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2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷分类汇编
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湖北省黄石市等3地2022-2023学年高一下学期7月期末英语试题
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I entered my freshman year of high school with a philosophy:work hard and do whatever 1
could succeed at.I thought I would make some impressive achievements in this way.I wouldn't
waste my time on areas I was not good at
And this philosophy served me well.I worked hard on my lessons and piano practice,whichI
had talent for,and got the results I wanted.usually in the shape of good grades and rewards.My
friends laughed about my all-or-nothing attitude.but I thought it was the only sure path to success.
At the beginning of the second year of high school.I fully intended to keep the same attitude.
Then I joined the school cross-country running team.a year after I had watched cross-country
races.I joined mainly because my brother was on the team:he was entering his senior year,and I
wanted to spend more time with him before he left for college.Also.many of my friends were on
the team.and they had been trying to persuade me to join them for months.
When I came to the first practice.I was filled with optimism and dreamed of being an
excellent runner.But as the distance we ran each practice gradually increased.I realized however
hard I tried.I was the slowest on the team.And the muscle injury was often intolerable.What was
the point of putting me through so much pain?I'd never be an excellent runner.For the first few
weeks.I had been thinking of giving up.
Then we had our first cross-country meet.When we got off the bus at Lamoille High School.
dressed in our blue uniforms with our team name shown on the shirts.the sight of the other teams
warming up made me anxious.I thought I would let my team down.And I guessed my coach and
teammates would be disappointed at my performance and blame me.This thought made me
decide to quit the cross-country running team after the race.
Now.looking at the tough course made up of a series of short.steep(hills.I stoo