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12级代培英语阅读期末考 姓名 班级 座位号 分数 一 选择题（共65分） (一) 完形填空（每题1分，共15分。） Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very ____1____ woman. She didn’t buy many jewels or ___2___ clothes. ____3___, she spent millions of dollars in __4____ a house. She began to do it at the age of 45. The strange thing about Sarah’s ___5___ was that it seemed never finished. The work on the house went for 38___6___ because Sarah was afraid to ___7____ building it. Sarah’s house was near San Jose. Every day, a lot of ___8___ arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows, ___9___ the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and 1,000______10_______. There were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces. Why did Sarah want a house the kept getting ___11___? It was because Sarah was afraid of ___12___. She thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didn’t want her house to be finished. Sarah Winchester’s ____13___ seemed to have worked___14___ she lived to be 83 years old. But __15__ her house was finished. A. poor B. rich C. useful D. brave A. cheap B. expensive C. simple D. old A. Still B. Usually C. Instead D. Even A. building B. buying C. selling D. setting A. door B. window C. kitchen D. house A. years B. months C. weeks D. days A. keep B. enjoy C. stop D. help A. drivers B. workers C. farmers D. visitors A. but B. until C. since D. so A. floors B. kitchens C. windows D. rooms A. bigger B. smaller C. stronger D. cleaner A. working B. dying C. living D. growing A. age B. family C. plan D. husband A. or B. because C. neither