广东省广州市白云中学2012-2013学年度高一第二学期期中考试英语试卷

广州白云中学2012～2013学年度第二学期期中考试 第I卷 听力（略） 完形填空（共15小题；每题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16--30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。 As a child,I was told that a wise person is the one who learns from everyone. It is a great way to live by this ___16___---One begins to look at people very ___17___ and he no longer puts others down in order to feel good about himself. Living in China ___18___ me with many wonderful opportunities to put this principle into practice. China is quite ___19__and as a Westerner, it’s easy for me to consider many of the local habits as “strange” and even “rude”. However, slowly I began to ___20___ a lot about the culture and about where many of their __21___ came from. I decided to make an effort to meet people and ___22__ from them. I am living in Harbin now, a city in the Northern part of China, near Russia. Yesterday I needed to get money from the ATM and have a good cup of coffee after lunch. But I can’t speak Chinese yet and there are no signs in English ___23___ the