文档介绍：广东省花都区2011届高三上学期学期初调研考试试题
(英语)
(满分135分,时间120分钟)
注意事项:
,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上。
,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。
,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。
。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。
A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read and 1 . It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart; it can keep a 2 with very little effort.
I will give 3 . A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting along well. We had been close as 4 but had grown apart. Our meetings were not 5 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels: and every effort to clear the air seemed to only 6 our misunderstanding. Then he 7 a small island in the Caribbean and we 8 touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and its people, told me what he was doing, said how he felt. Rereading the letter, I was 9 by its humor and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had 10 respected my older brother but 11 he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so well. And with that one letter we became friends 12 .
It might never have occurred to him to writ