北京市平谷区2020-2021学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题 （含答案）

北京市平谷区2020-2021学年高二上学期期末英语试题 英 语 2021.1 第一部分知识运用（共两节，共30分） 第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 It was just about this time last year that my wife announced that she was no longer going to cut our lawn (草坪); instead, she wanted to let it go wild. In fact, I did not accept her announcement. First, I could cut the lawn myself, something I hadn’t done for years and was unwilling to do. Second, I could try to hire a 1 to do it but the teenagers here didn’t seem exactly the type of people to be interested in 2 lawns. Third, I could acquiesce(勉强同意) to her suggestion. Putting aside my pride and kissing goodbye to any hope of winning the first place in the shortest cut lawn competition, I drained (抽干) the oil in our lawn mower, pushed it into a corner and 3 it with a plastic cloth. I hope that once the lawn began to look too high, my wife would 4 her decision. By the end of the third week of her “not work”, things were not working out