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北京一六一中学2023—2024学年度第二学期开学测试
高三英语试卷
考生须知 1. 本试卷共5页,满分100分,考试时长90分钟。
2. 试题答案一律书写在答题纸上,在试卷上作答无效。
3. 在答题纸上,选择题用2B铅笔作答,非选择题用黑色字迹签字笔作答。
4. 考试结束后,将答题纸、试卷和草稿纸一并交回。
第一部分:知识运用(共两节,30分)
第一节 完形填空(共10小题;每小题1.5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。
A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read and ____1____. It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart; it can keep a friendship with very little effort.
I will give ____2____. A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting along. We had been close as ___3___ but had grown apart. Our meetings were not pleasant; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels; and every effort to clear the air seemed to only ____4____ our misunderstanding. Then he moved to a small island in the Caribbean and we ____5____ touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and its people, told me what he was doing, said how he felt, and encouraged me to write. Rereading the letter, I was ____6____ by its humor and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had once respected my older brother but ____7____ he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so well. And with that one letter we became friends ____8____.
It might never have occurred to my brother to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no ____9____. For him, writing was a necessity. It also turned out to be the best way for us to get back in touch. Because we live in an age of easy communication, people often ____10____ that they don’t always have to phone or email. They have a choice. And that is to write.
1. A. received B. rewritten C. returned D. reread
2. A. an example B. a lesson C. an experience D. a talk
3. A. brothers B. children C. fellows D. classmates
4. A. deepen B. start C. express D. settle
5. A. lost B. kept in C. needed D. got in
6. A. driven B. beaten C. surprised D. honored
7. A. realized B. judged C. though