江苏省启东中学2015届高三下学期期初调研测试英语试题

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第I卷（选择题 三部分 共85分）

第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸 (卡) 上将该项涂黑。

21. Everyone doesn't agree to the plan. Some support it while I'm one of ________opposed to it. A. those who B. who

C. those D. that

22. We have been trying to train the young people who were hired last month, but they ______ their best to learn.

A. were not doing B. didn’t do C. are not doing D. hadn’t done 23. Not once ________ their hope of returning home on that adventurous journey across the unknown seas.

A. the sailors have lost B. the sailors lost C. had the sailors lost D. did the sailors lose 24. Expanding populations and steadily improving communications brought more trade and contact, but also more _______ between social groups.

[来源学科网] A. cooperation B. friction C. liberation D. distribution 25. — Have you told your parents about your decision? — Not yet. I can hardly imagine _____ they will react.

A. what B. that C. how D. when

26. Each spring the apple tree in my garden blossoms so ______ that the air becomes filled with

the sweet of apple.

A. automatically B. approximately C. apparently D. abundantly

27. To prevent further pollution, many people are ______ the use of alternative energy sources. A. applying to B. compensating for C. catering to D. pushing for

28. The plans got _____ in the approval process, so everyone had to stop and wait until the application forms came back from the ministry.

A. struck B. occupied C. stuck D. delivered

29. If you put a stone in the way of an ant, it will go around, over, under or on top, without stopping, until it finds a way to get ______ it needs to be.

A. what B. how C. which D. where

30. Much disappointed as he is ________ in the job interview, he still keeps his confidence. A. to have failed

B. failed

C. having failed D. failing

31. Having seen several deadly traffic accidents recently, China’s traffic police launched _____ breath tests among all drivers.

A. authentic B. random C. vague D. tentative 32. I think George left because he had lost his job or ________. A. nothing

B. anything C. something D. everything

33. — What if he fails in the next monthly examination again? — I don’t know. ______ heart and be reduced ______ the class?

A. Will he lose; to not attending B. Did he lose; to not attending C. Had he lost; not to attending D. Would he lose; to not attending

34. Most of the students in the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong ______ have participated for more rights, but what they did caused serious effects on people’s living.

A. should B. might C. would D. can

35. Sherry has taught me that no matter how bad things seem they can ________ in the end. A. figure out B. make out C. work out D. pick out第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸(卡)上将该项涂黑。

It’s been so long that I can’t remember the crime, but I’ll never forget the punishment: Dig up the fig tree (无花果) in the backyard and plant it at Mumsy’s place in the country. As I often did when 36 to hard labor in the garden, I suspected this was my parents’ way of 37 me to do their dirty work.

It was a Sunday morning. With some tools, I went at the tree, dismantling (拆卸) it branch by branch and limb by limb, 38 all that remained of the once-proud specimen was a sorry-looking stump of a thing.

“What did that 39 ever do to you?”, my father said, “You left some taproot (主根), at least. Go and load up the truck.” On any other day before, during the 40 to mumsy’s, we would have pleasantly 41 school as usual, but I fenced myself off that time.

Then, at Mumsy’s, instead of sitting back to watch me work, he 42 me. As my father and I took turns to work, I could feel my anger 43 , making room for the simple satisfaction of working at my father’s side 44 a common goal.

“ Well,” my father said when we 45 , “ we’ve done what we can do.” “Do you think there’s any 46 that it can grow up?” I asked. “It’s rich dirt. They say you can 47 toenails in it and grow little kids.” My father answered. I never tried the toenail trick, but I did 48 as it settled in, took root, and began to prosper. I was amazed and 49 when bowls of

figs began to fill the fridge.

In a 50 fair world, I don’t deserve the reward. I had 51 the tree for my own

complaints. What right did I have to the fruit? Years later, I put this 52 to my father. Watching him slide a bowl of figs from the fridge one morning, I felt a sudden stab of shame for my boyhood 53 . My father took a fig from the 54 and let me think of the fruit as forgiveness. “You,” he said, “ 55 some of that.” 36. A. sentenced

B. punished

C. allowed D. encouraged

37. A. inviting B. having C. getting D. helping 38. A. until B. when

C. that D. after

39. A. truck B. tool C. tree D. taproot 40. A. rest B. flight C. walk D. ride

41. A. thought over B. talked about C. broke into 42. A. forgave

B. tricked

D. gave up

C. entertained D. joined

43. A. disappeared B. concentrated C. approached D. exposed 44. A. through B. against 45. A. argued

C. toward

D. off D. finished

D. chance

B. continuedC. started

46. A. relationship 47. A. dig

B. value C. advantage

B. plant C. remove D. observe

B. determine

C. watch

D. feel

48. A. understand

49. A. confused B. relieved C. regretful D. disappointed 50. A. perfectly B. partly C. mostly 51. A. forgotten B. hurt C. helped 52. A. task B. answer

D. probably D. guarded

C. question D. strategy