2010-2011学年度第一学期高二期中考试

英语试题

第一部分：英语知识及运用

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、D)中，选出最佳选项.

The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California , USA.

“Police station? A train for Santa Fe hit a truck at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please ____1____ there at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly ____2_____.” said an anxious voice of a young man. “ And you know I am the ….”

“Please wait! Hi! Hi!” the policeman kept on ____3____ though the line was cut off. Within a minute , a police car and an ambulance car started off. Before long they got to the crossing, but they ___4____everything was fine. No accident, no wounded man.

“What a dirty trick!” said the policeman ____5____. “ We must find out that bad___6_____ and …..”They were just talking about the _____7___when they heard the whistle of a train which was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came ___8_____towards them, too. When the truck was passing the crossing, it suddenly ____9___ to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the policemen __10_______, the train hit the truck heavily and ___11____it dozens of meters away.