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1、宇华教育集团上学期期中考试试卷 高二英语考试时间100分钟 满分 120 分第一节：完形填空Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first timeThe moment was excitingSalomes 1 filled the room and brought the theater to lifeI was so 2 that I decided to write an article about herI 3 Salome Bey, tellin
2、g her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her careerShe 4 and told me to come to her studio next TuesdayWhen I 5 , I was scared out of my mindI 6 I was lyingI was not a writer at all and hadnt even written a grocery listI interviewed Salome Bey the next TuesdayI
3、sat there 7 , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me” I soon realized that 8Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossibleThe 9 was almost unbearableI struggled for days 10 draft after draftFinally I put my manuscript (手稿) i
4、nto a large envelope and dropped it into a mailboxIt didnt take longMy manuscript 11 How stupid of me! I thoughtHow could I 12 in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldnt 13 the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawerFive years later, I was moving to CaliforniaWhile c
5、leaningmy apartment, I 14 the unopened envelopeThis time I opened it and read the editors letter in 15 .Dear Ms Profit,Your story on Salome Bey is fantasticYet we need some 16 materialsPlease add those and return the article immediatelyWe would like to 17 your story soonShocked, it took me a long ti
6、me to 18 Fear of rejection cost me dearlyI lost at least five hundred dollars and a chance of having my article appear in a major magazineMore importantly, I lost years of enjoyable writingToday, I have become a full time writer 19 my experience, I learned a very important lesson: You cant 20to doub
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9、ble17Abroadcast Bcreate Cassess Dpublish18Arecover BprepareCescape Dconcentrate19ALooking up to BLooking down uponCLooking back onDLooking into20Aafford BattemptCexpectDpretend第二节:阅读理解AA sick little gift is being kept alive thanks to her best friend-a dog who carries her oxygen tank on his back. Ali
10、das faithful dog companion Mr. Gibbs has been specially trained to shepherd the three-year-old, who breathes through a tube most of the time. He follows her closely as she plays in her familys ten-acre land in Louisville, uses the slide or even rides her bike.Alida was diagnosed（诊断）with neuroendocri
11、ne hyperplasia of infancy（NEHI）when she was just eight months old. Her rare condition has just eight hundred documented sufferers throughout the world, and causes diseased pieces of the lungs to filter（过滤）oxygen through extra layers（膜）of cells making it hard or almost impossible to breathe.For Alida
12、 and her parents, it meant that even a walk in the park was very difficult because oxygen equipment was too heavy for the youngster to be able to carry herself. As parents they wanted to do something to help their daughter survive despite having a tube following her all the time. The couple found ou
13、t about “service dogs” from a TV program and realized an animal trained to help the blind could be trained to help Alida. They finally found help in the shape of golden doodlea retriever（寻回犬）crossed with a poodle-dog Mr. Gibbs. Now-thanks to trainer Ashleigh KinsleyAlida and Mr. Gibbs love nothing more than playing and running around together with the dog acting as Alidas life saver.21. What is Mr. Gibbs?A. A trained dog. B. A policeman. C. A doctor. D. A firefighter.22. When did the doctor know Alicia caught the disease?A. At her birth. B. At the age of eight.C. Before she was one
