广东汕头潮师高级中学2014届高三上学期期中考试英语试题及答案

汕头市潮师高级中学2014届高三上学期期中考试
英语试题
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。
Today is Friday, the 29th of June. Paul told me something exciting this morning: his father helped the police catch a   1  yesterday! 
When Paul was waiting for the    2   with his father across the river, he heard some people arguing    3   . He looked around and saw two women and a big man    4     each other. When Paul’s father asked what was going on, one of the women said they were tourists and three young men    5   her friend’s purse when they were buying postcards in a bookstore. The other two had run away, but they   6     the big man closely.
When the ferry arrived, the big man hurried onto the ferry and the two tourists went    7     after him. Paul was angry. He wanted to go up and help the two women. But his father said he didn’t want to take that ferry. Paul felt rather      8    because he thought his father was afraid of the big man and unwilling to help others! sj.fjjy.org
What Paul saw next changed the    9     of his father. His father hurried to a nearby ice-cream store and used their phone to    10    110. He reported the robbery to the police and gave some    11    details about the robber, the tourists and the ferry.
When they    12    off the next ferry, Paul saw three     13    around the big guy in handcuffs(手铐). . . . While Paul was telling me the story, he seemed very   14      . He said he had a better understanding of his father. Although he looked   15      , he was a real hero.
1. A. robber B. theft C. tourist D. murderer
2. A. bus B. ferry C. ship D. boat
3. A. kindly B. angrily C. closely D. loudly
4. A. shouting at     B. fighting against      C. debating with D. talking with
5. A. noticed B. stole C. seized D. cut
6. A. caught B. sought C. followed D. surveyed
7. A. abroad B. back C. home D. aboard
8. A. angrier B. sadder C. tougher D. tenser
9. A. feeling B. idea C. action     D. belief
10. A. call B. telephone C. ring D. dial
11. A. useful B. careful C. fearful D. hopeful
12. A. turned B. set C. got  D. took
13. A. women B. fellows C. policemen D. tourists
14. A. delighted B. proud C. confident D. reliable
15. A. outstanding B. Great         C. scared D. ordinary
第二节  语法填空(共10小题；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。
Although many high school dropouts leave school permanently, some dropouts later reenter school.    16    (approximate) 10 percent of the sophomores     17 dropped out between 1980 and 1982 returned to school by    18    fall of 1982. Generally, high school reentrants differ    19   typical dropouts in several school and student characteristics. Background attributes and test score performance  20      (associate) with low dropout rates tend to be related to higher-than-average reentry rates. For example, reentry rates among 1980 sophomore dropouts were about one-fifth    21    (high) in the Northeast and North Central regions than in the South or West. Among whites, reentry rates in the West were one-third lower than in other regions.    22    blacks, reentry rates in the Northeast (14 percent)      23 (be) substantially higher than those in the South (6 percent). Hispanic dropouts in the North Central region were three times    24    likely to return to school as those in the Northeast or West. Hispanics in the South were twice as likely to reenter as  25     in the Northwest or West.
Ⅱ. 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节  阅读理解(共20小题; 每小题2分, 满分40分)

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Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins.    
People in California love to talk about “zero-emissions vehicles”, but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants mostly use fire to make it. Aside from the new folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators. Generators are fueled by something—usually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something.    
In other words, those “zero-emissions” cars are likely coal-burning cars. It’s just because the coal is burned somewhere else that it looks clean. It is not. It’s as if the California Greens are covering their eyes—“If I can’t see it, it’s not happening. ” Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat—at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc. .