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1、20102011学年度下学期增城中学、秀全中学高三年级联合考试英语科试题I、语言知识及运用(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)阅读下列短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。Flu season occurs annually in countries that have cold weather in the winter. Although the influenza virus is 1 throughout the world in all four seasons, it seems t
2、o have its greatest impact on 2 during the winter. Scientists are not sure why. They 3 its because in the winter people are indoors and close together for longer periods of time. Also, the virus might be able to live longer and be stronger in colder weather. 4 , indoor air can 5 the mucous(粘液) that
3、helps 6 people from the virus.In the US, the virus is not something to sneeze at. It kills about 36,000 people every year (most of them elderly). It also causes almost 250,000 people to end up in a hospital bed 7 .Scientists 8 a preventive flu shot for people to take as winter begins. This shot is n
4、ot 9 to prevent flu; scientists can only 10 at which virus might be the most dangerous in the upcoming season. The shot protects against only that particular virus. For those who do not get the shot, influenza spreads among them 11 . It takes only a sneeze, a cough, or a touch. 12 frequently get ill
5、 from shaking hands, opening doors, or 13 money.Most infected people will have a fever, sore throat, and cough. But the symptoms are often 14 and last for only a week. For many others, however, symptoms can be so severe and prolonged that victims end up in bed for weeks, or in the 15 or even in the
6、cemetery(公墓).1. A. intelligentB. newC. unknownD. alive2. A. AmericansB. doctorsC. scientistsD. humans3. A. thinkB. noteC. identifyD. recognize4. A. HoweverB. IndeedC. FinallyD. Unluckily5. A. dry upB. block upC. take downD. add to6. A. preventB. stopC. separateD. protect7. A. oftenB. annuallyC. alre
7、adyD. usually8. A. discoverB. inventC. developD. find9. A. designedB. madeC. takenD. guaranteed10. A. knowB. realizeC. guessD. predict11. A. quicklyB. easilyC. immediatelyD. difficultly12. A. PeopleB. DoctorsC. VictimsD. Elderly13. A. payingB. handlingC. givingD. making14. A. commonB. mildC. serious
8、D. typical15. A. hospitalB. houseC. churchD. park 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的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。Few people would ever think of beginning a new job at the age of 76, _16_ one of Americas most famous artists did just that. Anna Mary Rober
9、tson, better known as “Grandma Moses”, turned to painting _17_ she was too old to work on her farm. She was born in New York but she never received any regular college training in painting. Grandma Moses was crazy _18_ painting soon after she picked it up and worked hard at it. She painted _19_(care
10、) and her works were nice. She painted in her own style-simple, naive and pure, which was very impressive. She first painted only to please _20_, but every now and then she also painted for her friends. Later she began to sell her works for a little money. In 1993, a_21_( collect), Louis Caldor happ
11、ened to see several of Grandma Moses works _22_(hang) in a shop. He liked them, _23_(buy) them at once, and set out to look for more. Caldor held _24_ show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to other artists. Grandma Moses, _25_ was world-famous, died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101. II
12、、阅读理解(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。 AA higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as in English ,and the general principles apply to any language .Naturally, you will not read every book at the same sp
13、eed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example ,much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gained will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned wi
14、th .The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long .They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading
15、you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or light novel .If you read this kind of English, with understanding at four hundred words per minute, you might skim through a newspaper at perhaps 650700, while with a difficult textbook you might drop to two hundred or two hundred and fifty.Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved .Tests in Minnesota, U.S.A., for example, have shown that st