山西省太原市高三基础知识测试

---Now more and more Chinese senior students are applying for admission to American universities through SAT.
---        . But taking an SAT may cost one more than 10,000 yuan.

Such is         human nature that many people don’t value       things they possess until they’re lost them.

I try to make him understand that I’m not interested in him, but he never gets the      .

The National Day Parade for the 60th anniversary of the founding of China was so grand that it certainly didn’t       the whole nation.

Put yourself in situations where you will be forced to communicate in English,      you will see more progress over time.

---I can’t find that pen you’ve just given me.
---Don’t worry, here’s        .

Many scientists believe that global warming, if       , will cause extreme climate changes this century.

The woman rushed out        she felt the house shaking.

Never in my dreams       Zhao Benshan’s performance during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala was considered the best.

Over the past decades, sea ice is decreasing in the Arctic       global warming.

The teacher        that his students had difficulty in English grammar, decided to give them more examples.

serious the economic situation is, they still have confidence in overcoming all the difficulties.

The ground has been cleared and houses       for those homeless people now.

It is the America’s selling weapons to Taiwan        cast a shadow on the Sino—US relationship.

The result was far beyond      we had expected,       brought great joy to every one of us.

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。答案涂在答题卡上。
Dad is a liar, definitely.
He never tells the truth about anything , or anything that he thinks is bad to me,   36   I emphasize that I don’t  37   hearing these things. He is the kindest man I have ever met, who never ＿38＿ others, as well as the ＿39＿ man, for he’s always hard on himself. Every time I ＿40＿ home from college and asked Dad how his ＿41＿ was getting on, he would always reply, “Oh, couldn’t be ＿42＿!” When I asked my mum the same question on the phone, ＿43＿, she honestly told me every ＿44＿ with Dad’s business. I didn’t blame Dad for his ＿45＿. I felt a deep sympathy for him.
Dad is a miser（吝啬鬼）, undoubtedly.
I hardly see Dad wear ＿46＿ clothes. In fact, his closet is half empty. Even in this half , two-thirds is occupied by Mum’s clothes and the other ＿47＿ belongs to him. I urged him to buy some new clothes, ＿48＿ he simply shook his head, “The old clothes are still good enough.” Were they? I saw ＿49＿ in them!
It ＿50＿ my heart up when I saw Dad cough terribly   51   his hand covering his mouth. When the pains became unbearable, he ＿52＿ took some pills.
So   53   surprised when the day came that Dad got sick. He was lying in bed, and all the family gathered around him. I knelt by his beside, tears filling my eyes.
Dear Dad, you’ve been ＿54＿ yourself too hard, which you should not have. I know I might as well ＿55＿ a river to flow backward as hope to talk you out of working so hard. But I still want to say, “Dad, take better care of yourself!”
36．A．as if  B．but for      C．even though     D．because of
37．A．mean B．mind C．agree D．admit
38．A．prefers     B．laughs      C．helps D．hurts
39．A．noblest     B．cruelest     C．best   D．oldest
40．A．phoned     B．drove       C．went  D．stayed
41．A．health       B．business    C．experiment       D．treatment
42．A．better       B．harder      C．easier       D．healthier
43．A．meanwhile       B．anyway     C．however   D．therefore
44．A．change     B．incident    C．achievement     D．problem
45．A．belief       B．carelessness      C．lies    D．excuses
46．A．old    B．new   C．beautiful   D．cheap
47．A．one-third  B．half   C．thing D．closet
48．A．so     B．but    C．since D．although
49．A．holes B．stains C．hope  D．importance
50．A．woke up   B．warmed to       C．flew to     D．tore up
51．A．in     B．on     C．by     D．with
52．A．still B．again C．simply      D．seldom
53．A．somebody B．anybody   C．everybody D．nobody
54．A．controlling       B．pushing    C．blaming    D．enjoying
55．A．let     B．allow C．expect      D．cause

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题3分，满分60分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Sarah Williams went to a boarding school. Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school:
Wentworth Girls’ school
Beachside
July 20th
Dearest Mom and Dad,
I’ m afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.
The trouble started last night when I was smoking in bed. This breaks the rules, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.
As I was smoking, I heard footsteps coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.
Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper basket, which caught fire.
There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was burning.
The principal phoned for the fire department. The school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.
The principal says that the fire was all my fault and you must pay for the damage. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.
I’m very sorry about this.
Much love,
Sarah
P. S.  None of the above is true, but I have failed my exams. I just want you to know how bad the things could have been!
56．Sarah wrote home to        .
A．tell her parents about the fire               B．ask for a lot of money
C．tell her parents she had failed her exams       D．tell her parents she had to leave school
57．Why did Sarah tell her parents the story about the fire?
A．She wanted to worry them.
B．She wanted to make them laugh.
C．She wanted to make them less angry at the real news.
D．She wanted to warn them about what the principal was going to do.
58．The letter before the P. S. was ________.
A．mostly true            B．partly true                     C．all true            D．completely untrue
59．Sarah said the principal was angry because ________.
A．she had failed her exams                          B．it was her fault that had caused the fire
C．she had not made the phone call in time        D．she had been caught smoking in bed

