增城中学2011届高三级第一次阶段综合测试英语科试卷 .语言知识应用 （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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Several factors make a good newspaper story. First， 1 ，it must be new. But since TV can react to events so quickly, this is often a problem for 2 . They usually respond 3 it in one of three ways.One by providing 4 detail, comment or background information.One by finding a new 5 on the days major stories.One by printing completely different stories which 6 doesnt broadcast.What else? Wellit also has to be 7 . People dont want to read about 8 , everyday life. Because of this, many stories 9 some kind of conflict or danger. This is one reason why so much news seems to be 10 news , “ Plane lands safelyno-one hurt ”doesnt sell newspapers. “Plane 11 200 feared dead !” does .Next, theres human interest. People are interested in other 12 particularly in the rich, famous and powerful. Stories about the private lives of pop singers, actors, models, politicians, 13 , all appear regularly in certain newspapers .Finally, for many editors, 14 is an important factor, too. They prefer stories about people, places and events which their readers know. Thats 15 the stories in Tokyos newspapers are often very different from the stories printed in Paris, Cairo, New York or Buenos Aires. 1. A .graduallyB. extremelyC. obviouslyD. precisely2. A. newspapers B. publications C. reporters D. broadcasters3. A. withB. onC. ofD. to 4. A. extra B. available C. reliable D. memorable5. A. direction B. look C. angle D. section6. A. TVB. internetC. newspaperD. radio7. A. conventional B. dramatic C. professional D. sensitive8. A. commonB. usualC. ordinaryD. special9. A. urge B. neglect C. increase D. involve10. A. good B. bad C. exciting D. informative11. A. crashes B. bumps C. strikes D. drops12. A. places B. people C. things D. news13. A. in addition B. in any case C. for example D. after all 14. A. personality B. similarity C. tolerance D. familiarity15. A. thatB. whyC. becauseD. what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，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用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l6-25的相应位置上。It was a cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home 16 the bus stop.Home was only two blocks away 17 it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy fast asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road and, a few minutes later, I saw it 18 (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us. A young man put the window down. “Hey, heres an umbrella for you - please take it.” He called out.I stood there 19 (astonish), barely believing that the man, 20 existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so 21 (thought). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I gratefully accepted the offer, 22 (thank) him and watched the truck disappear down the road.This man might have needed the umbrella for 23 later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me 24 its possible to give without expecting anything 25 return. .阅读(共两节，满分50分)第节 阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从2645 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。ASince 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at age 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials (商业广告) for the hamburger chain named for his daughter. “As long as it works, he said in 1991, “Ill continue to do those commercials.Even though he was successful, Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. “He still wont let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had proper fitting shoes, Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother, he was adopted(收养) as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. “He fed me, Thomas said, “and if I got out of line, hed beat me.Moving out on his own at 15, Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants. But he had something much better in mind. “I thought if I owned a restaurant, he said, “I could eat for free. A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968.In 1969, after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendys Old Fashioned Hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made to order burgers. With 6,000 restaurants worldwide, the chain now makes $ 6