精品解析：上海市鲁迅中学2021-2022学年高一下学期期中考试英语试卷

上海市鲁迅中学2021 学年第二学期高一英语期中考试 考试卷 （满分100分，考试时间 60分钟） I. Grammar and vocabulary （25分） Section A (每题1.5分） Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Life Doesn’t Just Happen to Us Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough Success depends mainly on our view of ourselves and of the events in our lives. When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was to change completely. The class experiment that day was to show ____1____heating a container of water would bring air bubbling to the surface. Somehow, the container the teacher gave Wilson ____2____(heat) mistakenly held something more volatile(易挥发) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container exploded, ____3____(leave) Wilson blinded in both eyes. When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents attempted to find a way to deal with the disaster that ____4____(happen) to their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident ____5____a disaster. He learned braille(盲文) quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became an ____6____(accomplish) public speaker. Later, he worked in Africa,____7____many people suffered from blindness for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to accept his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it ____8____be fixed so easily. Wilson did his best to prevent the preventable ____9____ tens of millions in Africa and Asia could recover their sight. Wilson received several international awards for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a vision. He proved that it’s not what happens to us _____10_____