广东省肇庆市2013-2014学年高二第一期末质量检测英语试题
本试卷共8页，满分135分．考试用时120分钟.
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔，将自己所在县（市、区）、姓名、试室号、座位号填写在答题卷上对应位置，再用2B铅笔将准考证号涂黑．
2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卷上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，答案不能写在试卷或草稿纸上．
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内相应的位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再在答题区内写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液．不按以上要求作答的答案无效．
I、语言知识及运用 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完型填空（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A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Valentine’s Day is a popular festival of love and romance. There are 1 legends associated with the festival along with the belief that birds began to mate from this day. Historians trace (追踪)its 2 to an ancient Roman festival. It is said that in ancient Rome, people 3 a holiday on February 14th to honor Juno—the Queen of Roman Gods and Goddesses. On the following day, February 15th，the festival of Lupercalia was celebrated to honor the Roman God of Agriculture.
An interesting 4 was followed on the festival of Lupercalia to bring together young boys and girls who otherwise were strictly 5 . On the eve of the festival, names of young Roman girls were written on a slip of paper and placed into jars. Each young man 6 a girl's name from the jar and was paired with the girl during the festival. Sometimes the 7 ，the couple would fall in love with each other and 8 marry. The custom lasted for a long time until people felt that it was un-Christian and that mates should be chosen by sight, not 9 . lasted for a year until next year's celebration. Quite often
The pairing of young boys and girls set the mood of the Valentine's Day Festival as we know today. But it was 10 due to the efforts and daring of a priest St Valentine that the festival got its 11 and clearer meaning. The story goes that Emperor Claudius II of Rome found it 12 to get soldiers and felt the reason why men did not join the 13 was that they did not wish to leave their wives and families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. St Valentine challenged Claudius's 14 order and secretly married couples. When his disobedience was 15 ，Valentine was put to death on February 14, around 270 AD. After
