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　　广东省东莞市2013届高三上学期期末调研测试英语试卷
　　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。
　　When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog, Her body was  1  . She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.
　　Already she was the first woman to   2  the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her  3  was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.
　　On the July Fourth morning in 1952, the sea was icy and the fog was so heavy that she could   4   see her support boats. Sharks swam toward her lone figure, only to he  5  away by gun shots. Against the cold sea water, she struggled on -- hour after hour -- while millions watched on national   6  .
　　Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn't much farther. But what she could see was  7   .They urged her not to  8   . She never had … until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.
　　Several hours later, she told a reporter, “Look, I'm not  9  myself, but if I could have seen  10   , I might have made it.” It was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She was  11  to see her goal.
　　Two months  12  , she tried again. This time, despite the same   13   fog, she swam with her faith and her goal   14   pictured in. her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she   15   it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel!
　　1. A. cold B. numb C. thin D. weak
　　2. A. pass B. dive C. swim D. fly
　　3. A. mother B. record C. success D. goal
　　4. A. hardly B. nearly C. clearly D. probably
　　5. A. pulled B. swept C. driven D. cleared
　　6. A. scene B. television C. radio D. race
　　7. A. fog B. shark C. boat D. wall
　　8. A. swim B. go C. try D. quit
　　9. A. blaming B. excusing C. crying D. enjoying
　　10. A. coach B. fog C. land D. California
　　11. A. unhappy B. unwilling C. unlucky D. unable
　　12. A. ago B. later C. before D. long
　　13. A. heavy B. wet C. solid D. cold
　　14. A. heavily B. easily C. clearly D. suddenly
　　15. A. did B. forgot C. chose D. made
　　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卡标号为16~25的相应位置上。
　　Alice, a shark that lives at the National Sea Life Center in England, did not start out life as a vegetarian. When she  16   . (bring) in from Florida in 2009, she was happily eating any seafood.   17   , that changed in a few months, and she suddenly stopped eating completely. Deeply   18   (concern), the center officials took her in for an X-ray,   19   showed that a fishing hook was hiding deep inside her mouth. So they took her to see a doctor who realized the only way to save the shark was performing   20   rather risky operation.   21   (fortune), things went really well But just when everybody was happy about the shark's recovery, the history-making shark began changing her eating habit, instead,   22   (prefer) to use her sharp teeth to eat vegetables! Although this may sound good, it is not really good   23   Alice's health because vegetables can not provide enough protein that she needs to survive. Shark experts all over the world are confused at Alice's   24   (behave) and they guess that   25   may have something to do with the wound the hoosed. But unless she speap, nobody is really going to know the real reason.
　　Ⅱ阅读(共两节；满分50分) 
　　第一节 阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出