广东省揭阳市第三中学2014-2015学年高二下学期第一次阶段考试英语试题 第一部分 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。
Galina was born with an illness called Spina Bifida. Because of her disability, she has only had a little ___1___. Her parents were ___2___ of her and never allowed their friends and neighbors to see her. Her mother often ___3___ her because Gailina could not control the things her body did. This made her think that her disability was all her ___4___ and that she must have done something wrong. She spent the next four years in ___5___. She liked it better there because she was with others who had disabilities. She did not feel ___6___ from everyone else. But when she went back to live at home, she realized just how different she was from all her brothers and sisters. She was so ___7___ that she tried to kill herself. But she did not succeed. Soon after this, she left home and found work in a big city.
One day a group of Christians visited her. They told her about Jesus Christ who loves all people, even those who are ___8___. She was not interested because when she was a child she was taught another ___9___. But the Christians did not ___10___ seeing her. Then she began to realize that their friend, Jesus Christ, loved her. She found a new friend in Jesus. Galina does not feel rejected any more. She feels ___11___ and loved by God. Her ___12___ with her parents has changed too. One time when she went to see her parents, her mother asked Galina to forgive her for the many times she beat her when she was a child.
You may have been ___13___ hurt or treated as a child. You may not have had the education you hoped for like Galina. You may not be able to do the things you want because your family is ___14___, or one or both of your parents died when you were young. There are many reasons why you might think badly about yourself. What did Galina find out made all the ___15___ to her life?
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1. A. education 2. A. accused 3. A. knocked 4. A. fault
B. money
C. time
D. illness D. reminded
B. informed B. killed
C. ashamed C. kissed
D. hit
D. advantage D. home
D. different
B. success B. factory B. better
C. power C. hospital
5. A. school
6. A. important 7. A. unhappy
C. advanced
B. powerful C. nervous D. glad D. disabled
8. A. kind 9. A. story
B. cruel B. religion B. enjoy B. rejected
C. unhealthy
C. subject
D. skill
D. avoid D. accepted D. research D. heavily D. unsafe D. damage
10. A. stop C. continue C. suspected
11. A. admired 12. A. respect
B. relationship B. partly
C. responsibility C. badly
13. A. suddenly 14. A. rich 15. A. prediction
B. poor
B. safety
C. nice C. difference
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。
Larry Belmont worked for a company that made robots. Recently It had begun experimenting with a household robot, ____16____ was going to be tested out by Larry’s wife, Claire. Claire didn’t want ____17____ robot in her house, especially as her husband would be ____18____(absence) for three weeks, but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn’t harm her or allow her ____19____(harm). However when she first saw the robot, named Tony, she felt alarmed because he seemed more like a human than a machine. He was tall and handsome ____20_____ smooth hair and a deep voice although his facial expression never changed.
On the second morning Tony, ____21____(wear) an apron, brought her breakfast and then asked ____22_____ she needed help dressing. She felt
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embarrassed and quickly told hem to go. ____23____ was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human. One day, Claire mentioned that she didn’t think she was clever. Tony said that ____24____ must feel very unhappy to say that. It was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot. But she ____25____(begin) to trust him.
第二部分 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。
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Death Valley is one of the most famous deserts in the United States, covering a wide area with its alkali sand. Almost 20 percent of this area is well below sea level, and Badwater, a salt water pool, is about 280 feet below sea level and the lowest point in the United States.
Long ago the Panamint Indians called this place “Tomesha”— the land of fire. Death Valley’s present name dates back to 1849, when a group of miners coming across from Nevada became lost in its unpleasantness and hugeness and their adventure turned out to be a sad story. Today Death Valley has been declared a National Monument(纪念碑) and is crossed by several well-marked roads where good services can be found easily. Luckily the change created by human settlement has hardly ruined the special beauty of this place.
Here nature created a lot of surprising, almost like the sights on the moon, ever-changing as the frequent wind moves the sand about, showing the most unusual colors. One of the most astonishing and variable parts of Death Valley is the Devil’ s Golf Course, where it seems hard for one to tell reality from terrible dreams. Sand sculptures(沙雕) stand on a frightening ground, as evening shadows move and lengthen.
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