英语试题 第1 页 共11 页 惠州市2013届高三第一次调研考试 英语试题 2012.07 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分．满分135 分，考试用时120 分钟为。 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的市（县）／区、学校、班级、姓名、准考证号、试室号和座位号填写在答卡的密封线内。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B 铅笔将答题卡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：不能答在试题卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在另发的答题卷各题 目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请将答题卷和答题卡一并交回。 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。 What will happen if you put a buzzard in a pen (围栏) which is six to eight feet square and entirely open at the top? The bird in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute __1__. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a(an) __2__, from the ground with a run of ten to twelve feet. Without enough __3__ to run, as is its habit, it will not even __4__ to fly, but remain a prisoner for life in such a small jail with no top. The ordinary bat that flies around at night, who is even a really __5__ creature in the air, cannot take off from a __6__ place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is to move about __7__ and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slightly __8__ place from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a __9__. If dropped into a/(an) __10__ flat-bottomed glass, a bumblebee will be there until it dies, unless it is tak...
