揭阳市2008届高三毕业班上学期阶段测试一(英语).doc

揭阳市2008届高三毕业班第二学期阶段测试 英语（一） I．语言知识及运用（共两节，满分35分） 第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-10各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 Fred Smith was just 27 when he founded FedEx. Thirty-five years later, hes still at the helm(舵). He owes the success of the company to leadership --- something he 1 from his family. Smiths grandfather 2 a Mississippi River steamboat；his father built the Greyhound Bus Line in the South, 3 his fortune along with the routes. Smith says he was just four when his father died. “So he probably served as a role model for me.” Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Smith says, “I didnt know I wanted to go into 4 , but I knew I wanted a leadership 5 . That appealed to me.” Actually, he loved flying. So as a student at Yale University, he helped set up the Yale flying club. But Smith never 6 looking for the “big idea” He thought he had 7 it when he wrote for an economics class a term paper, in which he outlined his 8 for overnight delivery of goods to major US cities. Yet the professor wasnt impressed. But he knew it would be a while before he could turn his idea into 9 . Fred Smith was 10 . Now thirty-five years has passed, and FedEx has become a $32 billion global transportation and logistics(物流) company, serving more than 220 countries and areas. 1. A. builtup B. putup C. madeup D. pickedup 2. A. captained B. charged C. changed D. damaged 3. A. making B. telling C. expanding D. searching 4. A. politics B. business C. work D. education 5. A. position B. condition C. situation D. reservation 6. A. risked B. ended C. stopped D. started 7. A. found B. made C. did D. managed 8. A. idea B. program C. article D. aim 9. A. dream B. use C. practice D. account 10. A. wrong B. active C. right D. real 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的词语的适当形式填空。 Once a year a rac 11 (hold) for old cars. A lot of cars entered for this race last year and there w