广东惠阳高级中学高中部 20122013 学年度高一下学期第二次段考英语试题时间 120 分钟，总分 150 分 2013.6 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。Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft employees are traveling by train to a conference. The Microsoft engineers each buy tickets but the Apple engineers buy only a 1 ticket.“How are three people going to travel on only one 2 ?” asks a Microsoft employee. “Watch and youll see,” answers an Apple engineer.They all board the train. The Microsoft employees take their 3 but all three Apple engineers cram(拥挤) into a restroom and close the door behind them.4 after the train has departed（离站）, the conductor comes around 5 tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.” The door opens just a crack(缝) and an arm 6 , ticket in hand. The 7 takes it and moves on. The Microsoft employees see this and agree it is quite a 8 idea.So after the conference, the Microsoft employees decide to 9 the Apple engineers (as they always do) on the return trip and save some 10 . When they get to the station, they buy one ticket. To their 11, the Apple engineers dont buy any ticket at all.“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one 12 Microsoft employee. “Watch and youll see,” answers an Apple engineer.When they board the train, the Microsoft employees cram into a 13 and the Apple engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Soon one of the Apple engineers 14 his restroom and walks over to where the Microsoft employees are 15.He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please.”1 Acheap Bsingle Creturn Dspecial2 Aticket Broute Cmeans Drailroad3 Aroutes Bchances Cturns Dseats4 ADirectly BShortly CNearly DQuickly5 Aexamining Breceiving Ccollecting Ddelivering6 Aappears Bsticks Cholds Drises7 Aemployee Bpoliceman Cconductor Dengineer8 Astrange Bfoolish Cuseful Dclever9 Alearn Bcopy Caccept Dwatch10 Amoney Btime Cenergy Dspace11 Aexcitement Bagreement C.disappointment Dastonishment12 Atouched Bpuzzled Cfrightened Ddelighted13 Abedroom Bsitting-room Crestroom Ddining-room14 Aenters Bcrosses Cleaves Dreaches15 Ahiding Bsitting Ctraveling Denjoying第二节语法填空(共 1 O 小题；每小题 15 分，满分 1 5 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 1625 的相应位置上。Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business. As he was 16 a hurry, he decided to go by air. He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying, 17 when he got onto the plane, he looked for a window seat. He found all of them already taken except one. There was a soldier 18 (sit) in the seat beside 19 . Wondering why this one had not been taken, Mr. Robinson at once went towards it. When he reached it, however, Mr. Robinson saw that there was a notice stuck on the seat. It said, “This seat 20 (keep) for proper load balance, thank you.” Because he had never seen such a kind of 21 (usual) notice in a plane before, Mr. Robinson was a little surprised. But he thought that the plane must be carrying something 22 (particular) heavy in it, so he walked on and found 23 empty seat, not beside a window, to sit in. Two or three people tried to sit in the window seat beside the soldier, but they too read the notice and went on. When the plane was nearly full, a very pretty girl hurried into the plane. The soldier, 24 was watching the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off the seat beside his and in this way succeeded in having the company of a 25 (beautiful) during the whole trip. 阅读(共两节，满分 40 分 )第 节 阅渎理解 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分)阅读 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。AMark Twain was asked one day if he could remember the first money he ever earned. He thought a long time and then said , “Yes, it was at school. I can remember everything about it . School boys in those days did not take good care of their chairs and desks. There was a rule in our school that if anyone damaged his desk or chair, he would have to pay five dollars or the teacher would beat him in front of the whole school.” “One day I damaged my desk in some way, I had to pay five dollars or be beaten before the whole school. My father said it would be too bad to have our family disgraced in front of the whole school. He agreed to give me five dollars to hand over the teacher. But before he gave me the money, he took me upstairs and gave me a beating.”“But as I had one beating and I decided I would take another beating at school and keep the five dollars. So thats what I did. That was the first money I ever earned.”26. Mark Twain earned his first money _.A. when he was a student B. when he became a writerC. when he taught at a school D. when he was beaten by his father27.Mark Twains father_.A. was happy to give him the moneyB. got angry when he knew what Mark Twain had