2011-2012学年上学期高三级第二次月考（10月）

英 语 2011.10.08

命题者: 高三英语第一命题组 审题者：李燊

本试卷共8页，共三大题，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

一．语言知识及运用 （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16～30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。

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 1 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 2 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 3 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 4 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency（缺乏） 5 in the actual stuff of language itself — words. Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 6 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He lab