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广东省深圳实验高中2015届高二上学期期末测试 英 语 Ⅰ. (共两节，45分) 第一节 完形填空 (共15小题；2分，30分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。 Richard Wagner and his wife, Cosima, had agreed not to give each other Christmas presents. Wagner had been out of work for several months. Cosima had to look after their children at home. They were too 1 . But Wagner was planning a surprising 2 . For more than two months Wagner had been creating a piece of music to be performed outside Cosima’s room on Christmas morning. He had based it on themes later to be used in his opera Siegfried, plus a nursery 3 he had written for their children two years before. He 4 the Siegfried Idyll three weeks before Christmas and arranged for conductor Hans Richter to recruit (招募) the members of the small band. Richter conducted secret rehearsals (排练), first in Zurich then at a hotel in Lucerne, in order to give a 5 performance. Wagner invited philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to the 6 rehearsal on Christmas Eve and they arrived at the Wagners’ home together. There they found Cosima 7 the Christmas tree and preparing gifts for children 8 . At seven o’clock on Christmas morning, the musicians arrived and 9 arranged themselves on the stairs outside Cosima’s room. They began to 10 . “My mind passed from one 11 to another when I awoke to the light of dawn,” Cosima said later. “ 12 sounds from Siegfried came into my ears. It was as if the house—or more accurately—our entire being, was drinking in 13 . Birdsong and sunrise, together with music from Siegfried, soothed (慰藉) me and I realized that I was not dreaming, but was enjoying the most 14 things. At last I understood all of Richard’s writing was going on in secret.” Anyway Wagner had kept his 15 not to buy his wife a Christmas present. However, he did give her a surprising gift. 1. A. mean B. poor C. cruel D. careless 2. A. gift B. dinner C. party D. opera 3. A. song B. story C. poem D.