题型：任务型阅读 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
吉林省长春外国语学校2017-2018学七年级下学期英语期末考试试卷
Look at the tower! Nothing is wrong with your eyes. As the name says, the Leaning （倾斜的）Tower of Pisa leans. It is in Pisa, a city in Italy.
In 1173, people in Pisa began to build the tower. In 1178, when the tower was just three storeys（层）tall, it began to lean. There were wars in Pisa at the time. So the construction（建造）of the tower stopped for years. After about 200 years, in 1370, people finished the construction. It is 55.86 meters tall.
There are many opinions. One goes like this: The tower is very tall and heavy, but the ground is made of soft sand and clay. When the ground sinks, the tower leans.
Did you know these? The tower was first the bell tower to a large church.Each bell stands for a musical note（音符）. From 1990 to 2001, the tower was closed to visitors. Workers repaired it. The tower may stand for another 200 years.
阅读短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
A.The tower has eight storeys.
B.There are seven bells in it.
C.There is something wrong with the tower.
D.Why does it lean?
E.Let's know about its history
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba. It tells the story of a fight between an aging fisherman and a giant marlin (枪鱼). The novel opens with the fisherman, Santiago, who has gone 84 days without catching a fish. He is so unlucky that his young apprentice (徒弟), Manolin, hasn't been allowed by his parents to sail with the old man. On the 85th day, Santiago sets out by himself, far onto the Gulf Stream. He sets his lines and by noon, a big marlin takes his bait (鱼饵). After three days' struggle with the fish, Santiago manages to tie the marlin to the side of his boat. While Santiago sails back to the shore, sharks are attracted to the blood left by the marlin in the water. Though Santiago makes a great effort, they have almost eaten up the marlin. Santiago knows that he is defeated (打败) and tells the sharks of how they have killed his dreams. Once home, he is so tired that he goes straight to bed and falls into a deep sleep. Manolin feels much worried. The next day he brings him newspapers and coffee. When the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again. The old man doesn't feel well and also coughs up blood a few times towards the end of the story. Readers think that the story is about man's fight against the natural world. In the story, Santiago and the marlin show similar qualities of pride, honour, and bravery, and both have to obey the same natural law—they must kill or be killed.
The novel has received so much praise and is considered to be one of Hemingway's most famous works. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
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