高三英语限时练5(40分钟)

高三英语限时练（40分钟）

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一、完形填空 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

My carpenter is a competent, even gifted craftsman. But my house still makes him feel hopeless. It was 1 well over a century ago. My carpenter’s 2 to me: “Move out.”What he doesn’t 3 is that I like it here. It’s my home’s imperfections that make it interesting.

This very thought 4 me just the other day while I was sitting at the counter in a bar. The bar opened in 1931, and little about its 5 has changed over the years. The long countertop has been worn down to its bedrock so much. Once a visitor asked the owner 6 why he hadn’t 7 it. Not missing a beat and being a man after my own heart, the 8 remarked, “Do you know how many elbows it took to get it this way?” That’s it, then. An imperfect product, like a perfect one, is also the 9 of our labor, and as such it needs to be 10 for what it is, rather than what it isn’t.

I’m certain that, at root, my carpenter 11 realizes this. Recently, while making a new skylight (天窗) in my home, he 12 wood and had to take a piece from my scrap (废料) pile. The “problem” was that my son, when he was little, had burned his name into the board with a magnifying glass. “I’m sorry I had to use scrap,” said the carpenter as we looked up at the burned 13 , “but I didn’t think you’d 14 . Does it look OK?”

“Oh yes,” I assured him as I admired his handiwork. “It’s 15 .”

1. A. rented B. sold C. built D. purchased

2. A. attitude B. response C. offer D. advice

3. A. predict B. understand C. guarantee D. prove

4. A. dawned on B. stood for C. depended on D. waited for

5. A. guests B. service C. drinks D. appearance

6. A. abruptly B. curiously C. rudely D. seriously

7. A. replaced B. attended C. decorated D. withdrawn

8. A. carpenter B. visitor C. owner D. boy

9. A. purpose B. price C. result D. copy

10. A. transformed B. checked C. fixed D. admired

11. A. also B. even C. still D. never

12. A. cut up B. used up C. put away D. gave away

13. A. letters B. pile C. walls D. glass

14. A. enjoy B. change C. mind D. compromise

15. A. reasonable B. worthwhile C. bearable D. perfect

二、应用文写作 (满分15分)

假定你是李华。你的英国朋友George来信，询问你大学准备报考什么专业。请你回复邮件，内容包括：

1. 正在认真备考；

2. 学医学专业；

3. 报考理由。

注意:

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear George,

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Yours,

Li Hua