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　　揭阳第一中学2013-2014学年度第一学期期中考试
　　高二级英语试题       
　　I．听力理解(共两节，满分15分)
　　第一节听力理解（3段共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分。）
　　听第一段对话，回答第1—3题。 
　　1. How will Kate travel to New York?
　　A. By car.                   B. By train.               C. By bus.
　　2. Where is Laura living?
　　A. In California.             B. In Vermont.              C. In New York.
　　3. What do we know about Kate?
　　A. She will go to New York with Jack's roommate.
　　B. She invites Jack to go with her to New York.
　　C. She has never been to New York.
　　听第二段对话，回答第4—6题。
　　4. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
　　A. Old friends.        B. Passenger and taxi driver.       C. Pedestrian and policeman.
　　5. What do we know about going by North-south Elevation Bridge?
　　A. It should be faster but the distance will be longer.
　　B. It should be faster and the distance will be the same.
　　C. It should be slower but the distance will be shorter.
　　6. If the cab covers 21 kilometers to get to People's Square, how much should the woman pay?
　　A. 50 yuan.                B. 10 yuan.             C. 62 yuan.
　　听第三段独白，回答第7—10题。
　　7. Why did the paper industry need a new source of fiber in the early 1800' s?
　　Ⅱ. 语言知识及运用（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）
　　Cheerful Charlie was a very special boy. When he was still in his mother’s tummy, she had an accident, which meant that Charlie couldn’t walt that had never been a(n)    16     for him; they had started calling him Cheerful Charlie because of his joyful and     17     nature. He really brightened everything up for those around him.
　　There wasn’t a postman, or a taxi driver who wasn’t     18      to see Charlie. “Cheer up, Mr. Postman, that way you’ll     19   more letters today!” he would say, or “That was great, Mr. Taxi Driver. You    20   that thing better than anyone else. ”
　　He also had great ideas and     21      for everything; and he shared them so generously that, just about every day in that town, someone did a great job, or     22       something new, thanks to Charlie’s ideas.
　　One day, though, he came up against a real      23     . A young boy came to town on his holidays. He was known as Waterworks and was a real crybaby. No matter what Charlie said to him, Waterworld always find some     24         to be sad: “I don’t have many sweets… my parents didn’t buy me that toy…” Everything seemed so bad to him. But Cheerful Charlie wasn’t going to be           25    , and he kept spending more time with Waterworks,     26     trying to cheer him up,