北京师范大学第二附属中学2023-2024学年高二上学期期中英语试题

2023北京北师大二附中高二（上）期中 英 语 班级：____________ 姓名：____________ 学号：______ 2023.11 说明： 本试卷共12页，115分。考试时长100分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。 一、完型填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分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。 Speaking Up I never looked up when my friends were talking and joking about the retarded (智障的) boy a few tables away. It didn’t even cross my mind that he might feel 1 when people whispered about him. So I just let them talk. Then came the day when I learned my younger brother Tom’s testing for autism (自闭症) came out positive (阳性). I had never thought about him like that. I broke 2 , crying. Everything had just changed. He was no longer a(n) 3 little boy. Over time, I was able to accept his illness a little more. We had to 4 because Tom needed treatment. So Tom and I both started at a new school. One day, I was standing in the bus line waiting when a “short” bus (for the retarded) came and 5 some kids up. The children in the other line started making 6 about the “retarded” on that bus and I felt a strange feeling in my heart. I said quietly that those comments weren’t very nice, but no one listened. My family moved again. In the new school I got a 7 to speak up pretty soon. That day, in a band class, my teacher 8 our playing to make some comments, “… Guys, we’re playing like the kids on the short bus! Come on!” The entire room was laughing loudly. I felt very bad. Then, I raised my hand. I wasn’t sure what I was going to say but I wanted to be heard. The whole class 9 down. My mouth opened and this came out: “I don’t think we should make fun of the short bus, because there are people on that bus who have a lot in common with us and have the same feelings as we do.” I could feel my 10 getting louder. “So I would 11 it if you didn’t make fun of them.” The room was very quiet and everyone stared at me. My teacher 12 for the words and then started the song again. At the end of the class, everyon