辽宁大连24中2013高三考前模拟考试英语试题及答案(2)

25．The President        the woman's service to her country by awarding her a medal．
A．accepted B． recognized       C． declared         D． realized
26．A modern city has been built       a very small village was many years ago．
A． what            B． where C． that             D． in which
27．The students will find the bus waiting outside the Heathrow airport   _ they can take to reach their host families．
A． which           B． where          C． when            D． as
28．When         comes to the works of MoYan, Wa is the most famous．
A．we        B．it            C．they          D．you
29．Flamenco Dance is a real Spanish art, and        a real Southern Spanish art．
   A．generally speaking B． to tell you the truth
   C．to be more exact  D． what's more
30．       with starvation, the disease, the relief workers say, has killed thousands．
   A． Combining       B． Being combined  C． To combine       D． Combined
31．—Why do you look so worried?
—I        my passport at the airport and I can't check in the hotel．
A．have lost        B．had lost C．am losing        D．lost
32．You may cancel the disk check but it is strongly recommended that you          ．
   A．continue          B．will continue  C．  continued       D． must continue
33． "I heard big noises last night, but I         go out to see, " she said．
  A． dare not         B． dare not to       C． didn't dare        D． dared not to
34．Our foreign teacher is still not very familiar with our classmates because it was only two weeks ago, in April, _     he started teaching here．
   A． before          B． when           C． that             D． which
35．—How do you find the performance by the pianist?
    —             ．I can't think too highly of it．
A．It's really wonderful                   B．It all depends
C．No one knows for certain               D．It is not my cup of tea
第二节：完型填空（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（ ABCD）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。
    Garage sales（旧货市场）are a strange pastime．I am not interested in other people's  36  items．My mother was, and she convinced me to  37   her．We went to several garage sales and finally stopped at a cottage．The  38  owner told me that he and his wife were moving away． His wife had been a（n） 39 before she retired．
    As we were   40   the sale items, I heard the gentleman's wife say her name to someone, and I 41 realized who she was．She looked at me and said, “You are Lisa Miller．”I  42   at her in surprise, for it had been thirty years   43  I had been in her class．
    My mother   44  to her for any trouble I might have caused． She   45   that if this woman remembered me after so many years, I must have done something   46  ．My teacher looked at my mother arid said, "Oh, no, she was very good," and my mother watched her in   47  ．
    My teacher explained during the last week of school, I brought her a   48  ． She told us she planted the Lamb's Ear in her garden． She looked at me and said, "Every day when I leave my house, I think of you． And when I come home these plants   49   me, and I think of you．"  50  welled up in my eyes．There at her home, among all her   51  , was a piece of my life that she had nurtured（培养）．
    At that moment, she taught me more about life than I could   52  ．We give pieces of ourselves every day without thought or expectation． We rarely think of the effects we have   53  others' lives． That piece may grow and spread, becoming a（n） 54   part of life．In the end it is not the big things that   55  , but the small things that make all the difference in the world．I never had a chance to thank her, but I hope she took a Lamb's Ear with her to her new home．
36．A． broken     B．unwanted     C．frozen     D． desired