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LEVEL3 ENGLISH TEST 1 (50 minutes) Section I Use of English Knowledge (15 minutes) Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET. Jan Douglas had seen tornadoes(龍卷風)before,but never one like this. It was surprisingly huge,a half-mile wide 1 more, a howling monster that 2 trucks,trees and railroad cars and shredded everything in its path for nearly 70 miles. 3 it rumbled into her neighborhood in Oklahoma City, Douglas and her daughters took 4 in the utility room.The power 5 out and the house came apart---outer walls first,then the kitchen,then the roof. Douglas looked up,saw the funnel cloud 6 directly overhead and thought, “My god,what happened to the light?” There was nothing to do but 7 on and pray. “Each time we prayed,our mouths 8 with black dirt.”says Douglas. Luckily for the Douglas,the storm 9 them outside in the driveway,stunned but only marked 10 cuts and bruise. 11 thousands of other people in the Oklahoma City area,they had 12 a storm whose 13 speed was reliably clocked at 318 miles an hour—the highest wind ever 14 on earth. It was the biggest of 76 tornadoes to hit Texas,Okalhoma and Kansas 15 the same day,killing more than 16 people and injuring over 700.The storm touched 17 suburban communities like Newcastle and Moore. “It started 18 multiple funnels that danced around each other,” says helicopter pilot Jim Gardner,who was 19 about a mile away. “All of a sudden the dance got tighter,and they 20 into one.” 1 [A]or [B]and [C]but [D]as well as 2 [A]picked at [B] picked up [C] picked over [D] picked up with 3 [A]Unless [B]Until [C]Since [D]When 4 [A]refuge [B]liberty [C]interest [D]change 5 [A]broke [B]blurted [C]burst [D]went 6 [A]churn [B]churning [C]churned [D]was churning 7 [A]to hold [B]hold [C]holding [D]held 8 [A]were filled [B]have been filled [C]were to be filled [D]were filling 9 [A]disabled [B]demoted [C]departed [D]deposited 10 [A]from [B]with [C]into [D]aroun