2011广东省肇庆市高考二模英语试题及答案解析

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。

“Where’s Jamie?” screamed my cousin LEE Ann. ”Oh my God, where’s Jamie?” I thought, as we were standing in the    1   . The question about my five-year-old son’s    2    sent shock waves through my body.

    The entire pool has a safety ledge (岩阶) around the inside of it and    3    slopes to a deep end of only four feet. It was very common for us to let the younger children splash (泼水) their afternoons away in Grandma’s pool while we stood beside them and got totally    4   .

On that scary afternoon when Lee Ann shouted, it seems that Jamie    5    down into the deep part. We had taken our    6    off him for only a split second, and then he was gone. I quickly spotted and    7    out to pull him up.

 As I quickly pulled him up, he came out kicking and screaming that he wanted to    8   . My guilty wanted to grant him his wish, but my    9    instincts told me to stay in the pool with him. Both of us were shaking as I talked to him and told him that water can be    10    and we must respect it. I held him close as we gently walked around the pool. After a couple of    11    he said he wasn’t afraid any more.

I was feeling    12   for myself for being such a bad father. “Good fathers don’t let their sons almost   13  .”   Just then, Lee Ann walked by and said. “You are a terrific dad and I really    14    the way you handled that. He will never be afraid of the water again!” ww

Lee Ann saved two lives that day, one my son’s life when she shouted “Where’s Jamie?” and the other my life, as a    15   !

1. A. river      B. bank   C.  pool     D. house

2. A. screaming B. diving C. escape D. disappearance

3. A. gently   B. suddenly C. extremely D. steeply

4. A. hot     B. wet  C. nervous  D. disgusted

5.A. walked B. lay   C. jumped  D. slid

6.A. eyes  B. hands  . swimming-suit D. life jacket

7.A. took  B. shouted C. reached     D. put

8. A. get out       B. stay inside 

  C. learn diving   . go on splashing

9. A. fatherly B. motherly C. survival D. human

10. A. useful  B. valuable C. scary    D. harmful

11. A. hours   B. minutes C. days     D. seconds

12. A. proud B. disappointed  C. disgraceful D. sorry

13. A. drown B. play    C. injure    D. disappoint

14. A. doubt B. admire  C. follow    D. dislike

15. A. father B. friend  C. failure    D. man

1. C  根据第二段中，let the younger children splash (泼水) their afternoons away in Grandma’s pool while we stood beside them 可知。

2. D  根据后文shock，及第三段it seems that Jamie    5    down into the deep part可知孩子不见了

3. A  根据上文safety ledge 安全岩阶，可知是“缓缓地”下延至四英寸的地方。

4. B  根据上文, 孩子在池中玩水，父亲站在旁边会“弄湿”全身。

5. D  根据下文into the deep part可知是不小心“滑下去”

6. A  根据上文take one’s eyes off…把目光从……移开。

7.C  父亲发现了水中的孩子，赶紧伸出手把他拉上来。reach out伸手去抓

8. A  根据上文kicking and screaming可知，小孩溺水受了惊吓，父亲把他拉起来时，他不想再玩，吵闹着离开。

9. A.  内疚使父亲觉得应该赞同孩子离开，但做“父亲的”直觉告诉他要同孩子继续留在池中。这样做的目的是培养孩子的勇气。

10. C  根据下文we must respect it，可知父亲告诉孩子水有时很可怕，必须小心（重视）。 C. scary吓人的，使人惊恐的。

11. B  父亲陪同孩子在水池四周漫步，过了几“分钟”孩子就平静下来， 不再感到害怕了。

12. D  根据下文such a bad father，及孩子差点淹死，所以父亲深感“内疚”， 认为自己是一位不好的父亲。C. disgraceful可耻的, 不名誉的    D. sorry

13. A  A. drown溺水

14. B  孩子沉入水中受了惊吓，父亲并没有马上带他离开，而是安慰鼓励他，慢慢消除它的恐惧心理。根据上文a terrific dad 可知，Lee Ann对孩子父亲的这种做法很“赞赏”。

15. A  父亲认为，Lee Ann救了两条命：儿子的命和他自己作为父亲的“命”。

第二节：语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

Nowadays, it is common that parents buy   16   educational present for their children. A lot of personal computers are place under the Christmas tree this year.   17  (believe) that computers are the key to success, parents are also insisting that children   18  (teach) to use them in school as early as possible. The problem for school is   19  when it comes to computers, parents don’t always know best. Teachers found themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent   20  (press) and wise educational decisions. Many schools are giving in to parental impatience and are purchasing hardware   21  good educational planning. Educators do not even agree on how computers should be used. Even those   22   believe that all children should have access to computers warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remains strong largely   23   young children adapt so well to computers. However, not every school can afford to go into computing, and that creates   24   problem: a division between the haves and the have-nots. Very few parents are agitating for（倡导）computer instruction in poor school districts,   25   there may be barely enough money to pay the teacher.