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1、12012 高考英语考前热身练习高考英语考前热身练习 1 Waiting outside his classroom, 14-year-old Wasana stared idly at the heavy rain. Then his gaze fell upon the hill at the back of the classroom. He 36 enormous amounts of rainwater flowing down the hill, and the water was also bubbling (冒泡) at the base of a boulder (大圆石)
2、on the hill. Wasana felt it looked so 37 after staring at the water for a while. Then it 38 himthe scene was alarmingly similar to the slides he was shown during Disaster Management classes. 39 a coming disaster, Wasana shouted, “Run, run, dont stay here! The rocks on the hill are going to fall on u
3、s!” Chaos 40 as the students ran to the open area used as an emergency gathering point. After 41 the site where the water was bubbling up from the ground, Principal Nihal Gurusinghe knew the school was in great 42 . They began to climb the hill and tried to change the direction of the flow, 43 they
4、were too late: ten minutes later, massive rocks rushed down the hill with sand and mud. There was little they could do as they watched the earth 44 an entire school block. Returning home later with the muddy uniform that day, Wasana was 45 by his mother. He tried to 46 that he had saved 200 schoolma
5、tes but she didnt believe him. His mother finally realized that it was 47 when she saw a TV report about the disaster. Filled with 48 , she hugged Wasana and murmured that he was indeed a hero.来源:学科网 ZXXK No one was hurt in the 49 , thanks to Wasanas quick action and acute observation. The repairs,
6、50 $27,000, included a new retaining wall on the hill to 51 future landslides (泥石流). “The financial damage is nothing 52 to what would have happened had there been children in the classrooms,” Gurusinghe says. Looking back, Wasana said he didnt think twice about the ridicule (嘲笑) that would have 53
7、if he had been 54 about the landslide. “It would be worse 55 I didnt do anything when I already knew it was going to happen,” he says. 36. A. heardB. noticedC. admitted D. imagined 37. A. distantB. close C. obvious D. familiar 38. A. interested B. disappointed C. hit D. impressed 39. A. FearingB. Es
8、capingC. PreparingD. Controlling 40. A. died downB. gave up C. broke outD. set off 41. A. visitingB. exploring C. discoveringD. inspecting 42. A. peaceB. troubleC. silence D. surprise 43. A. butB. ifC. asD. because 44. A. fledB. coveredC. passedD. overlooked 45. A. recommendedB. cornered C. searched
9、D. scolded 46. A. understandB. realizeC. complainD. explain 47. A. true B. puzzlingC. funnyD. practical 48. A. ambitionB. pride C. confidenceD. patience 49. A. operationB. incident C. pressureD. attempt 50. A. savingB. earning C. wastingD. costing 51. A. prevent B. predictC. removeD. discover 52. A.
10、 referredB. comparedC. addedD. associated 53. A. remainedB. stopped C. followedD. ended 54. A. upset B. worried C. wrongD. mad 55. A. before B. if C. soD. though 36-40 BDCAC 41-45 DBABD 46-50 DABBD 51-55 ABCCB A At the top of a three-story brick building, Sue and Johnsy had their studio. One of the
11、girls was from Maine; the other from California. They had met in an Eighth Street restaurant, and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that the joint studio resulted. That was in May.In November, a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called “pneumonia”, sta
12、lked about the district, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Johnsy was among his victims. One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a bushy, gray eyebrow.“She has one chance in ten,” he said. “And that chance is for her to want to live. Your little lady has made up
13、 2her mind that shes not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?” “She wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day,” said Sue.“Paint? Bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking about twice? A man, for instance?” “No, doctor; there is nothing of the kind.”“Well,” said the doctor. “I wi
14、ll do all that science can accomplish. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriage in her funeral procession, I subtract 50 per cent from the power of medicines.” After the doctor had gone, Sue cried. Johnsy lay, scarcely making a movement under the bedclothes, with her face toward the wind
15、ow. She was looking out and countingcounting backward.“Twelve,” she said, and a little later “eleven,” and then “ten,” and “nine,” and then “eight, and “seven,” almost together.Sue looked out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and an old, old ivy v
16、ine climbed half way up the brick wall of the brick house. The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare.“Six, said Johnsy, in almost a whisper. “Theyre falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It made my head ache to count them. But now its easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now.”“Five w
