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绵阳实验高中2021级高二上线上期末模拟
英语试题
总分100分,考试时间45分钟
一、完形填空(共20小题,每小题2.5分,满分50分)
阅读下面短文,从后文各题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it crashed into something and sank. He was out of the shipping lanes and floating in a life boat ____1____ . His supplies were few. His ____2____ were small. Yet when three fishermen found him seventy-six days later, he was alive--- much thinner than he was when he ____3____ , but alive.
The thing that ____4____ my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no ____5____ in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life boat was broken with a hole and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to ____6____ it, it was still leaking air and wearing him out to keep pumping (给某物充气) it up. He was ____7____. He was completely ____8____. Giving up would have seemed the only wise choice.
When people survived these kinds of situations, they do something with their ____9____ that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in ____10____ desperate situations give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the ____11____ to carry on.
“I tell myself I can ____12____ it,” wrote Callahan in his account. “Compared to what others have been ____13____ , I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, ____14____ my determination to keep going.
I wrote that down after I read it. It ____15____ me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed ____16____ off. And every time I’ve said it, I have always come back to my ____17____.
So here, coming to us from the story of ____18____ , are words that can give us power. ____19____ you are going through , tell yourself you can handle it. Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help get through the rough spots with a little more ____20____.
1. A. aloud B. alone C