中山一中2013—2014学年第一学期第一次阶段考英语试题
第一部分：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各题所给出的A,B,C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上相应位置将该项涂黑。
On February 27, 2008，something 1 happened in Britain：there was a rather large earthquake.
It was the 2 UK earthquake in 25 years. There have been very small ones in the past but they were not 3 ，from Edinburgh，Scotland in the 4_____ down to the far south coast of England. The centre of the earthquake was in a small town about 150 kilometres away from north of London.compared to this one. It was felt across the country
There were many news reports from people who 5 倒塌的) chimney (烟囱) was the 6 ；a man broke his hip when he accidently tripped on the chimney's scattered (零散的) bricks and fell to the 7 . of what was the worst injury from the earthquake the earth move but no one was seriously hurt and there was little damage. A collapsed (
One man who was walking to work at the time 8____ the moment the earthquake happened, "Everything was shaking. As soon as it happened I saw many people 9___ outside and I 10__ it was an earthquake."
You may be 11__ to learn that there are two to three hundred earthquakes in Britain every year，but they are so small that they go 12 .The influence of this earthquake was not 13__ ，it certainly came as quite a surprise. compared to some other natural 14 that have made international news, but for the people 15
1. A. unusual B. special C. good D. common
2 .A. biggest B. loudest C. deadliest D. largest
3. A. dangerous B. interesting C. important D. famous
4. A. east B. north C. west D. middle
5. A. saw B. discovered C. thought D. felt
