2015届高三5月综合测试(三模)英语试题及答案

2015届高三综合测试

英语

本试卷共12页，三大题，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

I．语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Sharks have lived in the oceans for over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs appeared. There are now about 360 1 of sharks, whose size, behavior, and other characteristics differ widely.

Every year, we catch and kill over 100 million sharks, 2 for food and for their fins. Dried shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, which sells for as much as $50 a bowl in fine Hong Kong 3 . Other sharks are killed for sport and out of fear. Sharks are vulnerable(脆弱的) to overfishing because it 4 most species 10 to 15 years to begin reproducing and they produce only a few offspring.

5 by movies and popular novels, most people see sharks as people-eating monsters. This is far from the

6 . Every year, a few types of shark injure about 100 people worldwide and kill about 25. Most

7 are by great white sharks, which often feed on sea lions and other marine mammals. They sometimes mistake human swimmers for their normal prey,

8 if they are wearing black wet suits.

If you are a typical ocean-goer, your 9 of being killed by an unprovoked （无缘无故的）attack by a shark are about 1 in 100 million. You are more 10 to be killed by a pig than a shark and thousands of times more likely to get killed when you drive a car.

Sharks help 11 human lives. In addition to providing people with food, they are helping us learn how to 12 cancer, bacteria, and viruses. Sharks are very healthy and have aging processes similar to ours. Their highly effective immune system 13 wounds to heal quickly without becoming infected, and their blood is being studied in connection with AIDS research.

Sharks are among the few animals in the world that almost 14 get cancer and eye cataracts. Understanding why can help us improve human 15 . Chemicals extracted from shark cartilage have killed cancerous tumors in laboratory animals.

1. A. species B. classes C. groups D. names

2. A. greatly B. popularly C. widely D. mostly

3. A. supermarkets B. restaurants C. offices D. companies

4. A. spends B. takes C. costs D. uses

5. A. Impressed B. Moved C. Changed D. Influenced

6. A. story B. truth C. movie D. problem

7. A. injuries B. deaths C. attacks D. causes

8. A. specially B. especially C. mainly D. usually

9. A. chances B. fears C. lives D. percentages

10. A. likely B. frequent C. possible D. lucky

11. A. avoid B. save C. keep D. prevent

12. A. damage B. destroy C. fight D. ruin

13. A. advises B. allows C. forces D. forbids

14. A. never B. seldom C. often D. usually

15. A. analysis B. research C. study D. health

第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或者括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16~25的相应位置上。

Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight, and he became even more upset 16 on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a shoebox to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with 17 (excite), brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!"

As he opened the box, the father 18 (embarrass) by his earlier overreaction.

But when he opened it, he found it was empty 19 again he became angry. "Don't you know, young lady, " he said harshly, "when you give someone a present there's supposed to be 20 inside the package!"

The little girl looked up at him with tears 21 (roll) from her eyes and said: "Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full."

The father was crushed. He fell 22 his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told 23 the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the box, take out 24 imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child 25 had put it there.

Ⅱ阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

EVERY few hundred years, a sleeping giant in southern Italy awakens with a bang, spewing volcanic ash across the countryside. The volcano, called Mount Vesuvius, formed 25,000 years ago. During its most explosive eruptions, the volcano could blanket nearby cities with hot ash, sometimes also burying them with deadly flows of mud and rocks. One famous eruption occurred nearly 2,000 years ago, in the year AD 79. It lasted 18 hours and destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing thousands of people as they tried to