梅州市高三总复习第一次质检试卷（2015.3）

英语

本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共10页，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

1.答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将答题卡试卷类型填涂在答题卡上。在答题卡右上角的“试室号”和“座位号”栏填写试室号、座位号，并用2B铅笔将相应的试室号、座位号信息点涂黑。

2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。

3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分 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。

Ready to give up long showers, water parks, and unlimited water gushing（喷涌） out of your taps? A new study says more than three-hundred-thirty-five-million people are faced with water _____1____ now. The oceans are full, of course. But the liquid—fresh, clean water for drinking and watering crops is in short ____2_____ in many parts of the world. Rivers are running low, lakes are shrinking, streams have stopped ____3_____, and groundwater is being pumped(抽) dry. However, the ____4_____ for water keeps increasing. So there comes ____5_____ the water crisis! What is causing the crisis? Experts say it is a complex ___6______ of climate change and rapid population growth. On the one hand, global climate change threatens to reduce water supplies due to ____7_____ rainfall. On the other hand, population growth is driving explosive demand for water, prompting(促使) rivers in thirsty countries to be tapped for nearly every drop and _____8____ governments to pump out so-called fossil water.

Lack of water may result in several ____9_____. It may increase health problems. Lack of water often means drinking waters are not ____10_____. Lack of water may also result in more international _____11____. Countries may have to compete for water in the future. Some countries now get sixty percent of their fresh water from other countries. And lack of water would ____12_____ the ability of developing to improve their economies. This is because new industries often need a large amount of water when they are beginning.

One partial ____13_____ to the world water shortage, at least for countries near the sea, is to ____14_____ more desalination(去盐作用) plants that change seawater into fresh water. Another suggested solution is for water-rich countries, such as Canada, to sell water to countries which are ____15_____ in water.

A. lack B. shortage C. question D. need

A .level B. environment C. condition D. supply

A. flying B. blowing C. flowing D. floating

A. requirement B. demand C. desire D. price

A. usually B. obviously C. suddenly D. unavoidably

A. combination B. friend C. effect D. cause

A. fallen B. increased C. raised D. decreased

A. persuading B. hoping C. offering D. driving

A. opinions B. problems C. decisions D. methods

A. fresh B. good C. safe D. sweet

A. conflict B. meeting C. concern D. debate

A. help B. affect C. increase D. worsen

A. key B. means C. evidence D. answer

A. build B. find C. prepare D. provide

A. rich B. interested C. abundant D. poor

第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，共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，并将答案填写在答卷标号为16-25的相应位置上。

Andrew Engel was completely confused. Just days into his freshman year at Rutgers University, he was sitting in Sociology 101, listening to _____16____ students have a discussion. He had no idea _____17____ they were talking about. He had done his homework, paid attention to lectures and taken notes, but nothing was familiar. “Everyone is so much _____18____(smart) than I am,” he thought. It was a foreign feeling, as he'd always been a good student and _____19____(graduate) from high school with a 3.9 GPA.

The rest of his day progressed like an episode of The Twilight Zone. He got _____20____(lose), again, on his way to the cafeteria, even though he'd been there a few hours earlier. Back at his dorm, he greeted his roommate with a "Hi, how's it going?" all the while thinking, “What is his name again?”

He was acting _____21____ a person with Alzheimer's disease（阿尔茨海默氏病，即老年痴呆病）, _____22____ he was only 17. By the end of September, he'd dropped a class and was studying with _____23____ tutor, yet he was still struggling. He decided he had no ____24___(choose) but to drop out, telling his _____25____(puzzle) parents he wasn't cut out for college.

第二部分 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）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The writers of murder stories go to a great deal of trouble to keep us guessing right up to the end. In actual fact, people often behave more strangely in real life than they do in stories.

