黑龙江省牡丹江市第一高级中学2018-2019学年高二寒假开学检测英语试题

高 二 学年开学检测考试 英语 试题第I卷 (共70分) 第一部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40 分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分) 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A “ I Went Skydiving at 84!” As a young girl growing up in the 1930s, I always wanted to fly a plane, but back then it was almost unheard of a woman to do that. I got a taste of that dream in 2011,when my husband arranged for me me ride in a hot air balloon for my birthday. But the experience turned out to be very dull. Around that time ,I told my husband that I wanted to skydive. So when our retirement community(社区)announced that they were having an essay competition and the topic was an experience of a lifetime that you wanted to have, I decided to write about my dream. In the essay, I wrote about my desire to skydive, stating George Brush Sr. did it at age 80. Why not me? I was just 84 and in pretty good health. A year went by and I heard nothing. But then at a community party in late April 2009, they announced that I was one of the winners. I just couldn’ t