广东省揭阳一中、潮州金山中学2013届高三上学期联合摸底考试

英 语 试 题

Ⅰ. 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1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Well all have a Heart that is already accurately showing us how true things are.

Carmen’s mother Maria had just 1 a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant (移植) her life was in constant 2 .

Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very 3 : finding a donor heart that matched Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept 4 hospitals all over the country.

Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble walking from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a corner of the hospital 5 .

“Are you okay?” a man asked.

Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her 6 . This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and woul