精品解析：广东省佛山市南海区2023-2024学年高二下学期期中素养提升学业水平测试英语试卷

南海区2023至2024学年第二学期高二素养提升学业水平测试 英语试卷 笔试部分满分130分，考试时间120分钟 第一部分听说考试(独立安排，满分20分) 第二部分综合运用(共五节，满分65分) 第一节课外阅读(共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A On September 17, 2022, a father and son set out to begin the first of three legs of the Ironman competition in Oxford. David, 59, and his son, John, 28, weren’t the typical competitors. Despite difficulty in walking, John has his dream of being an athlete. His father would act as his arms and legs, carrying the weight of his son throughout the race. To qualify as having finished, competitors must complete a hard 140 miles of swimming, bicycling and running in under 17 hours. David and John had participated together in five Ironman competitions, but they had yet to finish in the required time. The race began with a 2.4-mile swim in the Choptank River. With one end of a rope tied to a belt around his back and the other end to a boat with his son inside, the father eased himself into the water. Swimming while carrying another person is tough enough — David also had to fight with jellyfish (水母). The pair completed the swim in 90 minutes, and went through with the 112-mile bicycle ride in about nine hours, then set their sights on the final leg of the 26.2-mile marathon with David pushing John in the racing chair. With minutes left and 200 feet to the finish line, his mom, on the sidelines, handed him the rolling walker. Not that long ago, John could hardly walk 23 steps. But after years of painful training, he increased his step count and was determined to finish the race on his own. He knew time was almost running out and worried they wouldn’t make the cutoff. “Not because I wouldn’t get my moment,” he says, “but because dad had worked so hard.” After 16 hours, 55 minutes and 35 seconds — with just four minutes and 25 seconds to spare — father and son crossed the finish line together. As the crowd flooded and cheered on John, the weary father kept a low profile. “He didn’t want his finish line moment,” say