(2014·蚌埠市高三第三次教学质量检查考试)
Some years ago when I was in my second year in university，I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time.The moment was exciting.Salome’s ____filled the room and brought the theater to life.I was so____that I decided to write an article about her.
I____Salome Bey，telling her I was from Essence magazine，and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career.She____and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday.When I hung up，I was scared out of my mind.I___I was lying.I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday.I sat there____，taking notes and asking questions that all began with，“Can you tell me...” I soon realized that____Salome Bey was one thing，but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible.The____was almost unbearable (不可容忍的)．I struggled for days ____draft after draft.Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long.My manuscript____.How stupid of me！I thought.How could I____in a world of professional writers？Knowing I couldn’t ____the rejection letter，I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later，I was moving to California.While____my apartment，I came across the unopened envelope.This time I opened it and ____the editor’s letter in disbelief：
Dear Ms Profit，
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic.Yet we need some ___ materials.Please add those and return the article immediately.We would like to____your story soon.
Shocked，it took me a long time to____.Fear of rejection cost me dearly.I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine.More importantly，I lost years of____writing.Today，I have become a fulltime writer.Looking back on this____，I learned a very important lesson：You can’t____to doubt yourself.
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【小题1】B
【小题2】A
【小题3】D
【小题4】A
【小题5】D
【小题6】B
【小题7】B
【小题8】D
【小题9】C
【小题10】A
【小题11】B
【小题12】C
【小题13】A
【小题14】B
【小题15】B
【小题16】C
【小题17】B
【小题18】B
【小题19】A
【小题20】D
解析语篇解读 本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者通过第一次投稿的经历给了我们很多启示：千万不要怀疑自己，否则你将会因此而错失很多。
【小题1】解析： 考查名词辨析。句意为：Salome的声音(voice)充满了整个房间，整个剧院因她的歌声而焕发生机。根据上一句“I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time.”可知，答案B符合文意。
答案： B
【小题2】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：我被震撼(move感动)了，因此我决定写一篇关于她的文章。active积极的，活跃的；satisfied满意的；proud骄傲的，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： A
【小题3】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：我打电话(phone)给Salome，说我是Essence杂志的，想约她见面并谈谈她的职业。根据下文的“When I hung up，I was scared out of my mind.”可知，答案D符合文意。
答案： D
【小题4】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：她同意(agree)了我的请求，约好下个星期二在她的工作室见面。根据本句中“...told me to come to her studio next Tuesday”可知，她同意了“我”和她见面的请求。
答案： A
【小题5】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：我知道(know)我在撒谎。根据下文“I was not a writer...”可知，作者是在说谎。reply回答；discover发现；explain解释，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： D
【小题6】解析： 考查副词辨析。句意为：我坐在那里，很紧张地(nervously)记着笔记，开始问一些简单的问题，与上文“When I hung up，I was scared out of my mind...I was lying”相呼应，故答案B符合文意。
答案： B
【小题7】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：我很快意识到欺骗(fool)Salome是一回事儿，但是给一个国家级的杂志写稿发表几乎是不可能的事儿。根据上文“I was lying”可知，答案B符合文意。
答案： B
【小题8】解析： 考查名词辨析。句意为：这种压力(pressure)几乎不能让人承担。与下句“I struggled for days...”和作者怀疑自己的能力相呼应，故答案D符合文意。hardship艰难；failure失败；comment评论，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： D
【小题9】解析： 考查介词辨析。句意为：我几天来一直都一遍一遍地打草稿，写了撕，撕了写。struggle with为固定搭配，意为“与……挣扎，搏斗”，符合文意，故答案C正确。
答案： C
【小题10】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：不久后，我的手稿被退回了(return)。根据下文“the rejection letter”和“How stupid of me！”可知，答案A符合语境。disappear消失；spread传播；improve改善，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： A
【小题11】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：我怎么能够竞争(compete)过那么多专业作家呢？与文章最后一句“You can’t________to doubt yourself.”相呼应，故答案B符合文意。compare比较；survive存活；struggle斗争，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： B
【小题12】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：知道自己不能够面对(face)那封拒绝信，我把那封信拆都没拆就直接放在抽屉里了。根据下文“Fear of rejection cost me dearly.”和“I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer”可知，作者害怕被拒绝，所以不敢面对。故答案C符合文意。
答案： C
【小题13】解析： 考查动词辨析。由上句可知，作者要搬去别的地方了，故本句句意为：在屋里打扫卫生(cleaning)时，我偶然看到了那封没有拆开的信。repair修理；decorate装修；leave离开，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： A
【小题14】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：这次我拆开了这封信，开始读(read)编辑给我写的信，有些难以置信。根据下文引用的信的内容可知，作者在读信。故答案B符合文意。
答案： B
【小题15】解析： 考查形容词辨析。句意为：然而，我们需要一些相关的(relevant)资料。memorial纪念性的；private私人的；reliable可依赖的，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： B
【小题16】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：我们很希望不久后就出版(publish)你的文章。根据下文“I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine.”可知，答案C符合文意。
答案： C
【小题17】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：过了很久我才从震惊中恢复(recover)过来。与本句中的“shocked”和上文的“in disbelief”相呼应，故答案B符合文意。
答案： B
【小题18】解析： 考查形容词辨析。句意为：更重要的是，我失去了多年愉悦(enjoyable)的写作。作者听到别人优美的歌声就想为别人写点什么，说明写作对作者是一个很享受的过程，故答案B符合文意。energetic有活力的；typical典型的；endless无尽的，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： B
【小题19】解析： 考查名词辨析。句意为：回顾这次经历(experience)，我学到了重要的一课……，success成功；benefit受益；accident事故，车祸，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： A
【小题20】解析： 考查动词辨析。句意为：回顾这次经历，我学到了重要的一课：你承担(afford)不起怀疑自己的代价。attempt尝试；pretend假装；expect期望，均不符合语境，故排除。
答案： D
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
A Leap(跳跃) to Honor
Leaping on a narrow balance beam(平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13yearold gymnast, is an expert at it.
