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山西省2023-2024学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题汇编:完形填空
山西省太原市2023-2024学年高一上学期期中学业诊断考试英语试题
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。答案写在答题卡上。
Everyone is hiding something — but unhiding that secret part can ____6____ everything. My birth was a little ____7____. At birth, I was carried into another room and doctors gave my parents the ____8____ news: I was born missing my left hand, which might have been a(n) ____9____. However, a nurse took me back into the room, placed me in my mother’s arms and ____10____, “You should take her home. You should love her. You should ____11____ her. You should treat her as normal.”
Luckily, my parents took her words ____12____, and for the most part, it was great. I played sports, did well in school, and even joined student union. ____13____, the fact that I was different ____14____ me hard on my first day of high school. I remembered being laughed at about my left arm when getting on the school bus, and I felt a moment of ____15____, so I quickly put it into my pocket. I then told myself that I’d just hide it only one day. But one day of hiding turned into a week, and then a month, which became years — 25 years exactly.
____16____ this special experience, I gradually learned to accept myself. When looking around and noticing other people with arm differences, I started to be not so ____17____ on hiding myself. And then, I discovered the Lucky Fin Project, an organization to help people with all types of “____18____”.
Years after I joined the organization to make people ____19____ of helping the disabled, I figured out that unhiding is the key to connection. When we do this, we create a beautiful and ____20____ space where everyone can find a sense of belonging and feel loved for who they are. Hiding holds all of us back — unhiding sets all of us free.
6. A. destroy B. change C. pack D. postpone
7. A. unfamiliar B. informal C. unusual D. irregular
8. A. difficult B. exciting C. ordinary D. plain
9. A. adventure B. error C. event D. disaster
10. A. c