me to see him on Saturday. We won’t came back home until Sunday evening. I’m terribly sorry about this. I know that you are learning Chinese, so I bought you a Chinese-English dictionary as a birthday present. I will ask Liu Hong to take it to you. I wish you a happy time at the party!
Yours Li Hua
高一英语上学期期末考试模拟试题
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项.
A
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The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square covers 10 acres, has 75 galleries, and houses 2,300 of the world’s greatest paintings. With such a wealth of art, it’s useful to have a guide who can see things that you might miss when you visit the museum on your own. —Only open on Fridays
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21. What do V&A Museum and National Gallery have in common? A. They are of the same size. B. The tickets to them are free.
C. It’s better to have a guide to show you around. D. Millions of world’s greatest paintings can be seen.
22. What does the underlined word “celebrated” probably mean? A. Famous.
B. Complete.
C. Secret.
D. Common.
23. What is the purpose of this article? A. To introduce some art works. B. To attract more visitors to London. C. To show readers how to save money. D. To tell readers some famous places.
B
One devoted man is helping to make sure that children with poor living conditions won’t go hungry during the school day.
Mary’s Meals, an organization founded in 2002 by Scottish farmer Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, provides needy kids in 12 countries with free meals at school each weekday. The group’s aim is to ensure that students have food in their stomachs so they can better fix their attention on the study in class.
MacFarlane-Barrow, who runs Mary’s Meals on his father’s farm, told CNN that the entire operation started with a conversation he had with a teen living in a poor state. He said, “In 2002, I was in Malawi during a year of terribly short of food, and I met this family—the father had died, and the mother was dying with her six children around her. I began talking to her oldest child, Edward, who was about 14, and asked him, ‘What are your hopes?’ And he said, ‘I’d like to have enough food to eat, and I’d like to go to school one day’ ”And that was it.
In its first year, the group fed 200 children in need. Since that time, it has made rapid progress. Last month, Mary’s Meals fed more than I million children every school day. That was 5 million meals every week. “The million is this amazingly important, but we are far from satisfied. Our work’s just beginning. We’ve proven that this works, and now we’ve just thinking about the next child,” said MacFarlane-Barrow.
He and the group recently celebrated the achievement (成就) in Malawi, where the program began. So far, the program has had very good results. In Malawi, schools that carried out the Mary’s Meals program saw a 24 percent increase in the number of new students within the first six months. 24. Why did MacFarlane-Barrow found Mary’s Meals? A. He hoped to provide free food for poor families. B. He expected to teach children how to help others. C. He wanted to make children free of hunger in class. D. He wished to become well-known by helping others.
25. What made MacFarlane-Barrow have the idea to start Mary’s Meals? A. I he conversation with a poor child.
B. The terribly short of food in Malawi. C. The poor living conditions of schools. D. The success of helping a needy kid.
26. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs? A. Schools in Malawi are popular. B. No children suffer from hunger now.
C. Mary’s Meals program has been very successful.
D. MacFarlane-Barrow is satisfied with the present result. 27. What can be the best title for the text? A. Edward’s Dream Came into Reality B. Mary’s Meals Program Shocked the World C. Malawi Gets Away from Being Short of Food D. A Farmer Feeds I Million Kids Every School Day
C
Last year I realized I hadn’t spoken to anyone but my family members in days.
When I left my job in my late twenties to write a novel, I felt very happy. No more forcing myself awake at the early hours of the morning and worrying what to wear, no more braving the subway during rush hour. I could wake up when I felt like it and enjoy my coffee as I worked on my book.
At first it was like being in heaven. But months later I began to feel lonely. It was just me, my work, and the Internet. I spent hours looking through the website instead of writing. I thought I was still connected to everyone around me but in fact I was more lonely than ever. As a result, I became more afraid of being out in the world. I warned to step away from the lonely life I had brought to myself and have a normal schedule again. I considered renting an office but I realized I would still be lonely. What I had in mind something Td had all those years ago—big shared table filled with people I really liked.
I phoned a friend who worked at home too and asked if she would be interested in getting an office together. She’d been feeling just as lonely as I had, so she jumped at opportunity. I asked another friend to join us, and together we found a beautiful space in my favorite part of town. Others soon heard about our office and asked if they could join. There are nine of us here now. Each of us has found that we now love the routine (日常规律) of going to work again, and we are happier than before. Now, we tire needed by other people too.
In my twenties, it felt like I was going to work every day with my best friends, and for the first time in years, I feel that way again. The loneliness has gone—I finally feel like I belong again. 28. With the first paragraph, the author probably meant to ________.