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2023-2024学年七年级上学期期中考试(广州专用)
英语
本试卷共四大题,满分90分。考试时间100分钟。
注意事项:
1. 答卷前,考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号,再用2B铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。
2. 选择题每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上;如需要改动,先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新的答案,改动的答案也不能超出指定的区域;不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁,考试结束,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
一、语法选择(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从1〜15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Twice a month, Jenny Green sits down, picks up her pen and writes a letter to her best friend. The 1 woman has been doing it for 80 years. She has sent more than 1,500 letters to her pen pal in America.
The hobby started 2 1942. Jenny, then 3 was reading a magazine. Some ads in the magazine were asking for pen pals. One of them caught Jenny’s eye. It was from Alice Miller. She lived in America and was also 12. “It was a pleasure for 4 ,” Jenny said. “I sat down at once, wrote a letter, 5 it in an envelope—together with a picture of myself —and posted it.”
Jenny spent every day 6 for the postman. Two weeks later—which felt like a lifetime—a reply dropped through the letter box. “I was 7 ,” Jenny said. “There was a letter and a picture of my new friend. She was all the way on 8 side of the world!”
Jenny and Alice wanted to learn 9 things about each other. They kept writing. The two found that they had a lot in common. They liked the same books and the same films. 10 both Jenny and Alice were too poor 11 a plane ticket. It was not until 1987 that they met. “I was glad to see the person I had been writing to for 40 years,” Jenny said. “We had a big hug and then sat down, chatting for hours.”
Now in their nineties, Jenny and Alice are still writing to each other. And they still write 12 . “Writing is warmer and friendlier. So 13 we change the habit of a lifetime?” Jenny said. “I’m so glad that I wrote 14 first letter 80 years ago.”
Dear friends, do you have a pen pal? 15 do yo