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高三年级英语学科试卷 2018.1

（考试时间100分钟 满分120分)

本试卷共10页。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。

第一部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）

第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分, 共15分）

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，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。

例：It’s so nice to hear from her again. _____, we last met more than thirty years ago.

A. What’s more

答案是D。

B. That’s to say

C. In other words

D. Believe it or not

1. These fresh vegetables are easy to rot so you ______ eat them within two days. A. might

B. should

C. can

D. would

2. ______ the pictures on the screen more clearly, they moved to the front row. A. To watch

B. Watching

C. Watched

D. Having watched

3. He missed the worst of the traffic this morning, ______ he set out before 6 o’clock. A. but

B. so

C. for

D. or

4. ––Did you have to do much for the dinner party? ––No, Tina ______ everything by the time I got home. A. has finished

B. had finished

C. would finish

D. will finish

5. Two blocks beyond the school is a field ______ we often played football during childhood. A. who

B. which

C. when

D. where

6. My parents graduated from this university; that’s ______ I insisted on applying for it. A. which

B. why

C. what

D. where

7. ––Why are you buying a new refrigerator?

––The old one ______ so many times that it’s not worth it any more. A. has repaired

B. is repaired

C. has been repaired D. has been repairing

8. A child should be receiving either meat or eggs daily, preferably ______. A. neither

B. none C. either

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D. both

9. ––Can I give you a call on Saturday morning?

––I think I ______ to the mountains, so call me on my cell phone. A. drive

B. am driving

C. will drive

D. will be driving

10. What will you do if the people ______ at the back of the hall have trouble hearing the speech? A. sitting

B. sit

C. sat

D. to sit

11. Having a hobby is good for you. It doesn’t matter what it is _____ it drives you forward. A. as long as

B. though

C. unless

D. in order that

12. ______ the characters leave unsaid is often more important than what they put into words. A. That

B. When

C. What

D. How

13. ––My car is making a really strange noise.

––You’d better get it ______ before you drive to Denver. A. looking at

B. looked at

C. to look at

D. being looked at

14. I wish I ______ your advice then. In that case things might not be so bad. A. have taken

B. took

C. had taken

D. would have taken

15. What’s touching about being a volunteer is seeing _____ helping brings out the best in people. A. what

B. whether

C. why

D. how

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Failing Successfully

Two years ago I took part in a speech competition and delivered a memorized speech. It was a hard time for me when the judge __16__ the winners. At last, the moment of truth came. I got the worst.

After not being placed in the competition, I really wanted to __17__ again. I realized that finding the right topic was the most important part of the whole __18__. It needs to be motivational and inspirational to the __19__. So I reworked my speech for the following year, __20__ a different topic and spending many hours before the computer and in libraries doing research. Then I worked __21__ the speech, line by line, word by word, making it __22__ better.

The next year I participated in the competition again. I gave my __23__ in two parts, one was about my own experience and the other was about the feelings that people usually have when giving a speech—how __24__ it is, standing on a stage all alone, with everyone sitting and watching them. My

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speech __25__ down well and I was hoping to do that a little bit better. __26__, my wish didn’t come true. The competition was so fierce and again I wasn’t __27__.

I was deeply disappointed, since I couldn’t accept the fact that I had __28__ twice in something that I had worked so hard on. However, I knew that losing is __29__ and part of life. One of the judges said to me that my speech was quite good, __30__ it needed to be better if I wanted to go any further. He advised me to struggle to __31__ something like some of the empty gestures. He said that I would surely succeed someday.

While I didn’t earn __32__ as a result of the competition, I did gain a new viewpoint. I discovered that I could fail successfully. I think I’ll __33__ to work hard and enter the next competition. Now, whenever I’m faced with a defeat, I __34__ myself of what a famous person said, ―The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself that it’s a slip and not a __35__.‖ 16. A. announced 17. A. suffer 18. A. range 19. A. audience 20. A. reviewing 21. A. during 22. A. increase 23. A. choice 24. A. annoying 25. A. went 26. A. Angrily 27. A. settled 28. A. decreased 29. A. flexible 30. A. but 31. A. assume 32. A. profits

B. predicted B. compete B. condition B. companion B. supposing B. against B. flow B. instruction B. surprising B. dropped B. Sadly B. treated B. escaped B. normal B. so B. declare B. awards

C. observed C. win C. system C. director C. picking C. behind C. expose C. reason C. frightening C. slowed C. Strangely C. placed C. struggled C. appropriate C. for C. overcome C. comments

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D. interviewed D. check D. process D. author D. comparing D. through D. occur D. speech D. confusing D. rolled D. Eagerly D. affected D. failed D. typical D. or D. acquire D. qualities