盐城市2015届高三10月摸底考试分析解析

盐城市2015届高三英语上学期期中试题

第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项

涂黑。

21. —The speech contest is due to be held next week. See to ________ that you’re ready on time!

—No problem. I have been preparing for it recently.

A. everything

B. all

C. yourself

D. it

22. A situation often appears where we know what a character means and how to read it but it has ________ our

minds when we want to write it down.

A. slipped

B. crossed

C. occupied

D. eased

23. About a month ago, October 9 to be ________, French writer Patrick Modiano, 69, won the 2014 Nobel Prize

for Literature.

A. flexible

B. precise

C. honest

D. fair

24. The kitchen might have been workable had Nicola kept it tidy; ________ it was littered with pots and pans.

A. therefore

B. anyhow

C. instead

D. though

25. Residents in the neighborhood where a gunman killed several people have to ________ the question of

whether their houses are safe.

A. push for

B. wipe away

C. relate to

D. wrestle with

26. Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but ________, if you will sit

down quietly, may alight upon you.

A. that

B. which

C. one

D. whose

27. ________ from a popular video game, the TV series Swords of Legends made 27-year-old Li Yifeng find

success as an actor this summer.

A. Adapted

B. Having adapted

C. Being adapted

D. To be adapted

28. —Could you please tell me ________ that prevents her from being happy?

—She has taken the d riving test three times but hasn’t passed yet.

A. what it is

B. it is what

C. how it is

D. it is how

29. The proportion of elderly people increases in Britain and medical advances make it possible to keep alive

patients who ________ previously.

A. would die

B. had died

C. should have died

D. would have died

30. The true traveller sets out to make an independent, unhurried journey to the unknown, travelling ________

few people have set foot.

A. in which

B. what

C. when

D. where

31. My brother and some of his classmates ________ as volunteers to help the elderly in the old-age home during

the winter holiday to come.

A. worked

B. are working

C. will be working

D. have been working

32. The workers are going on strike for the salaries here are low ________ the rates elsewhere.

A. with

B. against

C. through

D. beyond

33. Discrimination is a problem that’s been troubling America’s social ________ for years.

A. construction

B. conscience

C. awareness

D. framework

34. —________, I can attach no definite meaning to this rather grand sentence.

—Why not turn to your teacher for help?

A. As hard I might try

B. Try hard as I might

C. As hard as I might try

D. Try as hard as I might

35. —James should give up the idea of winning everyone’s respect and focus on his own work.

—________. How did you know that?

A. You are not getting it

B. Exactly—one step at a time

C. You make it sound so easy

D. Thank you for bringing it to my attention

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

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