南京市高三英语二模试卷及答案

南京市2012届高三第二次模拟考试

英语2012.03

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分20分) 略

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)

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。

21.---- Did Susan visit you again ______ following year?

---- No, it was almost ten years before she came to see me _____ second time.

A. the; a

B. the; /

C. /; the

D. /; a

22.Micro blogging, or “Weibo”, as is known in China, _____ users to send about messages up to 140

characters, is very popular among young people.

A. expecting

B. taking

C. encouraging

D. allowing

23. ----- I will furnish your room with the best computer and television.

----- You _____. I prefer a bookshelf to do some reading in my spare time.

A. needn’t

B. mustn’t

C. can’t

D. shouldn’t

24. When Mike _____ the fr ont door, he couldn’t find his key. So he had to wait for his wife to come back.

A. would open

B. was to open

C. had opened

D. opened

25. The magician, Liu Qian, picked several persons ______ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance.

A. by accident

B. in vain

C. at random

D. on average

26. It cost her much to have broken the law. I wonder why she stole things ______ she could easily afford them.

A. when

B. unless

C. in case

D. so that

27. ----- Mary, turn the heat down, ______ burn.

----- Ok, mum.

A. the cake will

B. or the cake will

C. will the cake

D. and the cake will

28. The light bulb, invented by Edison in 1879, is about to disappear from our lives, _____ to more energy-efficient lighting.

A. giving way

B. making way

C. giving hope

D. making room

29. The spokesman said that this was a ______ negotiation because it solved a lot of problems between the two sides.

A. primitive

B. persuasive

C. protective

D. productive

30. The food last month in the east was a real disaster, _____ 19 people dead and 78 missing.

A. to leave

B. left

C. leaving

D. having left

31. The young man was glad that his experience as a cook in the army finally _____.

A. paid off

B. paid for

C. paid up

D. paid back

32. ______ going to the program You Are the One, she knew she had to be there or her mother would be unhappy.

A. Although much she disliked

B. Much although she disliked

C. As she disliked much

D. Much as she disliked

33. ______ was a great pleasure that, through five years of medical care and treatment, be recovered from the terrible disease.

A. That

B. It

C. What

D. Which