山西省朔州市怀仁市第九中学高中部2023-2024学年高三上学期11月期中英语试题

山西省朔州市第九中学高中部2023-2024学年 高三上学期期中英语试题 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号和班级填写在答题卡上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。 2.全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试题上无效。 3.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案用0.5mm的黑色笔迹签字笔写在答题卡上。 4.考试结束后，将本试题和答题卡一并交回。 一、阅读理解(共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分） A An important person who has made a huge impact on my life is Savannah. Savannah is my twin sister and my life would be completely different without her. Everyone always thinks it’s amazing to have a twin and it is but it’s also not. People always beautify having a twin. They say it’s natural to be good friends, which is true, but nobody ever talks about the negative side of it. People also say things like “Who’s the smarter twin?” As twins, we are constantly getting compared. In the second grade, she got admitted to a class for advanced students. In 6th grade she was put into advanced math. I finally got put into advanced math for 8th grade but it still wasn’t enough because by then she was in a class that was two years ahead and mine was just one. So people called me the dumb twin. I played soccer from the ages 5-9. I quit when I was 9 because people decided Savannah was better and I didn’t want to hear it anymore. She still plays. We also played softball together when we were 10-11. I quit that too mainly for the same reason. One day when I was in 7th grade, Savannah, our friends and I were at top golf for one of their birthdays. We were almost done playing. My friend Allison said, “Savannah，how does it feel to be losing to the unathletic twin?” Allison didn’t play any sports either，but since she wasn’t a twin, she wasn’t getting compared to anyone. I could write a million stories about who’s the prettier twin? Who’s the uglier twin? Who’s the funnier twin? It never really ends. Even though we get compared, I still love Savannah and she has made such a huge impact on my life. As I’ve gotten older, it has less of an effect on me when people compare us. I have realized that there is always