北京市第五十中学2023-2024学年高一上学期期中英语试题

2023—2024学年第一学期高一年级英语学科期中考试 考生须知 1. 本试卷分为试题、答题卡两部分，满分100分。考试时间90分钟。 2. 认真填写所在班级、姓名、学号。 3. 请用2B铅笔填涂机读卡，用黑色签字笔在答题卡上按要求作答。 第一部分：知识运用(共三节，31分) 第一节 语音知识(共6小题;每小题1分，共6分) 请从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出每组中划线的字母或字母组合发音与其他不同的单词。 1. A. leaf B. pleasure C. mean D. reach 2. A. class B. rat C. fact D. bag 3. A. math B. with C. month D. birthday 4. A. noun B. south C. cloud D. soup 5. A. dear B. clear C. swear D. spear 6. A. bike B. night C. slip D. idea 第二节 完形填空(每小题1.5分，共10小题，共计15分) 阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。 Love Is Blind: The Magic of Tabby In October, 2003 I started my work at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. Over the years, more than 50,000 animals have ___7___ the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are special animals, who touch me so deeply that I could never possibly ___8___ them. Tabby was one such animal. Tabby was an ancient Cocker Spaniel, probably 14 years old. What’s more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby’s chances at adoption seemed remote at best. After all, we didn’t have many adopters coming in asking: “Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also ___9___?” We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the ____10____. One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had seen Tabby’s pictured and stories on the shelter’s website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only enquiry we ever received about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-old dog who was both blind and deaf? Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and ____11____ through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would ____12____ be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby! If Tabby’s story had simply ended with her successful adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed. ____13____, it was what happened after her adoption that peopl