北京市第一六六中学2023-2024学年高二上学期期中英语试题

高二年级 英语学科(试题) 第1页 共 12 页 北京市第一六六中学 北京市第一六六中学 2023-2024学年度第一学期期中考试 高二年级 英语学科 (时长：90分钟） 班级： 姓名： 考查目标 知识：选择性必修一 Unit1至 Unit4 的词汇、语法 能力：阅读能力、写作能力 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，30 分） 第一节：完型填空（共 10 题；每小题 1.5 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。 In 2007, Whitmore was considered one of the most successful athletes in America. However, everything changed during a triathlon (三项全能) that seemed like so many others she had 1 _. “Once I got off the bike and began the running portion, it was hard to pick up my legs. I knew something wasn’t right.” Whitmore tells Reader’s Digest, “I didn’t have any symptoms (症状) as long as I wasn’t running. But every time I tried again the muscles were super tight.” Assuming she’d simply 2 _ herself too hard in the last race, Whitmore shrugged off the pain. It wasn’t until a 3 _ night at a sports camp in Arizona that Whitmore says she knew something was 4 _ wrong. Then she went to hospital. After examination, she was quickly 5 _. What doctors found during surgery shocked them all: Whitmore had spindle cell sarcoma (梭形细胞肉瘤). When she heard the diagnosis for the first time, Whitmore says time stood 6 _. “I couldn’t breathe. They were talking about treatment and I just started crying and saying ‘I don't want to die !’” Waking up after the surgery, she was even more shocked to find out she, a/an 7 _ athlete, wouldn’t have the use of her leg anymore from the knee down. 高二年级 英语学科(试题) 第2页 共 12 页 北京市第一六六中学 Whitmore now had drop foot and had to learn to walk again with the help of a physical therapist (治疗学家). In the following days, Whitmore endured a punishing two-month 8 _, after which her scans were coming back clear of cancer. To her joy, she was pregnant with twins. Now, she is a mother of tw