内容正文:
2020—2021学年广东省广州市越秀区八年级(下)期末
英语试卷
一、语法选择(共1小题;每小题10分, 满分10分)
阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。
Last year, I took part in my first marathon and I trained hard for it. However, a month before it, my left ankle(踝关节) ____1____ by a bike and this meant not running for weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. But I decided to continue.
I remember back to my ____2____ in school. In my first P.E. class, the teacher required us ____3____ laps and then hit a softball. I didn’t do either well. He later told me that I was “not good at sports”.
____4____ idea that I was “not good at sports” stayed in my mind for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized that running was a challenge to myself, not about competition or whether I was good at sports. It was all about the challenge to my own body and mind. A test of wills(毅力)!
The night before my marathon, I ____5____ that I couldn’t even find the finish line. I woke up sweating and nervous, ____6____ ready to show that I could make it.
Shortly after ____7____ the start line, my shoe laces(鞋带)became united. So I stopped to tie ____8____ . Not the start I wanted!
At mile 3, passed a sign: “Go FOR IT, RUNNERS!”
By mile 17, I became out of breath and my left ankle hurt very ____9____. I walked for a while and then ran again ______10______ I was in a lot of pain.
By mile 21, I felt terribly hungry!
As I was close ______11______ mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my ______12______ fan of all. She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or asked questions about the money I spent on running.
I was one of the final ______13______ to finish. But l finished as ______14______! And I got a medal. In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.
Be myself, move forward bravely and leave others’ words behind. I can now call ______15______ “a marathon winner”.
1. A. hurt B. has hurt C. hurting D. was hurt
2. A. seven year B. seven years C. seventh year D. s