黑龙江省齐齐哈尔市第八中学校2023-2024学年高一上学期10月月考英语试卷

高一英语，第 页（共 10 页）1 2023—2024 学年度上学期 10 月月考 高一英语试题 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 75 分） 第一节（共 20 小题；每小题 3 分，满分 60 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和 D）中，选出最佳选 项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A When I was little, my dad would let me sit beside him while he painted. He would tell me how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the grassland by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sunlight going through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic. I understood what he was saying, but I’ve never felt what he was saying until one day when I was up in the sycamore tree(梧桐树) to rescue a kite stuck in the branches. It was a long way up, but I thought I’d give it a try. I started climbing. Then I looked down. And suddenly I got dizzy and weak. But the kite was still beyond my reach. I caught my breath and forced myself to concentrate on the kite as I climbed up. When I had the kite free, I needed a minute to rest. That’s when the fear began to disappear, and in its place came the most amazing feeling that I was flying, sailing among the clouds. Then I began to notice how wonderful the light wind smelled. I couldn’t stop breathing it in, filling my lungs with the sweetest smell I’d ever known. I never got over the view. I kept thinking of what it felt like to be up so high in that tree. I wanted to see it, to feel it, again. And again! It wasn’t long before I wasn’t afraid of being up so high and found the same spot. I could sit there for hours, just looking out at the world. Sunsets were amazing: Some days they’d be purple and pink; some days they’d be bright orange, setting fire to clouds across the horizon. The view from my sycamore was more than clouds and wind and colors combined. Eventually, my father’s belief moved from my head to my heart. I started marveling(惊奇 ) at how that was possible. How could I be so full of peace and full of wonder? It was magic. 高一英语，第 页（共 10 页）2 1．Why did the author climb up the sycamore tree? A．To play in the tree. B．To practice climbing s