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　　广东省肇庆市2013-2014学年高二第一期末质量检测英语试题
　　本试卷共8页，满分135分．考试用时120分钟.
　　注意事项：
　　1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔，将自己所在县（市、区）、姓名、试室号、座位号填写在答题卷上对应位置，再用2B铅笔将准考证号涂黑．
　　2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卷上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，答案不能写在试卷或草稿纸上．
　　3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内相应的位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再在答题区内写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液．不按以上要求作答的答案无效．
　　I、语言知识及运用 （共两节，满分45分）
　　第一节：完型填空（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。
　　Valentine’s Day is a popular festival of love and romance. There are  1  legends associated with the festival along with the belief that birds began to mate from this day. Historians trace (追踪)its  2  to an ancient Roman festival. It is said that in ancient Rome, people  3  a holiday on February 14th to honor Juno—the Queen of Roman Gods and Goddesses. On the following day, February 15th，the festival of Lupercalia was celebrated to honor the Roman God of Agriculture.
　　An interesting  4  was followed on the festival of Lupercalia to bring together young boys and girls who otherwise were strictly  5  . On the eve of the festival, names of young Roman girls were written on a slip of paper and placed into jars. Each young man  6  a girl's name from the jar and was paired with the girl during the festival. Sometimes the  7  lasted for a year until next year's celebration. Quite often，the couple would fall in love with each other and   8  marry. The custom lasted for a long time until people felt that it was un-Christian and that mates should be chosen by sight, not  9  .
　　The pairing of young boys and girls set the mood of the Valentine's Day Festival as we know today. But it was  10  due to the efforts and daring of a priest St Valentine that the festival got its  11  and clearer meaning. The story goes that Emperor Claudius II of Rome found it  12  to get soldiers and felt the reason why men did not join the  13  was that they did not wish to leave their wives and families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. St Valentine challenged Claudius's  14  order and secretly married couples. When his disobedience was  15  ，Valentine was put to death on February 14, around 270 AD. After his death Valentine was named a saint.
　　1．A. acceptable B. familiar  C. various D. unrelated
　　2．A. possibility B. development C. event D. origin
　　3．A. studied B. observed C. handled  D. discussed
　　4．A. movement B. celebration C. competition D. custom
　　5．A. respected B. educated C. separated D. organized
　　6．A. spot B. brought out C. pulled out D. drew out
　　7．A. pairing B. dating     C. playing D. celebrating
　　8．A. fortunately B. occasionally C. finally D. surprisingly
　　9．A. order B. risk C. name D. luck
　　10．A. usually B. actually C. really D. factually
　　11．A. history B. story C. fame D. name
　　12．A. strange B. slow C. awful D. tough
　　13．A. war B. party C. army D. game
　　14．A. unfinished B. unjustified C. unrecognized D. unconcerned
　　15．A. discovered B. attacked C. memorized D. promised
　　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所给词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为16—25的相应位置上。
　　American Idol is a TV show and annual American singing competition, which began its first season on June 11, 2002. It is based on the British show Pop Idol, in which thousands of young singers, aged 16-28, audition（试演）for the chance   16  (choose) as the new singing idol. The program seeks to discover the  17  (good) young singer in the country through  18  series of