阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the ______home from work in the evenings. A man will be______the newspaper, and seconds later it _____ as if he is trying to _____it. Or he will fall asleep on the shoulder of the stranger_____ next to him.______ place where unplanned short sleep ____ is in the lecture hall where a student will start snoring（打鼾）so _______that the professor has to ask another student to______ the sleeper awake. A more embarrassing（尴尬）situation occurs when a student starts falling into sleep and the _____ of the head pushes the arm off the______, and the movement carries the_____ of the body along. The student wakes up on the floor with no______ of getting there. The worst time to fall asleep is when ____ . Police reports are full of ______ that occur when people fall into sleep and go_______ the road. If the drivers are _______ , they are not seriously hurt. One woman's car, _______ , went into the river. She woke up in four feet of ______ and thought it was raining. When people are really ____，nothing will stop them from falling asleep-----no matter where they are.
1.A. way B. track C. path D. road
2.A. buying B. folding C. delivering D. reading
3.A. acts B. shows C. appears D. sounds
4.A. open B. eat C. find D. finish
5.A. lying B. waiting C. talking D. sitting
6.A. Next B. Every C. Another D. One
7.A. goes on B. ends up C. lasts D. returns
8.A. bravely B. happily C. loudly D. carelessly
9.A. leave B. shake C. keep D. watch
10.A. size B. shape C. weight D. strength
11.A. cushion B. desk C. shoulder D. book
12.A. action B. position C. rest D. side
13.A. memory B. reason C. question D. purpose
14.A. thinking B. working C. walking D. driving
15.A. changes B. events C. ideas D. accidents
16.A. up B. off C. along D. down
17.A. lucky B. awake C. calm D. strong
18.A. in time B. at first C. as usual D. for example
19.A. dust B. water C. grass D. bush
20.A. tired B. drunk C. lonely D. Lazy
基础写作
【广东省梅县东山中学2014届高三上学期期中】你是英语校报的一名小记者，最近进行了一次采访，
以下是这次采访的情况：
【写作内容】
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
【参考词汇】
心理学psychology
完形填空.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It ______ his absence from class the day before.
I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my ______. The forged(伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The ______ of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually ______: “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.”
The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they ______ excuse notes, they were brilliant.
So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying, “They’re ______ to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky ? ” The students looked at me ______.
“Now, this will be the first class to study the ______ of the excuse notes --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so______ to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a ______ worthy of study. ”
Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your ______. So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God’.” ______ went down. Pens raced ______ paper. For the first time ever I saw students so ______ in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes. ______ discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked ______, looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.” My heart ______.
When I stepped into his office, he came to ______ my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was ______. Those kids were writing on the college ______. Thank you. ”
1.A. explained B. described C. introduced D. announced
2.A. parents B. students C. teachers D. partners
3.A. editors B. readers C. writers D. speakers
4.A. true B. false C. easy D. dull
5.A. produced B. considered C. imagined D. delivered
6.A. designed B. collected C. supposed D. improved
7.A. eagerly B. nervously C. excitedly D. coldly
8.A. form B. difficulty C. meaning D. art
9.A. lucky B. helpful C. lovely D. active
10.A. talent B. habit C. product D. subject
11.A. devotion B. imagination C. Concentration D. information
12.A. hands B. eyes C. heads D. ears
13.A. across B. with C. against D. behind
14.A. curious B. careful C. casual D. calm
15.A. Separated B. Surprising C. Heated D. Lasting
16.A. day and night B. in and out C. now and then D. up and down
17.A. sank B. rose C. flew D. hurt
18.A. watch B. touch C. shake D. catch
19.A. sure B. dim C. tough D. great
20.A. base B. level C. paper D. theme
语法填空。
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Among the few scientists who have had a great effect on science and history, Albert Einstein is perhaps the 1.(great). An American university president once commented that Einstein had created2. new view of the universe. His theory has completely changed the way scientists understand time and space. Now, more and more people agree that the universe is something more complicated than 3. they have ever thought before.
Einstein 4. (bear) in Germany in 1879. In 1914, young Einstein, already internationally famous, became a professor at an institute in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited opportunities for study. However, 5. peaceful life was soon broken by the First World War.
Einstein hated violence. He was deeply affected by the war; he sat 6. (happy) in his office doing nothing and 7. (lose) interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.
In the years 8. (follow) the First World War, people showered honor upon him. He became the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize 9. Physics and was greatly honored and respected in Germany. However, his life was again disrupted. The Second World War broke out and Einstein had to moved to the US, 10. he lived until his death in 1955.
I _______a cup of coffee when a new idea occurred to me.
A. drank B. was drinking
C. had drunk D. would drink
Still many Senior Three students haven't realized reading English newspapers _______of great help to their English study.
A. is B. are
C. have been D. had been
