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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。注意：将答案写在答题卷的相应位置。

For Rachael and Leigh Barman, there is only one wish on their Christmas list this year---that their sick daughter Paige should survive/live until December 25. Fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from ___1.___rare brain disease, ____2.___affects(影响) as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day ____3.__warning(警告).

And her condition has gone even ____4.____ (bad) in recent months. Her parents filled the family home with Christmas decorations __5._ September 1st so she could enjoy the rest of her life. Since then, she has __6.__ (regular) opened Christmas presents and received visitors---but she sleeps for up to 19 hours a day, her parents knowing that each time she closes her eyes, she may never wake up.

Mrs. Barman ____7.__(describe) dealing with the condition as “like being on death row” as she never knew if ___8.____ daughter would wake up the next morning.

The mother said: “She always loves Christmas and I get my heart ____9.___(break) when I see her suffering like this. Our best Christmas present would be having Paige with us at Christmas. No matter ____10.____ she leaves the world, we make sure that she is always happy.”

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1.In the Stilton cheese rolling competition, competitors on each team must .

A. wear various formal clothes

B. roll a wooden cheese in their own lane

C. kick or throw their cheese

D. use a real cheese weighing about four kilos

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A. In New Mexico. B. In the Caribbean.

C. In Australia. D. In China.

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A. three days B. seven days 0

C. less than three days D. more than seven days

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The chief prize for the Stilton cheese rolling competition is beer or port wine.

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C. Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.

D. An exciting tomato battle takes place at the beginning of La Tomatina.

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第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In my class, there was a really weak-looking guy. I don’t know if his name was Vit or Wit. I will him as Wit in this story of mine. He was a pale, thin guy. Not only his build looked weak, the way he was also weak. He walked slowly but he tried to stay off of everyone’s way. The friends in my class, Jean and Ingrid, would him. Truth to be told, I them as well. We did things like taking his stuff, like his pens and pencils, and them somewhere in the school.

Wit was also really of insects, even butterfly. Jean, Ingrid, and I often put beetle on his clothes and he would run around, trying to it off. There were many beetles in the school so that was the insect we used to scare him with. Other insects such as butterfly were hard to so we pretty much gave up on it. We would often take the when Wit was off-guard and put the insects on him. it was on him, he would run around or jump about. He was too scared to it and pull it off.

Suddenly one day, we were by the school. When I walked into the room, Wit’s mother, as well as Ingrid’s mother, Jean’s father, and mine were in the room silently. Wit’s mother said that Wit went home and the sandbag shouting “Jean!!! Ingrid!!! Archer!!!” every day. I wanted to laugh but didn’t with all the she was putting on us .She asked many things, including things I had no idea about such as “Who put Wit’s bag in the girl toilet?” Apparently, it was Jean who did it. Jean seemed to have bullied Wit quite a lot and got quite a(n) from Wit’s and her own mother.

I think it should have been quite guilty for to see us scolded by the parents. However , we decided to stop bullying Wit and be friendly to him.

1.A. briefly B. abruptly C. actually D. constantly

2.A. think of B. focus on C. laugh at D. refer to

3.A. acted B. operated C. attacked D. responded

4.A. get close to B. look up to C. get tired of D. make fun of

5.A. betrayed B. joined C. teased D. rejected

6.A. hid B. distributed C. threw D. preserved

7.A. fond B. scared C. cautious D. ashamed

8.A. see B. set C. shake D. take

9.A. only B. acute C. main D. rare

10.A. find B. recognize C. raise D. capture

11.A. chance B. risk C. trouble D. order

12.A. While B. Though C. Once D. Unless

13.A. attach B. touch C. sniff D. defend

14.A. picked out B. called in C. spied on D. kicked off

15.A. staring B. sighing C. sitting D. weeping

16.A. carried B. threw C. filled D. hit

17.A. nearly B. hardly C. merely D. approximately

18.A. burden B. pressure C. duty D. doubt

19.A. forgiving B. understanding C. praising D. scolding

20.A. Ingrid B. Jean C. Wit D. Mother

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