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完形填空
People all over the world write to Big Ben. They 1 send birthday presents. Big Ben is not a 2. It’s a clock!
Big Ben is the great clock 3 up in a tower of the Parliament building. This is the building in London where laws are 4. The people of London like to see Big Ben’s four friendly faces. They like to hear the chimes 5 15 minutes. They like to hear the bell 6 on the hour. Bong! Bong! Bong!
Big Ben’s story started in 1834, in that year the old Parliament building burned 7 . Its clock tower crashed to the ground. There 8 to be a new building and a new clock.
Plans were made. They called 9 “the King of Clocks, the biggest and best in the world”. So the clock had to be big. And it had to 10 very good times.
In two years the big clock was made. Five more years went by 11 the clock tower was finished. Then the four bells for the chimes were brought into the tower. And at last the giant hour bell was put in 12 . It rang out for the first time 13 July 11, 1859.
This great bell had to 14 a name. A meeting of Parliament was called to pick 15 . “This clock is the King of Clocks,” one man said “Let’s call the bell the Queen of Bells.”
“Then why not Victoria?” said 16 (Victoria was the British queen at that time.) The talk about names went 17 . Then Benjamin Hall got up to speak. He was a big man that others liked． By this time they were all 18. Some one shouted. “Why not call it Big Ben and be done 19 it?” Everybody laughed, and the meeting broke up. But people called it Big Ben from then on. Not just the bell 20 the whole clock..
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My husband and I sat outside. A small child about three came up the street, accompanied by her mother. As she saw another girl a few feet away, she gave her admiring comment, “Mommy, I like her dress.” Her mom 1 , “Well, why don’t you go and tell her?”
The little girl walked 2 toward the girl wearing the pretty dress. The other one,
3 the same age, was standing with her 4 turned, alongside her parents. They had not heard the compliment (赞美). Receiving no answer, this little one 5 . My husband said to the other girl, “ 6 wants to tell you something.” As she turned around, 7 was made. Once again, the little one 8 “I like your dress,” and upon hearing those words, the other one gave her a big smile and excitedly 9 “Look, it’s a spinning (旋转) dress!”, at which moment she began to spin. Both of them smiled widely.
Now, the one stopped spinning and said, “It’s my favorite dress and I have (a) 10 that match!” She 11 running toward a stroller (婴儿车) parked nearby.
The mom and daughter started to 12 down the street, 13 the encounter (邂逅) had ended. Moments later, the “spinning dress girl” reappeared, shoes in hand, 14 her new friend who had seemingly disappeared. Now, an elderly couple, seated on a bench, had obviously been
15 of all this. The man 16 the child, saying, “There’s someone coming behind you.” Then we saw one showed and the other 17 the beautiful shoes.
If you can make a 18 better, do it. I have no idea how many others that evening might have 19 this act, hoping to help good things to happen. But such brief moments,
20 together, make up what might very well be the important times in our lives.
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| Paul Carson, a music teacher, was driving along a country road with his sister Nora. 1 he saw a man in a big American car who _2 the man wanted by the police. 3 by a reward (奖赏) of fifty pounds, the sister and brother _4 to catch the criminal(罪犯) by following him 5 . As soon as the man entered Seldon Manor, a _6 belonging to Paul's friend Mr. Lightfoot, Paul shut him in and then drove to 7 . Realizing that Paul had made a _8 because the criminal had been put into prison that morning , the police officer set off immediately with Paul to set the man free. The man who was _9 up in the house was really an American visitor from 10 City. Paul and Nora felt very much 11 for what they had done. This 12 action of theirs would surely make them the laughing-stock of the whole town. But a letter from the American 13 changed the situation. _14 blaming(责怪) him, the American visitor thanked Paul for shutting him up in his 15 house. It 16 that Seldon Manor was the American ancestors' home. He had come 17 to England to look for it. In order to show his 18 , he offered the sister and brother a check 19 fifty pounds. Paul and Nora got the 20 in the end, though in a quite different way. | ||||
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