To perfect her skills, Lola ____ for four hours a day, five days a week. At the state championships in March, she finished seventh out of 16 girls.
That's especially impressive, ____ she is legally blind, born with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift(移动) constantly. She often sees double and can't ____ how far away things are.
When she was little, her mom ____ that even though she couldn't see ____， she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the ___ right away and gymnastics became her favorite.
Though learning gymnastics has been more ____ for her than for some of her teammates, she has never quit. She doesn't let her ____ stop her from doing anything that she wants to.
She likes the determination it takes to do the sport. Her biggest ____ is the balance beam. Because she has double vision, she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even closes her eyes. “You have to ____ your mind that it'll take you where you want to go，” says Lola.
To be a toplevel gymnast, one must be brave. The beam is probably the most ____ for anyone because it's four inches wide. At the state competition, Lola didn't fall ____ the beam. In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10—her highest score yet.
Lola doesn't want to be ____ differently from the other girls on her team. At competitions, the judges don't know about her vision ____. She doesn't tell them, because she doesn't think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her ____ attitude.
Lola never thinks about ____. She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics. Her ____ is to reach level 9. She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to pass down what she's learned to other kids ____ she grows up.
Lola is ____ of all her hard work and success. She says it's helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics too. Her ____ for other is “just believe in yourself”．
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
How often do you change your hairstyle or ask for new dresses? You may be __to follow trends in Western countries, but young people in the United States don’t care as much about__ as you do.
A recent survey among high school __ in China, Japan, South Korea and the US found that __ teenagers care more about their appearance than young people in the US.
This survey was held in 156 high schools in the four countries. More than 7,000 teenagers were__ about their views on life and the world. South Koreans, at 83 percent, cared most about their looks. They were __by the Chinese and Japanese, while US students showed the least interest in fashion at only 33 percent.
“The different results show __ of cultural background,” said Sun Yunxiao from the China Youth and Children Research Centre. He explained that in the US there are many different of beauty, so teens are more __ to be confident about their appearance.
US teenagers’ high self-confidence is displayed in the __. About 85 percent are happy with themselves. The percentage of self-confident Chinese students stands at only 30 percent.
What’s , US students showed more individuality, with 88 percent___ that “people should follow their own interests rather than of others”. This is much than South Korea’s 69 percent, China’s 49 and Japan’s 48.
Japanese students, at 52 percent, are most dissatisfied with modern society. Chinese and Koreans follow at second and_ most dissatisfied.
“ to the survey, Chinese students are happy and disciplined. They have a strong wish to make a difference. __ Chinese students need to be more independent and learn how to relax,” said Sun.
The students have different __ backgrounds. But home and places where friends gather are the favorite places all teens seek happiness.
Exams and worries about life after graduation cause much _ _ among most of the teens ___ for the survey.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
To be a real gentleman, you should know that true forgiveness is one of the most remarkable qualities a human can possess!
In the fighting between two countries in the 1970s, a young man was walking from one village to the next when he was by an armed guerrilla fighter from the enemy country．The fighter the young man down the hill where he was to be .
But a（n） thing happened． The young man, who had military training, was able to disarm the fighter．Now, the table was and it was the fighter who was ordered down the hill．
As they walked, , the young man began to reflect on what was happening．Recalling the of his mother, "Love your enemies; do good to those who you." He found he could go no farther．
He 10 the gun into the bushes, told the fighter he was to go and turned back the hill．
Minutes later, he heard footsteps53 behind him as he walked．"Is this the end after all?" he . Perhaps the fighter had got the gun and wanted to finish him off．But he continued on, glancing back, until his enemy reached him, only to grab him in a hug and pour out for sparing his life．
Mercy often wears the face of ．And though it usually isn't an enemy in uniform-that we are challenged to forgive, we have for mercy every day. Family members and friends, co-workers and neighbors and even strangers have for our forgiveness. You know who they are.
