上海市松江二中2014届高三上学期期中考试英语试题概要1.doc

松江二中2013学年第一学期期中考试高三英语 IIGrammar Vocabulary (26%) Section A Directions: Read the following passages. Fill in each blank with one proper word or the proper form of the given word to make the passage coherent Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct, (write the answers on the answer sheet) 16% (A) It was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew __25__(near), her desire for a bicycle seemed to fade, or so we thought. We bought the latest rage, Baby Sitters Club dolls, and a doll house. Then, much to our surprise, on December 23rd, she said that she really wanted a bike more than anything else. It was just too late, as we were busy with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last-minute gifts,_____26__ ( take) the time to select the right bike for our litter girl. So here we were Christmas Eve around 9 p.m., with Rose and her six-year-old brother, Dylan, nestled snug in their beds. Now we__27___ only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child. _28____ ______ I make a little bicycle out of clay (泥) and write a note that she could trade (互相交换) the clay model in for a real bike? Her dad asked. This is an expensive item and she is such a big girl, it would be much better for her to pick it out. So he spent the next four hours painstakingly __29____(work) with clay to make a tiny bike. ___30____ Christmas morning, we were excited for Rose to open the little hear shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud. Does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one? __31____(smile), I said, Yes. Rose had tears in her eyes when she replied, I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me. Id rather keep this than get___32___ real bike. At that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on t