2016贵阳六中元月月考英语试题及答案(5)

    “   16   ” the English say, because the weather changes more often than in other countries. British winters are mild and springs are cool because of the sea. They blow 2 out of every 3 days.
     In spring sunshine and showers follow each other so often during the day that an umbrella or a raincoat is needed in England.
     In England summer is the hottest season. It’s time for holidays.   17    Most vegetables and plants may die because it is dry. The summer nights are short, but they are wonderful.
     As for autumn it isn’t so nice. It’s a season of winds and beautiful sunsets.   18   The birds fly to warm countries. Sunny weather in September is called Indian Summer or “Golden Autumn”. In England September and October are warm and dry, but November is the foggiest month.
     In England they have all sorts of weather in winter. Sometimes it rains and sometimes it snows. In England it isn’t so cold in winter as in our country and they don’t get so much snow as we get here in Russia.   19    That’s why children there go skating very seldom. When there are 8 degrees of frost in England, everyone complains on the cold.
    Oh, I nearly forgot to say that the worst thing about the climate in England is thick fog. It is sometimes so thick that cars may run into one another.
        20    because you can go to the seaside, swim, sunbathe, eat more fruit and vegetables.
     A. People go to the seaside to sunbathe and to swim.
     B. The weather in spring is generally mild, but sometimes the days are cold.
     C. The rivers in England never freeze.
     D. The leaves turn yellow and red, and fall to the ground.
     E. Each season is good in its own way, but my favorite season is summer.
     F. Other countries have a climate, but in England we have weather.
     G. In different parts of the country the climate is different.

第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I stopped by to get a newspaper, a tall, sincere man came over to me asking for help with directions. With a printout of Google maps, he was looking for a   21   on the main street, but just couldn’t find it. After checking out his written directions, I mapped it   22    my phone and showed him    23    where he needed to go.
He, in  24   , mentioned that he had tried going there, but there was no such street number and he just couldn't locate his hotel．I    25   it again for him．He thanked me with a big smile, shook my hand, and   26   ．I got into my car and he got into his, and we    27   ways．As I drove to the next grocery store and went in, I sensed    28   wrong about the directions－so I Googled the address again and  29   that he was looking for the right address but in a city half an hour away!
   30   it had been several minutes, the chances of finding him miles away－where he was surely still looking around－were  31   ．But I thought I'd give it a(an)   32   and set off in that direction． I'd  33   noticed what his car looked like, and was just about to give up．I parked my car as I considered what else I could do－  34   , like magic, he drove right by and pulled over into a nearby parking spot, still   35   about where the hotel was．