2014湖北省八市高三下学期3月月考英语试题答案(2)

   A. comfortable B. temporary C. stable D. precise
29. Young parents are advised to choose for their children natural foods            free of chemicals to make sure of their health.
   A. rarely      B. occasionally      C. absolutely     D. mostly 
30. We can be a smart shopper by choosing for value, not for looks;           , choose good quality goods with plain packages.
A. in particular  B. in other words C. in addition    D. on the contrary
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Tony set off for home again without having eaten since, as usual, one of the older boys had taken his packed lunch. Angry and   31  , Tony rushed to the park, when he suddenly saw a wasp（黄蜂） flying about among the rosebushes. It   32   him, making him get away from the roses immediately. Then, a   33   came into his head: How is it that something so much   34   than himself could frighten him like that?
Having   35   the insects for a while, he had a good understanding of the wasp’s   36  : it was fear. A wasp could never   37   a person, but everyone was so afraid of its sting that they left the wasp   38  . So Tony spent that night   39   what his ‘sting’ could be. 
The next day, Tony seemed like a   40   boy. No longer did he walk with his eyes fixed on the ground, nor did he   41   nervously when people spoke to him. Instead, he became brave and   42  , ready to face up to anyone. The boy who stole his packed lunch that day ate so spicy a sausage sandwich that he   43   crying and coughing. Never again did he rob Tony of his lunches. Another older boy   44   to hit Tony, but this time Tony looked at the boy   45   and bravely. From memory, he told him the   46   of his parents, his teacher, and the boy’s own mother, “ 47   you hit me I’ll call them, and you’ll be severely punished.” The boy turned around and   48   from the scene.
The strategy   49  . So, in the end, Tony became like the wasp he’d seen. Without even having to sting anyone, he frightened them, and   50   that no one would mess with him.
31. A. excited B. dissatisfied C. frustrated D. relaxed
32. A. scared B. inspired      C. rescued D. comforted
33. A. guess     B. thought C. belief  D. view
34. A. smaller B. bigger C. smarter D.fiercer
35. A. collected B. tested     C. watched D. counted
36. A. challenge B. trick C. choice D. method
37. A. bite B. warn      C. fight D. please
38. A. in peace     B. in silence C. by comparison D. on end
39. A. remembering B. doubting C. regretting D. wondering
40. A. different B. common C. strange D. rare
41. A. turn back B. look into C. turn down D. look away
42. A. confident B. reliable C. cheerful     D. sensitive
43. A. picked up B. brought out C. ended up D. cut down 
44. A. promised     B. threatened C. decided D. started
45. A. cruelly B. proudly C. determinedly D. carelessly
46. A. numbers B. feelings C. names D. changes
47. A. As     B. If C. Though D. Unless
48. A. withdrew B. recovered C. sheltered D. suffered
49. A. improved     B. failed C. survived     D. worked 
50. A. proved B. guaranteed C. concluded D. foresaw


第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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The man beside her looked familiar. She felt like she knew him. Then when he opened the book on his knees, she at once knew who he was.
 “Now, if anyone ever has a doubt regarding factorisation(因式分解), just once, read page number thirteen in your textbook. There would be no more doubt.”
She smiled at the memory, remembering his patient, cool face. She recalled one by one, all the memories of her middle school Math teacher. 
He was a widower(寡夫), always looking sad. He looked tailor-made for a librarian, silent as his books, or a romantic poet, but a mathematics teacher was the last guess anyone could make about him.
Oh, how they used to make fun of him, play tricks on him and laugh behind his back! He never laughed but smiled politely at everybody. Sometimes he would make silly mistakes on the blackboard, and then apologize as he erased it out. He always gave in to the girls’ demands of shortening his class. His correction was always careless and merciful , and the middle school girls relied on this fact to pass through the hardest of mathematics exam papers. 
But she didn’t remember him for this. 
Long shiny hair and soulful big eyes. A tall, slim frame. His daughter. They had been best friends and always hung about together. She recalled eagerly all the fun they had in middle school, wild and carefree...until his daughter went down with pneumonia(肺炎). She could never forget the suddenness and the meaninglessness of it, the feeling of emptiness.
After that, he looked even sadder. But, life went on. 
Now, after almost 25 years, sitting beside him, with a dirty city bus aisle between them, she gathered her courage and said, “Mr. Rao? I’m an old student of yours. You taught me in middle school.” 
He looked at her for a while. “I do not even seem to remember any student.”
She knew he was lying. “I am sorry about your daughter.”