II Using language (consisting of two parts, 45 points)
Section One Cloze(30 points)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从11~25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。
A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she would play in the small
garden and as she grew she was able to see over the 11 fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. Although she 12 her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house instead of an ordinary house like hers and
13 all day about how wonderful and exciting it must feel to live there.
At the age when she gained some 14 识别力), she 15 her mother for a bike ride outside the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, 16 that she kept close to the house and not 17 too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew exactly where she was heading! Down the hill and across the valley, she rode to the 18 of the golden house. skill and sensibility (
As she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path 19 to the house and then on the house itself. She was very 20 when she found that all the windows were 21 and rather dirty.
So 22 and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She 23 and all of a sudden she saw an amazing 24 . There across the way on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were shinning golden, as the sun shone on it. Looking at her little home, she