黄冈市高三上期末联考英语试题.docx

1、黄冈市高三上期末联考英语试题第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节语法和词汇知识(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。21I dont expect anything in _; I did it because I enjoyed it.AawardBrewardCprizeDpraise22Mary felt _ from her friends when we moved to a quiet new neighborhood.Acut down Bcut upCcut offDcut out23I cant read

2、the advertisement on the board. Could you hold the light _?Acloser to it a little bitBa little bit to it closerCa little bit closer to itDcloser a little bit to it24Im looking for a new job, one _ I get a bit more job satisfaction.AwhereBthatCwhen Dwhich25They were to _ the other day, but he had a c

3、ar accident in which he lost his left leg.Aget marriedBhave got marriedCbe getting married Dbe going to get married26The government has _ to the outbreak of violence by sending scores of soldiers to police the area.AreactedBcontributedCadaptedDturned 27The best-seller, _ as a surprise for her nephew

4、, was lost in the mail.Ato be intended BintendingCintended Dbeing intended28I usually enjoy his films, but the latest one didnt _ my expectations.Adate back to Blook up toCget across toDlive up to29 Could you meet me at the airport? Id like to, but I _ Shanghai when you return.Awill have left Bwas l

5、eavingCwill leave Dhave left30It has been announced that all test takers _ remain in their seats until all the exam papers have been collected.AcanBmayCshallDwill31If you take a job as a journalist, it goes without saying _ sometimes youll have to work at weekends.Aif BwhetherCwhyDthat32Determined t

6、o stand up and make a living by herself, Frida began to learn to paint _ she was limited to bed and wheelchair.AbecauseBeven thoughCunless Din case33 Was Jack in the factory when you arrived there? Yes, but he _ soon afterwards.Ahad left Bwould leaveCleft Dhas left34If it were not for the fact that

7、you _ ill, I would ask you to do this right now.Awere Bhad beenCbe Dare35 Thank you for the wonderful meal, Mrs White. _ Im glad you enjoyed it.AThank you for coming.BForget it.CNot at all.DHow come?答案与提示第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。In 1956 Phoenix, Arizo

8、na, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathys new parakeet (长尾鹦鹉) on my finger, I wanted to show Perky 36 the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird 37 out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my 38, Perky flew off. The

9、enormous, blue sky swallowed up my sisters blue 39 and suddenly he was gone, clapped wings and all.Kathy managed to 40 me. With fake optimism, she even tried to reassure (使安心) me that Perky would find a new 41. But I was far too clever to 42 that such a thing was possible.Decades later, I watched my

10、 own 43 growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the 44 of the kids friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the 45 of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed to 46 th

11、e oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. 47 Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and 48 that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.“The best thing 49 Sweetie Pie,” he said, “was the 50 we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the

12、 clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just 51 down and landed on my finger.”When I was finally able to 52, we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all 53. It seems our two families had been 54 long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to

13、my sister and said, “You were 55! Perky lived!”36Awhat Bhow Cwhich Dwhere37Afood BnestCfriendDfamily38AjoyBhorrorCdisappointmentDsatisfaction39Apleasure Bsadness CtreasureDsense40AforgiveBcomfort ChelpDdelight41Aparent BhomeCmasterDlife42AimagineBsuppose Cdoubt Dbelieve43AbirdsBhappiness Cworries Dc

14、hildren44AparentsBbirds Cinterests Dgames45AfirstBbestClastDhappiest46AcatchBfindCbuy Dhave47ASuddenly BFortunately CThenDHowever48AannouncedBsaidCtoldDhoped49Ain Babout CofDon50AdayBplace Cway Dstory51AfloatedBdived Csettled Dwent52AthinkBspeak Cinterrupt Dexplain53Acame upBturned up Cturned outDma

15、tched up54AknownBfastenedCconnected Dintroduced55ArightBwrong Csilly Dmad答案与提示第三部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 第三部分：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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AMy new home was a long way from the centre of London but it was becoming essential to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning

16、 getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the tube. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldnt drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers

17、 Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I would be a tube guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I would be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a ste

18、ady income and travel privileges those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after half an hours wait I was sent into another room for

19、 a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The examiner sat at a desk. You were signalled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones.

20、 Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I cant recall my answers, except that they were short

21、 at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed (显露) a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You have failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”Faili

22、ng to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs being a postman is another one I still desire demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of

23、 full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.56The writer applied for the job because _.Ahe wanted to work in the centre of LondonBhe could no longer afford to live without oneChe was not interested in any other available jobDhe had received suitable training答案与提示57The writer thought he was ov

24、erqualified for the job because _.Ahe often traveled undergroundBhe had written many poemsChe could deal with difficult situationsDhe had worked in an insurance company答案与提示58The length of his interview meant that _.Ahe was too nervousBhe had not done well in the intelligence testChe did not like th

25、e examinerDhe had little work experience to talk about答案与提示59What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?AHow unpleasant ordinary jobs can be.BHow difficult it can be to get a job.CHow unsuitable he was for the job.DHow badly he did in the interview.答案与提示BOn the night of July 6, 19

26、43, a plane took off from an Air Force base in England to intercept (截击) German fighters over the English Channel. Piloting the plane was Captain Thomas Nash. Looking westward, Nash saw twelve orange lights in a row, moving at a fantastic rate of speed. An old experienced flyer, he had never seen an

27、ything like them. Thinking they might be a new German weapon, he decided to give chase. But when he swung the plane around and headed directly for the lights, they disappeared. Captain Nash may have been the first to see such orange lights but he wasnt the last. His experience was repeated many time

28、s by pilots during World Warboth in Europe and the Far East. Pilots in the Korean War also reported seeing the strange lights. What were they? No one knows for sure, but there is an interesting theory to account for them. According to this theory, the orange lights are space animals animals specially adapted to life in the upper atmosphere just as some creatures are adapted to life at the bottom of the sea. These space animals, the theory says, live so far up in the atmosphere that they are not visible from earth. They feed partly on the air and partly on e