成都外国语学校高2013级4月月考英语试题

命题人：杨怡 李兴勇 何平 审题人：刘艳玲 王玉竹 负责人：刘艳玲

本试卷分第I卷（选择题，共90分）和第II卷（非选择题，共60分）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

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所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试卷上答题无效；

考试结束后将答题卡交回，不得折叠、损毁答题卡。

第I卷 （选择题，共90分）

第一部分：英语知识运用(共两节．满分40分)

第一节：语法和词汇知识(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

1. We can never expect ______ bluer sky unless we create ______ less polluted world.

A. a; a B. A; the C. the; a D. the; the

2. —It looks heavy. Can I give you a hand?

—____________.

A. Yes, my pleasure B. No, thanks C. Yes, I do D. No, never mind

3. It saves time in the kitchen to have things you use a lot________ easy reach.

A. near B. upon C. within D. around

4. We are invited to a party ________ in our club next Friday.

A. to be held B. held C. being held D. holding

5. So sudden ________that the enemy had no time to escape.

A. did the attack B. the attack did C. was the attack D. the attack was

6. Amy joined a painting group but didn’t seem to ________, so she left.

A. show off B. go up C. fit in D. come over

7. ______was most important to her, she told me, was her family.

A. It B. This C. What D. As

8. I began to feel _______ in the new school when I saw some familiar faces.

A. at sight B. at heart C. at will D. at home

9. It was a nice house, but ______ too small for a family of five.

A. fairly B. rather C. very D. pretty

10. Thank you for all your hard work last week. I don’t think we _______ it without you.

A. can manage B. could have managed

C. could manage D. can have managed

：完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在机读卡上将该选项涂黑。

Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to ___11___. Now she was Portia, a strong–willed ___12___ in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people. She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing ___13___ from her.

___14___, Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She ___15___ being in front of other people. She was very ___16___ at school. She had never thought she was good enough at anything to ___17___ much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making ___18___ friends. She had excellent grades, ___19___ she always thought that something was missing.

Two weeks before the audition, Robertsa’s mother had heard about it and ___20___ her to join in.

“I can’t think of anyone else better suited to ___21___ the part. Remember all the plays you used to act out for us?”

Her mother wouldn’t let the ___22___ drop. “You’re just a little scared. Everyone gets scared. You know you ___23___ do it. The trick is to look past the ___24___ to find the love of what you’re doing.”

So Roberta had made an appointment with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play and found herself excited by the ___25___ of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia’s part, ___26___ the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn’t hard; she ___27___ every minute of it. Every time she spoke the words, she had a new ___28___ of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia on many levels.

On the day of the audition, she ___29___ two of Portia’s famous speeches for the auditors. When she had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the ___30___ was hers.

1. A. sing B. dance C. speak D. report

12. A. member B. actress C. player D. character

13. A. weakly B. rapidly C. smoothly D. slowly

14. A. At first B. In fact C. After all D. In all

15. A. hated B. enjoyed C. appreciated D. regretted

16. A. honest B. shy C. polite D. patient

17. A. avoid B. focus C. pay D. attract

18. A. few B. a few C. several D. many

19. A. or B. so C. for D. but

20. A. forced B. requested C. encouraged D. reminded

21. A. accept B. play C. offer D. learn

22. A. role B. matter C. interest D. grade

23. A. can B. must C. may D. should

24. anger B. pain C. sadness D. fear

25. purpose B. way C. idea D. importance

26. memorizing B. organizing C. checking D. improving

27. disliked B. loved C. expected D. bore

28. consideration B. description C. selection D. understanding

29. practiced B. planned C. performed D. delivered

30. part B. play C. speech D. position

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，25小题；每小题2分，满分50分）

第一节 阅读短文（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

July 21st, 2007 was a typical English summer’s day — it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I left

work at 5 pm, however, the road into our village was flooded. Our house had never been flooded,

but as I opened the front door, a wave of water greeted me. Thank God the kids weren’t with me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water. We lost everything downstairs. And the plaster had to be torn off the walls, ceilings pulled down.

At first we tried to push on through. We didn’t want to move the children out of home, so we camped upstairs. We put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we moved to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a community. We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbors, and I’d never thought how much I’d miss that.

Although-our situation was very bad, it’s difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at what’s happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought, “We didn’t have a straw hut that was swept away, and our house is still sanding. We’re lucky.”

We moved back home in August. With December coming, there’s reconstruction work to be done, so it’s difficult to prepare for Christmas. But I can’t wait — I’m going to throw a party for our friends in the village to say thanks for their support. This year , I won’t need any gifts — living away from home for months has made me realize how little we actually need or miss all our possessions . Although we are replacing things, there’s really no rush — we have our home back, and that’s the main thing.

31. What does the underlined word “amiss” in the first paragraph mean?

A. Wrong. B. Missing. C. Right. D. Found.

32. It can be inferred from the text that the author .

A. was sick of staying upstairs

B. cared much about her children

C. could not stand living a wooden house

D. did not deal well with her family affairs during the flood

33. Why does author say that they were lucky in the third paragraph?

A. Because her situation was not serious.

B. Because many other places were flooded.

C. Because she had been to Northern India.

D. Because some others suffered even more.

34. What does the author mainly want to express by telling her story?

A. She valued human feelings more than before.

B. She realized she almost didn’t need possessions.

C. She found Christmas gifts no longer badly needed.

D. She thought her own home was the most important.

B

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