朝阳期中整理.docx

PAGE PAGE 1 2019-2020学年度北京市朝阳区高三期中英语试卷 ? A Marshall has saved two lives since she started driving a bus eight years ago.(1) ______ November 2017, Marshall saw a person. (2) ______ (lie) in the?street after being hit by a car. She parked her bus in a way to protect the man?from further injury , and then stayed to comfort him until help arrived. A month?later, Marshall saw a little girl alone in the middle of the street. She quickly guided?the child onto her bus. (3) ______ (keep) her safe. B Cai Gaoqiao is another popular traditional performance of the Spring?festival, especially in Northern China. It (4) ______ (require) very high skills and?good sense of balance. The performers tie two wooden stilts（高跷）to their feet ,?(5) ______ makes them taller than others. It is believed that the ancient Chinese?used stilts to help them gather fruits from trees. This practical use of stilts. (5)______(gradual) developed into a kind of folk dance. C In Finland, there once was an area (7) ______ (know) as Vienna Karelia. The?people here were great storytellers and had many folk tales. The most famous is?the Kalevala.?For centuries, storytellers, called rune singers, (8) ______ (speak) the?Kalevala from memory. Today, Jussi Huovinen is Finland’s last great rune?singer. When he dies, the ancient line of rune singers will end (9) ______ no one?can memorize the entire Kalevala.?But there is good news. Today, there is a written text of the Kalevala for?people to read. Also, British author J.R.R Tolkien read the Kalevala. Many of the?Kalevala’s ideas (10) ______ (reflect) in his stories . ? Maria’s plans 497 Maria stared thoughtfully at the tree fort(堡垒). It was the first thing her?grandpa had built for her. She had been little——it was 11 her younger?brothers had been born. Of all her brothers, Maria felt that she was most like her grandpa. Grandpa?had been a carpenter(木匠). Maria had always loved visiting him in his workshop.?Only she had been__12_ because she was the oldest