汕头四中2013届高三第四次月考英语试题

本试卷共12页，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

第一部分 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。

A man found the cocoon ( 茧 ) of a butterfly. One day a small ____1_____ appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it ___2___ to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any ___3____. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to ___4___ the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly came out ___5___. But it then had a swollen body and small, shriveled ( 皱缩 ) wings.

The man ___6___ to watch the butterfly because he’d expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge to be able to ___7___ the body, which would contract ( 缩小 ) in time. So he waited patiently.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly ___8___ the rest of its life crawlin