北京市东直门中学2023-2024学年高三上学期12月月考英语试题

北京市东直门中学2023-2024学年度第一学期阶段性考试 高三英语 2023.12 避人：窦淑英郑伟杜思静王子妍赵芯悦 审题人：杜思静 考试时间：90分钟总分100分 班级 姓名 学号 第一部分 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，誉提其大意，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。 My wife and I usually don't kecp houseplants.Anything in pots gets either overwatered or underwatered.But after my diagnosis with a brain cancer,I loved the idea of having something green and】_around us. Last year,my friend Mitch gave me a lucky bamboo plant.Tending to the plant gave me a sense of 2 at a time when I sometimes felt useless because my ability to move was limited.As a physician.I was used to being the one who care.Watering the plant4 me to a core part of my old identity and taught me I could still be a caregiver. However,after several weeks growing in perfect condition,the plant 5 began to show signs of stress.No matter what I did,the leaves kept 6 and dropping to the floor. "I can't even care for a simple plant!"I yelled."If my lucky bamboo dies,I might die too!" Identifying with the green and growing plant had offered me comfort.But when the tree was struggling,I felt increasingly uneasy and7. It was several months later when I recovered from surgery that I realized I had wrongly linked my careful nurturing of the plant-something over which I had at least some control-with my own8 -something over which I had no control. As my 9 lessened,I began to study online tutorials to figure out how to care for the tree. 1 transplanted it to a larger pot,and when it was back in the sunny window,we both began tothrive (旺盛)gain. Now whenever I look at the tree in its new pot,I make a point to relax and think of the things I can 10 1.A.alive B.primitive C.delicate D.mature 2.A.warmth B.relief C.achievement D.security 3.A.valucd B.nceded C.provided D.lacked 4.A.added B.connected C.adapted D.compared 5.A.casually B.interestingly C.genuinely D.mysteriously 6.A.spreading B.browning C.waving D.dancing 7.A.fearful B.innocent C.faithful D.dishonest 8.A.dream B.success C.capab