惠来二中2012-2013学年第一学期高二级

期末考试 英语 试题

第二部分 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各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day a famous speaker gave a speech to a crowd of people. He held up a 20-dollar bill. He asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands were raised. Then he said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first let me do this.” He began to crumple（弄皱）the __1__. He then asked the audience, “Anybody still wants it?” Still the hands went up in the __2__. “What if I do this?” He asked, and he __3__ it on the ground, and started to step on it. He __4__ it up. Now the bill was __5__ and crumpled. “Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went up. “My friends,” he continued, “You have all learned a good lesson. No matter what I did to the __6__, you still wanted it because the bill did not lose its __7__. It was still worth $20. Many times in our __8__, we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on, because we sometimes __9__ wrong de