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2023北京广渠门中学高一(下)期中
英语
本试卷共 10 页,100分。考试时长90分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题纸上,在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后,将本试卷和答题纸一并交回。
第一部分 知识运用(共二节,40分)
第一节 完形填空 (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。
For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look sympathetically at the music students, ____1____ across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, turning up at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there. He promised to himself to ____2____ music, as he hated getting to school extra early.
However, one day, in the music class that was part of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing lazily on the piano and found it easy to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually ____3____ doing it. He tried to hide his ____4____ pleasure from the music teacher, who had ____5____ over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, but the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good ear and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there ____6____ him. There he decided to give the cello(大提琴) a ____7____.When he began practicing, he took it very casually. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was ____8____ to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.
This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, ____9____ his heavy instrument case across the campus to the _____10_____ looks of the non-musicians he had left behind.
1. A. removing B. marching C. pacing D. struggling
2. A. confirm B. conquer C. avoid D. appreciate
3. A. missed B. disliked C. enjoyed D. defended
4. A. eager B. obvious C. false D. individual
5. A. watched B. jogged C. jumped D. wandered
6. A. occurred to B. reacted to C. appealed to D. belonged to
7. A. fortune B. change C. mission D. charge
8. A. committed B. used C. suited D. admitted
9. A. pushing B. dragging C