揭阳市2011年高中毕业班第二次高考模拟考试

英   语

本试卷共三部分，共15页（试题卷12页，答题卷3页）。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班级、姓名、考生号、试室号和座位号填写在答题卷上。

2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卷上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，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，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内相应位置上；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。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4. 考生必须保持答题卷的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷和答题卷一并交回。

I . 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，并在答题卷上将该题涂黑。

Just before Christmas 1978, Kenneth was a passenger in a car as it drove through the Navajo Nation．The night was dark, and the driver, an elderly woman,    1   and killed an eight-year-old boy．

         Later, when he saw how sad the boy’s family were, Kenneth made a（n）   2  ．He would “do whatever it takes to make   3   happy at Christmas time.”

         A year later, at the age of 18, he was living with his mother and younger brother. They were hardly making ends meet on his low wages, but Kenneth bought a used Santa suit and went around   4 

people as poor as himself to give candy and fruit for families even more needy．

         Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, he went knocking on doors of   5   houses in the poorest section of the Navajo Nation. Many of the darkened homes didn’t have   6  .

         Some families were   7   to open their doors so late at night. “It’s a man! He has a big bag!”

He   8   a boy, holding up a lantern and watching from behind the curtains, tell his parents. Kenneth convinced them he was   9  ．