2013届高三六校第二次联考

英语试题

Ⅰ. 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1-15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。

A king in Africa had a close friend with whom he had grown up. The friend had a habit of looking at every bad situation that occurred in his life and , “This is good!”

One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting . The friend would the guns for the king. But this time he had done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off.

Examining the the friend remarked as usual, “This is good!” to which the king replied, “No, this is NOT good!” and imprisoned his friend.

About a year later, the king was hunting in an area where he should have known not to hunt. Cannibals(食人者) him to it. As they came close to set fire to burn the king, they that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. So the king, they sent him on his way.

As he returned home, he was of the event that had taken his thumb and felt sorry for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the to speak with his friend. “You were right,” he said, “it was good that my thumb was blown off.” Then he to tell the friend all that had just happened.

“I feel for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this.” “No,” his friend replied, “this is good!”

“What do you mean? How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?” “If I had NOT been in jail, I would have been with you, and I would have been 1. A. joking

B. remarking B. experience B. arrange B. apparently B. king B. calmly B. warned B. related B. understood B. forgiving B. accused B. jail B. hesitated B. foolish

C. announcing C. expedition C. carry C. naturally C. gun C. regretfully C. robbed C. wrapped C. noticed C. overlooking C. informed C. village C. continued C. guilty

D. whispering D. experiment D. hold D. specially D. situation D. joyfully D. hunted D. fastened D. complained D. beating D. reminded D. kingdom D. refused D. painful

2. A. expectation 3. A. prepare 4. A. deliberately 5. A. thumb 6. A. angrily 7. A. caught 8. A. connected 9. A. observed 10. A. untying 11. A. recalled 12. A. house 13. A. stopped 14. A. fortunate