2011-2012 学年上学期高三级第二次月考（10 月）英 语 2011.10.08命题者: 高三英语第一命题组 审题者：李燊本试卷共 8 页，共三大题，满分 135 分。考试用时 120 分钟。一语言知识及运用 （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 1630 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。For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 1 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 2 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 3 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 4 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency（缺乏） 5 in the actual stuff of language itself words. Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 6 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） to 7 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 8 down the speed of reading is vocalization sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 9 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined（预先确定的） speedThe bar is set at a slightly faster rate 10 the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The device forces the reader to read fast, 11 word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization（默读） practically impossible. At first 12 is sacrificed for speedBut when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your understanding will 13 . Many people have found their reading skill greatly improved after some training. 14 Charlie Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 182 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can 15 through a lot more reading material in a short period of time. 1 Aapplying Bdoing Coffering Dgetting2 Aquickly Beasily Croughly Ddecidedly3 Agood Bcurious Cpoor Durgent4 Atraining Bhabits Csituations Dcustom5 Alies Bcombines Ctouches Dinvolves6 AHopefully BActually CLogically DUnfortunately7 Areuse Breread Crewrite Drecite8Ascales Bcuts Cslows Dmeasures9Aaccelerator Bactor Cloudspeaker Dobserver10Athen Bas Cbeyond Dthan11Ahaving Bleading Cmaking Dindicating12Ameaning Bcomprehension Cvocalization Dregression13Aarise Breduce Cimprove Dworsen14ALike BTake CMake DConsider15Amaster Bmake Cfinish Dget 第二节：语法填空（共 10 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）Every day has the potential to be a good and, in some cases, a great day for you. Few of us get up in the morning 16 (think) that we want this to be a bad day. Yet in many cases the day turns that way because of a person or an event that we worry about. Think about those small events which can throw you 17 balance and affect your whole day 18 (negative). Who stole your day? Was 19 a boss, an unruly child, an erratic driver on the way to work, getting 20 “F” on a history paper, 21 an impolite waiter at lunch that did?Every day numerous people or events can prevent us from having a good day, if we let them. The key is that we should adopt a positive attitude towards life. We cannot control 22 happens to us in many cases, but we can control how we react 23 these events. Lao-tzu, a Chinese philosopher, 24 (say), “He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers 25 is mighty.”二阅读(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。APublic schools are supposed to remove barriers so people can succeed. For some, the system does remove barriers and provide a solid base for achievement. For others, the system replaces one set of barriers with another. For example, creativity is killed by pressuring students to accept the current situation, by establishing a fear to be different and a fear of failure. Independent thinking is replaced by dependency. In some cases, pressure to succeed academically kills morality, faithfulness motivation, and skills needed for success in the real world. People who have a dream, motivating them can overcome all barriers on the whole.My story begins in Summit, NJ, at the age of sixteen, where I am sitting in a classroom staring out of the window. Out of the first window I could see myself exploring the jungles of South America searching for gold, I could