北京市第二十中学2024-2025学年第一学期期中考试英语试卷

北京市第二十中学2024-2025学年第一学期期中考试试卷

高二 英语

（时间：90分钟  满分100分  选择性必修一模块结业考试）

班级________ 姓名________

第一部分  知识运用（共两节，30分）

第一节（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。

My parents ran a small eatery, and my first real job was shining diners’ shoes. My ___1___ increased as I grew older. At the age of twelve I worked as a ___2___ . Dad told me that I was the best “mop (拖把) guy” he’d ever had.

Working in the restaurant was a source of great pride because I was ___3___to the whole family. But my father made it clear that I had to meet certain ___4___to be part of the team. That’s to say, I had to be ___5___, hard-working and polite to the customers.

Except for the shoeshine job, I was never ___6___for any work I did. One day I told Dad he should give me $10 a week. He said, “Okay, then how about you paying me for your three meals a day?” This taught me that when you ___7___, you’d better know the other side’s arguments as well as your own.

After being away in the army for about two years, I came back home. I had just been promoted to captain and was full of ___8___as I walked into my parents’ eatery. The first thing Dad said was, “Welcome, my mop guy! OK, it’s the cleaner’s day off. But how about you cleaning up ___9___?”

“I can’t believe this!” I thought. “I’m an officer in the army!” But it didn’t matter. As far as Dad was concerned, I was just another member of the _____10_____involved in a family eatery. Early the next morning, I reached for the mop.

1. A. duties B. scores C. wages D. ideas

2. A. waiter B. cook C. cleaner D. manager

3. A. attending B. applying C. reacting D. contributing

4. A. standards B. challengers C. achievements D. customers

5. A. insistent B. confident C. courageous D. responsible

6. A. arranged B. praised C. paid D. suspected

7. A. succeed B. negotiate C. operate D. promise

8. A. dignity B. respect C. curiosity D. gratitude

9. A. frequently B. later C. instead D. immediately

10. A. army B. class C. team D. party

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）

 

A

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。

I was not originally attracted to nature. For me, nature ____11____ (associate) with the few minutes playing soccer in the nicely cut grass. But in Michigan, nature presents itself in many forms such as sledding as fast as you can down the hill or swimming in one of the five great lakes. This was ____12____ made me excited. These experiences encouraged me to explore one of the raw forms of connecting with nature: camping. Although I ____13____ (spend)a lot of time outside, I had never camped or experienced all of what nature offers.

 

B

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。

In the Ming Dynasty, a clever craftsman named Zhang Sijia revolutionized scissors. He combined the strength of iron for the handles with ____14____ unique sword-making technique. ____15____ heating and hammering the edges with steel, he created blades that were exceptionally strong and sharp, ____16____ (accept) by a large number of people in their daily tasks at that time. These scissors even became a kitchen essential, especially for ____17____ (cut) through tough items like chicken or fish. In 1628, his son, Zhang Xiaoquan, established his namesake company.

 

C

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。

Five Belgian firms plan to send a 3D printed artificial heart to the International Space Station by 2025 to better understand the effects of ageing and heart diseases in space. The device, which is only a few square millimetres in size, ____18____(use) ink made up of stem cells and biomaterials that can develop into any cell in the body. These cells organize themselves into a developing cardiac organoid (心脏类器官), ____19____ will work with the artificial circulatory system. The innovative technique would facilitate ____20____ (investigate) into heart diseases and trials of some potential medicines.

 

第二部分  阅读理解（共两节，38分）

第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28分）

阅读下列短文，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

Living beyond limits

Growing up in the hot Las Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed.

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated from high school, I moved to a place where it snowed and I found my dream job. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent and completely in control of my life. That is, until my life took a detour (转折点). I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later I was in the hospital on life support with less than a 2% chance of living.

Over the course of two and a half months I lost the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee. I thought the worst was over until weeks later when I saw my new artificial legs for the first time. They were so painful that all I could think was, how am I ever going to travel the world in these things? And how was I going to snowboard again?

But I knew that in order to move forward, I had to let go of the old Self and learn to embrace the new Self. And that is when it dawned on me that if I snowboarded again, my feet aren’t going to get cold.

Four months later I was back up on a snowboard, although things didn’t go quite as expected: My knees and my ankles wouldn’t bend. But I knew that I would be able to do this again if I could find the right pair of feet.

I did a year of research, still couldn’t figure out what kind of legs to use. So I decided to make a pair myself.