“Can I see my baby?” asked the happy new mother. The bundle（婴儿包）was placed in her arms and when she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she held her breath-the baby has been born without ears. Time, however, proved that the baby’s hearing was perfect except his appearance.
One day when he rushed home from school and threw himself into his mother’s arms, he cried out bitterly, “A boy, a big boy… called me a f-…freak.” She sighed, knowing that his life was to be endless of heartbreaks.
He grew up, handsome for his misfortune. A favorite with his fellow students, he might have been class president, but for that. He developed a gift for literature and music.
The boy’s father had a talk with the family doctor. Could nothing be done? “I believe we could graft（移植）on a pair of outer ears, if they could be donated（捐献）,”the doctor decided. So the search began for a person who would make such a sacrifice a young man. Two years went by. Then, “You’re going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will donate the ears you need. But it’s a secret,” said the father.
The operation was a brilliant success. His talents blossomed （开花）into genius. School and college became a series of successes. Later he married and entered the diplomatic（外交）service. “But I must know!” he urged his father. “Who gave so much for me? I could never do enough for him.”
“I do not believe you could,” said the father, “but the agreement was that you are not to know….not yet.” The years kept the secret, but the day did come…. one of the darkest days that ever pass through a son. He stood with his father over his mother’s casket（棺材）.Slowly and tenderly, the father stretched forth a hand and raised the thick, reddish-brown hair to let out the secret.
60．The story is mainly about        .
A．how a boy had new ears through an operation
B．what a devoted parent privately did for the child
C．how a disabled boy turned into a useful person
D．why a donator made a sacrifice to a bright boy
61．From the first paragraph we know that the mother      .
A．was determined to donate her ears to perfect her son.
B．kept her husband unknown about the baby’s situation
C．felt shocked and disappointed to see her new baby
D．complained of her bad luck to have a disabled child
62．We can infer from her passage         .
A．the agreement was between the donator and the family
B．the boy was so popular that he was made class president
C．finally the boy came to know who the donator was
D．the mother donated her ears to her son after she died
63．What moral lesson can we draw from this reading?
A．True beauty lies only in the heart not in appearance.
B．It is a virtue for young generations to learn to be grateful
C．It is up to parents to help their children heart and soul.
D．Real love lies in what is done unknown rather than what is done known.

There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.
That is how I learnt the 30, 000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.
The 5% mislearnt of all the words we ″know″ will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.
Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game. ″There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across, “ they will say. ″You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”
This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.
And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.
Don’t guess! Look it up!
64．The underlined word ″them″ in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.
A．the 30, 000 words              B．English teachers
C．misunderstood words            D．frequently used words
65．Which of the following is most likely NOT true?
A．Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.
B．Most of the 30, 000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.
C．How many words the writer got wrong are not known.
D．All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.
66．What we can infer from the passage is that        .
A．dictionaries can not help us learn language well
B．when he is conscious, he usually can’t write new words
C．we must use the words as often as possible in order to master them
D．the writer prefers to guess meanings of new words
67．According to the passage, it is concluded that the best way to learn new words is      .
A．to learn them by copying new words
B．to learn by living in an English---speaking world
C．to guess them only from the context
D．to get more separate meanings of each word

