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通州区2021—2022学年高三摸底考试
英语试卷
本试卷共10页,共100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上,在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后,请将答题卡交回。
第一部分:知识运用(共两节,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。
Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree in English literature had not really ____1____ me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that until I ____2____ about the Lighthouse Project.
I knew being a volunteer in the project would be a lot of hard work, and I would be away from my family and friends. ____3____, I did not make my decision to apply for it. Neither did my family agree.
Eventually, however, I won the ____4____ of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for application. After ____5____ interviews, I managed to stand out among the candidates and ____6____ the test alone. I would be going to a small village in Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find it.
After completing my training, I was sent to the small village. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their food, homes, and even ____7____ as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I ____8____ in that same schoolhouse. But sometimes I think I learned more from my students than they did from me.
Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so ____9____ to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever, and I returned to my city a(n) ____10____ man.
1. A. prepared B. stopped C. pushed D. forced
2. A. talked B. asked C. cared D. learned
3. A. However B. Therefore C. Otherwise D. Instead
4. A. trust B. praise C. support D. respect
5. A. countless B. hopeless C. careless D. aimless
6. A. miss B. survive C. choose D