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三、完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分，计15分) 阅读下列短文，从文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in a new soldier school in Ashland and not sure if I could ____36____ it home for the holidays. On the afternoon of December 23 we were ____37_______ some of us would have three-day holidays. I was one of the _____38_____ soldiers. It was Christmas Eve when I ____39_____, and a little snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see over her, into the corner of the living-room where the tree always _____40____. There were lights, all colors, shining in the _____41____ of the tree. “Where did it come from?” I asked. “I asked the gate boy to ______42___ it,” my mother said. “I don’t want one just for myself, but when _____43____… Oh! Such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon …” The tree was almost as ____44_____ as the room, and the Tree Top Star was in its place. A few branches _____45____ about at the side, I thought, and there was a big bare branch showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with the pleasant _____46____ of Christmas. “It’s not like the one you want to _____47____ ,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape, I think the gate boy didn’t know where to look for a _____48____ one.” “Don’t worry,” I told her. “It’s perfect.” It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I ____49_____ for the first time: all Christmas ____50_____ are perfect. ( )36. A. make B. take C. leave D. keep ( )37. A. invited B. told C. asked D. ordered ( )38. A. brave B. busy C. strong D. lucky ( )39. A. stayed B. arrived C. left D. travelled ( )40. A. grown B. planted C. stood D. lain ( )41. A. skin B. green C. branch D. dark ( )42. A. borrow B. buy C. cut D. plant ( )43. A. asked B. called C. invited D. explained(解释) ( )44. A. old B. pretty C. tall D. strong ( )45. A. moved B. reached C. showed D. fell ( )46. A. smell B. taste C. sound D. look ( )47. A. climb B. show C. find D. lend ( )48. A. shorter B. cheaper C. younger D. better ( )49. A. heard B. remembered C. understood D. wondered ( )50. A. gifts B. wishes C. trees D. houses 四、阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，计30分) 阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 (A) Welcome to this short tour of London. In this square we are standing in the middle of London. Opposite(对面) is the National Gallery, a museum with lots of famous paintings. Go along the red street to Buckingham Palace. The queen (后) lives here. Turn left and go to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Opposite you can see the London Eye. It takes you 135 meters above the River Thames. You can see most of London on a clear day. When you are tired, the best way to see London is by boat. You can get the boat near Big Ben. As you go along the river, the London Eye is on your right, near the Railway Bridge. Get off the boat at Tower Bridge. Then you can see the Tower of London next to the bridge. The Tower of London is the city’s oldest palace. It is nine hundred years old. (责任编辑：admin) |