广东梅陇中学届高三第一次调研考试试题英语.doc

广东省梅陇中学2011届高三第一次调研考试试题(英语)
本试卷共四大题,满分150分｡考试用时120分钟｡
I. 词汇部分 (共两节,15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
第一节:单词拼写:根据首字母或汉语注释写出单词的正确形式｡
1.His health s ________ terribly from heavy drinking in the past.
2.As far as I am c ______ ,I can't agree with what you have said.
3.The worker i _____ his own danger and jumped into the river to save the boy.
4.Now t ____ like to surf the internet;some even forget his own studies.
5.Soon the robber was found ________ (躲藏) in a mountain village.
6.I am now in a difficult _______ (情形,情况).I badly need your help.
7.The news quite _______ (使他心烦意乱)him.
8. I like being __________ (忙碌的).
9. It’s my __________ (梦想) to see the Great Wall one day.
10. Usually, it’s so _________ (拥挤的) that I can’t find anywhere to sit.
第二节:完成句子
11.He was so excited that l couldn't make him _____ (平静下来).
12. We are all _________ (相处得很好) each other in our class.
13.She _____ (为....担忧)her son's future.
14.There has been ________ (一系列)cars accidents at the crossing.
15.Filling the blanks ________ (根据)what I have said.
II. 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16~30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｡
I can still remember when I met my best friend.She had just moved into the neighborhood and her grandmother brought her down to 16 me.I hid behind my motherland she hid behind her grandmother, 17 to look at each other.Soon we lost the 18 and started playing with each other.
In the 7th grade,I first lost touch with her.She was 19 family problems and I deserted her to be with the because they knew she had 20 people.None of my new friends liked her as much as I did because they knew she had 21 .However,every summer we could always sit at each other’s house and watch soap operas,and talk about all the boys we liked.
It was last year when I noticed the problem.I guess I was too devoted in high school to 22___ she needed someone there for her.Anyway,she made a new best friend and so did I.Then 1 didn’t know why,but she started cutting herself!
She then was diagnosed(诊断)with clinical depression.At first,1 was very 23___ ,but we still stayed in 24____ .I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend basically 25___ her and people were calling her 26____ .
Yesterday she came to me and said:“I never knew what a best friend was until you were the only person that would stop me cutting.I 27___ you so much,and you didn’t even know you were 28____ me.”
We both cried.And I guess a kind of 29__ from my life so far is never to give up on your friends.Even if they aren’t as cool as others,or people think they are crazy,they need someone there.If you desert them,you will only be 30____ yourself.
16.A.follow B.meet C.join D.support
17.A.scared B.annoyed C.worried D.delighted
18.A.temper B.interest C.confidence D.shyness
19.A.taking up B.getting through C.going through D.making up
20.A.happier B.cooler C.stronger D.cleverer
21.A.problems B.shortcomings C.partners D.disabilities
22.A.admit B.accept C.consider D.realize
23.A.calm B.considerate C.upset D.helpful
24.A.place B.touch C.control D.mood
25.A.confused B.bothered C.reminded D.deserted
26.A.crazy B.stubborn C.clumsy D.stupid
27.A.expect B.influence C.appreciate D.demand
28.A.urging B.blaming C.helping D.hurting
29.A.honour B.favour C.pleasure D.lesson
30.A.innocent B.successful C.guilty D.reliable
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31—40的相应位置上｡
Chuck’s Friend
In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks plays a man named Chuck Noland. Chuck is a businessman. One day Chuck is on a flight across the Pacific Ocean ____31_____ suddenly his plane crashes. Chuck survives the crash and lands on a ___32____ (desert) island.
On the island, Chuck has to learn to survive all alone. Perhaps the most difficult challenge is how to survive without friends. In order to survive, Chuck develops a ___33____ (friend) with an unusual friend – a volleyball he calls Wilson.
Chuck learns a lot about himself when he is alone on the island. He realizes that he hasn’t been a very good friend because he has always been thinking __ 34____ himself. During his five years on the island, Chuck learns how to be a good friend to Wilson. ___35____ though Wilson is just a volleyball, he becomes fond of him. He talks to him and treats him as a friend. Chuck learns that we need friends to share happiness and sorrow, and that it is important ___36____ (have) someone to care about. He ___37____ learns that he should have cared more about his friends.
A volleyball is certainly an unusual friend. Most of our friends are human beings, but we also make friends ___38____ animals and even things. For example, many of us have pets, and we all have ___39___ (favor) objects such as a lucky pen or a diary. The lesson we can learn from Chuck and all the others ___40____ have unusual friends is that friends are teachers.
III. 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)
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A､B､C和D项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑｡
(A)
Advice to English learners
Learners of English, especially self-taught learners may have trouble in understanding speeches by native speakers. The following ways might help improve their ability.
First of all, do things step by step. It is not good to listen to something beyond your level. Better choose a suitable course and start with the first book. Go on to the second book only after you are sure you understand the first one.
Secondly, stick to one course of study. Don’t change books often. Never let your attention be attracted by another course just because it seems to be more “ fashionable”(时髦).
Thirdly, listen to the English news programme over the radio from time to time. Better go through the news stories in the Chinese-language newspaper first. That will make it easy for you to understand the English news on the radio.
