广东惠阳高级中学高中部2012－2013学年度高一下学期第二次段考
英语试题
时间120分钟，总分150分 2013.6
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。
Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft employees aretraveling by train to a conference. The Microsoft engineers each buy tickets but the Apple engineers buy only a 1 ticket.
“How are three people going to travel on only one 2 ?” asks a Microsoft employee. “Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Apple engineer.
They all board the train. The Microsoft employees take their 3 but all three Apple engineers cram(拥挤) into a restroom and close the door behind them.
4 after the train has departed（离站）, the conductor comes around 5 tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.” The door opens just a crack(缝) and an arm 6 , ticket in hand. The 7 takes it and moves on. The Microsoft employees see this and agree it is quite a 8 idea.
So after the conference, the Microsoft employees decide to 9 the Apple engineers (as they always do) on the return trip and save some 10 . When they get to the station, they buy one ticket. To their 11 , the Apple engineers don’t buy any ticket at all.
“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one 12 Microsoft employee. “Watch and you’ll
