文档介绍：汕头四中2013届高三第四次月考英语试题
本试卷共12页,满分135分。考试用时120分钟。
第一部分语言知识及应用(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 found the cocoon ( 茧) of a butterfly. One day a small ____1_____ appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it ___2___ to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any ___3____. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.
So the man decided to ___4___ the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly came out ___5___. But it then had a swollen body and small, shriveled ( 皱缩) wings.
The man ___6___ to watch the butterfly because he’d expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge to be able to ___7___ the body, which would contract ( 缩小) in time. So he waited patiently.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly ___8___ the rest of its life crawling ( 爬行) around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to ___9___. What a shame!
What the man, in his kindness and fast action, did not understand was that the suffering and the struggle ___10___ for the butterfly to get through the tiny hole were nature’s way of ___11___fluid (液体) from the body of the butterfly into its wings ___12___ it would be ready for flight once it achieved its ___13__