2014届高考英语基础知识总复习每日一练：107（北师大版）.docVIP

高三英语每日一练(107) I was only eight years old when the Second World War ended, but I can still remember something about the __1__ celebrations in the small town where I lived on the day when the war in Europe ended.We had not __2__ much from the war where, though, like most children of my age, I often saw __3__ houses in the streets and the very big army lorries passing through.But both at home and at school I had become __4__ to the phrases “before the war” and “when the war is over”．“Before the war”， obviously, things had been better, though I was too young to understand why，__5__ there had been no bombs then.When the war was over we would go back to London, but this meant very __6__ to me. What I remember now about V－Day was the afternoon and the evening.Some boys and girls were collecting __7__ and building an enormous bonfire.We stood and watched them for a time, and then I went home and __8__ myself in with my key and waited for my parents to come back from work. It was May and still broad __9__ when my mother arrived, and my father came in about an hour later.After dinner I said I wanted to see the bonfire, so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street.The bonfire was very __10__， and somehow people had collected some old clothes to __11__ “Hitler” with the moustache they had put on top of it.Just as we arrived, they set light to it.The flames __12__ soon.Everyone was cheering and shouting. I stood beside my father until the __13__ started to go down, not knowing what to say.He said nothing, either.He had __14__ in the First World War and remembered everything he had experienced.At last he said, “Well, thats it, son.Lets hope that this time it really will be the __15__ one.” 1．A．war　　　　　　　　 　B．victory C．Christmas D．birthday2．A．suffered B．learnt C．heard D．read 3．A．crowded B．rebuilt C．bombed D．enlarged 4．A．used B．devoted C．engaged D．related 5．A．except that B．now that C．for fear that D．in order that 6．A．much B .little