文档介绍：湛江一中2010-2011第一学期
高二级10月考英语试题
Ⅰ、语言知识及应用(共2节,满分50分)
第一节、完形填空(15小题, 每小题2分, 共30分)
Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. However, he did not teach me acceptance(接受) when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 1 and ill.
My father was once a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 2 all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is 3 One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started talking about life, and I told them about one of my 4 . I said that we must very often give things up as we grow—our youth, our beauty, our friends—but it always 5 that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 6 up. He said, “But, Peter. I gave up 7 ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 8 , he answered his own question.
“I 9 the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters, and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness. I was also 10 by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated(激动的) at someone, I would remember his words and e 11 . He could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 12 to give up my small irritations. In this 13 , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I 14 what other things I cold learn from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful(感谢的)for this 15 .
1. A. tired B. weak C. poor D. slow
2. A. took B. threw C. sent D. put
3. A. impossible B. difficult C. helpless D. hopeless
4. A. decisions B. experience C. dreams D. beliefs
5. A. suggests B. promises C. seems D. requires
6. A. spoke B. turned C. got D. opened
7. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
8. A, Surprisingly B. Immediately C. Naturally D. Certainly
9. A. had B. accepted C. gained D. enjoyed
10. A. touched B. surprised C. attracted D. warned
11. A