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2023-2024学年长兴县太湖高级中学11月月考
英语学科
第-…节(共11个小题:每小题2.5分,满分27.5分)
阅读下列短文,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。
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Do you know any 9-year-olds who have started their own museums?When Theodore Roosevelt(was only
nine,he and two of his cousins opened the'Roosevelt Museum of Natural History".The museum was in Theodore's
bedroom.It had a total of 12 specimens(.On display were a few seashells,some dead insccts and some birds'nests.
Young Roosevelt took great pride in his small museum.
Born in New York in 1858,Theodore Roosevelt was not always healthy."I was a sickly,dclicate boy,"he once wrote.
Roosevelt had a health condition called asthma ().He often found it hard to breathe.Instead of playing,heobserved
(nature and then read and wrote about it.'
Roosevelt's interest in nature sometimes got him into trouble.Oncc,his mother found several dead mice in the icebox.
She ordered him to throw them out.This was indeed "a loss to science"Roosevelt said later.
Because Roosevelt was often sickly as a boy,his body was small and weak.When he was about 12,his father urged him
to improve his bodv Roosevelt began working out in a gym.He didn't become strong quickly.But he did decide to face
life's challenges with a strong spirit.That determination stayed with Roosevelt his whole life.And finally his body did get
strong As an adult,he was an active,healthy person.He enjoyed adventures and loved outdoors.
In 1900,at the age of 41,Roosevelt was elected Vice President.A year later,former President McKinley,was shot and
killed.Roosevelt became the 26h President of the USA.At 42,he was the youngest leader the country had ever had.
21 Which of the following tells about Roosevelt as a boy?
A.He liked playing outdoor sports.
B.He was interested in observing nature.
C.He became the President i r901.D.He was a haalthy person full of energy.
22.It can be inferred(推断)hat
A.Roosevelt foHlowed his father's advice.B.Roosevelt's mother lited mice.
C.everyone with asthma is small and weak.D.working out in a