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1、2014-2015 学年度第一学期高三期中考试英语命题：揭阳第一中学高三英语备课组 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 115 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
2、work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that youve done well and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but youll 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 sai
3、d “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 Id_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 dif
4、ficult 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 an
5、d work. Faced with difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldnt 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
6、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.
7、1. A. attract B. promote C. surprise D. praise 2. A. contact B. refuse C. leave D. forgive3. A. teacher B. friend C. mother D. family 4. A. explaining B. sleeping C. wondering D. regretting5. A. intellengent B. timely C. final D. tough6. A. eagerly B. politely C. nervously D. curiously 7. A. patienc
8、e B. presence C. intelligence D. influence8. 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. expected12. A. grateful B. energetic C. independent D. practic
9、al13. A. examples B. limits C. rules D. goals14. 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 1625 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，
10、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。AThe 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 Hous
11、e 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 writers life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She sta
12、rted 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
13、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 itd be Would you marry one who doesnt? ”The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we e
14、nter 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 t
15、he 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
16、, 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 movie27. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_.A. be very pleased with B. show great respect forC. be much taller
