广东省执信中学2012届高三下学期模拟试题(三)英语试题.docVIP

2012届广州市高三英语模拟试题 2012.5 本试卷共10页, 三大题, 满分135分。考试用时120分钟。 注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室 号、座位号填写在答题卡和答卷纸上。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点 涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答卷纸各题目指 定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案； 不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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。 I agree with the saying that some people “see old memories as a chance to deal with the past and unite past and present.” Many people are so 1 by things that happened in their past that they are not able to focus on the 2 . For example, in the book Ceremony, the main character, Tayo, cannot concentrate on the present because he can’t forget his troubled childhood and 3 continues to relive things that happened during that time. However, past memories can help people to 4 in the present. A 5 example of people learning from the past would be the Marshall Plan. After the 6 of World War II there were many war-torn countries around the world in need of 7 assistance to help rebuild their countries, and the United States would have to be the one to 8 that assistance. Many American politicians thought it was 9 for the US government to spend money abroad on countries that would not be able to repay it for a long time. However, George Marshall, a former US general, remembered how the exact same 10 of why should we spend money on war-torn nations that really owe us reparations (赔款)? had been used after World War I towards Germany. The 11 of assistance towards Germany after World War I had caused a gigantic economic depression in Germany that had made the Mark (German money) virtually 12 . The German people became so desperate that they started 13 an extreme German nationalist named Adolf Hitler, who eventually started World War II. Marshall knew that if the US did not 14 war-torn Germany and, especially, Japan, we could 15 hav