广东省汕头市金山中学2012年高三上学期期中题英语.doc

金山中学2012届高三上学期期中考试英语试题 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。 For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 1 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 2 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 3 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 4 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency（不足）5 in the actual stuff of language itself —words. Taken individually, words have 6 meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 7 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回）to 8 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 9 down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 10 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined（预先确定的） speed．The bar is set at a slightly faster rate than the reader finds comfortable, in order to“stretch”him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, 11 word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization（默读）practically impossible. At first 12 is sacrificed for speed．But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will 13 . Many people have found their reading skill drastically improved after some training. 14 Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an e