东山中学2012－2013年度高二年级第一学期期末考试

英 语

I 语言知识及应用 (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。

It was 1996. And I was at the end of a two-week __1__ in Malaysia from my teaching job in South Korea. Since my flight back to Seoul wouldn’t take off until 9 pm, I set off from the airport for a glance at the city. As the sun went down I searched for some last-minute___2___ for my friends and I prepared to go back. Then quite __3___the light went out: it was a city-wide blackout (停电). I decided to look for a taxi ___4___.

I walked on to find a better position for hailing a taxi, but not a single taxi__5___. I pleaded for help from groups of___6___and was met with I-do-not-knows. I was starting to feel___7___.

I found another heavily trafficked crossing and waited, thinking for sure that I would __ __8___my plane and wondering where I would sleep. I began to wave my arms and__9___at