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1、120122013 年下期高一中考试题第一部分 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 115 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。When I was a little boy，our first home burned down.So we had to 1 into a small house near the top of a mountain.The whole house was _2_ by a single，wood stove (炉子
2、)My dad，brothers and I spent days every spring and summer cutting and stacking (把筑成垛)the wood for it.It worked great as long as the wood wasnt wet. Most of the time，_3_，this wasnt the case.Snowy and rainy days meant wet wood，a weak fire，and a 4 house.It wasnt long _5_ my dad decided that we needed t
3、o build a wood shed.I can still _6_ the day we started our new building.Dad had my brother and me climb into the pickup truck (轻装货车) after school.A local _7_ company had stopped using some unused railway tracks and was _8_ the wooden ties (枕木) that went with it.Dad wanted to buy four of these ties a
4、nd 9 them as the corner posts for the new building.It seemed 10 enough at the time.All we had to do was load them up，take them home，dig some holes，and 11 them in the ground.But what I didnt realize was that each railway tie weighed almost 500 pounds.I never worked so hard in my life.I went to bed th
5、at night _12_ and my muscles ached for one week afterward.Yes，it was a simple job，but it surely wasnt a(n) _13_ one.Living in love and joy is simple but sometimes it isnt easy. It is a(n) 14 that we have to make every single day of our lives. We often have to give love in the face of hate and 15 joy
6、 in the face of hopelessness. Easy or not, though, it is still worth the effort. 1. A.hurry B.move C.change D.step 2. A.protected B.repaired C.heated D.covered 3. A.besides B.so C.however D.somehow 4. A.large B.cold C.high D.warm 5. A.before B.after C.when D.since 6. A.forget B.take C.spend D.rememb
7、er 7. A.phone B.railway C.law D.car 8. A.making B.throwing C.selling D.buying 9. A.use B.lend C.borrow D.steal 10. A.important B.interesting C.fortunate D.simple 11. A.destroy B.set C.raise D.grow 12. A.happy B.worried C.hopeless D.tired 13. A.difficult B.easy C.funny D.strange 14. A.choice B.design
8、 C.rule D.order 15. A.hide B.stand C.refuse D.share 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。Most people dont know how hard it is to collect those fascinating birds and animals in the zoo. 2They always asked me how I beco
9、me _16_animal collector in the first place. The answer is that I have always been interested in animals and zoos. According to my parents, the _17_ word I was able to say was not the conventional “mamma” or “daddy”, _18_ the word “zoo”, which I would repeat over and over again _19_ someone would tak
10、e me to the zoo. When I grew a little older, we lived in Greece and I had a great _20_ of pets, and I spent all my spare time _21_ (explore) the countryside in search of fresh specimens to add to my collection of pets. Later on I went for a year to the City Zoo to get experience of the large animals
11、, such as lions, bears and ostriches, _22_were not easy to keep at home. When I left, I _23_ (success) had enough money of my own to be able to finance my first trip and I have been going regularly ever since then. Though a collectors job is not an easy one and is full of _24_(disappoint), it is cer
12、tainly a job which appeal _25_ all those who love animals and travel. 第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分 50 分） 第一节 阅读理解（共 20 小题，每题 2 分，满分 40 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂 黑。A “Avoid the rush hour” must be the slogan of large cities all over the world. Wherever you look its people, people, people. The t
13、rains which leave or arrive every few minutes are packed. The streets are so crowded; there is hardly room to move on the pavements. It takes ages for a bus to get to you because the traffic on the roads has almost come to a standstill. Even when a bus does at last arrive, its so full, it cant take
14、any more passengers. The smallest unexpected event can bring about conditions of complete chaos. The strange thing is not that people stand these conditions, but that they actually choose them in preference to anything else. Large modern cites are too big to control. People living there are forced by their environment to take a wholly unnatural way of life. They lost touch with the land and rhythm of nature. It is possible to live in such an air-conditioned existence in a large city that you can hardly tel