???? The following advertisement once appeared in a local newspaper: "An opportunity to earn $250 in a few minutes. A man willing to take chances is wanted for an out-of-the-ordinary job which can be performed only once." A reader found this offer very generous and applied to the advertiser, but being a bit suspicious, he gave a false name. Soon afterwards, he received a reply. Enclosed in the envelope was a typed note instructing him to ring a certain number if he was still interested. He did so and learned on the telephone that the advertiser wanted him "to get rid of somebody" and would discuss it more fully with him the next day. But the man told the police and from then on acted under their instructions.

???? The police saw the two men met and watched them as they drove away together. In the car the advertiser came to the point at once: he told the man he wanted him to shoot his wife. The reason he gave was that he was suffering from an incurable disease and wanted to live in a warmer country，but his wife objected to this. Giving the man some money，the advertiser told him to buy a gun and?warned him to be careful of the dog which，though it would not bite，might attract attention. He also gave him a photograph of his wife so that he would be able to recognize her，After that，the advertiser suggested that the man should "do the job" next morning. Meanwhile，he would prepare his wife by telling her that a young man was going to call. After the murder，they would meet again outside a railway station and the money would be paid as arranged. The second meeting never took place，for the advertiser was arrested shortly afterwards and charged with attempting to persuade someone to murder his wife.

26. What can we infer from paragraph one?

A. While reading murder stories, we have to guess at the end of the stories.

B. While reading murder stories, we have to guess from the beginning to the end.

C. People usually behave more strangely in murder stories than in real life.

D. It is very easy for writers of murder stories to have readers guessing.

27. The underlined word “suspicious” in paragraph two means _________?

A. doubtful B. sure C. persuaded D. unexpected

28. Why did the man put an advertisement in a local newspaper?

A. To hire someone to kill himself because he was seriously ill.

B. To ask someone to buy a gun for him and then he would kill his wife.

C. To hire someone to kill his wife because he didn’t love her any more.

D. To have his wife killed because he doubt whether she still loved him.

29. According to the passage, what is NOT true about the advertiser?

A. He was suffering from a deadly disease.

B. He raised a dog in his house.

C. He would help the person hired to finish the task.

D. He paid the man he hired beforehand.

30. From the passage, we can learn that___________.

A. The advertiser wrote a letter to the reader to ask him to call a number.

B. The reader was in great need of money, so he wanted to get the job.

C. The advertiser was caught by the police right after he met the reader.

D. The dog in the advertiser’s house was very fierce.

B

A homeless man in Las Vegas who had been living on the streets and had not seen his six children for nearly 25 years has been reunited with his daughter thanks to modern technology and the kindness of strangers.

Jimmy Francis was outside a Firehouse Subs shop earlier this month when he was spotted by a local realtor Jim Snyder, as he was going in to pick up his dinner. When Snyder saw Francis struggling in the cold weather, he, with the help of Firehouse employees, bought the man a sandwich and gave him some cash.

After Snyder got home his thoughts stayed with Francis, left out in the cold. “He was shaking so uncontrollably and was so cold. It just broke my heart and I thought there’s something I’ve got to do here,” Snyder, 49, told ABCNews.com. “By the time I got to where my home is, I knew I had to turn around and get him.”

Snyder, who says he had never before done anything like that, brought Francis to the home he shares with his wife, Maria, and gave him coffee, a warm shower, washed his clothes and packed a suitcase full of his own old clothes for Francis.

Over coffee and a warm meal, Snyder, himself a father of five children and step-children, learned that Francis had not seen his six children for over two decades after a divorce. He was particularly torn, Snyder says, over not seeing his only daughter, Natalie.

“He told me he had colon cancer in 2010 and wasn’t expected to live and because of that experience, the one thing constantly in his mind is that he wants to be reunited with his children,” Snyder said.

The Snyders took down the names and birth dates of Francis’s children and used social media to search for them.

The couple found Natalie Francis, now living in Northern California and herself a grandmother, on Facebook and sent her a message. Less than one hour later, they had a response.

“The message just said, ‘Oh my God. This is my dad. Is he okay?’” Snyder recalled.

Just days later the couple brought Francis, living temporarily with an acquaintance, back to their home for a Skype call with his daughter.

“A whole lot of emotio