山西省大同市第十九中学2016-2017学年高一英语上学期期中试题（无答案）.docVIP

山西省大同市第十九中学2016-2017学年高一英语上学期期中试题（无答案） 满分 100 分 时间 90 分钟 一、 完形填空（每小题分，分）One night, when I was eight, my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to promote?me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done? 1 ?and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to? 2 ??your friends. Would you say yes to your teacher?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me? 3 ?for the rest of the night, I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the ___4 decisions adults had to make. For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d? 5 ??wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her?presence and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times. During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large? 6 ?apartment, I 7 ?how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then 8 ?I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on?balancing?family and work.?Faced with difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you make the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a ? 9 ? attitude. Back home, I? 10 ?myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she? 11 ??to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be? 12 ?. I learn how to take care of myself and set high but achievable 13 . My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the? 14 ?has really taught me. Sacrifices?pay off in the end. The separation between us has proved to be? 15 ?for me. 1. A. little B. much C. well D. wrong 2. A. leave B. refuse C. contact D. forgive 3. A. explaining B. sleeping C. wondering D. regrett