1广东省惠州市第一中学高三英语周测(40 分钟限时训练)2013.4第一部分：语言知识及应用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节 完形填空（满分 30 分）Cooking games are popular on the Internet. In fact, the number of girls showing interest in playing online games has 1 increased by almost 100%, a quick turnaround in such a market when it is barely two years old. Online games are usually 2 on boy games although there are some girls who enjoy playing boy games. The rate is very minimal(极少的) especially when 3 to the rate of boys playing online.Anyway because of the increase in the rate of girls looking for girl games, more and more web 4 have shown interest in creating games for this newly discovered 5 .Cooing games are the most popular girl games, which is why there is now a(n) 6 variety of cooking games today. There is pizza making, cake baking, burger cooking, and a whole lot of categories that focus on 7 a meal.For example, “Papas Burgeria” is a game that 8 cooking and food serving. Cooking does not simply mean placing the meat on the pan but 9 proper temperature as well. You will have to follow the 10 recipe and set of ingredients and pile each ingredient up according to the recipe given.You will also have to find a way to minimize your time consumption or else your customers will be 11 and will not give you a tip. The goal is to 12 as many tips as you can for you to buy things like posters that your 13 may look at while waiting for their orders. The game is truly 14 and fun to play.Besides cooking games babysitting games, make-up and dress up games are also becoming more recognizable. They 15 so many young girls and preteens that these games have now started to become a part of online games top finds.1. A. significantly B. normally C. gradually D. delightfully2. A. based B. focused C. put D. set3. A. related B. referred C. stuck D. compared4. A. viewers B. creators C. players D. helpers5. A. market B. source C. fortune D. field6. A. whole B. endless C. wide D. new7. A. ordering B. selling C. presenting D. making8. A. compares B. combines C. connects D. unites9. A. showing B. raising C. observing D. feeling10. A. proper B. popular C. traditional D. simple11. A. offended B. disturbed C. bored D. embarrassed12. A. give B. request C. design D. gather13. A. customers B. workers C. players D. employers14. A. promising B. amazing C. shocking D. disappointing15. A. instruct B. inspire C. affect D. attract2第二节 语法填空（满分 15 分）Olive May Kelso King was a young Australian woman with a passion for adventure.Olive May Kelso King, 16 came from a 17 (wealth) background, moved to England and heard of the outbreak of the war in 1914.Olive 18 (think) that she would support the war effort and volunteered to become an ambulance driver. Her past experience as 19 driver held her in good stead for such a role. She was so determined to volunteer that she used her own funds to purchase an ambulance. As the army had purchased all available ambulances, Olive was forced to buy a second-hand timber truck 20 she had customized(订制) for use as an ambulance. Olive called her pride and joy “Ella the Elephant” and so the adventure began.21 she had completed a first-aid course, she applied to volunteer for the Allies Field Ambulance Corps. She paid her own passage and that of Ella 22 (get) across the English Channel and close to the front. At one time she was captured by the Germans and later released along 23 Ella. Upon her release she headed for the channel 24 boarded the ferry to return to the UK.This story does not end here; Olive and Ella continued to serve throughout the war and 25 (eventual) ended up in Serbia before returning to Australia.第二部分：阅读（满分 20 分）AAlthough April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesnt generally experience the sound and lightning that can go with those rains, its still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when its actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think and we see, wed still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, theres enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almo