2013-2014学年第二学期高二年级第一次
月考
英 语 试 卷
(考试时间:120分钟,满分:150分)
第Ⅰ卷
第一节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
We have been driving in fog all morning,but the fog is lifting now.The little seaside villages are __1__,one by one.“There is my grandmother's house,” I say,__2__ across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage(朝圣) with Lise,my granddaughter,seeking roots for her,retracing(追溯) __3__ memory for me.Lise was one of the mobile children,__4__ from house to house in childhood.She longs for a sense of __5__,and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors __6__ for 200 years.
We soon ___7_ by the house and I tell her what it was like here,the memories __8__ back,swift as the tide(潮水).
Suddenly,I long to walk again in the __9__ where I was once so gloriously a child.It still __10__ a member of the family,but has not been lived in for a while.We cannot go into the house,but I can still walk __11__ the rooms in memory.Here,my mother __12__ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary.I can still see the enthusiastic family __13__ into and out of the house.I could never have enough of being __14__ them.However,that was long after those childhood days.Lise __15__ attentively as I talk and then says,“So this is where I __16__;where I belong.”
She has __17__ her roots.To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human __18__.To be rooted is “to have an origin”.We need __19__ origin.Looking backward,we discover what is unique in us;learn the __20__ of “I”.We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
1
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A. appearing
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B. moving
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C. exposing
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D. expanding
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2
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A. referring
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B. travelling
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C. pointing
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D. coming
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