2015-2016学年甘肃省民乐一中高二第二学期（4部）4月模拟考试英语试卷（一）.doc

民乐一中2015-2016学年第二学期高二（4）部4月模拟 英语试卷（一） 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40分) 阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．A A mystery surrounds my grandmother’s collection of salt cellars (盐瓶). No one in the family seems to know when she started collecting them, or exactly how many she had. My grandmother died just over two years ago. At 91, she had spent 30 years without her right leg, which was removed due to cancer the year I was born. She was a poet, an artist, a food lover and a salt cellar collector. The funny thing about the salts, as she called them — I never once heard her say salt cellar — was that although everybody knew they were her hobby and everyone was always searching for them at yard sales or in stores, nobody seemed to know what they meant to her and they just wanted to make her happy. Grandma kept her salts in a dark wooden corner display case in the living room. Since her death the case has remained exactly as she left it. Grandpa tries his best to preserve his memories of her just as they are. Now I am collecting, too. Collecting memories about my grandmother’s hobby, a way she spent her time. And as I hold one of them in my hand, I picture her holding it in her hand on the day she got it. She is smiling. My mother and her two sisters all have small collections, but my mother admits that she was more interested in finding salts to send to Grandma. Grandma once wrote a poem titled “When April Comes”. The poem contains the line, “When April comes and I am not around, remember me when daffodils are found.” Now, Grandpa is working on a poem with the line, “April came and you were not around”. But she was, somehow. She was there in the memories left behind by her possessions. 1. In writing the text, the author expressed . A. her sadness at losing her grandma B. her desire to collect more salt cellars C. her love for her grandma D. her curiosity about her grandma’s possessions 2. The underlined part “her possessi