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宁波市2023年初中学业水平考试榜眼卷
英语试题卷
试题卷I
一、完形填空(本题有15小题,每小题1分,共计15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Four boys sat in the head teacher's office, waiting for their punishment.
They were __1__ and they knew it. They waited for more than thirty minutes without saying a word.
When the head teacher __2__, he told the boys, "I've just spoken to all your parents on the phone. They have allowed me to __3__ you in whatever way I see fit. You have caused a lot of work for our __4__ by drawing on the walls today. But he won't be doing the cleaning. You will. In fact, you boys will be cleaning the walls every day after school for the next __5__."
After school that day, the boys began to clean the walls with some water, cloth and brushes. The work took a long time. The cleaner would point out at a tiny area that they had __6__ even if they thought they had cleaned enough. But he __7__ spoke, just watching the boys do the cleaning.
On the last day, when they __8 __finished the job and turned to leave, the cleaner spoke for the first time. "Hey, come here," he said.“You boys thought you were very smart __9__ on those walls in the bathroom. But, in the country where I grew up, we hardly had a school, any books or teachers. Even to get a new pencil was a __10__ thing.”
“You used pencils to draw on the walls. A person is just like a __11__. For a pencil, there are different looks on the outside, __12__ what really works is inside," he explained. “Once in a while, you have to experience __13__ painful to make you powerful. That's what you've had this week," he said.“From now on, instead of __14__ your pictures on the walls, create your own pictures in your life, write your own stories using what's __15__ you. "
The boys understood and they never painted on any walls again.
1. A. free
2. A. got up
3.A. tell
4.A. writer
5. A. week
6. A. noticed
7. A.never
8. A. naturally
9. A. digging
10. A. big
11.A. book
12.A.but
13. A. nothing
14. A. watching
15.A. beside
B.perfect
B. stood up
B. punish