2014年梅州市高三总复习第二次质检试卷（2014.5.）

英语

本试卷分选择题和非选择题，满分为135分，考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1.答题前，学生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号填写在答题卡上。

2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试卷上。

3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目所指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

I  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1～15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。

If you put a buzzard in a pen(围栏) six or eight feet square and entirely openat the top, the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, will be an     1   prisoner.The reason is that a buzzard always begins a      2      fromthe ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. Without space to run, as ishis      3   , he will noteven attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a（n）      4   jail with no top.

The ordinary bat that flies aroundat night, who is a       5    nimble(敏捷的) creature in the air, cannot take off from alevel place. If it is placed on the floor or      6     ground,all it can do is shuffle（拖着脚步）about      7   and,no doubt,       8    ,until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can      9     itselfinto the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.

A bumblebee if dropped into an open tumbler（平底无脚酒杯）      10     will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees themeans of       11    atthe top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides nearthe       12    .It will seek a way where none exists, until it      13      destroysitself.

In many ways, there are lots of people likethe buzzard, the bat and the bee. They are    14   aboutwith all their problems and frustrations, not realizing that the      15      isright there above them.

1.  A.absolute                     B.important                      C.unlucky                     D.illegal

2.  A.try                            B.run                            C.flight                      D.walk

3.  A.skill                            B.ability                            C.style                        D.habit

4.  A.small                             B.empty                            C.high                             D.dirty

5.  A.different                      B.large                            C.remarkable               D.long

6.  A.high              B.rough              C.flat              D.small

7.  A.quickly                            B.helplessly                     C.tiredly                     D.gently

8.  A.comfortably                  B.painfully                      C.softly                            D.generously

9.  A.throw                            B.lose                            C.devote                     D.apply

10.        A.carefully                     B.aimlessly                     C.difficultly                  D.carelessly

11.        A.live                             B.transport                     C.travel                            D.escape

12.        A.foot                            B.mouth                            C.bottom                     D.edge

13.        A.obviously                     B.greatly                            C.completely           D.badly

14.        A.worrying                     B.struggling                     C.talking                  D.thinking

15.        A.answer                     B.effort                            C.chance                     D.trouble

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16～25的相应位置上。

A group of alumni, highly established intheir career got together to visit their old university professor. Conversationsoon turned into complaints ___16___ stress in work andlife.

Offering his guests coffee, the professorwent to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a ___17__(various)of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive,some beautiful—telling them to help ___18___ to thecoffee.

___19___ all the students had acup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “If you noticed, all the nicelooking expensive cups were taken up, ___20___(leave) behind theplain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best foryourselves that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that thecup itself ___21___(add) no quality to the coffee. In most cases itis just more expensive and in some cases it even hides ___22___ wedrink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but youconsciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other’scups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; andthe job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools tohold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor changethe quality of life we live. Sometimes by concentrating only ___23___ thecup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided ___24___.”
   God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
   “___25___ happiest people don’t have the best ofeverything. They just make the best of everything.”