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　　2012学年期中考试考卷
　　语言知识及应用(共两节，满分45分)
　　第一节  完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30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。
　　Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always useless ---- it was a cash ____1____. After a while I stopped trying to ____2____ who the sender was and just delighted in the beautiful and perfume of the white flower. But I never ____3____ imagining who the sender might be. Some of my ___4____ moments were spent daydreaming about it.
　　My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(an) ___5____ kindness who might be showing ____6___. Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was _____7___ a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I helped to get during the ____8___ so he wouldn’t have to venture down his icy step. As a teenager, though I had more fun guessing that it might be a ____9____ who had noticed me even though I didn’t know him.
　　One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. He was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely ____10____ in my upcoming graduation and the dance. When my father died, I ____11_____ the dance and the dress for it. The day before the dance, I found a dress on the sofa. I didn’t ____12_____ if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did.
　　She wanted her children to feel ____13____ and lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a ____14____ in the world and beauty in the face of hard times. Actually mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia ----lovely, ____15____ and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died.
　　1. A. service       B. deal       C. bargain      C. offer
　　2. A. recognize      B. imagine      C. wonder      D. discover
　　3. A. failed       B. stopped      C. succeeded      D. enjoyed
　　4. A. saddest      B. painful       C. happiest      D. loneliest
　　5. A. special       B. common     C. valuable     D. important
　　6. A. concern      B. attitude       C. interest      D. appreciation
　　7. A. repairing      B. washing      C. unloading     D. starting
　　8. A. spring       B. summer      C. autumn      D. winter
　　9. A. friend       B. superman      C. teacher      D. boy
　　10. A. disappointed     B. uninterested     C. discouraged     D. concentrated
　　11. A. forgot       B. lost        C. hated       D. expected
　　12. A. wonder      B. believe      C. care       D. know
　　13. A. contented      B. respected       C. thanked      D. loved
　　14. A. trouble       B. magic       C. tragedy       D. comedy
　　15. A. strong       B. beautiful       C. smelly       D. lucky
　　第二节  语法填空(共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分)
　　阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的
　　词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
　　This happened in a third-grade classroom. Jim sat  16  his desk and all of a sudden, there was a puddle(一滩水) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He felt his heart was going to stop. He knew   17   would happe