广东省增城市2013届高三毕业班调研测试英语试题

广东省增城市2013届高三毕业班调研测试英语试题

I. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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。

In the last 20 years of my life, I have been interested in self-improvement and applying it to myself in many ways. And of course all through that time I have learnt a lot and made it much 1 .

So in the last 3 months I seem to have reached this 2 high level. I feel a miracle has happened to me, in fact the other day I couldn't stop staring at myself in the 3 making sure all these wonderful things were happening to me! Then I cried a small 4 , not because of what I looked like, but because I was so

5 for the person I had become.

Several things have happened to make me 6 ensure that my track in life has truly 7 . I moved back to my hometown after being away a decade and was astonished that so many people 8 my name in a nice way, greeted me and 9 me back. And over the next 3 months they were excited for my growth. At the 10 where I exhibit today, people come over and greet me, I see the 11 on their faces when they talk to me frankly and 12 . Thus I think they are 13 my expression or style. I know I give them a good feeling at the fairs not just from keeping my expression open, understanding, kind but with a 14

smile in all the right places. But now I do feel that what I have done for the people may bring them a bit of sympathy.

And most of all I believe in the mirror 15 . I have ever been doing the hard work, improving myself and now I feel it's coming back to me in absolute roads and I am considered to be a man of great culture.

1. A. easier B. healthier C. happier D. better

2. A. wonderful B. helpful C. useful D. harmful

3. A. window B. mirror C. area D. road

4. A. sorrow B. fear C. tear D. voice

5. A. hopeful B. anxious C. grateful D. proud

6. A. nearly B. really C. hardly D. equally

7. A. appeared B. improved C. moved D. changed

8. A. remembered B. recognized C. called D. reminded

9. A. took B. welcomed C. turned D. got

10. A. markets B. trades C. halls D. fairs

11. A. expression B. impression C. confusion D. emotion

12. A. slowly B. sincerely C. loudly D. annually

13. A. copying B. shaping C. showing D. learning

14. A. brave B. quiet C. sweet D. simple

15. A. value B. reflection C. effect D. function

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使用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。

“If you’re talking to me in a noisy restaurant and my nervous system is good at locking onto the sound of your voice, I can understand 16 you say better.”

The research at Northwestern University shows that playing a musical instrument is good 17 your brain. And the brain remembers how to “lock onto” the important sounds, 18 our ears may not work as well as we age, and that helps us to hear better.

nothing special about Mozart’s music. Any kind of high energy music would work. S o if the cost of

just by listening?