陕西省西安市第一中学2014届高三上学期期中考试英语试题试卷(2)

A. set down          B. sit down      C. settle down        D. lie down
22. Barbara is easy to recognize, as she’s the only one of the girls who _____ school uniform.
A. wear            B. wears         C. wore           D. have worn
23. It took me a long time before I was able to fully understand what they __ for me.
   A. had done      B. did        C. would do       D. were doing
24. Helping others is a habit, _______ you can learn even at an early age.
   A. it           B. that         C. what          D. one
25. The mother as well as her two daughters ____ to the theatre with some friends this evening.
A. are going     B. were going    C. is going       D. was going
第四节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的
最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was __26___to see that it was an English-English dictionary, also known as a monolingual dictionary.__27___it was a dictionary intended for non-native learners, none of my classmates had one, __28__, to be honest, I found it extremely __29_ to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and _30__ not fully understand the meaning. I was used to the __31__ bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are _32__ both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt __33_ to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying  English at university for three years, I __34__ that monolingual dictionaries are __35_ in learning a foreign language.
  As I found out, there is __36_ often NO perfect equivalence(对应)between two __37___ in two language. My aunt even goes so far as to ___38___ that a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the ___39___ meaning of a word in English! ___40_ , she insisted that I read the definition(定义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary ___41___ I wanted to get a better understanding of its meaning. ____42__, I have come to see what she meant. 
Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a(n)   43    number of words, around 2, 000, in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am   44    exposed to（接触）the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas.   45   this, I can express myself more easily in English.
26.A．worried     B．sad              C．surprised          D．nervous
27.A．Because      B．Although         C．Unless            D．If
28.A．but      B．so               C．or                D．and
29.A．difficult     B．interesting        C．ambitious          D．practical
30.A．thus      B．even             C．still               D．again
31.A．new      B．familiar          C．earlier             D．ordinary
32.A．explained    B．expressed        C．described          D．created
33.A．offered     B．agreed           C．decided            D．happened
34.A．imagine    B．recommend  C．predict             D．understand
35.A．natural     B．better     C．easier              D．convenient
36 A．at best     B．in fact           C．at times            D．in case
37.A．words    B．names            C．ideas              D．characters
38.A．hope       B．declare           C．doubt             D．tell
39.A．exact       B．basic            C．translated          D．expected
40.A．Rather      B．However         C．Therefore          D．Instead