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　　广东省梅州市曾宪梓中学2010届高三10月月考（英语）
　　（考试时间120分钟，满分150分）
　　Ⅰ.听力
　　（略）
　　Ⅱ.语言知识及运用（共两节，满分35分）
　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30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。
　　One topic is rarely mentioned in all the talk of improving standards in our schools: the almost plete failure of foreign-language teaching. As a French graduate who has taught for more than twenty-five years, I have some ___21_____ of why the failure is so total. 22 the faults already found out in the education system as a whole, there have been several serious 23 which have a direct effect on language teaching.
　　The first is the removal from the curri（课程）of the thorough teaching of English 24­­­ . Pupils now do not know a verb from a noun or the subject of a sentence from its object.
　　Another important error is mixed-ability teaching, or teaching in ability groups so 25 that the most able groups are 26 and are bored while the least able are lost and 27 bored.
　　Progress depends on memory, and pupils start to forget immediately they stop having 28 lessons. This is why many people who attended French lessons at school have forgotten it a few years later.
　　Most American schools have accepted what is necessary and 29 modern languages, even Spanish, from the curri. Perhaps it is time for Britain to do the same, and stop 30 resources on a subject which few pupils want or need.
　　1. A. question B. evidence C. idea D. knowledge
　　2. A. Due to B. In addition to C. Instead of D. In spite of
　　3. A. errors B. situations C. systems D. methods
　　4. A. vocabulary B. culture C. grammar D. sentences
　　5. A. wide B. similar C. separate D. unique
　　6. A. t B. turned down C. held back D. left behind
　　7. A. surprisingly B. individually C. equally D. hardly
　　8. A. extra B. traditional C. basic D. regular
　　9. A. restored B. absorbed C. prohibited D. remove
　　10. A. wasting B. focusing C. exploiting D. sharing
　　第二节语法填空（共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分）
　　阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。
　　In the 1950s, the family that owned the farm near Beulah, Michigan kept a bull chained to the elm（榆树）. The bull paced 31 the tree, dragging a heavy iron chain with him, which led to a groove（槽）in the bark. The groove 32 （deep）over the years. Though for whatever reason, it did not kill the tree.
　　33 After some years, the family tooll away. They cut the chain, leaving the loop around the tree and one link 34 （hang）down.
　　Then one year, agricultural catastrophe struichigan in 35 form of Dut Disease. All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm bee infected 36 died. Everyone thought that the old elm would be next. The farm’s owners considered 37 （going）the safe thing: pulling it out and chopping it up into firewood before it died.
　　38 , the tree did not die. Nobody could understand 39 it was the