东山中学2012－2013年度高二年级第一学期期中考试英 语 i 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分) 第一节 完形填空 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 dad loved children. and he always wanted a ____1______ family. eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. without fail, he would show us off to visitors. once, dad _____2_____ presented the first three children in the family, ann, mary and ernestine, to some visitors. then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "and this is our _____3_____ model, complete with all the improvements. and don't think that this is all; we are _____4_____ the 1953 model some time next month." but what he _____5_____ most was taking us out or a drive. on one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _____6_____ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _____7_____ mum and dad. _____8_____, called out over his should
