内容正文:
北京市朝阳区2023~2024学年度第一学期期末质量检测
高二英语
(考试时间100分钟 满分100分)
第一部分 知识运用(共三节,30分)
第一节 完形填空(共10小题;每小题1分,共10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 in my home office on a cold Sunday when I heard a quick knock on the door. I ___1___ downstairs, threw open the door and saw my dad ___2___ something wrapped up in paper in his arms. Strangely, he had given no hint (暗示) of it when we spoke on the phone last night.
“Open it.” he said.
I opened it to find a yellow begonia (秋海棠). It occurred to me that it was Mother’s Day.
“But···but I’m not a mother.” I said, ___3___.
My dad smiled, “Well, some special people aren’t mothers. but I think they ___4___ to get flowers, too.” With that, he hugged me and drove off.
Later, I called to thank him and we got to talking a lot. That’s when he let me in on his little ___5___. He had decided that he would challenge himself to do one act of ___6___ per day. It had started several weeks before when he accidentally knew a friend of his was having a rough day. He knew she loved ice cream, so he drove straight to her house with a huge tub of ice cream.
“She laughed ___7___ when she saw it,” he said, “It really delighted me to know that I had ___8___ her day.”
When asked why, he added, “I already know about the importance of being ___9___ in the moment. So, I try to be there with each person I am spending time with. I want them to feel important and believe in the goodness in people in that moment.”
I realized my dad was making a difference in people’s lives. ___10___, I also want to be more like my dad, who goes out of his way to make people feel loved and cared for.
1.
A. fell B. waited C. raced D. looked
2.
A. shaking B. pulling C. holding D. collecting
3.
A. annoyed B. confused C. worried D. disappointed
4.
A. deserve B. decide C. promise D. pretend
5.
A. celebration B. joke C. secret D. excuse
6.
A. faith B. courage C. appreciation D. kindness
7.
A. coldly B. excitedly C. proudly D. nervously
8.
A. kept B. spent