绝密★启用前 试卷类型：A 广东珠海市2014-2015学年第一学期期末学生学业质量监测高 三 英 语无答案
本试卷共12页,三大题,满分135分,考试用时120分钟
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色笔迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上。
2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上相对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，答题卡交回。
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。
Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with 1 that can seem life-destroying and it may be 2 to decide whether to keep going. But you always have a choice.
Jessica Heslop shares her 3 journey from the worst times in her life to the 4 life she has created for herself:
In 2012 I had the worst year of my life. I had to 5 my job and was left with no income soon. But one day I got a 6 from my family at home saying that my father’s cancer had fiercely progressed and that he had been admitted to a hospice(临终关怀中心). He died 6 months later. My father was a complete 7 to me. He was always so strong that, for a minute after he drew his last breath, I thought he would come back to life. I could not 8 I would never again cuddle into him and feel safe no matter what.
The 9 was so great and my world just looked 10 . I had no real home, no money, no job, and no friends that 11 . I was so unhappy that I ended up in 12 . I remember I lay in the hospital bed, desperate, but suddenly I realized that I had a choice. I could choose to 13 my life or I could choose to live it. I made a decision that I would not go with my father just yet and that I would stay and 14 my journey here.
Now I love myself more deeply every day. I write a blog that inspires others to live the life that they love. I spend quality time with the rest of my precious family and cherish
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every moment I have with them. I have 15 to shape the most beautiful life for myself. 1. A. decisions B. positions C. chances D. challenges 2. A. natural B. hard C. easy D. useful 3. A. popular B. scientific C. complex D. inspiring 4. A. new B. crazy C. possible D. fierce 5. A. give up B. pick up C. put up D. set up 6. A. drive B. start C. phone D. call 7. A. burden B. inspiration C. appreciation D. sacrifice 8. A. predict B. claim C. believe D. remember 9. A. pain B. taste C. future D. moment 10. A. delighted B. surprised C. depressed D. thrilled 11. A. defended B. considered C. cared D. wanted 12. A. street B. hospital C. market D. university 13. A. scold B. end C. looked D. love 14. A. cherish B. write C. complete D. realized 15. A. chosen B. spent C. understood D. begun
第二节 语法填空（共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。
China is considering building an 8,000-mile high speed rail link to America. It would take less than two days to take the journey including 16 125-mile undersea tunnel(隧道).
Traveling 17 around 217mph, the train would leave the north-east of the country, run through Siberia and enter a 125-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, the 18 (short) crossing between Russia and Alaska. It would then resurface and head south through Canada, 19 reaching its destination in America.
It is unclear 20 the American, Canadian or Russian governments have agreed to these plans. But engineers claim it would provide a 21 (practice) alternative to air travel. If 22 (complete), it would be 2,300 miles longer than the Trans-Siberian Railway, 23 (make) it the longest train route in the world. The underwater passage would also be four times the length of the Channel Tunnel, 24 connects France and the United Kingdom.
Even though the plans have not been finalized, it is believed that the project would be developed and financed by the Chinese, who have become global leaders in high-speed rail travel. So far, the country 25 (construct) the world’s longest bullet train network with more than 6,200 miles of routs in service.
Ⅱ 阅读 (共两节，满分50分)
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