北京市中国人民大学附属中学2024-2025学年高三上学期10月月考英语试题
2024年10月8日

    说明：本试卷共8页，共100分；考试时间90分钟；请在答题卡上填写个人信息，并将条形码贴在答题卡的相应位置上。
    第一部分：知识运用（共三节，30分）
    第一节 完形填空（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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
    I was up before the others, before the birds, before the sun. I drank a cup of coffee, wolfed down a piece of toast, put on my shorts and sweatshirt, and ___1___ my green running shoes. Then slipped quietly out the back door.
    I moved quicker down the road. My breath formed rounded, frosty puffs, swirling into the fog. I enjoyed that first physical awakening, that brilliant moment before the mind is fully clear, when the limbs and joints first begin to ___2___ and the material body starts to melt away. Solid to liquid.
    Faster, I told myself. Faster. There were no cars, no people, no signs of life. I was all ___3___, the world to myself and my thoughts.
    On paper, I thought, I’m a(n)___4___, graduating from University of Oregon, earning a master’s from Stanford and surviving a year long hitch in the U. S. Army. My résumé said I was a learned, accomplished soldier, a twenty-four-year-old man in full... But why, I wondered, do I still feel like a kid? Worse, like the same shy, pale, rail-thin kid I’d always been.
    Like all my friends I wanted to be successful. Unlike my friends I didn’t know what that meant. Money? Wife? Kids? House? Sure, if I was ___5___. These were the goals I was taught to aspire to, and part of me did aspire to them instinctively. But deep down I was searching for something else, something more. I had a(n)___6___ sense that our time is short, shorter than we ever know, short as a morning run, and I wanted mine to be meaningful. And purposeful. And creative. And important. Above all... different.
    I wanted to leave a ___7___ on the world.
    I wanted to win.
    No, that’s not right. I simply didn’t want to ___8___.
    And then it happened. As my young heart began to pound faster, as my pink lungs ___9___ like the wings of a bird, as the trees turned to greenish blurs, I saw it all before me, exactly what I wanted my life to be. Play.
    Yes, I thought, that’s it. That’s the word. The secret of happiness, I’d always suspected, the essence of beauty or truth, lay somewhere in that moment when the ball is in midair, when both boxers sense the ____10____ of the bell, when the runners near the finish line and the crowd rises as one. There’s a kind of exuberant (兴高采烈的) clarity in that pulsing half second winning and losing are decided. I wanted that, whatever that was, to be my life, my daily life.
    1. A. took up                          B. picked up                                              C. put up                                              D. laced up
    2. A. loosen                           B. straighten                                              C. tighten                                              D. strengthen
    3. A. empty                            B. alone                                              C. slow                                              D.early
    4. A. student                          B. adolescent                                              C. adult                                              D. minor
    5. A. smart                             B. able                                              C.rich                                              D.lucky
    6. A. sharp                             B. emotional                                              C. aching                                              D. impulsive
    7. A. path                               B. mark                                              C.fortune                                              D.print
    8. A. lose                               B. abandon                                              C. sink                                              D.die
    9. A. grew                              B. expanded                                              C. welled                                              D. breathed
    10. A. approach                     B. sound                                              C.ringing                                              D.beginning
    第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
    A
    阅读下面短文，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。
    Papermaking technology ___11___ (introduce) to Central Asia in the 8th century and arrived in Europe around the 12th century. “It changed the historical process of Europe because papermaking technology made knowledge spreading possible at ___12___ (reduce) costs and broke the monopoly of knowledge by nobles and clerks.” says professor Xi Huidong. He points out that movable type printing was also a revolutionary invention, “The combination of those two things was ___13___ really moved us into the early modern world.”
    B
    阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词空白处仅填写1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。
    As China’s opening- up has widened, many cities like Shenzhen ___14___(attract) international talents to live, work and invest. as well as to establish businesses. Some of them have lived there for over 10 years, ___15___ (witness) and being part of the city’s economic progress. Foreign entrepreneurs (企业家)___16___ meet specific requirements, such as clearing the Chinese- language proficiency test’s highest level, and possessing a master’s degree, among other qualifications, can accumulate a high score, which___17___(make) it easier for them to obtain a long- term work visa. Chinese cities are striving to be more open to the world, and I believe Shenzhen is an exemplary case.
    C
    阅读下面短文，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。
    Beijing’s Central Axis (中轴线), which lines the historic stretch, recently achieved UNESCO ___18___ (recognize), drawing widespread praise and fueling a flourishing food scene with nearly10,000 dining establishments. According to the online service platform Meituan, data reveals that ___19___ (search) for “Beijing Central Axis” increased by 58 percent from January to July. In the first half of this year, consumption from visitors to Beijing contributed 10.5 percent ___20___ the capital’s restaurant sector.

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