湖南省长沙市明德中学2015届高三上学期第9周周考
英语试题
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Section A (15 marks) Choose the best answer: 1．Only in this way______ learn English well.
A．can we
B．we can
C．do we
D．we do
2．I told them not everybody could do it , _________? A．could they
B．couldn’t they
C．did I
D．didn’t I.
3．--Where did you see him for the first time? -- It was in the library _________ we read books. A．that
B．where
C．which
D．when
4．_______ is known to us all is that the 2016 Olympic Games will take place in Rio de Janeiro. A．As
B．What
C．That
D．It
5．–It’s really a pity that I didn’t see you in Shanghai. -- I _________ to see you in the hotel, but I was too busy.
A．hope
B．had hoped
C．hoped
D．am hoping
6．More than one student in our class _________ to Beijing, the capital of China.
A．has been
B．have been
C．is
D．are
7．Canadian airline First Air has equipped its entire fleet with an electric tracking system, ______
it nearly impossible for planes to disappear.
A. makes
B. made
C. making
D. make
8．Shanghai authorities are offering psychological aid to those_____ during the stampede at the Bund on New Year’s Eve.
A. injured B. injuring C. injures D. being injured 9．-- I’m so sorry for breaking the plate, Mom. -- It doesn’t matter．_________ careful next time.
A．Being
B．Do be
C．Do
D．To be
10．It was unwise of him to _________ the unreliable data in his speech.
A．refer to
B．referring to
C．belong to
D．belonging to
11．_________ it rain, the crops would be saved.
A．Will
B．Should
C．Would
D．Could
12．Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with the wisdom ______ experience can instill(逐渐灌输) in us.
A. who B. what C. that D. as 13．Tom has been absent for two days．Do you know what _________ to him?
A．has happened
B．would happen
C．was happened
D．had happened
14．Rose _________ tell her mother that she didn’t pass the exam.
A．dare not to
B．doesn’t dare to
C．doesn’t dare
D．dares not
15．3.It's no good _______ here. Let's go home.
A. to wait B. waited C. waiting D. being waited Section B (18 marks)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant her life was in constant 16 .
Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very small: finding a donor heart
that 17 Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept 18 hospitals all over the country.
Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble 19 from one end of the room to
the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a corner of the hospital, crying.
“Are you okay?” a man asked.
Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her story. 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 20 it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to 21 something from herself. Could her heart go to Carmen’s mother?
After reviewing the data, doctors 22 Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to 23 the transplant.
That cold night, when Cheryl was declared dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was 24 for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried.
On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s 25 with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.”
One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria 26 with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was 27 in another loving mother’s chest.
16. A. change
B. danger
C. disorder
D. pain D. cooperated
17. A. matched B. replaced 18. A. finding 19. A. rolling 20. A. put
B. phoning B. running B. support B. recycle B. warned
C. controlled C. touring
D. interrupting
D. jumping D. make D. separate D. reminded D. put off
C. walking C. pass C. donate
21. A. save
22. A. informed 23. A. give up
C. congratulated C. search after
B. carry out
24. A. praying B. begging C. decorating D. singing 25 A. funeral B. operation 26. A. passed away
B. woke up
C. performance C. left behind
D. anniversary D. dressed up D. changeable
27. A. active B. alive C. necessary
Section C (12marks)
Directions: complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
On the first day of classes at a Los Angeles high school, several American boys came up to a Chinese boy and said: “Hi, what’s up?” 28 hearing their greeting, the boy, 29 had just moved to the US with his parents, raised his head and looked at the sky.
This is a story told by David Chen, 30 31-year-old actor in Taiwan who recently launched a Sina mini-blog, on which he teaches easy English expressions.
“ To me, the mini-blog is 31 a mirror．When I read the comments, I see myself more clearly.”
Chen made a breakthrough last year 32 he had a double-eyelid surgery．“I like making changes and I think it’s necessary,” he said．“I know many fans like my pretty boy image．But now I’m growing up, I want to look rougher and 33 mature.”
“When you have a new haircut, you do not need to explain it．__34___ is just like changing your mood to do so–if you feel happy, that’s great,” said Chen．“Young people should realize that sometimes you can just do what you want to do．You will eventually get support from others if you dare to be 35 .”
Section D (10 marks) Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions :
United Nations officials say now fewer people than they thought are infected with the AIDS virus.
Last year, the agency known as UNAIDS thought that 39.5 million people were living with HIV．On Tuesday it reduced by 16% to a little more than 33 million.
Agency officials say the low number reflects better information form more countries．The agency reduced the number for five African countries: Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
Also, UNAIDS says it now believes the number of new HIV cases per year reached a high in the late 1990s at more than three million．This year, it thinks that 2.5 million people became infected, and 2 million people died of AIDS.
Luckily, better treatments are saving lives, and more people are getting the drugs.
Yet even as the number of new infections has dropped, UN officials say AIDS is still one of the leading causes of the death worldwide, and the major cause in Africa．African death rates remain high, they say, because treatment needs are not being met．Sub-Saharan Africa had almost 70% of the new cases of HIV reported this year．UNAIDS officials say this is a sharp reduction since 2001, but there is a need to further improve research method.
Billions of dollars are being spent preventing and treating HIV．Experts worry that the new number may lead to a drop in financial support．But UNAIDS officials say they do not change the need for immediate action and more money．They warn that in some countries, infection rates that
