1、清远市清城区 2011 届高三第一次模拟考试英语测试试题（2010、12）（本试卷三大题，满分 135 分。考试用时 120 分钟） 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 115 各题所给出的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。The story goes that some time ago, a man had a very lovely little daughterOne day the man 1 his 3-year-old daughter for 2
2、_ a roll of gold wrapping pape rMoney was tight and he became 3 when the child tried to decorate a 4 to put under the Christmas tree Nevertheless , the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy“The man was 5 by his earlier 6 , but his anger flared
3、again when he found out the box was _7 He yelled at her, stating, “Dont you know, when you give someone a present, there is 8 to be something inside?“ The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, its not empty at allI blew kisses into the boxThey are all for you, Da
4、ddy“The father was crushed. He 9 his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her 10 Only a short time later, an 11 took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out a(an) 12 kiss and reme
5、mber the love of the child who had put it thereIn a very real sense, each one of us, as human beings, has been given a gold container 13 unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends and God. There is simply no other _14 , anyone could hold, more 15 than this1Aasked Bprais
6、ed Cbegged Dpunished2Awasting Bstealing Cselling Dholding3Aglad Bangry Csad Dupset4Aroom Bhall Cbox Dball5Apuzzled Bsurprised Cscared Dembarrassed6Aoverwork Boverreaction Covercoat Dovertime7Aempty Bheavy Cfull Dwet8Ahappened Bseemed Csupposed Dused9Aput Bturned Chanded Dgave10Akindness Bforgiveness
7、 Csadness Dcarelessness11Aovercoat Bincident Caccident Daction12Aimaginary Bkind C gentle Dwarm13Afilled with Bpleased with Ccrowded with Dequipped with14Aworld B feeling Cpossession Dlove15Aexpensive Bprecious Ccomfortable Dinteresting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
8、空格处填人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 l6-25 的相应位置上。During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu launched an attack against the State of Yue. The king of Wu was seriously wounded and soon died. _16_ son Fu Chai became the new king. Fu was determined to revenge(复仇). He trained his army stri
9、ctly _17_ it was a perfect fighting force. Three years later, he led his army _18_ the State of Yue and caught its king Gou Jian. In order to avenge his fathers _19_(die), Fu let him live in a shabby stone house by his fathers tomb and ordered him to raise horses for him. Gou pretended to be loyal t
10、o Fu _20_ he never forgot his humiliation (羞辱). Many years later, he _21_ (set) free. Gou secretly accumulated a military force after he went back to his own state. In order to make himself tougher he slept on firewood and ate a gall-bladder _22_ having dinner and going to bed every night. At the sa
11、me time he administered his state carefully, _23_ (develop) agriculture . After a few years, his country became strong. Then Gou seized a favorable opportunity to wipe off the State of Wu. Later, people use it to describe one _24_ stands self-imposed(自愿接受的) hardships to _25_ (strong) ones determinat
12、ion to realize ones ambition. .阅读(共两节，满分 50 分)第节 阅读理解(共 20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 分)阅读下列短文，从 2645 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 ( A )I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street f
13、rom our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during break. I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her bu
14、t no one could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be
15、 the best. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts dont count.” Well, I had to give it to hershe was determined. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory.One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the gras
16、s, head in her arms. I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply, “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at 55” she would probably never get to play for a top ranked teammuch less offered a scholarship
17、so she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told
18、 her that if she truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing could stop her except one thing her own attitude.The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was offered a scholarship and on the college team. She was going to get the college education that s
19、he had dreamed of.26The author was probably the girls .Abrother or sister Bfriend Cmother Dteacher27Why was the girl heartbroken?AShe was considered too short to be a top player.BHer co ach stopped her training because of her height.CShe couldnt be on a college basketball team.DShe wouldnt be admitt
20、ed by an ideal college.28We can learn from the passage that .Aher family wouldnt like to pay her college feeBher father forced her t o play basketball in collageCbeing a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for collegeDshe wouldnt like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty29Wh
21、ich word can best describe her father?AEncouraging. BOptimistic. CStubborn. DCruel.30Which proverb best matches the story?APractice makes perfect. BRome was not built in a day.CWhere there is a will, there is a way. DPride comes before a fall.(B)Is early childhood education really necessary? Early c
22、hildhood education primarily focuses on learning through playing to develop the childs physical, sensory, communicational and social developmentEarly childhood education has become a concern of the government, who pushes poor children to be formally trained before they are old enough for kindergarte
23、nThere are good reasons for the government to push early childhood educationStudies have shown that orphaned children who did not receive good care and education become developmentally delayed causing failure in school, and even in lifeFurther studies show that poor children who take part in Head St
24、art programs are more prepared for school , less likely to end up in Special Education classes , and are less likely to receive public help or go to prisonThere are also negative parts to putting a child in formal education programs too earlyTime Magazine online explains that “the younger the child
25、the less h is chances of catching up with first-grade work ” I have personally witnessed many children of my generation who went to Head Start programs become frustrated and bored with school before they finished high schoolYet parents have been sure that the earlier the child starts school, the bet
