北京市第一六六中学2023-2024学年高二上学期期中英语试题

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) 考查目标 知识: 选择性必修一Unit 1至Unit 4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. 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 two sons and competing again, and has won a gold medal in the Paralympics. Whitmore has some words of advice for others with ___9___ : “Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. You have to ____10____ yourself.” 1. A. conquered B. liked C. attempted D. watched 2. A. pulled B.