广东省揭中届高三第一学期摸底考试英语试题.docx

1、广东省揭中届高三第一学期摸底考试英语试题2011届高三级英语摸底考试卷1语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）第一节 完形填空（共lO小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2130各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be l Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt

2、 sad and thought,What would I say when the other kids asked what Id 2 ? Just when I started to 3 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women 4 at our house With gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of 5 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when

3、 I returned to school. I wasnt 6 Somebody had thought 7 of me to bring me a gift. Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 8 Christmas there special and memorable, I instantly remembered the womens visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same f

4、eeling of 9 for as many children as I could possibly reach. So I 10 a plan and gdthered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans（孤儿）at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, each with a childs name

5、. We wanted all of them to know they were 11 Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts,I 12 them that they couldnt open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the 13 they had been waiting for came as I called out, One, two, three.Open your presents! As the child

6、ren opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 14 up the room.The 15 in the room was obvious, and it wasnt just about toys. It was a feeling - the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasnt forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.1

7、. A. sending B. receiving C. making D. exchanging2. A. found B. prepared C. got D. expected3. A. doubt B. hope C. suggest D. accept4. A. broke in B. settled down C. turned up D. showed off5. A. relief B. loss C. achievement D. justice6. A. blamed B. loved C. forgotten D. affected7. A. highly B. litt

8、le C. poorly D. enough8. A. present B. first C. recent D. previous9. A. strength B. independence C. importance D. safety10. A. kept up with B. caught up with C. came up with D.put up with11. A. fine B. special C. helpful D. nomal12. A. reminded B. guaranteed C. convinced D. promised13. A. chance B.

9、gift C. moment D. reward14. A. fit B. took C. burned D. cheered15. A. atmosphere B. sympathy C. calmness D. joy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3140的相应位置上。 A This June, many parts of Britain experienced much more rain than they had eve

10、r seen before. Torrential downpours (暴雨) created floods, which caused rivers 16 (burst) their banks.Roads 17 (close) and many people had to leave their homes. The worst hit area was the north of England. There were even deaths as people got 18 (stick) in the rain or were washed away by the floodwate

11、rs. Flood warnings 19 (give) in many pages of the UK and it was said that there had been over a months rainfall 20 just the last couple of days. The rain also caused problems at some of Britains famous June events like the Glastonbury festival, 21 is a four-day-long outdoor music festival. While it

12、is traditionally quite rainy and muddy there, this year was particularly bad. Everyone was wearing high boots 22 there were many pictures, of people 23 (cover) from head to toe in mud in the newspapers. It rained throughout the festival and with more than 170000 revelers(狂欢者) 24 (walk) around and ca

13、mping on the grounds, it didnt take long for the site 25 (turn) into a mud bath.B A man in a black coat opened fire Wednesday at a downtown killing a young woman 31 wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him, witnesses and authorities said. Police dismissed suggestions that

14、terrorism played 32 role in the lunch-hour attack at downtown Dawson. College, 33 scores of panicked students fled into the streets after the shooting began. Some had clothes 34 (stain) with blood; others cried, and held tightly to each other. Witnesses said the attacker started firing outside the c

15、ollege 35 walking in the front door. Much of the shooting was in the second-floor restaurant, where students dropped to the floor and lay 36 terror. Police rushed to the scence.hiding behind a wall as 37 exchanged fire with the gunman.The officers proceeded 38 (cautious) because many students 39 (tr

16、ap) around the gunman, who yelled Get back! Get back! every time an officer tried to move 40 (close). Eventually, the gunman fell to the ground after anumber of gunfire.11 阅读（共两节，满分40分）第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选顼，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Ask someone what they have done to help the

17、 environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, bu

18、t it would be ,far better if we did not need to bring so much material homge in the first place. The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical households waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with pla

19、stic and cardboard. Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of areas for burying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse, gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process

20、itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need.However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse th

21、eir plastic bags, for example. But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpaekaged is of poor quality,This is especially true of food. But it is also applies to a wide range of consume

22、r tiroduets, which often have far more packaging than necessary. There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realise just how much unnecessary material are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture,but we have a mountain to climb.36. What does the u

23、nderlined phrase over-consumption refer to? A. Using too much packaging. B. Recycling too many wastes. C. Making more products than necessary. D. Having more material than is needed.37. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 tO show . A. the tendency of cutting household waste B. the increase of pac

24、kaging recycling C. the rapid growth of super markets D. the fact of packaging overuse38. According to the text, recycling A. helps control the greenhouse effect. B. means burning packaging for energy C. is the solution to gas shortage D. leads to a waste of land39. What can be inferred from Paragra

25、ph 4? A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality. B. Supermarkets care more about packaging. C. It is improper to judge quality by packaging. D. Other products are better packaged than food.40. What can we learn from the last Paragraph? A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult. B. Needless material is m

26、ostly recycled. C. People like collecting recyclable waste. D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.B Chinese students arent the only ones who have a sleep loss problem. In Australia, teenagers are also missing out, on average, one hours, sleep every night during the school week. Organized

27、activities and homework push bedtimes later, the first large-scale Australian study of childrens sleeping habits has revealed (显示). Their sleep deprivation (剥夺) is enough to causeserious drop-offs in school performance, attention and memory, and governments should consider later or flexible school s

28、tart times, said the studys leader, Tim Olds. His survey, of more than 4,000 children aged 9 to 18, found those who slept least did not watch more television but spent their time socializing (相处) with family or friends or listening to music. Almost all children get up at 7 or 7:15 - they have to get

29、 to school on time, said Olds. He favors a later start over an earlier finish because he believes organized sports and activities would still consume the latter end of the day. Olds research also establishes lack of sleep as a cause of weight gain in children, and a possible source of future problem

30、s with depression, anxiety and increased susceptibility(易感性)to illness. It was already known that overweight children sleep less, but Professor Olds found sleep duration(时长) was strongly linked to weight across the full range of body sizes. The thinnest children sleep 20 minutes more than the obese.

31、 This showed being overweight had no specific effect on sleep patterns, and it was more likely that shorter sleep times stimulate (刺激) appetite and make kids hungry. The US National Sleep Foundation says teenagers aged 13 to l8 need eight to nine hours sleep a night. Younger school-aged kids need 9

32、to 11 hours. On that basis, Professor Olds said, half of Australian children are under-sleeping on weekdays and a quarter on weekends.41. The Australian students surveyed dont sleep enough because they spend more time on he following EXCEPT . A. organized activities and homework B. communication with friends and family C. watching television programs D. enjoying music42. What effects does lack of sleep directly have on the students according to the survey? A. They become over