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上蔡县衡实中学2022—2023学年第一学期11月份月考
高一(年级)英语(学科)试题
注意事项:本试卷共150分,考试时间为120分钟.
I卷(60分)
一、完形填空 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。(本题共15小题,每小题2分,共30分。)
Ekaterina is a famous skater. She____1____ the activity of skating at the age of 4. Since then, she has been devoted to the career that drives her life and ____2____ beauty and romance into lives of millions of others.
When she was 11, she found a ____3____ partner, Sergei Grinkov, 15 years old then, with whom she could perform that activity in the most expressive and the most elegant way. They were the most winning pair skaters on the ice in every way: The tiny fragile Ekaterina, in the ____4____ of her tall, strong, handsome partner, was lovingly launched into the ____5____ and tenderly caught, and beautifully skated around the ice.
Gradually, the two of them ____6____ together into a dream couple and the most beautiful kind of loving relationship. When she was 19, she married him. They had a daughter, a charming girl they both loved and protected. And then, ____7____ in 1995, during a routine practice session, her mate, her love, her partner, Sergei Grinkov, stopped, fell and died of a heart attack at 28.
Ekaterina’s world seemed to end. It was her mum who lit her ____8____ to start remaking her life by saying “Little Dasha, having lost a father, needs at least a healthy mother.” This reminded her to ask a friend to send her ____9____ which had been left in the corner for a long time. Later she said in her book, “____10____ is the only thing that can help people recover.” In February 1996, Ekaterina skated a moving tribute (悼念) to Sergei, which she ____11____ to the music of Mahler’s Symphony No.5, the couple’s favorite. She was ____12____ at the beginning, because it had been a long time since she had skated alone. And she was afraid of the ____13____ the piece would recall. But that night, she did it. She filled up the ____14____ with her courage.
No one who saw Ekaterina that night would forget her perfor