高一英语月考试题及答案-揭阳第三中学-学年高一下学期第三次阶段考试21.docx

高一下学期第三次阶段考试英语试题 2013.05 一、选择填空（共 10 小题；每小题 2 分， 满分 20 分） One third of the country _____ covered with trees and the majority of the citizens _____ black people. A. is; are B. is; is C. are; are D. are; is The factory used 65 percent of the raw materials, the rest of which _____ saved for other purposes. A. is B. are C. was D. were Such poets as Shakespeare_____ widely read, of whose works, however, some _____ difficult to understand. A. are; are B. is; is C. are; is D. is; are Listening to loud music at rock concerts _____ caused hearing loss in some teenagers. A. is B. are C. has D. have 5． —Is everyone here? —Not yet ... Look, there _____ the rest of our guests! A. come B. comes C. is coming D. are coming Planning so far ahead _____ no sense— so many things will have changed by next year. A. made B. is making C. makes D. has made 7. I still remember ______ to the Famen Temple and what I saw there. A. to take B. to be taken C. taking D. being taken Bill suggested ______ a meeting on what to do for the Shanghai Expo during the vacation. A. having held B. to hold C. holding D. hold It is worth considering what makes “ convenience ” foods so popular, and ______ better ones of your own. A. introduces B. to introduce C. introducing D. introduced 10. It is difficult to imagine his ______ the decision without any consideration. A. accept B. accepting C. to accept D. accepted 二、完形填空（共 15 小题；满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 11～ 10 各题所给的四个选项（ A、B、 C 和 D），选出最佳选项。 Until 1954 it was thought that no man could run one mile in less than four minutes.As years went by, the record came closer and closer to four minutes and Roger Bannister，a young English athlete, began to believe he might __11__ this almost magic barrier. It was a cold afternoon on May 6th, 1954, when Bannister knew he had a __12__ chance.Bannister had been __13__ hard and was very fit, but the weather conditions were a real __14__ to him.Describing the __15__ later, Bannister said, “ On the way to the track the wind bl