茂名市 2012 年第二次高考模拟考试英 语 试 卷本试卷共 12 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。Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students1 and some teachers teach.More than 175，000 students2 the public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last year, the school system used digital3 in fifteen schools. This school year, middle schools and high schools changed from4 to electronic textbooks in their social studies classes.Luke Rosa is a history teacher at Falls Church High School. His5 work on school laptop computers. He explains the idea to them this way: I mean, its just like a6 textbook, except its got it all online.Peter Noonan, a leader of schools, says with electronic textbooks, publishers can quickly7 the content with the latest information. He says: The worlds changing 8 . And the online textbooks can change right along with the events that are happening. He says digital books also cost9 than printed textbooks: Usually its in the neighborhood of between fifty and seventy dollars to10 a textbook for each student, which adds up to11 eight million dollars for all of our students in Fairfax County. We12 have purchased all of the online textbooks for our students for just under six million dollars.But the students also need13 to the Internet when they are not at school. About ten percent of students in Fairfax County do not have a computer or online access at14 . Stephen Castillo is one of them. He has to go the public library, which has free15 . 1.A.read B. learn C. behave D. speak2.A.visit B. leave C. desire D. attend3.A.cameras B. books C. libraries D. data4.A. printed B. ordered C. used D. priced5.A. students B. colleagues C. leaders D. friends6.A. digital B. popular C. regular D. different7.A. present B. provide C. charge D. update8.A. peacefully B. consistently C. steadily D. unnoticeably9.A. less B. more C. higher D. better10.A. rent B. download C. buy D. record11.A. exactly B. permanently C. doubtfully D. roughly12.A. actually B. unwillingly C. hopefully D. fortunately13.A. entrance B. approach C. access D. admission14.A. school B. work C. hand D. home15.A. seats B. Internet C. textbooks D. homework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。I was feeling sad because my mother was out of job. It left me wondering 16 was going to happen to us. I got off the college shuttle bus and started walking. Then I heard piano music and singing rising above the noise of the people and the traffic. I walked much17 (slow) so I could find out where it was coming 18 . Through the crowd I saw a young lady sitting at a piano with a carriage next to her. She was singing songs19 love and keeping on trying, and not underestimating（低估） the power within yourself. The way she was singing comforted me a bit. I stood there 20 (watch) her play for about fifteen minutes, thinking that 21 must take courage to perform on her own in the middle of a crowd. She must have felt my presence because she would occasionally look in my direction. By now I was telling 22 that if she could perform in front of hundreds of people 23 she didnt know, I could at least tell her how good she sounded. I walked over，24 (put) some money in her carriage and said, Thank you. I have been going through a rough time lately, but youve made me 25 (hope) again. 阅读 (共两节，满分 50 分)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。www.xkb1.comAWhether were 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a childs lie is different from an adults lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liars,” says Dr. Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of the Institute of Child Study. He has spent the last 15 years studying how lying changes as kids get older, why some people lie more than others as well as which factors can reduce lying. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage