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安徽省部分市
2023-2024学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编
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安徽省马鞍山市2023-2024学年高二上学期2月期末英语试题
第一节(共15小题;每小题1分, 满分15分)
阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A 40-minute taxi drive has, unexpectedly but luckily, become a ride for a lifetime. One day in October 2021, Bill Sumiel, 71, who had dealt with kidney failure(肾衰竭)for 2 years, was ____21____ outside a hospital for the taxi called online. Though he was on the transplant(移植)list, no ____22____ had yet appeared.
Timothy Letts, 31, the driver who took the ____23____ arrived on time. During the 40-minute ____24____, Sumiel said that he was looking for a kidney donor(捐赠者). Letts ____25____ that he’d be a good one, given that he didn’t drink or ____26____. Sumiel agreed, though he didn’t think much of it as they kept driving. Letts, ____27____, couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Letts believes in helping others, so donating a kidney “was something that was always on my ____28____,”he says. So, about a quarter-mile away from Sumiel’s house, Letts said, “I’d like to see if I could be a match to ____29____ you a kidney. ”
“I was _____30_____,”Sumiel recalled. Shaking so hard, he could hardly write his name when they _____31_____ contact information.
Letts got in touch with Sumiel just a few hours later, and by the next week, Letts had _____32_____ the hospital. The result was that they were a _____33_____ match.
Months after they ended up in the same car by _____34_____ Sumeil and Letts had their surgeries. It was a _____35_____. Today Sumiel is doing well —thanks to Letts.
21. A. paying B. preparing C. hoping D. waiting
22. A. matches B. plans C. ideas D. suggestions
23. A. advice B. action C. order D. lead
24. A. operation B. meeting C. class D. drive
25. A. joked B. argued C. remembered D. forgot
26. A. sleep B. cry C. smell D. smoke
27. A. moreover B. however C. in addition D. as well
28. A. back B. schedule C. side D. mind
29. A. lend B. bring C. give D. buy
30. A. surprised B. frightened C. relaxed D. tired
31. A. reviewed B. ex