文档介绍：茂名市2012年第二次高考模拟考试
英语试卷
本试卷共12页,三大题,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和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型(B)填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。 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。 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. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。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。
Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students 1 and some teachers teach.
More than 175,000 students 2 the public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last year, the school system used digital 3 in fifteen schools. This school year, middle schools and high schools changed from 4 to electronic textbooks in their social studies classes.
Luke Rosa is a history teacher at Falls Church High School. His 5 work on school puters. He explains the idea to them this way: "I mean, it's just like a 6 textbook, except it's got it all online."
Peter Noonan, a leader of schools, says with electronic textbooks, publishers can quickly 7 the content with the latest information. He says: "The world's changing 8 . And the online textbooks can change right along with the events that are happening." He says digital books also cost 9 than printed textbooks: "Usually it's in the neighborhood of between fifty and seventy dollars to 10 a textbook for each student, which adds up to 11 eight million dollars for all of our students in Fairfax County. We 12 have purchased all of the online textbooks for our students for just under six million dollars."
But the students also need 13 to the when they are not at school. About ten percent of students in Fairfax County do not have puter or online access at 14 . Stephen Castillo is one of them. He has to go the public library, which has free 15 .
B. learn
C. behave
D. speak
2.