广东省湛江市2014-2015学年高一下学期期末考试 英语试题
I. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分55分）
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题四个选项（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。
It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on. A 1 came. “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, “That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg’s mother works for my family. We were going to 2 that shirt away, but gave it to her instead.” I was 3 . I wanted to hide.
I stuck my shirt in the back of the closet and told my 4 what had happened. She then dialed her 5 , “I will no longer 6 for your family,” she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t just clean anymore; she knew her life’s achievement was something 7 , so she decided to find another job.
The next morning she 8 with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to 9 a university.
After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, “Are you serious? I think I have a 10 for you as a teacher’s assistant. This 11
deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of 12 .” Mom accepted that job opportunity very 13 .
For almost five years, as a teacher’s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling 14 . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal showed up in her 15 . The principal said, “We have watched how you
16 the children and how they communicate with you, and we 17 your hard-working spirit over the last five years. We all 18 that you should be the teacher of this class.”
My mom 19 more than twenty years there. During her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the bad comment made in my classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle 20 situations and never give up.
1. A. voice B. student C. teacher D. noise
2. A. get B. take C. carry D. throw
3. A. thankful B. silent C. cheerful D. careless
4. A. father B. sister C. mother D. classmate
5. A. assistant B. employer C. director D. adviser
6. A. pay B. apply C. employ D. work
