2015吉林三模英语试题及答案(4)

◆ It helps you review all the lessons you’ve learned. By reviewing your journal, you can quickly see the lessons you’ve learned and the ideas you’ve gotten.      38      You can use the ideas to propel (鞭策) yourself forward.
◆      39     After keeping a journal for years, you can look back at it and see how far you’ve gone. Things that were big problems in the past might seem small today. The raw ideas you had in the past might have been realized today. 
◆ It helps you expand your ideas. When you try to come up with a sentence to express an idea, you are thinking actively about it.      40     In the end, you will expand your ideas.
A. I often experienced that myself.
B. It trains you to express your thoughts.
C. It allows you to see your progress over time.
D. Just use whatever tool you feel comfortable with.
E. Here are some benefits you will get by keeping a journal.
F. Thinking actively helps you connect your idea to another idea.
G. Then you can do whatever necessary to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。
Try It a Different Way
Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a tough working-class neighbourhood on Manhattan’s West Side. By tradition he    41    have been a construction worker or a policeman, just like his father and most of his childhood pals.   42     , he wanted out. Attracted by the bright lights from the time Bobby was a teen, he tried to     43    . “I wasn’t a    44    actor, but I had a driving need to do something    45     with my life,” he said.
He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his    46   . But he didn’t make it. For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter, volunteering at an actors’ workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his      47       career.
In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco was forced to give up working and moved back to his    48    neighbourhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was     49    to his life. Called Half-Deserted Streets, it was based on his brother’s     50     and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer    51    to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay.
His    52    grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was    53    out of work and out of cash    54       he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on the script and tried some famous studios, but their request was    55   . Moresco believed so    56    in the script that he borrowed money, and sold his house. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance.
The    57   , Crash, slipped into the theatres in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and an overnight success. It    58    him two Academy Awards — Best Film Editing and Best Writing.
At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an    59    success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the problems,” he says, “think about the     60     to get it done.”
41. A. must   B. should         C. can          D. need
42. A. Then B. Therefore C. However D. Besides
43. A. study B. drive C. teach D. act
44. A. simple B. strict C. firm D. good
45. A. different B. impressive C. effective D. necessary
46. A. occasion  B. treasure C. fortune D. possibility
47. A. afforded B. chosen C. respected D. offered
48. A. early B. worn C. old D. passed
49. A. turned B. pointed C. belonged D. related
50. A. arresting B. injuring C. killing D. shooting
51. A. advised B. happened C. intended D. planned
52. A. influence B. ambition C. success D. reputation
53. A. again B. even C. finally D. still
54. A. before B. when C. since D. while
55. A. let out B. looked down C. taken off D. turned down
56. A. strongly B. hardly C. deeply D. bravely
57. A. actor B. movie C. studio D. director
58. A. gave B. failed C. won D. allowed
59. A. effortless B. enjoyable C. overnight D. optimistic
60. A. ways  B. lines C. manners D. actions

第II卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。

第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
People can often see a talking parrot on a TV show, in a movie, or even in someone’s home. The parrot has learned     61     (copy) sounds that people make. Dolphins, bats, and some apes also copy sounds. Now we can add elephants     62     this list of copycats (盲目的模仿者).
Dr. Joyce Poole is a zoologist,     63     studies the sounds of elephants. While she was in Kenya, she would hear strange noises     64     (make) by Mlaika after sunset. Mlaika was     65     8-year-old African elephant     66     it lived near a highway. 
Dr. Poole says that she couldn’t tell the difference between Mlaika’s call and the     67       (distance) truck noise. Why did     68     copy the sounds of the trucks driving by? Animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy     69     (practice) new sounds. When they are kept outside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds.