2021北京清大附中高二（上）期末 英 语 第一部分：知识运用（共两节，20 分） 第一节 语法填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，共 10 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一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白 处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。 We’ve all encountered failure. Perhaps, it’s blowing a job interview, failing a final exam, or getting ____1____ (reject) from your dream school. Whether we like it or not, failure is part of life. How people respond to these obstacles is ____2____ great importance both to their decisions and achievements. But eventually, we’re told, ____3____ (overcome) difficult obstacles will make a future success taste so much sweeter. New research, however, may challenge this belief. Findings show that early failures can lead people ____4____ (question) how good it would feel to succeed. 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一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白 处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。 The first time Fred Gillis noticed something was wrong, he was on the ice, holding his hocky stick but somehow unable to shoot the puck (冰球). Was middle age catching up with him, ____5____ was it something more serious Over the following months Gillis’s arms continued to weaken. Soon it ____6____ (take) two hands to brush his teeth, and he couldn’t lift a plate to clear the dinner table. Gillis was 52 in 2015 when he got the diagnosis he feared most: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (渐冻症). “Fred had a co-worker ____7____ had ALS,” recalls Fred’s wife. “He wanted to die from anything but that.” 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一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白 处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。 Children in the United States and other rich countries ____8____ (be) safer today than any other points in history. Yet for a variety of historical reasons, fear of abduction (绑架) is still very high among American parents, many of whom have come to believe that children should never be without adult supervision (照管). Without unsupervised time for ____9____ (explore), children have missed out on many challenges. Some negative experiences, and minor risks can help them develop into strong, competent, and independent ____10____ (adult). 第二节 完形填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，共 10 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。 One night in 2010, Benjamin Schulz was working late in his “depressing” graduate student office when he turned his attention to the latest news on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. While he was “staring sickly at the oil 第1页/共10页 flowing out of the undersea pipe,” something inside shook Schulz, causing him to ____11____ his professional path. “Look at how messed up everything in the world is,” Schulz—who was in his second year of a computer science Ph.D. at the University of Missouri in Columbia at the time— ____12____ thinking. “What am I doing sitting here trying really hard ... ...
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