广东省湛江师范学院附属中学、湛江附中东方实验学校2014-2015学年高一上学期期中联考英语试题

完型填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people    1    have different answers. Have you   2    seen any ads（广告）of this kind in newspapers or magazines? “We help you to   3    English within 6 weeks or your   4    will be given back.” “Easy and funny! Our records and tapes help you master your English in a month. From the first day your pronunciation will be excellent. Just send us …” Of course, it has never   5    like that.
The only language that seems   6    to learn is the mother tongue. We still   7    that we all learned our own language well when we were    8   . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem very difficult. So   9    what a small child does --- he listens to what people   10    and tries to imitate（模仿）what he hears. When he wants something, he has to ask for it. He is using the language, talking in it, and thinking in it all the time. Just imagine how much   11    he does every day!
So it is   12    to say that learning English is easy because a good command （精通）of English  13  on a lot of practice. And practice needs great efforts （努力）and   14    much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books and dictionaries will   15   , but they cannot do the homework or exercises for the students.
1. A. should  B. shall   C. may   D. would
2. A. ever   B. still   C. never   D. yet
3. A. know  B. get   C. study   D. master
4. A. knowledge B. time   C. idea   D. money
5. A. happened  B. looked   C. seemed  D. felt
6. A. difficult  B. likely   C. easy   D. good
7. A. know  B. remember  C. understand  D. think
8. A. students  B. children  C. babies   D. graduates
9. A. imagine  B. mind   C. do   D. look
10. A. say  B. talk   C. tell   D. speak
11. A. time  B. money   C. language  D. practice
12. A. hard  B. possible  C. necessary  D. important
13. A. depends    B. tries   C. goes   D. spends
14. A. uses  B. takes   C. gets   D. costs
15. A. do   B. increase  C. help   D. improve
Ⅱ.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。
Praise can change a person. It is true that   16    (inspire) words turn our lives around. Praise is really magical. Perhaps many of us had such experiences. Take myself    17    an example. I was very naughty in the primary school. Most of the teachers and even my parents felt headache of me. But    18    happened  that I once got a very high mark in    19    examination and the head teacher   20     (report) this to my parents. My parents praised me    21    (crazy) for this for quite a long time and told neighbours about that. I felt really happy  22     became polite to others. Every time   23    I heard others talk to me about my excellent examination result, I thought to myself   24    I would work even harder and make    25   (great) progress. Just as Shakespeare said, “Our praises are our wages”.
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