广东省揭阳一中2013-2014学年高一下学期第二次阶段考 英语试题
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和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
Once upon a time, in a small city there was a storybook. The book looked _____1_____, but all its pages were blank. People would pick up the book with interest, but finding no stories inside, they put the book aside. Not far from there, a lovely inkwell (墨水瓶) had been full of ink for years. His owner had _____2_____ about it and left it away in the corner.
One time, the book was ____3____ away and he ended up next to the inkwell. For days and days, they exchanged stories about their ____4____ luck. They could have carried on this for years, if a swan feather had not landed nearby. Having fallen from his _____5____, the feather felt lonely for the first time. He cried and cried, then the book and the inkwell ___6___ in, letting out all their sadness.
____7____, unlike his partners, the feather soon ____8____ crying, and he decided to improve the situation. Drying his ____9____ and leaving his complaints behind, he _____10____ his friends to write a story. The storybook opened up his best pages, the inkwell didn’t spill even a drop, and the feather offered great creativity and beautiful _____11_____. Together they managed to write a lovely story about three friends, who helped each other to improve their lives.
A young teacher passed by. He found the storybook, the inkwell and the feather. The teacher read the book, and found the story ___12___.When lessons _____13____, he told the story to his pupils, and all of them were interested in it.
Every night from then on, the three partners got together and wrote a new story for the ____14_____. They felt so happy and proud at having ____15______ to improve their fate.
1. A. old B. great C. thin D. dirty
2. A. forgotten B. cared C. thought D. talked
3. A. sent B. thrown C. kept D. turned
