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定州二中 高二第一次月考 英语试卷
考试时间90分钟 分值 120分 命题人:郝宏丽
卷 I
I 阅读理解(共两节,满分20分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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When Julie Jones and Caroline Atkin were schoolgirls, they promised to be best friends for ever. Years later, Caroline died from a brain tumor at the age of 45, leaving five children. In her last weeks, she asked Julie to raise the children as her own. Julie, a single mother of three with a small income, didn’t hesitate.
“I held her in my arms and said ‘You’ll be OK’, but I knew I was losing her.” She says.
“The hospital rang me and I rushed there, but Caroline had just gone,” she says. “I went to her house. The children arrived home from school in a taxi and I gathered them in my arms and said: ‘Mommy has gone to Heaven.’”
“Michael, who was 11, left the room. Kieran, ten, sat in great surprise; James, nine, broke down; while Emma, seven, and Chantelle, five uneasy. I brought them home.”
Julie, mother of Adam, 20, Peter, 19, and 14-ye