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2023 学年第二学期九年级开学综合素质检测英语试题卷
2024.2
(满分: 120分 考试时间:100分钟)
第一部分 听力部分 (共20分) 略
第二部分 笔试部分(共100分)
二、完形填空 (共15小题,每小题1分,共计15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Andy and Karan were good friends, Andy was always ahead of Karan in all fields, Karan tried to do better than Andy each time but never ____1____.
One day when Karan returned home, he was feeling ____2____. His mother asked, “Why do you look upset?” Karan replied, “It’s all because of Andy. ____3____ , he got higher marks than me. And no mater how hard I try, he is always ahead of me.”
His mother questioned, “Are you jealous (嫉妒的) of Andy?” “No, Why would I be jealous of him? He is my friend.” His mother said, “When people praise Andy, you don’t like it. When he ____4____, you feel happy. You keep seeing negative qualities in him. Do you feel all of this?” Karan was shocked ____5____ what he heard. And he thought it was ____6____ . His mother continued, “I have a great solution for you to deal with jealous. Instead of being jealous, you should focus your ____7____ on appreciating the positive qualities in Andy.”
Positives qualities? In Andy? I cannot find even a single positive quality in him,” His mother asked ____8____ , “You can’t or you don’t want to find it?” Karan looked down. His mother said, “OK. Tell me ____9____ you start preparing for an exam.” Karan replied, “A week before. His mother asked, “And Andy?” Karan thought and said, “He studies daily. He lists all the schoolwork that he has to do. He always ____10____ his timetable.” His mother said, “This shows that he has good management skills and he is ____11____ .” Karan nodded, He felt ashamed. From that day on, he began to ____12____ Andy’s good qualities.
Very soon he also became hard-working like Andy, In the following exam, Andy again stood first ____13____ Karan came second. But this time Karan was not jealous at all. He was happy to see his own ____14____ .
When we heartily appreciate the positive qualities in others, those qualit