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东华高级中学2012-2013学年下学期前段考 高一英语试题 （本试题共四部分，满分150分，答卷时间120分钟） 第一部分：听力理解（6段共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） （略） 第二部分：语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分） ：完形填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-30各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。 I consider myself of an expert on apologies. A quick temper(脾气）has ____16__ me with plenty of chances to make them. In one of my earliest ___17__, my mother is telling me , “Don’t watch the ___18__ when you say ‘I’am sorry’. Hold your head up and look the person in the ___19___, so he’ll know you ____20__ it.” My mother thus made the key point of a(n)_____21____ apology:it must be direct . You must never ____22___ to be doing something else. You do not look through a pile of letters while apologizing to a person___23 __ in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be (结果是） your ____24__.You do not apologize to a hostess(女主人）, whose guest of honor you treat roughly,by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad____25__. One of the important things you should do for an ___26___ apology is readiness to bear the responsibility (责任）for our careless mistakes.We are used to making excuses, which leaves no ____27__ for the other person to ___28__us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling better about themselves. That , after all, is the ___29__ of every apology. It matters little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault:answering for(负责）one’s ___30__ encourage others to take their share of the blame. A .treated B . mixed C compared D provided A dreams B memories C courses D ideas A side B wall C ground D bottom A mind B eye C face D soul A imagine B enjoy C mean D regret A successful B useful C equal D basic A pretend B forget C refuse D expect A poorer B weaker C worse D lower A fault