2023届北京市育英学校高三下学期英语统测(九)

1 北京市育英学校 2023 届高三年级英语统测（九） 2023.05.25 （本试卷共 100 分，考试时间 90 分钟） 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，30 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，并在答题卡上 将该项涂黑。 My wife and I usually don’t keep houseplants. Anything in pots gets either overwatered or underwatered. But after my diagnosis with a brain cancer, I loved the idea of having something green and ___1___ around us. Last year, my friend Mitch gave me a lucky bamboo plant. Tending to the plant gave me a sense of ___2___ at a time when I sometimes felt useless because my ability to move was limited. As a physician, I was used to being the one who ___3___ care. Watering the plant ___4___ me to a core part of my old identity and taught me I could still be a caregiver. However, after several weeks growing in perfect condition, the plant ___5___ began to show signs of stress. No matter what I did, the leaves kept ___6___ and dropping to the floor. “I can’t even care for a simple plant!” I yelled. “If my lucky bamboo dies, I might die too!” Identifying with the green and growing plant had offered me comfort. But when the tree was struggling, I felt increasingly uneasy and ___7___. It was several months later when I recovered from surgery that I realized I had wrongly linked my careful nurturing of the plant—something over which I had at least some control—with my own ___8___ —something over which I had no control. As my ___9___ lessened, I began to study online tutorials to figure out how to care for the tree. I transplanted it to a larger pot, and when it was back in the sunny window, we both began to thrive (旺盛) again. Now whenever I look at the tree in its new pot, I make a point to relax and think of the things I can ___10___. 1. A. alive B. primitive C. delicate D. mature 2. A. warmth B. relief C. achievement D. security 3. A. valued B. needed C. provided D. lacked 4. A. added B. connected C. adapted D. compared 5. A. casually