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房山区2021 - 2022学年度第二学期期中学业水平调研
高一英语
本试卷共11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,将答题卡交回,试卷自行保存。
第一部分 知识运用(共两节,满分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
Being blind is tough under any circumstances. But things were even ___1___ for Srikanth Bolla who was born in a small village near Hyderbad, India, where the common belief was that kids with disabilities were “useless”. Fortunately, Srikanth’s parents loved their son and refused to ___2___ social pressure. ___3___, they encouraged the blind boy to dream big. Srikanth was not ___4___. He is the founder and CEO of a successful company now.
Of course, getting here was not easy. As a young boy, Srikanth was enrolled in a ___5___ school. Unfortunately, the students and teachers didn’t approve of his disability. So his family decided to send him to a special school for the disabled in Hyderabad and he became the top of his class. But Srikanth was refused to study ___6___ . Srikanth took his plea (诉求) to the court and became the first blind student in the country to be allowed to study science.
But despite his good ___7___ in the national board exams, Srikanth was not allowed to take the entrance exams. So he decided to ___8___ for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and succeeded.
After graduating from MIT, Srikanth returned to India and devoted his life to helping the country’s ___9___ community. In 2012, he established Bollant Industries. Not surprisingly, most of the company’s employees are physically challenged.
Srikanth owes his success to his parents. Despite being poor and uneducated, they encouraged Srikanth to ___10___ his dreams and taught him that true happiness comes from being compassionate towards others and giving them the opportunity to excel (胜过平时).
1. A. stricter B. easier C. harder D. clearer
2. A. put up with B. hang on to C. look forward to D. give in to
3. A. Eventually B. Strangely C. Unluckily D. Instead
4. A. tou