湖南省师大附中2014届高三上学期第一次月考英语试题答案(2)

25．It is said that the building to be completed next year will be ____ the old one．
A．as half big as      B．half as big as     
C．half bigger as       D．bigger half as
26．When you look at_____ great effects the climate change has on our life, you'11 agree that it is the most pressing global problem．
A．which            B．how              C．what              D．why  
27．According to the schedule, the flight No．232 to Beijing____ at 10:30．We'd better set out right now, or we'll be late．
A．leaves         B．left             C．will leave           D．has left
28．By the time you arrive in London, we_____ in Europe for two weeks．
A．will stay          B．stayed            
C．will have stayed     D．are staying
29．When we were in the college, we _____ stay either in the lab or in the library, devoting ourselves to books．
A．should            B．would           C．can                D．need
30．_____ and we' 11 finish the work on time．
A．If we are given two more days          B．Two more days
C．Having two more days                 D．Given two more days
31．The murderer was brought in, with his hands ____ behind his back．
A．being tied        B．having tied        C．to be tied          D．tied
32．40% of the students in our school _____ from the other parts of Hunan, which ___ relatively large number．
A．is? are            B．is; is             
C．are; is               D．are; are
33．____ approximately eight by fourteen feet, this room can house 6 to 8 students．
A．Measuring                         B．Being measured                      
C．Having measured                     D．To measure
34．—____ you make such great achievements in your career?
—With strong will and devotion．
A．What is that       B．How is it that    
C．What is it that       D．How is that
35．We are always told that Only through hard work____our goals in our study．
A．we will achieve                        B．we have achieved
C．have we achieved                      D．will we achieve
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．
A French billionaire used to have a rough time when he was young．Later he  36  himself in the field of drawing sales．Within ten years, he had become a young media tycoon （大亨） in France．He died of cancer
in 1998．
A French newspaper published his   37   after his death, in which he claimed:Iwas a poor guy．Before t reach the threshold (门槛） of heaven, I leave my secret of how to become   38   to the world．
Anyone who can answer the question 'What do the poor   39   most will have discovered my secret of becoming rich．My deposit of one million francs in the private safe of my bank will be the prize for his wisdom in uncovering the riddle of poverty．"Many people  40  to the publicized will．The answers, as one might imagine, were  41   ．The majority of them thought the poor were missing money most．Some stated that what the poor most   42   was opportunity．Still others thought that the poor needed skills to make  money．The rest of the answers claimed that poverty could be attributed to the   43   of help, love, attractiveness, and  44   good luck．
On the first anniversary of the billionaire’s passing, his lawyer and representative opened his private safe in the bank; the secret of getting rich   45   ．The billionaire believed that the most absent among the poor was the   46   of getting rich．
It was a nine? year? old girl who hit the nail on the head．Why did she regard "ambition" as the．Thing the poor lacked most? The day she was officially   47   the one million francs, she said:" Every time my elder sister brought her boyfriend home, she always warned me not to be ambitious．So, I thought perhaps ambition was something that brought what you wanted．"