Fourthly, if you have time, listen to some interesting stories in “special English” from the VOA or other listening materials of the same level as that of your textbook.
41. This is a piece of advice to learners of English in how to_____.
A. improve their listening ability B. read fast
C. write better English and read fast D. speak correctly
42. If you want to understand the English news programme on the radio, you should_________.
read the Chinese-language newspaper carefully
read again and again the Chinese-language newspaper
go through the Chinese-language newspaper
be able to recite the Chinese-language newspaper
43. “Beyond your level” means something_______.
A. easy for you B. too difficult for you
C. not too easy and not too difficult for you D. just all right for you
44. The author advised that once you have taken up a course, you should_______.
stick to it B. begin with the last book
C. take up other courses if you are more fashionable D. not do anything else
45. In this passage, VOA stands for______.
A. a book B. a magazine C. a textbook D. a radio station
(B)
Move Earth — it’s no science fiction
LONDON — Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet from overheating: move it to a cooler spot. All you have to do is send a few comets(彗星)in the direction of Earth, and its orbit will be changed. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.
This idea for improving our climate comes from a group of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) engineers and American astronomers. They say their plan could add another six billion years to the useful lifetime of our planet—effectively doubling its working life.
The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams ,needs carefully directing a comet or asteroid so that it passes close by our planet and sends some of its gravitational energy to Earth.
“Earth’s orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun,” Laughlin said.
Engineers would then direct their comet so that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn. The comet would pick up energy from one of these giant planets. Later its orbit would bring it back to Earth, and the process would be repeated. In the short term, the plan provides an ideal way to global warming, although the team was actually concerned with a much greater danger. The sun is certain to heat up in about a billion years and so “seriously compromise” our biosphere(生物圈)— by cooking us.
That’s why the group decided to try to save Earth.
The plan has one or two worrying aspects, however. For a start, space engineers would have to be very careful about how they directed their asteroid or comet towards Earth. The smallest miscalculation(误算)in orbit could fire it straight at Earth—with deadly consequences.
There is also the question of the Moon. As the current issue of Scientific American magazine points out, if Earth was pushed out of its current position it is “most likely the Moon would be stripped away from Earth,” it states. This would greatly change our planet’s climate.
46. What makes the scientists plan to move Earth?
A. A few comets are moving to the direction of Earth.
B. Earth’s working life is coming to an end soon.
C. Earth will become too hot for mankind to keep alive.
D. The moon is moving farther and farther away from Earth.
47. If the plan is successful, Earth will have a working life of ______years.
A.12 billion B.6 billion C.18 billion D.24 billion
48. What serious problems might the plan cause according to the passage?
A. The comet might hit Earth and man might lose the moon.
B. Earth might be moved too far away and man might be frozen to death.
C. The comet might hit Jupiter or Saturn and never return to Earth.
D. Earth’s working life might be greatly shortened.
49. What does the underlined word “compromise” mean?
A. provide B. benefit C. share D. endanger
50. Which of the following best shows how the plan would work?

(C)
Man has a big brain. He can think, learn and speak. Scientists thought that men are different from animals because they can think and learn. They know now that dogs, cats and birds can learn too. They are beginning to understand that. They make noises when they are afraid, or angry or unhappy. Apes(猿) can understand some things more quickly than human, one or two of them have learnt a few words. But they can not join words to make sentences. They can not think like us because they have no language. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been able to build a modern world because he has language. Every child can speak his own language very well when he is four or five, —but no animal learns to speak. How do children learn it ? Scientists do not really know. What happens inside our body when we speak? They do not know. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.
51. The best title for this passage is .
A. Animal’s Language B. Man and Ape C. Brain and language D. Man’s Brain
52. Men are different from animals in the way that .
A. men can understand things quickly B. men can learn
C. men have learnt to use language D. men have brains
53. An ape can not .
A. make noises B. understand things C. learn words D. speak like man
54. Scientists now know .
A. how children learn to speak B. why apes can learn a few words
C. man’s brain helps him to learn to speak D. what happens when men speak
55. Which of the following is NOT true ?
A. Some animals can learn. B. Apes can understand some things more quickly than men.
C. Apes can put the words they know together.
D. Apes have no language though they can learn some words
第二节:篇章结构(共5小题,每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项｡选项中有一项为多余选项｡
Dear Sir,
I have to travel every day from So UK Road to the airport. Two buses travel along this route: No.49 and No.16. However, by the time No.16 reaches So UK Road, it is always full.__56__
The timetable states that there are buses from So UK Road to the airport every ten minutes.__57__ The instructions state that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. __58__
The instructions state that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday, I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. __59___ There were 129 of them.
Clearly printed on the back of every bus is a sign that says “Maximum speed: 50mph.” ___60__ Saturday morning a No. 49 bus traveled the distance in ten minutes, at an average speed of 60 mph. At times it must have done at least 80 or even 90 mph.
It is obvious that our bus companies have neither respect for the instructions nor consideration for their passengers. Can nothing be done about this?
Jerry
A. I counted the other passengers as they got off.
B. Why is it that half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?
C. The problem is that we have to pay more for our trip.
D. The distance from So UK Road to the airport is 10 miles.
E. This leaves No.49 which sometimes has empty seats on it.
F. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?
第二节:信息匹配(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
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