高考英语能力测评试题13.docVIP

必修3课后能力测评(一) Ⅰ.完形填空 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 字数：359 完成时间： 15分钟 难度：★★ St.Patricks Day is Irelands greatest national holiday as well as a holy(神圣的) day.Each year, millions of people worldwide celebrate this __1__on March 17, the date of St.Patricks death.It is a happy holiday for the Irish living in Ireland and __2__.The day is celebrated with parades(游行), speeches, festival dinners, and dances.__3__ is the colour of the day, with thousands of little cloth shamrocks(三叶草) on. St.Patrick was born in Britain to __4__ parents near the end of the fourth century.At the age of sixteen, Patrick was taken prisoner by a group of Irish raiders(入侵者) __5__ his familys wealth.So he had to __6__ a shepherd, outdoors and away from people.__7__lonely and afraid, he turned to his religion(宗教) and became a Christian. The first St.Patricks Day parade __8__ not in Ireland, but in the United States.Irish soldiers in the British army __9__ through New York City on March 17, 1762 with Irish music.Since then, St.Patricks Day parades have become a way for Irish Americans to show their __10__every year.In 1948, President Truman __11__the New Year Citys St.Patricks Day parade, which was a __12__moment for many Irish people whose fathers and grandfathers had to fight against people who disliked them to find __13__ in America. It was in Boston where the Day was first celebrated in a public way. __14__ since 1762, the New York Citys parade on St.Patricks Day has __15___ more than one million people each year. Meanwhile, the city of Chicago has __16__ a special tradition of colouring the river water green.It started in 1962 when 100 pounds of green paint was __17__ its rivers, enough to keep them green for a week.The __18__ has continued till today.Now, 40 pounds of a green food colouring keeps the rivers green for only a few hours.Historically, __19__the shamrocks and things green has become a __20__ symbol of declaring the Irish national and cultural identity(特性)． 1．A