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内蒙古包头市
2019-2022学年高三上学期英语期末试卷汇编
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内蒙古包头市2021-2022学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题
第一节 (共20小题:每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各通所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Very few of us become fluent in another language by learning it in high school.
I went to university and then moved across the country to seek a demanding job, married and ____21____ children. I made a(n) ____22____ to keep the little hit of French I learned in school, but eventually I realized that this was really ____23____. I was quite aware that new languages are best learned when young, and that our abilities in that regard decline with ____24____.
However, just before my 50th birthday, I ____25____ French classes. After I was tested to see which group I belonged to, I was placed at almost the introductory (入门的) ____26____. When I looked around at my first class, I was ____27____ that many of the students were learning French as a third, fourth or even fifth language.
Contrary to my ____28____ that learning a new language was impossibly difficult, there were people who learned new languages as a matter of course. While I had always thought of myself as a ____29____ learner, that was no longer the case. I ____30____ new vocabulary rather slowly. What I learned one week ago seemed to ____31____ as soon as I learned the next skill. l had to look up the ____32____ words and language structures over and over. Now, after several years of learning. I can listen to the news in French and ____33____ 90% of it on the first try, read a novel if the language isn’t too, ____34____ and hold up my end of a conversation if it doesn’t go too fast. I’ve learned so much beyond grammar and vocabulary. I’ve met people from around the world and all walks of life who have the ____35____ to make fools of themselves in order to learn something new. I’ve been taught by ____36____ and inspirational teachers from many comers of the world. Listening to the news as it is ____37____ to the people of France, I have a renewed understanding of how somethin