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2023级高一新生入学学科能力测试英语试题
(满分120,时间100分钟)
一、完形填空(每题1.5分,共30分)
It's the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.
Burchill was (1)________ at the hotel on business and planning to(2)________ some friends in the area. They had asked him to (3)________ some pepperoni (辣香肠)from back east. So he(4)________ a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was (5)________ that it would be too warm, he (6)________ it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was (7)________ and well chilled (冷却)and he (8)________ .
That's when things went (9)________. "I remember walking down the long (10)________ and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls, " Burchill said in a recent letter of (11)_______ to the 4-star hotel. "The seagulls immediately went (12)________ . They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to (13)________ at the same time, and pepperoni-everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down, It was a real (14)________ .
Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).
"I have (15)________ and I admit responsibility of my (16)________, " he said in the letter. "I come to you, (17)________ , to apologize for the-damage I had (18)________ caused and to ask you to(19)________ my lifetime ban from the hotel. "
His letter(20)________ . Banned from the hotel since 2001. Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.
(1)A. studying B. staying C. looking D. packing
(2)A. visit B. help C. follow D. make
(3)A. sell B. have C. bring D. taste
(4)A. filled B. locked C. abandoned D. lost
(5)A. surprised B. pleased C. excited D. worried
(6)A. dug B. cleared C. cut D. laid
(7)A. delicious B. safe C. soft D. ready
(8)A. left B. nodded C. waited D. regretted
(9)A. far