While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had an experience which occurred merely two feet away from me.
Trying to locate my friend among the passengers coming through the jet way, I noticed a man walking toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to greet his family.
First he kissed his three children one by one and said, “It’s nice to see you. I missed you so much!” Then he hugged his wife, “I’ve saved the best for last!” giving her the longest, most passionate kiss I ever remember seeing. They stared at each other’s eyes, smiling at one another, while holding both hands. For an instant they reminded me of newlyweds, but I knew by the age of their kids that they couldn’t possibly be.
Full of admiration, I asked, “Wow! How long have you two been married?” “Being together for fourteen years total, married twelve of those.” He replied, without breaking his gaze from his lovely wife’s face. “Well, then, how long have you been away?” I asked. “Two whole days!” “Two days?” I was astonished. By the intensity （热烈） of the greeting, I had assumed he’d been gone for at least several weeks — if not months. I knew my expression betrayed me, so I turned away my eyes and said quietly, “I hope my marriage is still that passionate after so long!”
The man suddenly stopped smiling and looked at me straight in the eye. With forcefulness he told me something that left me a different person. ″Don’t hope, friend…decide!″ Then he smiled again, shook my hand and said, ″God bless!″ With that, he and his family turned and walked away together.
I was still watching that man and his special family walk just out of sight when my friend came up to me and asked, “What are you looking at?” Without hesitation, and with a curious sense of certainty, I replied, “My future!”
68．The best title of the passage may be __________.  
A．Long Loving Hugs                 B．My Future
C．Don’t Hope, Decide                  D．Love Is Everywhere
69．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．The man replied to the author, with his eyes still fixed on his wife’s face.
B．After being away for several weeks, the man missed his family very much.
C．It was fourteen years since the couple had got married.
D．Their three kids reminded the author of newly-weds．
70．By saying ″my expression betrayed me″ （in Paragraph 4）, the author means that __________.
A．he failed to express his ideas to the man
B．the man sensed his real feelings from his expression
C．he didn’t believe in his expression any more
D．his expression was not faithful to him
71．From the passage, we can infer that __________.
A．the experience may be easily forgotten by the author
B．the author will live a passionate life from now on
C．the author will be away from his family and hug them passionately upon his return
D．Americans prefer to save the best for last  

I am so worried about global warming. We need stop cutting down all of the trees so that they can absorb the carbon dioxide. I think the Kyoto Protocol （京都议定书） to stop pollution is a great idea ,and I hope our country will decide to follow it, too.
— Eli S.,10,Texa
People should do all they can to help stop pollution, even if it is something as little as recycling your soda can. Every little thing helps. Maybe schools can put recycling bins in classrooms. Students can bring in all of their cans and bottles and see how many the school can collect.
— Lindsey A.,11, Massachusett
The United States should take action to help stop pollution. Since we are one of the richest countries, we should at least spend a little money to help.
— Aaron z,11,Massachusett
It is not good that the United States is not following the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is one of the most pollution emitting （污染物排放）countries in the world. Even if the rest of the world agrees to follow those rules, without the U. S. and its big businesses agreeing, global warming will still be a big problem.
—Augustine S.,11,Ohio
The world needs to learn more about global warming problems. If we do not do something soon then some of Earth’s coolest animals will become extinct. People should use solar power instead of things that pollute the atmosphere!
— Jillian J.,10,Pennsylvania
Global warming is very dangerous, and it must be prevented. Even if people think that it cannot be stopped ,we should  at least try. Stopping global warming is more important than keeping our businesses going. What about the penguins（企鹅）and the polar bears? We can’t just let them become extinct.
—Samantha R.,11,Illinois
72．Why does Lindsey suggest schools put recycling bins in classrooms?
A．To keep the classroom clean        B. To help protect wild animals.
C．To help protect our earth.          D. To collect waste in classroom.
73．Augustine worries that global warming problems will be difficult to solve because       .
A．many people think that global warming cannot be stopped
B．more and more trees are being cut down
C．American government spends little money stopping pollution
D．the U.S. refuses to follow the Kyoto Protocol
74．Jillian and Samantha believe that      .
A．solar power is earth-friendly energy  
B．global warming threatens animals’ survival
C．America is the richest country in the world
D．the penguins and the polar bears are dying out
75．What do the six children mainly talk about?
A．Environmental problems.          B．The Kyoto Protocol.
C．Animal protection.                   D．The climate change.

第二卷（共35分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误.对标题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上划（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
When father buys me a computer as a birthday present       76．      
in last year, I felt very excited. As we all know, computers  77．      
are getting more usefully nowadays. Much information      78．      
can be stored in it. We can learn what has lately happened  79．      
in the world on an Internet. People had to do lots of work  80．      
which was very dangerous. Now computers can do it instead.     81．      
When an exam is come, I do exercises on my computer.     82．      
Then it will correct them but tell me the right answers.       83．      
It is much convenient for me to prepare for the exam than  84．      
before. The computer have become a real friend of mine.   85．      

第二节   书面表达（满分25分）
最近，很多中学生都纷纷开起了自己的博客。请根据下面提示写一篇100词左右的短文，说明自己的看法，开头已给出。

    Nowadays, it is a common phenomenon that more and more high school students open their own blogs.