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安平中学2019-2020学年上学期暑假作业测试
实验部 高三英语试题
I. 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
For me, two of the loveliest words in English are “Life persists”.
I __1__ them years ago as a college student, sitting in the library, __2__, working on a paper. Out of nowhere, those words came __3__ off the page in a quote:“In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of __4__ truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”
Suddenly I wasn't unhappy and impatient any more. Then I __5__ my granddad. I loved to talk with him. And I was __6__ to hear what he'd think of it. He had poor hearing, so I had to __7__ it a few times, but once he __8__ it, he laughed. “All I can say to that is totally __9__,” he said on the phone. I told him how glad I was, after a long winter, to finally see spring and __10__ to find that quote. “Why is that?” he asked. “Well, spring is a sure _11__ that life persists. And it just makes me __12__.”
He laughed agai