精品解析：北京市第八中学2023-2024学年高一下学期期中英语试题

2023-2024 学年度第二学期期中练习题 年级：高一 科目：英语 （考试时间90分钟， 满分110分） 一、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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。 My mother looks just like many grandmothers — short and white-haired. She comes from an old, traditional family in Canada, where she now still lives. She was a civil servant. In short, she didn’t do ___1___ things. That all changed a few years ago. She began to ___2___ me with what she described as “independence”. At that time, I didn’t fully understand what she was doing. In early 2015, the year she turned 75, she informed me she’d ___3___ a seven-night trip to Turkey, and that she was going alone. There was no way I could ___4___ that. A little old lady not speaking a word of Turkish, with no ___5___ of the laws and customs of the land — it was impossible! My mother paid no attention to me. Off she went. When she returned she told us it had been a wonderful success. As it ___6___, she had barely spent any time alone, after ___7___ a taxi driver to show her around. He introduced her to a rug vendor (地毯商) — Mustafa, “a lovely fellow”, and she bought some rugs. The vendor had taken her address details and promised to ___8___ them to Canada. I couldn’t believe her naivety (幼稚) and explained that she had been ___9___. The vendor had her money. She neither had nor would be receiving any rugs. Well, I was _____10_____. To my great shock, her rugs did arrive some weeks later, along with a lovely note from Mustafa. To my even greater surprise, the following year Mustafa himself arrived in Canada. “I invited him for a cup of tea and he came,” my mother told me. I was _____11_____ because she hardly knew this man! But again, she paid little attention to me, telling me to stop being silly. I wondered: “Is she not thinking straight?” _____12_____ I worried about her, Mum was thinking straighter than most of us. Her _____13_____ seemed to be based on a realization that life needs to be lived, when there’s relatively little of it left. It __