命题：江西省临川一中高三英语备课组
第一卷（共三部分，共115分）
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）
第一节：单项填空（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。
21.—You’ve made lots of mistakes in the exam.
— .
—I’ll give you a second chance.
A. You must be kidding B. I’m afraid not C. How come? D. So what?
第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Today I am known for my voice. Perhaps the greatest honor came when I was asked to read the New Testament (新约全书) on tape.
But it 36 a long time to believe such good things could happen to me. When I was a youngster I stuttered (口吃) 37 badly I was completely 38 to speak in public.
39 , when I was 14, Professor Donald Crouch came to our school. He was a retired college professor. English was his favorite subject; poetry was his deepest love. He held a book of poems 40 it were a diamond necklace, turning pages as if 41 treasures. When he heard our school was teaching Shakespeare and other classics, he could no longer 42 not being a part of our school.
When he 43 that I not only loved poetry but was 44 it, we became closer. There was, however, one 45 between us – Professor Crouch could not stand the 46 that I refused to read my poems to the class.
“Jim, poetry is 47 to be read aloud,” he said. “You should be able to speak those beautiful words.” I shook my head and 48 .
Then he tricked me. After handing in a poem, I waited for his 49 . It didn’t come. Instead, one day as the students gathered together, he challenged me. “Jim, I don’t think you wrote this.”
I 50 him in disbelief. “Why,” I started, anger flooding me, “of course I 51 !” “well, then,” he said, “you’ve got to prove it by getting up and reciting it 52 memory.”
By then the other students had settled at their desks. With knees shaking, I walled up. For a moment I stood 53 . Then I began, and kept going. I recited my poem all the way through!
Afterwards, Professor Crouch congratulated me, and 54 me to read other writers’ poetry before public.
Before long I discovered I did have a(n) 55 and found my fellow students actually looked forward to hearing me recite.
36. A. lasted B. took C. was D. wasted
37. A. so B. fairly C. such D. rather
38. A. uncertain B. unlikely C. unbelievable D. unable
39. A. But B. Besides C. Then D. However
40. A. even if B. so that C. as if D. on condition that
41. A. recovering B. uncovering C. removing D. discovering
42. A. prevent B. help C. keep D. stand
43. A. learned B. knew C. decided D. proved
44. A. writing B. reading C. reciting D. saving
45. A. difference B. difficulty C. promise D. pity
46. A. truth B. idea C. fact D. belief
47. A. said B. meant C. caused D. prepared
48. A. answered back B. showed up C. turned away D. stuck to
49. A. correction B. praise C. return D. comment
50. A. replied to B. laughed at C. pointed to D. stared at
51. A. could B. did C. should D. had
52. A. with B. of C. from D. in
53. A. changeless B. hopeless C. helpless D. breathless
54. A. enabled B. persuaded C. encouraged D. supported
55. A. voice B. sound C. appearance D. interest
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。
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SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08: 33- mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision.
Swept up by mountainous tsunami(海啸) waves at a Thai resort (旅游胜地), she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive. Fighting to stay above the waters, she had to choose which one would have to take his chances in the swirling torrent (漩流).
“I knew I had to let go of one of them and I just thought I’d better let go of the one that’s the older,” she told Sky News television in a report broadcast on Thursday. She said she was accompanied by the two boys, Lachie, 5, and two-year-old Blake, and their father, Brad, who had watched the drama helplessly from their first-floor hotel room, when the waves struck. “And I was screaming, trying to find him, and we thought he was dead,” she told reporters on arrival back in Australia.
Lachie was found alive about 2 hours later clinging to a door and, looked uninjured as his mother spoke to reporters.
British surfer (冲浪运动员) Martin Markwell is also a lucky man. He had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave – but when it finally came along, it was a night – mare. He was on his surfboard when he was swept up by a tsunami wave.
“It was really terrible because I was surfing, I was really surfing on a wave I wasn’t supposed to be on,” he said. “As an experienced surfer, when I saw the wave come I realized something was wrong, but I couldn’t escape because my surfboard was tied to my ankle.”
His wife Vicki and son Jake looked on in horror from a hotel balcony as he crashed towards the shore. Luckily, he stayed atop his board until he reached the hotel, jumped off and got to safety as the ocean rolled back to feed a much larger tsunami wave on its way. The family regrouped and ran to safety just minutes before a giant tsunami wave 10 metres high.
56. When the waves struck, the father Brad .
A. reported the disaster to Sky News television B. was watching a drama on TV in the hotel
C. tried to find his son lost in the waters D. watched things going on, unable to do anything
57. The underlined word “him” refers to .
A. an old man B. Lachie C. Brad D. Blake
58. It’s NOT true that Lachie and Martin .
A. were both accompanied by their family when the disaster happened
B. both survived from the high waves when tsunami struck
C. were both travelers from Europe on holiday in Thailand
D. were both alive owing to their proper judgment and determination
59. The best title of this news story would be .
A. Narrow Escape B. Disaster Caused by Tsunami
C. Exciting Surfing Experience D. Struggle Against Tsunami
