’s one of those early birds. It’s __________ of him to get up early.

A. flexible B. humorous C. rude D. typical

7. Snooker superstar Ding Junhui owes his great success to many people, his father _______.

A. in turn B. in particular C. in return D. in peace

8. They had a wonderful holiday, ______ bad weather.

A. because of B. due to C. in spite of D. on behalf of

9. – I ____ to go for a walk.

-- But I _____ going shopping.

A. would like; feel like B. feel like; feel like

C. feel like; would like D. would like; would like

10. Without electricity, people’s life ________ quite different today.

A. would have been B. should have been C. would be D. could have been

11. It is very hot in Chongqing this summer. ________air－conditioners have been sold since the temperature is high.

A．Large quantities of B．A large quantity

C．A great deal of D. A great many of

12. Having walked in the desert for several days, they felt exhausted, but they had to

find a pool before the water in the bottle ___________ .

A. put out B. let out C. ran out D. used up

13.Alice’s father always brings her a nice gift ________ he returns home from his

business trip.

A. by the time B. all the time C. every time D. in the time

14. ______with the size of the whole earth, the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.

A. Compare????????B. When comparing C. Comparing????????D. When compared

15. Unfortunately, the computer system ________ suddenly while they were searching for some information on the Internet.

A. broke up B. broke down C. broke away D. broke out

16. I can ______ the house being untidy, but I hate it if it's not clean．

A．come up with B．put up with C．turn to D．stick to

17. --- What time is it?

--- I have no idea. But just a minute. I ________ it for you.

A. check B. checked C. will check D. would check

18. His laziness ________ his failure; that is to say, his failure _______ his laziness.

A. resulted from; resulted in B. resulted in; resulted from

C. as a result of; as a result D. as a result; as a result of

19. --- How did you like Nick’s performance last night?

--- To be honest, his singing didn’t ________ to me much.

A. appeal B. belong C. refer D. occur

20. It is required by law that a driving test _______ taken before a man gets a license.

A. was B. be C. were D. is

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

Have you ever considered what it would be like if you are not able to smile? I hadn't __21__ that, up until a few months ago, when I found that I __22__ couldn't. Well, I'm exaggerating (夸张) a little bit ... I __23__ smile, but only with one side of my face!

I went to the__24_, and was diagnosed(诊断) with Bell's Palsy—a disease of the muscles on one side of the face. As you could __25__， this was quite a shock to me，and made me very __26__．Although this was a major bomb that was dropped on my life, my story is not about how __27__ life is, but about how I face the sudden __28__ falling on me.

Anyway, __29__ is a part of everyday life for me. “Losing” half my face temporarily caused me to think “What is a smile？”According to the dictionary，a smile is a __30__ expression for pleasure, characterized(特征是) by the turning up of the corners of the mouth，__31__ what about the cause? What is __32__ the smile that causes us to show this expression?

After __33__ about this for a while, I came up with the __34__ that a smile is not only characterized by the upturning of the corners of the mouth, but also by what a person does, says and thinks. This gave me hope, as I __35__ that smiling is not just an outward expression, but an inward __36__．

With this in mind, I set about __37__ how to smile with my life through my __38__， not just with my face.__39__，sometimes I send my friends Smile Cards with a chocolate bar or bookmark, letting them __40__ a true smile.

21．A. thought about B．stuck to C．fought for D．dreamed of

22．A. certainly B．actually C．hardly D．obviously

23．A. needed B．would C．should D．could

24．A. doctor B. nursery house C．government D．bookstore

25．A. ask B．behave C．plan D．imagine

26．A. excited B．puzzled C．upset D．ashamed

27．A. hard B．boring C．short D．interesting

28．A. fortune B．challenge C．duty D．job

29．A. sleeping B．working C．smiling D. eating

30．A. facial B．body C．mental D．happy

31．A. because B．so C．but D．or

32．A. behind B．against C．before D．towards

33．A. working B．thinking C．reading D．speaking

34．A. agreement B．conclusion C．announcement D．condition

35．A. doubted B．hoped C．insisted D．realized

36．A. decoration B．attitude C．pattern D．attraction

37．A. learning B．suggesting C．consulting D．predicting

38．A. speeches B．promises C．actions D．opinions

39．A. In fact B．For example C．As a result D．By the way

40．A. discover B．remove C．convey D．experience

第二部分 阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题，满分50分）

第一节：阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

(A)

Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one’s life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip.

But for many people, the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasure. So in spite of all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained, the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33%—from 8.8 million to 11.7 million—according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.

For those who dislike eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years have shown that, for grown-ups especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting (省略) breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect work,” said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve work.”

Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly little, and most of the recent work involves children, not grown-ups. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr Earnest Polite at the University of Texas, “is poor.”

41. For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that _______.

A. several studies have been done in the past few years

B. eating little in the morning is good for health

C. the omission of breakfast has little effect on one’s work

D. grown-ups have especially made studies in this field

42. The sentence in paragraph 3 “nor does giving people breakfast improve work” means _______.

A. people without breakfast can improve their work

B. having breakfast does not improve work, either

C. not giving people breakfast improves work

D. people having breakfast do improve their work, too

43 The word "literature" in the last sentence refers to _______.

A. stories, poems, play, etc B. the films about the breakfast

C. newspaper articles or novels D. written works on a topic

44. What is implied in the passage is that _______.

A. Breakfast does not affect work

B. Dr Polite works at Market Research Corporation

C. Not eating breakfast might affect the health of children

D. Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in Chicago

45. The main idea of the passage is that _______.

A. breakfast has nothing to do with people’s health

B. breakfast is not as important as we thought before

C. breakfast is not as important to us as gasoline to a car

D. a good breakfast used to be important to us

(B)

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