大河中学2013-2014学年度高三上学期周考8英语试题
英语试题
命题人 罗林英 审题人 张新黎 唐燕
注意事项：
- 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷 (非选择题)两部分。
- 本堂考试120分钟，满分150分。
第一部分 语法和词汇知识（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. It was ____ back home after the experiment.
A. Not until midnight did he go B.until midnight that he didn’t go C. not until midnight that he went D. until midnight when he didn’t go
2. Without ______ electricity, how can we search for information on ______ Internet?
A. /; a B. /; the C. the; the D. the; a
3. —What do you think of Andrew?
— There are some things that are not easy to _____ and his coldness is one.
A. put aside B. put away C. put up with D. put down
4. ______ we are advocating teaching reform, why not try a new _______ to teaching English?
A. Even if; way B. Now that; approach C. Now that; method D. Even if; means
5. ______ scores of times, Mary still couldn’t understand how to use the model verb “shall” in a proper way.
A. Having explained B. Having been explained
C. Though it was explained D. It had been explained
6. It was not just the size of the party last night ____ made it unique, but ____ it meant to our country.
A. which; that B. that; what C. that; because D. that; that
7. — Has Mr. Tom White arrived?
— Yes, already. ______ he wait outside or just come in?
A. Shall B. May C. Could D. Must
8. The news came as no surprise to me. I ______ for some time that the factory was going to shut down.
A. knew B. know C. have known D. had known
9. The engineer spoke highly of the government’s efforts, ______ he owed his safe return from Libya.
A. through which B. for whom C. with whom D. to which
10. But for the heavy traffic, the police ______ the thieves who tried to escape in the stolen car.
A. would not have caught B. couldn’t catch
C. wouldn’t caught D. can’t have caught
第二部分 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
After years of searching, a truth seeker（寻求者） was told to go to a cave, in which he would find a well. “Ask the well what is___11___”, he was advised, “and the well will reveal it to you.” Having found the well, the seeker asked that the most basic and important__12__. And from the depths came the answer: “Go to the village crossroad, and there you shall find what you are seeking.”
Full of__13__ the man ran to the crossroad to __14___only three uninteresting shops. One shop was selling pieces of metal, another sold__15__, and thin wires were for sales in the third. Nothing and no one there seemed to__16__much to do with the revelation of truth.
Disappointed, the seeker returned to the well to demand an__17___, but he was told only: “You will__18__in the future.”
As years went by, the__19___of his experience at the well gradually_20___until one night, while he was walking, the sound of sitar(锡塔琴) music__21__his attention. It was wonderful and it was__22___with great skill and inspiration（激励；灵感）.
Deeply___23__, the truth seeker felt drawn towards the___24_. He looked at the fingers dancing over the strings. And then suddenly he let out a cry of joyful__25__: the sitar was made out of wires and pieces of metal and wood just like__26__he had once seen in the three stores.
At last he understood the __27__of the well: we have already been given everything we need, our__28___is to assemble（组装） and use them in the proper way. Nothing is__29__ so long as we recognize only fragments(碎片). But as soon as the pieces are put together, something new appears, whose nature we could not have__30__by considering the fragments alone.
11. A. truth B. hope C. future D. music
12. A. fact B. reason C. question D. well
13. A. energy B. hope C. mystery D. surprise
14. A. get B. count C. find D. open
