肇庆市中小学教学质量评估
2013-2014学年第二学期统一检测试题
高一英语
I语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完型填空（共15小题，每小题2分，共30分）
Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans. With each passing day everyone became more __1__, waiting for the final school bell. Upon its ___2__everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David
David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often ___3__what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so __4__ for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David __5__. I can still remember he was always wearing a smile and willing to help. He always __6__after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much. He would just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly__7___home
Weeks passed and the __8___over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of__9__before the holiday break. I smiled in ___10 __as the last of them hurried out the door. Turning around I saw David ___11___standing by my desk.“I have something for you ”he said and ____12____from behind his back a small box .Handing it to me, he said anxiously,“Open it ”I took the box from him ,thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. I lifted the lid and to my __13__,I saw nothing. I looked at David‘s smiling face add back into the box and said,“The box is nice ,David ,but it’s__14__”“Oh no it isn’t”said David.“It’s full of love. My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn’t see or touch unless you know it’s there.”
