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南开实验学校2013届高三上学期期中考试英语试题考 试时间：120分钟 满分：135分 说明： 1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和班级、考号、座位号等填写在答题卡的侧面相应的空格内。 2．非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。答案必须写在答题卷上，收卷时只交答题卷。 I. 语言知识与应用（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1-15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。 One day, a train was approaching the small town of Cheekyville. On the train was a?? 1?? man with a big suitcase. He was called William Warbler and he looked very?? 2?? indeed. But what made him most unusual was the fact that whenever he needed to?? 3? , he did so by singing opera. Even if someone said “good day” to him, he would clear his throat and?? 4? : “Goood dayyy to youuuuuu..... toooooo!”??? Almost everyone considered William unusual, since no one could get a normal?? 5?? word out of him. As no one knew how he made his living — he lived quite?? 6? , always wearing the same old second-hand suit — they often had no ___7__for him and sometimes even made fun of him. William had been in Cheekyville for some years, when one day a rumor (谣言) spread that William had received a role in a very important?? 8?? in the nation’s capital, that there had been posters everywhere advertising the event, and that it had been a great?? 9? . And to everyone’s surprise, when William was being interviewed by reporters, he answered their questions by speaking with good?? 10? , and with a clear and pleasant voice.??? From that day on, William gave up?? 11?? at all hours. Now he sang only during his stage appearances. People wouldn’t have thought him?? 12?? if they had seen what William kept in his big suitcase. It was a large?? 13? , with a hand-carved message on it.??? The message said, “Practice every second, for you never know when your?? 14?? will come.” Little did people realize that he only got the role in the opera because the?? 15?? had heard William singing while out buying a newspaper. 1 A. tall B. sensitive C. handsome D. str