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　　汕头市第四中学2013届高三第五次月考英语试题
　　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。                      
　　Steve Jobs on life and death
　　When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, some day you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an   1   on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every   2   and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”  And whenever the    3    has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to   4   something.
　　Remembering that I’ll be   5   soon is the most important tool I’ve ever used to help me make the big    6   in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all   7   of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is   8   important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thin have something to   9  . You are already naked. There is no reason not to   10   your heart.
　　Your time is limited, so don’t   11   it living someone else’s life. Don’t be   12   by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’   opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the   13   to follow your beliefs and goals. They somehow already know what you really want to   14  . Everything else is   15  .
　　1.  A. expectation   B. impression  C. imagination  D. examination
　　2.  A. minute    B. night          C. day   D. morning
　　3.  A. answer    B. solution      C. result   D. chance
　　4.  A. accept       B. hide       C. change      D. avoid
　　5.  A. famous    B. dead          C. old      D. forgotten
　　6.  A. decisions    B. contributions     C. differences    D. mistakes
　　7.  A. understanding   B. certainty          C. fear     D. knowledge
　　8.  A. mostly        B. hardly      C. nearly        D. truly
　　9.  A. take     B. lose       C. give     D. win
　　10.  A. break        B. catch      C. warm   D. follow
　　11.  A. waste        B. imagine      C. spend   D. risk
　　12.  A. confused        B. trapped      C. discouraged  D. hurt
　　13.  A. wisdom    B. idea          C. desire      D. courage
　　14.  A. see     B. show      C. become     D. forget
　　15.  A. necessary       B. natural      C. secondary    D. possible
　　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。
　　On her 80th birthday，Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck was asked if she wished to be young again．She quickly replied，“Wish to be young again? No，for I have learned too much to lose if I am a far  16  (value)person today than I was 30 years ago，or 20 years ago，or 15，10 or even 5．I have learnt so much    17    I was 70.”
　　Buck understood that life isn’t meant to be lived on bell curve(钟形曲线)．We don’t go up for a while and then，after a certain age，begin a downhill slide.  18   ，we are able to continue on an upward trend．And one of the most significant ways we can do that is by learning from the lives of  19    --especially children．