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　　广东梅县东山中学2014届高三第一学期中段考试英语试卷
　　出题人：第二小组  
　　笔试部分满分135分。考试用时120分钟。（听力15分另计）
　　Ⅰ语言知识及应用
　　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A、B、C和D的选项中, 选出最佳选项。
　　It is known that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day. This is so    1   that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one    2   understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as    3   as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant    4  . We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they    5   do. As a matter of fact, they    6   to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious(神秘的) way of knowing the    7  . Their sense of time does not    8   information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”.
　　This    9   may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also    10   , including man, have this “inner clock” which    11    the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious    12  . Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food.
　　In the past, this did not really    13   because people lived in natural condition. In the     14   world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very    15   , then, to know more about the “inner clocch things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves.
　　1. A. familiar    B. strange        C. similar        D. special
　　2. A. partly         B. personally    C. really        D. willingly
　　3. A. complex       B. simple        C. mature        D. meaningful
　　4. A. quietness       B. darkness   C. loneliness    D. sadness
　　5. A. finally        B. completely    C. physically    D. normally
　　6. A. refused        B. decided      C. continued   D. failed
　　7. A. time           B. secret      C. process    D. study
　　8. A. deal with     B. add to      C. give away   D. depend on
　　9. A. discovery     B. activity      C. invention     D. method
　　10. A. beasts         B. animals      C. strangers      D. humans
　　11. A. controls     B. studies        C. measures   D. destroys
　　12. A. world         B. flower       C. power       D. experiment
　　13. A. happen     B. exist         C. matter       D. work
　　14. A. ancient     B. modern       C. wonderful    D. peaceful
　　15. A. hard        B. expensive    C. convenient    D. important
　　第二节：语法填空 （共10小题每小题1.5分, 满分15分）
　　Dear Gill,
　　Do you remember me telling you about a health farm I've seen advertised? Well, I've looked at the ad again and I must say that ____16___ looks fantastic. Now I'm hoping to persuade you ___17___ (join) me there for a weekend!
　　The rooms you stay in sound really luxurious and apparently they all have an access ___18___ the gardens. All the meals ____19___ (offer) at a reasonable price and you can also get room service ____20____ you want. The brochure says that what you do is _____21____ (entire) up to you. You can have programs specially ___22____ (design) to suit you, or you can just ask staff to make a few suggestions about activities to do. You can use any of the sports and leisure facilities ___23___ much as you like, and the brochure also mentions lots of other activities every day. But don't worry, as nobody will watch you do anything, you could just spend the whole time relaxing in the sauna if you want! There's a terrific offer on at the moment with weekends costing only half the normal price although that only ____24___ certain dates. Anyway, let me know ____25___ you think.
　　Best wishes.
　　Sue
　　Ⅱ 阅读（共两节, 满分50分）
　　第一节 阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的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
　　Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was “different”. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him “different”, with his facial characteristics, slow responses and me