绝密启用前 试卷类型：A2014 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 (广东卷)茂名市第一次模拟考试英 语本试卷共 10 页,三大题,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、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用 2B 铅笔将试卷类型(B)填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处” 。 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选项的答案信息点涂黑，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，答案必须写在答题卡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. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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 115 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。My good friend and neighbor is dying. She has 1 more health problems through the years than anyone should have to tolerate. Now as she approaches her 57th birthday she knows that it will 2 be her last. She has started 3 a lot of her things. She has given all of us around her much more than just her things though. She has also given us her friendship, her kindness, and her 4 smile. She has given us her shining spirit that has made all of our lives so much 5 . When a local dog was 6 killed by a bear, my friend welcomed it into her home and nursed it back to 7 . When any of us needed anything she was there doing all that she could with a 8 full of love and a soul full of goodness.She did all of this too while her health 9 to grow worse and worse. My friend, 10 , is not afraid of death. She has told me several times that she believes it will only be like a brief 11 and then she will awaken in Paradise（天堂）. I am 12 as well that she will fit right in there because she already has a lot of paradise within herself. It is the paradise within her that she has so 13 and beautifully given to us all. ks5uWe all have a bit of paradise within ourselves. She has shown me that the best way to enjoy that paradise is to 14 it with everyone you meet. I wish my friend only joy in her 15 days here and endless love and life in her coming days in Paradise.1.A.asked B. battled C. raised D. checked2.A. probably B. temporarily C. unbelievably D. hardly3.A. collecting B. purchasing C. consuming D. donating4.A.arficifical B. bitter C. cold D. joyous5.A. tougher B. stranger C. brighter D.heavier6.A. nearly B. accidentally C. suddenly D. cruelly7.A. death B. health C. happiness D. heaven8.A.story B.purpose C. heart D. friend9.A.refused B. stopped C. intended D. continued10.A. however B. therefore C. instead D. also11.A. report B. sleep C. journey D. account12.A. sure B.doubtful C. afraid D. pleased13.A. easily B. bravely C. freely D. quickly14.A. charge B. create C. provide D. share15.A. terrifying B. remaining C. coming D. interesting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词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为 1625 的相应位置上。ks5uWhen I was a child in 1970s, my family was very poor, just like other average families in the countryside. The second-hand clothes, rain-leaking roof of old house became part of 16 memory. However, the worst 17 (impress) is that I was feeling hungry all the time. Sometimes hunger bit me so severely 18 I regarded dried sweet potato slices as delicious snack. At that time, my dream was getting enough to fill my empty stomach. In the early years of 1980s, as the reform and opening-up policy 19 (carry) out, the children dream came true. And then, 20 dream became clearer and clearer in my mind. I must try my best to escape out of my poor and backward hometown. I worked 21 (hard) at my study than most of my classmates, and, after luckily 22 (succeed) in the national college entrance examination, I realized my dream again: after graduation, I became a citizen working in a city. 23 the first college graduate out of a remote village, my success set 24 example for my folks. They came to realize that schooling is a good way to change ones fate（命运）. In the following years, there were fewer drop-outs and more college graduates in my village, of 25 I am proud even today. 阅读 (共两节，满分 50 分) ks5u第一节 阅读理解 (共 20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AA man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till without stopping, and continued to walk.A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again.