新兴一中2013届高三第五次月考英语试题

本试卷共10页, 三大题, 满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

一. 完形填空 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

We’ll 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（哭泣）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 wouldn’t 7 it throu