精品解析：北京市海淀区中国人民大学附属中学2022-2023学年高一上学期期中英语试卷

人大附中2022~2023学年度第一学期高一年级期中练习 英语 说明：本试卷共3道大题44道小题，共10页，考试时间90分钟。 第一部分 知识运用(共两节，30分) 第一节(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。 It started with a dogwood (山茱萸) tree. I was in Ohio when my mother died on a cold day in February, and everything was ____1____. A few weeks into my grief (悲痛), my uncle suggested planting a tree in ____2____ of her. He had visited my parents many years ago during a California spring. They drove down a neighborhood street lined with blooming dogwood trees and ever since, the ____3____ of a dogwood reminded him of my mom. We planted the dogwood in May. Its gray trunk (树干) was as thin as my mother’s arms. It lay in the ____4____ much like her ashes would settle on the rocky soil of the Rocky Mountains five years later. Planting a living thing to honor her hard life that ended too soon soothed (抚慰) my heart. This tree would be a symbol of her, something I could ____5____ despite all I’d lost. My mother could make anything ____6____. She had not just green thumbs but green hands and a nature that could raise anything but herself. As a young adult, I was never good at cultivating—opportunities, relationships, and flowers. Because of distance and poor health, my relationship with my mom never got the chance to blossom as I’d hoped. But my mom’s dogwood grew. Its ____7____ pushed into the hard soil; its white blossoms exploded like stars every June. This tree gave me hope that life goes on in spite of the past. Soon I began buying other plants. Without explanation, these plants suddenly thrived under my care. And I grew, too, learning how to tend to them. So many lessons that nature already knew, that my mother must have known but didn’t have time to ____8____, I applied to my own life. A part of me believes this is my mother’s gift she gave to me after she passed away—the ability to encourage and celebrate ____9____ where there was none, to make flowers appear out of the dirt. It is her reminder to find the go