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15级高三开学英语试题(1小时,100分) 第一节(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) A Long long ago, there lived in Greece a king named Midas. He was a greedy man and loved gold better than anything else in the world. One day, he asked a god to give him more gold. The god decided to punish him and said, 揧our wish is grant ed already. Everything you touch will turn to gold.?Midas was very happy when he heard this. The next morning, he got up early to test his skill. When he touched his bed, it turned to gold. 揋old!?cried Midas, laughing likenish a little boy, 揑t works!?Not only stones, flowers and the furniture in his house turned to gold, but, when he sat down to table, so did the food he ate and the water he drank. He was unhappy now. Just then his daughter ran up to him. Midas touched her hashnd. At once she became a gold statue(雕像)! At last, he begged the god to free him from his wish. “Go to the river and bathe in it,” the god said. So Midas did, and the water took away his golden touch. 1 . The god decided to punish Midas because he was ___________. A. lazy B. proud C. unhappy D. greedy 2 . The underlined word 揼ranted?in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by 揰________? A. satisfied B. finished C. discussed D. expected lden3. What can we learn from the story? A. It抯 the early bird that catches the worm. B. Don抰 put all your eggs in one basket. C. Gold does not always bring happiness. D. A bird in hand is worth two in the forest. B Sydney has a huge bus system. N__o buses accept cash, and a ticket needs to be bought ahead of time. The buses often run at busy hours and regularly during the day. The Sydney Explorer bus provides air-conditioned service and stops at 27 tourist attractions. Its partner, the Bondi Explorer, stops at 19 attractions. Tickets allow holders to jump on and off as they please, and they can be used for one or two days. Its an easy way to see the city and the surroundings. Sydneys train service runs throughout the central city area and the surroundings. Ticket