天津市第一中学2020届高三英语下学期第四次月考试题

第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）

I returned home the other night exhausted. Aches in my foot, salty with sweat. My husband asked me how my evening was. “ 16 ”, I told him.

I had spent 90 minutes in a gym full of 10 Ping-Pong tables and assorted players, all coaxing and smacking a little ball over the net. By 9 p.m., I was extremely excited. I had beaten two 17 men half my age and lost battles against worthy opponents. To a casual 18 , the night was ordinary. To me, it was a 19 .

I had 20 Ping-Pong during college, and in my 30s dove in more deeply, climbing the long stairway up to a table tennis center in Westfield, N.J., where I watched Olympic hopefuls and took lessons. Arthroscopy (关节镜检查) for torn knee cartilage ( 软 骨 ) soon made me _21_ . The surgeon did his best to _22

my crushed knee, _23 against afternoons of power shopping,

and told me never to jog or run again.

Three months in a cast (石膏) left my foot floppy (松软) and useless. Standing

was 24_ . I hunted for 25

that could cushion my knee and set my

26 on walking and climbing stairs again. Years later, I tried to play Ping- Pong and limped (跛行) for a week. I put the mind.

One day my bad leg was working slightly 28 . The knee had not been oppressively swollen in a while. I felt a feeling of

29 27 out of my

. I set out to make my

own 30_ dream a reality. I arrived at my local table tennis club cautiously, a

breathtakingly out-of-shape a kind face

32 me to hit with him. After 20 minutes I was tired, happy. My knee didn’t burst inward.

Months passed, and almost miraculously, my stamina (耐力) 34 . Players started to 35 my shots. Some nights I play so joyfully, that I can almost believe this sport is the fountain of youth.

16. A. Boring 17. A. young 18. A. observer 19. A. dream 20. A. taken out 21. A. fail 22. A. repair 23. A. fought 24. A. awkward 25. A. pants 26. A. dreams 27. A. business 28. A. better 29. A. power 30. A. football 31. A. woman

B. Different B. kind B. listener B. chance B. taken up B. survive B. research B. advised B. acceptable B. beds B. goals B. idea

B. healthier B. hope

B. basketball B. member

C. Ordinary C. tired C. reader C. miracle C. taken over C. quit

C. transplant C. pushed C. lonely C. shoes C. focuses C. sport C. safer C. belief C. tennis C. athlete

D. Glorious D. poor D. chatter D. challenge D. taken on D. hesitate D. bandage D. voted D. painful D. sofas D. directions D. message D. harder D. D. Ping-D. hostess 33_ I went home

31

_in a sea of men. A man with

32. A. asked 33. A. so

34. A. formed 35. A. learn

B. allowed B. till

B. improved B. correct C. invited C. or

C. continued C. save D. D. but D. settled D. praise

第二部分 阅读理解（共 20 小题：每小题 2.5 分，满分 50 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最

佳选项。 A

Here's a list of books I'm looking forward to this fall season. Not all of them will rise to the level of the advertisement, but it's an abundant crop.

“ Home After Dark” by David Small (Liveright, Sept. 11 )

In 2020, Small published a celebrated graphic memoir (回忆录) called \about a motherless

13-year-old boy brought up in an unhappy home in California. This is a tale told in