北京市昌平区第二中学2022-2023学年高二下学期期中英语试题

2023北京昌平二中高二（下）期中 英 语 务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，将答题卡上交。 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。 No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own __1__. I learned this lesson from an experience many years ago. I took the head coaching job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program. It was a tradition for the school's old team to play against the __2__ team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to prepare for the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment, we were defeated. I couldn’t believe I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were __3__ me. I had to change my __4__about their ability and potential. I started doing anything I could to help them build a little __5__. Most importantly, I began to treat them like __6__. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and practiced passing and kicking the football. Six months after suffering our defeat on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second and continued to improve. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a __7__ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest __8__ of my life! From the experience, I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can affect the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and __9__them. I helped them to see themselves __10__, and they built themselves into winners. Winners are made, not born. 1. A. luck B. efforts C. tests D. nature 2. A. excellent B. successful C. new D. strong 3. A. depending on B. looking for C. reac