姜堰中学高考英语限时作业23

高三英语练习二十三

命题人：许永新

一、单项填空

1. ---I moved here with my parents ten years ago, and have moved nowhere else. ---That is to say, you ______ here，right?

A. will live B. had lived C. would be living D. have been living

2. ______ himself with necessary knowledge and skills, the young man went to the job market with much confidence.

A. Equipped B. Equipping C. Having equipped D. Being equipped

3. ______ you are alone on an island, what can you do?

A. Supposed B. To suppose C. Supposing D. Having Supposed

4. If you study ______ the atmosphere of learning is very strong, it’s easy for yon to make progress in your own studies.

A. that B. when C. in which D. where

5. ---What was the weather like at noon yesterday?

---Very hot. The sun ______ down on our heads as we walked home.

A. struck B. beat C. hit D. knocked

6. In order to buy a new house for my marriage, I ______ a little money every month.

A. put off B. put on C. put away D. put out

7. Tom, ______ his bedroom, found in the corner of it his missing diary, which he had looked for several days.

A. to clean B. having been cleaned C. cleaned D. cleaning

8. Nine in ten parents said there were significant differences in their approach to educating their children compared with ______ of their parents.

A. those B. one C. both D. that

9. We need your advice on how to learn English well ______ it can help us to improve it and keep up with others.

A. in case B. for fear C. even though D. in that

10. ---Is the computer working well now?

---Yes. My mother ______ it repaired.

A. need have had B. can have had C. must have had D. should have had

二、完形填空

A little river flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many villages and forests until it reached a desert. It then thought, “I’ve overcome countless difficulties. I should have no _11_ crossing this desert!” But when _12_ her journey, she found herself gradually disappearing into the sands. “Maybe I cannot reach the ocean.” she said _13_ to herself. At this time, a deep _14_ came, saying, “If a breeze can cross the desert, so can a river. ” It was the voice of the desert. The river replied, “That’s because a breeze can fly.”

“That’s because you _15_ what you are. If you give it up, and let yourself evaporate(蒸发)into the breeze, it can take you across,” said the desert.

“Give up what I am now and disappear into the breeze? No!” She could not accept this _16_. Wouldn’t it be self-destruction to give up what she was now?

“How do I know if this is true?” asked the little river.

“The breeze can carry the steam across the desert and the steam can _17_ into rain at an/a _18_ site. The rain will form a river again to continue its _19_,” answered the desert very _20_, “whether you’re a river or _21_ steam, your inner nature never changes. You stick to the fact that you’re a river because you don’t know your nature _22_. ”