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1. 2022·河北衡水·河北衡水中学校考模拟预测
2. 2022·湖北武汉·统考模拟预测
3. 2022·陕西西安·交大附中校考模拟预测
4. 2022·重庆·重庆南开中学校考模拟预测
5. 2022·浙江·浙江大学附属中学校考模拟预测
6. 2022·湖南长沙·湖南师大附中校考二模
7. 2022·吉林长春·东北师大附中校考模拟预测
8. 2022·福建福州·统考模拟预测
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(2022·河北衡水·河北衡水中学校考模拟预测)It happened a month after I began teaching in the US. I had to ___1___ the class schedule. “We’ll need to prepone the quiz,” I said, preparing for the groans (咕哝) from my students. Instead, there was a total ___2___.
I looked around to see ___3___ expressions on their faces—that look of “I have NO idea what you just said,” which stops any teacher mid--lecture to ___4___ a concept further.
It was then that I found out that “prepone” was not a(n) ___5___ word in English dictionaries. I believed that prepone mean the ___6___ of postpone—moving an event to an earlier time rather ___7___ an event. So when I realized it wasn’t “proper” English, I was ___8___. It was a great ___9___ in my linguistic (语言的) self- image.
I had grown up in India, where fluency in English is closely associated with ____10____ privilege (特权). I was an English major with a large vocabulary, and ____11____ for reading Dickens and Austen. My comfort with English had shaped my sense of ____12____. In a world divided into linguistic “haves” and “have-nots”, I ____13____ knew I was one of the “haves”.
But that day in the classroom, my incomprehensible English taught me that being an linguistic “have” is ____14____ and delusional (妄自尊大) at best. Leaving India ____15____ me out of my privilege and opened my eyes to the rich world of Englishes.
1.A.meet B.design C.arrange D.change
2.A.silence B.understanding C.mess D.commitment
3.A.genuine B.happy C.blank D.guilty
4.A.grasp B.define C.replace D.explain
5.A.useful B.simple C.ordinary D.actual
6.A.concept B.formation C.opposite D.dimension
7.A.breaking off B.putting of C.calling off D.getting off
8.A.astonished B.relieved C.excited D.disappointed
9.A.reflection B.establishment C.honor D.shift
10.A.cultural B.economic C.mental D.comme