湛江市2012-2013学年度第二学期期末调研考试
高一英语(必修3、4)试卷
I. 语言知识及应用(共两节,满分50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。
The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “ 1 station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a 2 救护车),too. A man is badly wounded,” said a(n) 3 voice of a young woman. at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance(
“OK. We’ll come soon. Please stay there and wait.” Replied the policeman.
Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance 4 off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was 5 . No collision, no wounded man.
“What a dirty 6 !” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that mischievous (恶作剧) 7
and…”
They had not been able to say anything about a 8 when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came 9 towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly 10 to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver , was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had foretold (预言) on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was 11 at last. Later the police did whatever they could to 12 the woman who had 13 them, but failed.
It is really 14 that a prophecy(预言) should agree with the fact so 15 .