(word)广东省汕头市2015届高三上学期质量测评英语试题.docVIP

本试卷共三大部分，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号分别填写在答题 卡上，用2B铅笔将试卷类型A填在答题卡上，并在答题卡右上角的“试室号”和“座位号”栏填写试室号、座位号，将相应的试室号、座位号信息点涂黑。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答题前必须先填好答题纸的密封线线内各项内容。答案必须写在答题纸上各题目指定区域内相应位置；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不案以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考生必须保持答题卡、答题纸的整洁，考试结束后，将考卷和答题卡、答题纸一并交回。 第一部分 英语知识应用（共两节，满分45分） 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 One morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather. Several times，it __1__ several obstacles in its path. And after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour. At one point, the ant had to cross a crack about 10 mm wide. After some __2__ thoughts，the ant laid the feather over the crack，walked across it and picked the feather up on the other side，then continued on its way. I was __3__ by the cleverness of this ant. It was only a small insect，lacking __4__ yet ___5____with a brain to reason，explore, discover and overcome. But this ant, like the other two-legged creatures __6__ on the earth, also shares human failings. After some time the ant finally reached its destination—a flower bed and a small hole that was the entrance to its __7__ home. It was there that the ant met its __8__.How could that large feather possibly fit such a small hole? __9__, it couldnt. So the ant, after all this __10__ and using great brightness, overcoming problems all along the way, just gave up the feather and went home. The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its journey and in the end the feather was nothing more than a__11__. Isnt our __12__ like that? We worry about our families; we worry about the __13__ of money and we worry about all kinds of things. These are all unfavorable heavy weights—the things we pick up along lifes path，and drag them around the obstacles and over the cracks that life will bring, only to __14__ that