26、ter off he or she is, so they push to start children earlierActually while early formal education of poor children does show great gains in the early elementary years, studies also show that this head start is really a “false start”, as the gains are lost in middle and high school yearsIt seems that
27、 environment is a bigger factor on lifes success than early educationHead Start programs have not achieved its original goal in closing the achievement gap in poor and middle school childrenPerhaps it is time to find other ways to close that gap31. The purpose of the government valuing the early chi
28、ldhood education is _Ato develop the childrens communicationBto give orphaned children good care and educationCto get the children prepared for the kindergartenDto train the children formally and regularly32. According to the studies, which of the following is True?AChildren with good early educatio
29、n may have a rich lifeBThe orphaned children are usually unhappy in their life CChildren without early education can do well at schoolDHead Start programs are helpful to the poor children33. “the younger the child the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work ” suggests that _Athe early
30、childhood ed ucation is helpless to the childs gradeBit is good for the young children to receive early educationCthe early education can help the children follow the gradeDthe younger the children are, the c leverer they will be 34. The authors attitude toward the early childhood education is _Apuz
31、zling Bnegative Cindifferent Dapproving35. The main idea of the last passage is that _Athe early childhood education is very necessaryBHead Start programs have helped the children a lotCenvironment is the most important to lifes successDbetter ways should be found to help the poor children(C)Ask som
32、eone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recyclingRecycling in the home is very important of courseHowever, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we needWe are dealing with the results of that over-consumption i
33、n the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first placeThe total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005It now makes up a third of a typical households waste in the UKIn many supermarkets nowadays food items are
34、packaged twice with plastic and cardboardToo much packaging is doing serious damage to the environmentThe UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary wasteIf such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effectRecycling helps, but
35、the process itself uses energyThe solution is not to produce such items in the first placeFood waste is a serious problem, tooToo many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to
36、reuse their plastic bags, for exampleBut this is not just about supermarketsIt is about all of usWe have learned to associate packaging with qualityWe have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer p
37、roducts, which often have far more packaging than necessaryThere are signs of hope As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collectingWe need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb36What does the underlined
38、phrase “over-consumption” refer to? AUsing too much packaging BRecycling too many wastesCMaking more products than necessary D Having more material than is needed 37The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _Athe tendency of cutting household waste Bthe increase of packaging recyclingCthe rapid
39、 growth of super markets Dthe fact of packaging overuse38According to the text, recycling _Ahelps control the greenhouse effect Bmeans burning packaging for energyCis the solution to gas shortage Dleads to a waste of land39What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?AUnpackaged products are of bad quality
40、BSupermarkets care more about packaging CIt is improper to judge quality by packaging DOther products are better packaged than food40What can we learn from the last paragraph?AFighting wastefulness is difficult BNeedless material is mostly recycledCPeople like collecting recyclable wasteD The author
41、 is proud of their consumer culture(D)Research by Scotland Yard published in a London newspaper, has proved that knife crime in London is a serious non white phenomenon, with 165 of the 2 25 under- 18s accused of knife crime in the past three months being from the black or other non white groupsAcco
42、rding to Scotland Yard, only 60 of the 225 crimes were whiteDespite being a small minority of the knife holding criminals, whites did, however, make u p the sin gle largest group of victims of knife crimeAccording to the Scotland Yard report, whites made up 222 of the 637 victims of knife crime over
43、 the last three monthsThis number could probably be higher, as 292 victims were not identified by raceThis month Scotland Yard Deputy Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson suggested knife crime has replaced drug selling as the top concern for London policeSir Paul said so as he announced a specialist kni
44、fe crime unit to deal with teenagers carrying knives in the capitalIt will use a team of 75 specialist officers to find criminal group members and their supportersDetective Inspector, George Rhoden, president of the National Organisation of Black Law Enforcement Executives said, “In the black commun
45、ity we have all noticed that there is major concern about gun and knife crimeClearly we are not the only part of the community affected by the problem of children who have no fathers, but parental responsibility should be of major concern.”Around 59 percent of black Caribbean children and 54 percent
46、 of mixed race youngsters are looked after by a parentIn the white British population, the number is 22 percent41From the above, we can see that in knife crimes in LondonAthere are more whites than Asians as victimsBthere are more blacks than whites as victimsCAsians make up the smallest group of cr
47、iminalsDblacks make up the second largest group of criminals42What Sir Paul Stephenson said suggests that Adrug selling has replaced knife crime as the top concern for London policeBdrug selling had been the top concern for London police in the pastCknife crime used to be the top concern for London policeDLondon police now pay no attention to drug selling43What measure has the government taken to deal with the problem of kni