As Mahatma Gandhi said, "The can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. " Be strong. Forgive.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
One afternoon, my son Adam asked me,“Are all people the same even if they are different in color?”
I thought for a minute, and then I said,“I’ll explain, you can just wait until we make a quick at the grocery store. I have something to show you.”
At the grocery store, we some apples—red, green and yellow ones. Back home, I told Adam,“It’s time to your question.” I put one apple of each on the table. Then I looked at Adam, who had a look on his face.
“People are like apples. They come in all colors, shapes and sizes. On the ,some of the apples may not look as delicious as the others.” As I was talking, Adam was each one carefully.
Then, I took each of the apples and peeled(削皮)them, them back on the table, but a different place.
“Okay, Adam ,tell me which is which.”
He said,“I tell. They all look the same now.” “Take a bite of .See if that helps you which one is which.”
He took ,and then a huge smile came across his face.“People are like apples! They are all different, but once you the outside, they’re pretty much the same on the inside.”
He totally it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
One of the warmest Christmas memories that I have was the year that I was Santa Claus.I was a young substitute(替代者)for a ____with a new family just starting out in life.I was ____ to work at the local grade school on the last day ____ the Christmas holidays.
I can still ____ going from classroom to classroom and doing my best to____both old and joyful at the same time.I was about 50 pounds heavier then，____I had the round little belly part down fine.My beard，however，was another ____as it kept sliding halfway down my face.I thought that more than a few of the kids ____me，but it didn't matter.They still enjoyed ____ Santa.They still laughed and delighted in their__45__gifts and candy canes.They still felt joyous and happy.They still knew that they were____and that was all that mattered to them.
If there is one____that I could give to each of you at Christmas time and____day of the year，it would be that knowledge that you are loved.You are loved and ____by a greater love than you could ever imagine.You are loved by God who____you.In all the difficulties，problems，and heartaches this world ____，you are loved.In all the obstacles you must overcome，challenges you must ____，and pains you must go through，you are loved.In all the mistakes you make，times you stumble(绊倒)，and___ paths you take，you are loved.You are loved every second in your life with a glorious love that will ____end.
Know that you are loved.Know that God loves you always.Rejoice(欣喜)in this love with the ____heart of a child.And then，like a jolly(欢乐的)laughing Santa，go out and share it with the world.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed(痊愈)from a(n) injury. I had whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was, for the 3, 000-meter run.
“Ready. . . set. . . ”The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed me. I felt as I fell farther and farther behind.
“Hooray! ”shouted the crowd. It was the loudest I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps(圈)ahead of me when she crossed the finish line. “Maybe I should , ”I thought as I moved on. , I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran and decided not to in track next year. It wouldn’t be it, even if my foot did heal.
When I finished, I heard a cheer— than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around and enough, the boys were preparing for their race. “They must be cheering for the boys. ”I was leaving several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage! ”one of them told me.
“Courage? I just 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 . I decided to track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always in medals and victories, but in the we overcome(战胜). The strongest people are not always the people who win, the people who don’t give up when they lose.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we realize that those challenges are the very things that us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with .
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two . We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing the challenge isn't worth the and call it quits. Although there are certainly when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most all that is needed is and communication.
When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. you can say to a friend, "I got my feeling hurt," "You hurt my feelings," you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with the many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for they are: small hurdles you need to jump or on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is to get over, and hurt only to make us stronger. It is all part of growing up, it to everyone, and some day you will all of this and say, "Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing."
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles(障碍), I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully____ the beauty of our strength and a human’s motivation to ____.
Mom had a two-week ____ in summer. While we enjoyed our holiday in Southeast Texas, we didn’t realize the fact that Ike ____ cause months and likely years of “labor”. By September 7th, the “eyes of Texas” were watching Hurricane Ike more ____, making the typical mad rush for last-minute hurricane ____. Two days later, both oil and ice were in ____ demand.
In the early hours of September 11th, some neighbors were planning to ____the storm in their homes, ____ others were making final preparations to get away. At first, we decided to stay. But that afternoon, the Houston-Galveston area would be on the more ____ side of the storm. Mom and I packed some of our most ____ belongings in the car and ____ the East Texas town of Lufkin.
As Ike pushed farther inland, we ____power in Lufkin. On Sunday, our next-door neighbor told us via cell phone that our ____ had remained well. Our hopes could not have been ____. But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had ____, and it was sitting on our living room, ____ a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗).
We wouldn’t be allowed to return home ____ September 17th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole in the roof which showed a beautiful blue sky.
Without hesitation, I shouted, “Wow! A third skylight!”
My neighbors could not believe I was making jokes ____ crying, but ____ is always good medicine. It was with that joke that I knew, given time, everything would be okay.
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