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　　汕头市金山中学2012-2013学年度第一学期期中考试
　　高三英语   2012年10月
　　全卷满分135分，考试时间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选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　When we read books we seem to enter a new world.  This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very    1    .  Some stories are told    2    they were true.  Real people who live in a normal world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just lis doing what we do.  Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not    3    .  They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be   4 for us.
　　But there is more to books and writing than this.  If we thint it, even realistic writing is only    5    .  How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real?  For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we do seem to learn something about the real world.  And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than    6    .  Reading, like writing, is an action.  It is a way of    7    .  When we read or write something, we do much more than simply look at words on a page.  We use our    8    --- which is real --- and our imagination ---which is real in a different way --- to make the words    9    in our minds.
　　Both realism and fantasy use the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to mas think.  When we read    10    realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just lis, even though we know that we are real and they are not.  It sounds   11    , but it works.  When we read, we fill in missing information and    12    about the causes and effects of what a character does.  We help the writer by pretending that what we read is like real life.  In a way, we are writing the book, too.
　　Most of us probably don’t thint what is going on in our    13    when we are reading.  We    14    a book and lose ourselves in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next.  Knowing how we feel    15    we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
　　1. A. possible     B. easy      C. new      D. different
　　2. A. that       B. what     C. whether      D. as if
　　3. A. realistic     B. reasonable    C. moral      D. instructive
　　4. A. difficult      B. impossible    C. important     D. necessary
　　5. A. thinkable     B. designed     C. imagined     D. planned
　　6. A. lessons      B. dreams      C. experience     D. magic
　　7. A. working     B. thinking     C. understanding    D. living
　　8. A. knowledge     B. skill      C. words      D. grammar
　　9. A. come to life   B. come to light   C. come to the point D. come to nothing
　　10. A. a newspaper     B. something    C. everything    D. a story
　　11. A. dangerous    B. serious      C. strange      D. terrible
　　12. A. talk       B. learn      C. read      D. think
　　13. A. mind      B. life       C. world      D. society
　　14. A. turn up      B. pick up   C. cook up      D. bring up
　　15. A. what      B. how      C. when      D. why
　　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16-25的相应位置上。
　　Vitamins are complex chemical substances 16         (find) in many foods.  The human body needs them for health and 17          (grow).  The body makes some vitamins, 18      
　　usually in amounts too small to meet its needs.  19          vitami