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沈阳铁路实验中学—2015学年度下学期期中考试 高一英语 时间：100分钟 总分：120分 第I卷 第一部分 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） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A (容忍) a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to prove her point she wouldnt go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my fathers cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave，so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed (喷射) poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it. For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that wed all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didnt like because it scratched for no reason. However，soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought the dead crickets came back，but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison，and then he sprayed the basement again. A couple of weeks later，when both live and dead crickets kept turning up，Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests. While we ate supper that evening，the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers(割草机) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught fire，there wasnt much anyone could do. After the fire truck left，Mamma took the others to Aunt Gails. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didnt talk much，while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence. 1．What do we know about the authors mother? A．She didnt like insects at all. B．She liked insects more than