广州市越秀区2013-2014第二学期高二英语期末水平调研试题及答案.doc

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、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Last summer I was a volunteer at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn't working that summer and was __1__ only two classes in summer school, so I had some free time.
Three nights a week, I __2__ in the kitchen of the shelter along with four other volunteers. We planned and __3__ for 45 people hot meals with vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit. The homeless pe ople __4__ this good food because many of them usually didn't eat well.
I __5__ this volunteer work, making __6__ with the four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly housewife, one a movie actor, another a young teacher, and the other a college student, like me. 新| 课|标| 第|一| 网
I talked to a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life stories __7__ me with sympathy. Some of them had __8__ with alc ohol or drugs while others only had bad __9__. One woman worked for almost 30 years for a pany, and then she lost her job. She wanted to look for a __10__ job, but couldn't find one, for she was too __11__. She could do nothing but sell her furniture—sofas, chairs, and tables so that she could pay for her food. The woman __12__ on job hunting, but she __13__ couldn't find one. She had no money for her __14__ and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car. Alone, __15__, and homeless, she finally came to the shelter.
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