北京市第二中学2022-2023学年高一上学期11月月考英语试题

- 高一年级英语第二学段考试 2022 年 11 月 第 1 页（共 8 页）- 北京二中 2022—2023学年度第二学段高一年级学段考试试卷 英语 第一部分：知识运用（20分） 第一节 完形填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，共 10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。 Because I Was Told I Can About six months ago, I joined a gym. Every morning, there is one personal trainer there who works out at the same time that my little group does our 1. ______. He does his “routine” with such a quiet determination that he makes it all look very easy, although I know all too well how hard he is working. Whenever I tend to complain and quit, I watch him push himself to his own limits, and I find myself motivated to work as hard and without complaint. A couple of weeks ago, I was watching him do chin-ups. He made them look 2. ______. I broke away from my group and asked him if I could try a chin-up. I had never tried before, but he just made it look so easy. He eagerly stepped aside and encouraged me to step up to the bar. I 3. ______ myself up without thinking…once…then twice. That was all I had in me. I had no strength left. I told him that was all I had, so he stepped up behind me and pushed me up for a third and fourth “pull”. It felt so good. The next day when I was done with my workout, I asked him to spot me again. Again, I did two. Again on Day 3 and so on. I thought it was 4. ______ that I could only do two, but when I came to the gym at the end of the week, he was standing there just shaking his head. When I asked him what was up, he said he was 5. ______ with my chin-ups. He told me that when they are 6. ______ firefighters, the men are required to do five chin-ups, and women are required to do one or two. He 7. ______ that most people can’t do them at all, and that he was amazed that I could. He further told me that if I practiced every day, I would be doing five or six in no time. At this point I should probably 8. _____ that I am 50 years old… and female. Had he told me at the very beginning how difficult it was, I more than