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英语试卷(5.18) （本卷满分75分） Ⅰ. 完形填空（共15小 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 ；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并把其标号填写在括号内。 I was cleaning out an old box when an old card caught my eye: Queen City Casket Company. “What is it?” I wondered. I __31__ it over. There, in faded ink, was a hand-scrawled __32__. Immediately my mind traveled back many years. I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet street of Springfield, with a bag of magazines on my shoulder. On my round that day, I came to that Company finally, whose owner, Mr. Rader, had always taken me there to ask his workers __35__ they wanted any magazines. Shaking off the __36__ like a wet dog, I entered Mr. Rader’s office. After a quick glance he __37__ me over to the fire-place. Noticing the __38__ in the top of my __39__, he said, “Come with me!” pulling me into his __40__. We pulled to a stop before a shoe store. Inside, a salesman __41__ me with the finest pair of Oxfords I had __42__ seen. I felt about 10 feet tall when I got up __44__ them. “We’ d like a pair of new socks too,” Mr. Rader said. Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a __45__, wrote something on it, and handed it to me. With __46__ eyes, I read, “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” He said lovingly, “Jimmy, I want you to know I love you”. I said goodbye, and for the first time I __48__ a flicker of hope that somehow things would be all right. With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and love, and that would always make a __50__. 31. A. read     B. thought    C. turned          D. passed 32. A. address     B. list      C. message            D. information 35. A. that     B. how      C. whether            D. why 36. A. dust    B. sweat      C. dirt     D. rain 37. A. led    B. followed     C. watched     D. carried 38. A. hole    B. mud      C. water        D. cover 39. A. magazine    B. shoe      C. sock     D. bag 40. A. truck    B. factory     C. home     D. store 41. A. wore    B. fitted    C. lent    D. comforted 42. A. ever    B. already      C. never      D. hardly 44. A. for     B. with      C. on      D. in 45. A. pen     B. paper      C. card      D. notebook 46. A. tearful          B. unbelievable     C. curious        D. puzzled2·1·c·n·j·y 48. A. sensed     B. received      C. lost    D. imagined 50. A. deal    B. fortune     C. choice     D. difference Ⅱ. 阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下列短文，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳选项，并把其标号填写在括号内。 A The world’s first subway was built in London in 1863. At that time, the government was looking for a way to reduce traffic problems in the city of London. The poor areas of the city were so crowded with people that it was almost impossible for horse carriages to get through. The city officials were interested in trying to make it possible for workers to live outside London and travel easily to work each day. If people had a cheap and convenient way that they could depend on to go to and from work, they would settle down outside the city. This would help ease the pressure of too many people living in the poor parts of London. From these problems, the idea of the London Underground, the first subway system, was born. The plans for building the Underground met with several problems and delays, but the fast track was finally opened in January 1863. A steam train pulled the cars along the fast underground track which was 6 kilometers long. About 30,000 people got on the subway the first day. Riders were treated to comfortable seats (standing up while the train was moving was not allowed), and pleasant decorations inside each of the cars. However, the smoke from the engine soon filled the air in the tunnels with ash and soot, as well as chemical gases. Fans had to be put in the tunnels later to keep the air clean enough for people to breathe. Even with its problems, riding in the Underground did catch on. It carried 9 million riders in the first year. (      )16. What led the British government to build the London Underground? A. Traffic jams and pollution B. Population and pollution C. Overcrowding and traffic jams D. The poverty and subway problems (      )17. How did the London Underground solve the smoke problem? A. It made the tunnels larger B. It put fans in the tunnels C. It cleaned the chemical gases in the tunnels D. It reduced the number of passengers riding in the train (      )18. The underlined phrase “catch on” most probably means “_____”. A. be troublesome       B. become popular and fashionable C. keep up with         D. seize (      )19. Which of the following is TRUE? A. To locate the workers’ homes outside London, the government built the subway B. There were not so many problems and delays that in 18th century the first subway opened