福建省三明一中2013届高三上学期第二次月考英语试题答案(3)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后所给的四个选项（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。
If you asked high school girls to name their favorite sports, most would probably say basketball or volleyball. I happen to be one of the few girls who would 36 :surfing. But isn’t that a boy thing? Some people 37 .Most certainly not.
I started surfing about five years ago and 38 in love with the sport on the very first day. Riding that first 39 was the best feeling I had ever experienced.
When I try to 40 surfing with other things, I find it very difficult because, in my ___41_ ,there’s nothing like it. It involves body, 42 ,and soul. There’s sand between my toes and cool, salt water all 43 us. The feeling I get when I’m surfing across that 44 ,becoming one with the 45 ,is like I’m weightless.
The one thing I can 46 from surfing and not any other sport is endless challenge. You can never be the “best surfer” because the ocean 47 an uncountable variety of waves that nobody can ever master. The variations of surfing styles are wonderful. Some surfers are free and flowing; others are very aggressive and 48 .All of these things attract me to surfing and make it 49 from any other sport.
I’ve 50 to tell every girl I know to do something that people don’t think girls can do. It’s part of being human to advance to new 51 ,so shouldn’t it be expected that girls should step up and start 52 the limits of things boys and men used to dominate?
There’re women 53 side by side with the President of our country, so why not side by side with the boys 54 the football team or out in the water surfing? Give girls a chance to __55 , and they will.
36.A.tell B. answer C. give D. realize
37.A.wonder B. understand C. reply D. believe
38.A.stayed B. came C. dropped D. fell
39.A.wave B. storm C. sail D. boat
40.A.bring B. connect C. compare D. tie
41.A.work B. study C. holiday D. life
42.A.mind B. effort C. health D. time
43.A.along B. above C. around D. by
44.A.beach B. water C. board D. lake
45.A.sky B. world C. earth D. ocean
46.A.take B. get C. make D. keep
47.A.catches B. includes C. offers D. collects
48.A.sharp B. great C. hard D. calm
49.A.known B. right C. far D. different
50.A.chosen B. tried C. learned D. promised
51.A.levels B. points C. steps D. parts
52.A.reaching B. accepting C. pushing D. setting
53.A.sitting B. walking C. fighting D. working
54.A.of B. from C. on D. with
55.A.think B. succeed C. perform D. feel
第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
