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北京市第二十中学2023-2024学年第一学期期中考试试卷
高二英语
(时间:90分钟 满分:100分 为选择性必修1模块结业考试)
第一部分:知识运用(共两节,30分)
第一节 完形填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,共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。
I was about to sleep when someone knocked on my window. Knock, knock. Then a three-second pause. Knock, knock. Immediately I knew it was my best friend, Ben. The knock ____1____ was our emergency call which never means anything good.
“What’s going on?” I rushed to open the window and asked.
Ben climbed in. “Bad news.” He gave me a ____2____ look, and I immediately knew what it was. My heart ____3____ . I gave him a nod, and he sighed in response.
“Where to?” I asked.
“Virginia”
“That’s far from Florida.”
We looked at each other knowing we were thinking the same. Both Ben and I had parents in the airforce. We were used to frequent moves.
Ben and I became close friends since I crashed into Ben’s stand and sent plastic cups of lemonade flying into the heavens. At first, I ____4____ Florida. Everything changed, though, when I ____5____ rollers-kated into Ben’s lemonade stand.
“It must have been fate!” we claimed. But I think that, maybe, there was some ____6____ in that lemonade, and that as it rained down on us, it cast a spell making us friends forever.
“Maybe your family will get moved to Virginia too.” Ben said.
“Yeah, maybe.” I knew the chance was low, but I chose to hope.
Ben grinned at me. Though it looked sad, I saw ____7____ in him too.
“I’ll have a lemonade stand ____8____ for you.”
“Then I’ll pack my roller-skates.”
“Then I’ll wear a poncho (雨披).”
We ____9____ . The humid Florida night closed around us, and I felt a tiny drop of liquid splash on my arm. I knew it was probably rain, but still, I thought that, maybe, it was a drop of magic lemonade, because nothing on earth can break the _____10_____ between us.
1. A. sound B. pattern C. number D. symbol
2. A. playful B. grateful C. cheerful D. meaningful
3. A. failed B. softened C. sank D. relieved
4. A. hated B. missed C. explored D. app