【英语】贵州省绥阳县郑场镇郑场中学2016届高三上学期期中考试.doc

绥阳县郑场中学2015----2016年第一学期
高三英语期中考试试题
注意事项:1、本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分,满分120分,考试时间100分钟。
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第Ⅰ卷选择题(共两部分,满分70分)
第一部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A 、B 、C 和 D )中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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 In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
    My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
    Then I got married with another dream: building my family with bination of adopted and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic – and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
    You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was plete zoo – a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up
on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester.
    The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
    In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
    I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a