内容正文:
荆州市省市重点高中 2023 级高一学生素养测试
英语试题
注意事项:
1.本试卷共三部分,120分。考试时间100分钟。
2.答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、考号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。选出每小题答案后,用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,再选涂其它答案标号。所有试题都要答在答题卡上。
第一部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分50分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
I was ten when my family moved to a new place to live. We were total strangers to the new surroundings and I was too shy a kid to make new friends, so before going out into the street for the first time, I had to collect together all the courage I’d had, if I did have that all then.
It was a summer vacation, and there were lots of kids along the street, boys and girls, playing different games. As soon as I appeared on the porch (走廊), one of them shouted, “Look, there is a new boy!” and they all suddenly seemed to have lost any interest in their activities.
In a second, dozens of curious eyes were focused on me. A deadly silence fell upon the place, they all turned towards me and stood still. Everyone seemed to be waiting for some sort of reaction from me. But as far as I was concerned, the situation was completely strange to me. I was frightened and terribly embarrassed (尴尬), and I was about to rush back when another voice cried, “New boy, what’s your name?”
I can still remember the challenge of overcoming the embarrassment when taking a deep breath, I called back loudly, “Hi, everybody, I’m Victor!”
Then I walked down from the porch and began to talk and play with them. In a quarter of an hour I learned the names of the boys I was playing with. In a couple of days I knew every kid in the community, and a bit later, I made friends with most of them. Gradually, my parents also got to know a lot of people there. We didn’t feel strange in our new surroundings any more.
Since then, I have made it my principle to be the first to say “Hi” to a stranger who is new to my surroundings. ________
1. From the first paragraph, we know that ________.
A. it was the first time for the author to move
B. the author didn’t want to mak