北京市西城区北京第八中学2023-2024学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题

2023-2024学年度第一学期期末练习题 年级：高一 科目：英语 本卷满分100分，考试时间90分钟 第一部分：知识运用(共两节，30分) 第一节完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分，共15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。 Brad hadn’t seen Grandma Joy for six years since their fierce argument. At his brother’s wedding, he ____1____ her again. He saw her walk unsteadily into the church and helped her get to the seat. But they didn’t say much. Six months after the wedding, Brad hiked the Appalachian Trail. He found himself ____2____ a lot about his grandmother and the time they had spent at Blue Rock State Park, which is close to her house. There, they’d lift rocks in the river to find fish. It puzzled him why that ____3____ in particular stayed with him. He decided to call Grandma Joy. It would be their first real ____4____ in years. She invited him over and he said “yes”. When the door opened, everything inside looked the same. But he was looking at a woman who had ____5____. They made small talk. Grandma Joy said that she had many ____6____ in her life. One of them was that except her time at Blue Rock State Park, she’d never had the chance to see what she called the great outdoors. Brad left his grandmother’s house and went back to his routine. But he couldn’t help thinking of Grandma Joy and her sadness of not seeing more of ____7____. She just lived a simple life that stopped at the edge of the county line. He thought it would be a lifelong pity if he didn’t ____8____ her. Then he came up with an idea that even he knew was ____9____. He would take his 85-year-old grandma on a camping trip to a national park. He told her his crazy idea. The old lady ____10____ him by asking “When do we leave?” Having arrived there, Brad made a campfire. They sat next to each other, feeling the warmth and looking at stars. They ____11____ the lockbox of their past, talking about families and friends, about loss and pain. They told each other they’d wasted too many years being ____12____. So they decided to go on more trips together. They have now