桂城中学高三英语综合测试题出题人:冼俊艳 审题人: 刘甜甜语言知识及应用（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。Advertising is about creating images, and this is especially true when advertising food and drinks. What the 1 looks like is more important than what it tastes like. If companies hope to sell food successfully, the food must 2 appetizing.Television advertising of food often uses 3 . Apparently, food looks especially appetizing if it moves. Chocolate sauce looks much more 4 when you see it being poured over ice cream than it does just sitting in a jar. 5 effects also help to sell food: sausages sizzling(咝咝响) in a frying pan are mouth-watering. A TV 6 for a brand of coffee had the sound of coffee percolating(过滤) in the background. The commercial was so 7 that it lasted five years.The 8 of food and its packaging is also very important. If the color looks 9 , people wont eat it. Nobody would normally eat blue bread or drink blue beer. Other 10 food colors are purple, gray, and in some cases, white.How people expect something to taste often influences how it 11 does taste. Researchers gave some mineral water to two groups of people. They told one group that the water was mineral water, and almost all people said, “It tastes 12 .”Then the researchers told the other group that the water was tap water. This group said the water tasted a little funny. The word tap created a(n) 13 image of chlorine(氯).It is the same with 14 . A food manufacturer gave a group of people the same 15 in a glass jar and in a can and asked them to taste it. They all claimed that the product in the glass jar tasted better.So it seems to be true. Image is everything.1. A. companyB. foodC. imageD. milk2. A. lookB. tasteC. soundD. smell3. A. soundB. senseC. movementD. imagination4. A. beautifulB. naturalC. cleanD. delicious5. A. ActionB. TelevisionC. MusicD. Sound6. A. advertisementB. programC. showD. speech7. A. noisyB. expensiveC. successfulD. long8. A. priceB. nameC. brandD. color9. A. rightB. greatC. interestingD. wrong10. A. unknownB. unpopularC. practicalD. famous11. A. actuallyB. especiallyC. elegantlyD. seriously12. A. strangeB. funnyC. goodD. salty13. A. perfectB. unusualC. unpleasantD. unbelievable14. A. advertisingB. packagingC. producingD. tasting15. A. productB. waterC. meatD. coffee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。It was dust. I was walking alone through the mountains of Greece 16 I came across six large wolves that were feeding on the body of a dead animal. I had heard many stories about wolves 17 a child and I feared this animal more than any other.As I approached, the wolves 18 （leave）the body and started walking towards me, one after another. They stopped about 20 meters 19 me and stared. The animals looked 20 (terrify), but I knew I could not show them my fear. As I drew 21 (near), the lead wolf raised its head once more, but this time let out a loud howl. 22 awful cry rang out across the silent valley. I was almost certain it signaled 23 (die). Though extremely scared, I knew my only hope was to show my courage. I walked past the line of wolves, like a general 24 was moving among his soildiers. They howled out again. But when they saw that their war-cry did not cause me to change 25 direction or make me run, they feared to come after me; so they let me pass and returned to the dead animal. 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）ASusan was born as the ninth child in a Catholic family. She suffered from learning disabilities ever since her birth because of her mothers poor health.School was difficult for Susan and she was teased because of her different behaviors. Her siblings(兄弟姐妹), who were much older, had life experiences that were unknown to their little sister. From the time of her birth, Susan was a screamer. The only really safe place that she would use as a repeat was her bedroom. There she would hang posters of her musical idols on the wall and sing popular music into a hairbrush that she pretended was a microphone. One by one the siblings moved away from home and then Susans father died. This left her alone with an aging mother and a cat. The siblings accused her mother of not expecting more out of Susan. She had seen many professionals and remembered hearing the word “borderline” but didnt know what it meant. She tried volunteer work. Her best state of mind, however, was found when she was singing and so she would regularly join others in karaoke or pubs where she could show her skills and receive appreciation from the crowd.When Susan announced at Christmas that she was pla