广东高考英语模拟试题三广州大学附属中学 肖鹏II. 语言知识及应用(共两节，满分35分)第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2130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。It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadnt healed from an earlier injury. I had doubted whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was, _21_ for the 3,000-meter run.“Ready set ” The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed _22_ me. I felt _23_ as I fell farther and farther behind. “Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest cheer I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps ahead of me when she crossed the finish line. “Maybe I should _24_, ” I thought as I moved on. However, I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran _25_ and decided not to race in track next year. It wouldnt be worth it, _26_ my foot did heal.When I finished , I heard a cheer louder than the one Id heard earlier. I turned around and sure enough, the boys were preparing for their race. I was leaving _27_ several girls came up to me. “Wow, youve got courage!” one of them told me. “Courage? I just _28_ a race! ” I thought. “I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us? ”Suddenly I regained _29_. I decided to stick with track next year. I realized strength and courage arent always measured in medals and victories, but in the _30_ we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win, but the people who dont give up when they lose.21. A. lateB. eagerC. readyD. thirsty22. A. from behindB. ahead ofC. next toD. close to23. A. ashamedB. astonishedC. excitedD. frightened24. A. slow downB. drop outC. go onD. speed up25. A. with delightB. with fearC. in painD. in advance26. A. even ifB. only ifC. unlessD. until27. A. whileB. whenC. asD. since28. A. finishedB. wonC. passedD. lost29. A. cheerB. hopeC. interestD. experience30. A. sadnessB. strugglesC. diseasesD. tiredness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31-40的相应位置上。Some wild turkeys, _31_ appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey before Thanksgiving Day. A spokesman from NJ Transit said train officials reported a dozen or so wild turkeys _32_ on a station platform in Ramsey, _33_ 20 miles northwest of New York City, on Wednesday afternoon. _34_ line travels to Suffern, N.Y.“For a moment, it looked like the turkeys were waiting for the next outbound train,” said Dan Stessel, a spokesman for NJ Transit. “_35_, theyre trying to catch a train and escape _36_ fate.”Transit workers followed the birds movements on surveillance cameras. “I have no idea _37_ they got there,” Stessel said.A Ramsey police dispatcher said the department had received three calls about the traveling turkeys who also _38_ (blame) for causing morning rush hour traffic _39_ (problem) on a roadway.“From time to time, Ive heard calls _40_ there are turkeys on the loose,” said Erik Endress, president of the Ramsey Rescue Squad, a volunteer group. Maybe theyre trying to make a break. III. 阅读(共两节，满分40分)第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。(A)The nineteenth century brought about the greatest expansion of wealth the world had ever know. Its sources lay in the industrialization of Europe and the techniques for assuring the continuance of this growth were by no means exhausted or compromised by 1900. There had not only been a vast and accelerating flow of commodities available only in tiny quantities a century before, but whole new ranges of goods had come into existence. Oil and electricity had joined coal, wood, wind and water as sources of energy. A chemical industry existed which could not have been envisaged(想象) in 1800. Growing power and wealth had been used to tap seemingly inexhaustible natural resources, both agricultural and mineral. Railways, electric trams, steamships, motor cars and bicycles gave millions of men a new control over their environment; they accelerated travel from place to place and eased transport for the first time since animals had been harnessed to carts thousands of years before. In terms of consumption, or of the services to which they had access, or in the enjoyment of better health, even the mass of the population in developed countries were much better off in 1990 than their predecessors(前辈) a hundred years before.In spite of this cheerful picture, doubts could break in. Even if what might happen in the future were ignored, contemplation of the cost of the new wealth and doubts about the social justice of its distribution were troubling. Most people were still terribly poor, whether or not they lived in rich countries where the illogicality of this was particularly more striking than in earlier times. Another change in the way men thought a