广东省深圳市宝安区宝安中学2014-2015学年高二上学期期中考试 英语试题
第一卷 语言知识及应用(110分)
I.完型填空。（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）
I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a ___1___ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew ___2___ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since--- ___3___ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my home.
About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of ___4___, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s beyond me why visitors started respecting the place ___5___ and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.
I tried ___6___ up trash(垃圾)myself, but the job was too big. I would spend an hour or two on the job, only to ___7___ the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so tired of it that I decided something had to ___8___.
As a rock-climbing guide, I knew nothing about __9__ any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ___10___. On that day, more than 300 people ___11___ up. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to accomplish. I couldn’t believe the ___12___ we made ---the park looked clean!
Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of __13__ and covered 132 miles of roadway.
I often hear people complain about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by doing rather than __14__. We need to teach by ___15___. You can’t blame others unless you start with yourself.
1. A. distant B. huge C. narrow D. loose
2. A. immediately B. finally C. gradually D. recently
3. A. imagining B. painting C. describing D. climbing
4. A. material B. resources C. waste D. goods
5. A. more B. most C. less D. least
6. A. putting B. digging C. picking D.breaking
