四川省绵阳中学2014届高三上学期第一次月考试卷 （英语）
第一部分 英语知识运用 (共两节.满分40分)
第一节 单项填空 (共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中.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。
1. ---What do you think of _____ Mid-Autumn Festival party on CCTV1?
---Wonderful. It’s worth watching ____ second time.
A. the; a B. a; the C. a; a D. /; a
2. Without inexpensive printing to make books available to a large section of society, the son of John Shakespeare, a government official in rural England in the mid-1500s, may never have been inspired _____ writing ____ a profession.
A. to take off; to B. taking in; as C. to take over; to D. to take up; as
3. _____ about 14 million square kilometers around the South Pole _____ Antarctica the fifth largest continent in the world.
A. Cover; make B. Covering; makes C. Covering; making D. Cover; to make
4. In 1961, a treaty _____ by 12 countries, ______ Britain, France, and the USA, made Antarctica the biggest nature reserve in the world.
A. signing; included B. signed; included C. signing; including D. signed; including
5. On 8thAugust, 1914, twenty-seven men ______ a ship ______ for the Antarctic.
A. boarding; leaving B. boarded; leaving C. went abroad; left D. were on board; left
6. Unlike other places in Europe, ______ house owners were taxed ______ the size of the windows, here the taxes depended on the width of the house-so they kept them narrow, but built them tall.
A. where; on B. which; in C. in which; in D. that; on
