湖南省衡阳市20xx届高三实验班上学期第四次月考英语试题

湖南省衡阳市20xx届高三实验班上学期第四次月考英语试题内容摘要：

w familiar voice. “ How do you spell fix?” I asked. All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Then when I was 9 years old, we moved to Boston. I missed my friend very much. Information Please belonged to that old wooden box in former home, and I somehow never thought of trying the tall, shiny new phone that sat on the hall table. Yet as I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood conversations never really left me。 often in moments of doubt and sadness I would recall the sense of security I had then. I appreciated now how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a little boy. A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in Seattle. I had about half an hour or so between planes, and I spent 15 minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now. Then without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, “ Information Please.” Unexpectedly, I heard again the small, clear voice I knew so well, “ Information.” I hadn’ t planned this but I heard myself saying, “ Could you tell me please how to spell fix?” There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, “ I guess that your finger must have healed by now.” I laughed, “ So it’ s really still you,” I said. “ I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time.” “ I wonder,” she said, “ if you know how much your calls meant to me. I never had any children, and I used to look forward to your calls.” I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked if I could call her again when I came back to visit my sister. “ Please do。 just ask of Sally.” Just three months later I was back in Seattle„ . A different voice answered Information and I asked for Sally. “ Are you a friend?” “ Yes, a very old friend.” “ Then I’ m sorry to have to tell you. Sally has been working parttime the last few years because she was sick. She passed away five weeks ago.” But before I could hang up she said, “ Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Paul?” “ Yes!” “ Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down. Here it is. I’ ll read it. “ Tell him I still say there are other worlds to sing in. He’ ll know what I mean.” I thanked her and hung up. I did know what Sally meant. 29. The author picked up the telephone for the first time to ________. A. call his mother who was visiting a neighbor B. call the doctor for his wounded finger C. find out what exactly lived in the telephone D. find someone to give him sympathy 30. Why did the writer never think of trying the new phone after moving to Boston? A. He hadn’ t got used to the line service in Boston yet. B. There was something wrong with the new phone. C. He missed Information Please in the old phone so much. D. He didn’ t like the tall and shiny style of the new phone. 31. What did Sally mean by saying those underlined words in the message? A. The author didn’ t need to feel sad for her death. B. She went to another place to make a living as a singer C. The world without her would still be good to the author. D. The author should explore new worlds for his new life. D Some students who took the International English Language Testing System(IELTS) exam in August and September, 2020 have had their resultswithheld (隐瞒 )permanently, sending a strong signal that the examiners intend to stamp out cheating, some senior language tutors said. Yang Yuting, chief language training tutor at Amber Education, an overseas education consulting agency, said there have been a few cases in which candidates’ IELTS results were canceled in recent years, leaving the students with no qualification but this is the first time he has heard that results, including those of some of his students, werewithheld permanently, meaning IELTS will not give the students their results, nor will they give them to others. Wang Xin, a senior student at the Communication University of China in Beijing, took an IELTS test on August 1 and the results were due within 10 working days. But she was then informed that her results were undergoing routinechecks. Soon after that, she received an telling her thata decision has been made to withhold this result permanentlyand stating that Wang hadbreached (违反 )IELTS test rules and regulations. A number of students who took the test during the past two months in cities including Nanjing, Changsha and Guangzhou, have had the same experience. Many test takers said they were confused because they didn’ t know how they had breached the rules and regulations. IELTS authorities said in an toChinaDailythat IELTS takes the responsibility of providing test results very seriously. Results are only withheld in cases where there is strong evidence to suggest that the candidates have not observed IELTS regulations.In these cases, we are unable to guarantee that their result is a true reflection of their English language skills,they said in the , although they gave no figures of how many students were involved.We regret any inconvenience this may cause, but these measures are essential to protect the value of the results for more than mil。