北京市中关村外国语学校2022-2023学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷

高二英语（共十页 第 1页） 北京市中关村外国语学校 2022——2023 学年度第二学期期中试卷 高二英语 班级 姓名 学号 成绩 2023.04.26 （注：选择题填答在通用答题卡上，否则不计成绩；考试时间 90分钟，满分 100分) 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，30分） 第一节 完型填空（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， 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。 One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun flying their kites. Multicolored creations, various shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong wind blew against the kites, a ___1___ kept them in check. Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great ___2___. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facing upwards and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to be saying, "Let me go! Let me go! I want to be ___3___!" They soared beautifully even as they fought the control of the string. Finally, one of the kites ___4___ in breaking loose from it. Free at last, it seemed to say, "Free to fly with the wind." Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the ___5___ of the unsympathetic wind. It dropped ungracefully to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds. Free at last, free to ___6___ powerless, and to be blown helpless along the ground, and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction. ___7___ like kites we sometimes are! Life gives us adversity(逆境 ), ___8___ and rules to follow from which we can gain strength. Restraint is a necessary opponent to the winds of opposition. We can never rise high enough to achieve our goals if we lose our necessary ___9___ or the rules. Let each of us rise to great heights, ___10___ that some of the restraints that we may chafe under(因…而感到恼怒) are actually the steady force that helps us ascend and achieve. ( )1.A. belt B. string C. wire D. fabric ( )2.A. weights B. lengths C. depths D. heights ( )3.A. dependent B. beautiful C. free D. strong ( )4.A. tried B. succeeded C. failed D. managed ( )5.A. mercy B. risk C. sight D. expense (