英语：2012届广东省揭阳市高三学业水平考试201201.docVIP

揭阳市2011—2012学年度高中三年级学业水平考试 英 语 本试卷共三部分，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、考生号、试室号和座位号填写在答题卡上。 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的答案标号涂黑；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，答案必须写在答题卡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. 考生必须保持答题卷和答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷、答题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。 As a child, I was very shy. I wanted to be successful, but lacked 1 . When I discovered climbing, I found something I was good at. I began to be 2 by my friends and this gave me the desire to climb 3 and higher mountains. I found that nothing was impossible if I could find the 4 to try to achieve my goals. Both personal 5 and teamwork are important when you climb. You need to rely on the 6 of your team and share in the achievement. But personal determination to keep going despite any difficulty is very helpful to team success. My greatest achievement in climbing was being the first ever to reach the top of the 5,000 -foot Troll Wall in Norway, which has the highest and most vertical(垂直的) rock face in Europe. A stone 7 from the top of the mountain will 8 nothing until it lands on the valley floor one mile below. So it was very 9 . Before our climb, the experts in Europe had said it was 10 to climb the Troll Wall. But with three companions, I decided to 11 . It took ten days to make the climb and we 12 on ledges(岩石架)no more than a foot wide when we were tired. 13 , we succeeded. Afterwards, I said to myself, “If I can do that, I can do anything.” Some years later, I climbed up Mount Everest——the highest mountain in the world. Adventure to me is not just 14 a rope along the side of a mountain, but is one field where adventurous people can often 15 themselves. If we look at every day as an adventure, we can test ourselves and continue to grow