湖南长郡中学2015高三月考（一）英语试题及真题试卷(2)

A. Only if; will you                B. Only if; you will
C. Unless; will you                D. Unless; you will
27. —Who should be responsible for the accident?
—The boss, not the workers. They just carried out the order __________.
A. as told      B. as are told     C. as telling      D. as they told
28. If you open up any medicine cupboard in the world, there is a high probability __________ you will find aspirin and penicillin.
A. which      B. what         C. that          D. when
29. __________ and I’ll get the work finished.
A. Have one more hour
B. One more hour
C. Given one more hour
D. If I have one more hour
30. Many a man __________ come to help us.
A. have        B. has           C. is            D. are
31. What he said is __________ but practical since __________ depends on “if”.
A. anything; everything
B. nothing; everything
C. everything; anything
D. none; everything
32. He __________ have forgotten to pay before he was stopped by the store keeper.
A. should         B. could          C. must          D. would
33. You never imagine what great trouble I have __________ this paper in my house.
A. found          B. for finding         C. to find          D. finding
34. He __________ football regularly for many years when he was young.
A. was playing    B. played             C. has played       D. had played
35. __________ tomorrow, he would get there by Friday.
A. Were he to leave                     B. If he had left
C. Did he to leave                      D. Had he left


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.
There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But   36   a few of them are very important. English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the US, but in other parts of the world. About 200, 000, 000 people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a   37   language. Many millions are trying to do so.
Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different   38  . Have you ever noticed the ads of this kind in newspapers or magazines?
“Learn English in six month, or your   39   back...” “Easy and funny? Our records and tapes   40   you master your English in a month. From the first day your pronunciation will be excellent. Just send...” Of course, it never   41   quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult.   42   what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, and   43   in it all the time, just imagine how much   44   that he gets!
So it is   45   to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English    46   upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and takes much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will   47  . But they cannot do the student’s work of him.
36. A. not         B. quite       C. only       D. very
37. A. native      B. foreign       C. useful       D. mother
38. A. questions    B. problems     C. ideas       D. answers
39. A. knowledge   B. time         C. money      D. English
40. A. force       B. help         C. get         D. allow
41. A. happens     B. knows       C. seems       D. feels
42. A. Get        B. Mind        C. Do          D. Think of
43. A. using      B. thinking     C. trying       D. practicing
44. A. time        B. money      C. language     D. practice
45. A. hard       B. easy         C. funny        D. silly
46. A. depends     B. tries         C. has         D. takes
47. A. do          B. go           C. help        D. master


Section C (12 marks)
Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
Maria is the founder of a chain of coffee bars. She comes from Singapore, but later moved to London with her family. Her father, who was a factory manager, filled   48   with a belief in hard work. Maria studied political science at university.   49   leaving university, she became a teacher. When her father passed away, she went to New York for   50   break. Every morning she’d go to a coffee bar. When she got   51   to London, she realized that   52   was nothing like those coffee bars.   53   she decided to give up her job and do something about it. She opened her   54   coffee bar in the year 1995 and her success was quick. She opened another ten the following year. Now she is proud of her success and plans to open 80 more   55   the 85 she already has. Just think Maria is only 35!