浙江省临海市白云高级中学2015-2016学年高二上学期期中考试 英语试题
第一部分 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
Patti discovered the meaning of running when she was 23. At that time she was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day and had 1 over 50 pounds. “I decided to 2 ,” she says. She took a clock and started 3 what she did every day, and then she 4 an hour a day as a “be nice to Patti” hour. “I started having bubble（泡沫）baths with candles lit, because Cosmopolitan Magazine 5 that this would be good for me. But I got 6 of that soon,” Patti remembers. She wanted to do something really pleasant. She found that the 7 times in her life were times when she was physically active. So she took up 8 .
She decided to start right the next day. She ran for an hour，covering a total of 7 miles on her first run. “I couldn’t walk for two weeks 9 I felt painful all over!” Patti recalls. “But I felt so wonderful!” Patti wasn’t crazy about running yet, but she was in 10 with the after effects of running.
Within seven months, Patti had run her first marathon, qualified for the Boston Marathon, and placed 25th in the world for 11 distance runners. Over the next years, she 12 records and set standards for women in the sport. She was the first American woman to run a two-and-a-half-hour marathon, and then broke 13 two records over an 8-month period. Patti 14 that, if we can set standards for ourselves, we can pull ourselves out of the most difficult challenge and come out on top. “Everybody has to be a champion and 15 has that in them.”
1. A. lost B. earned C. gained D. reduced
2. A. cry B. move C. walk D. change
3. A. striking B. recording C. sharing D. collecting
4. A. set aside B. set up C. set out D. set about
5. A. spoke B. said C. wrote D. went
6. A. afraid B. fond C. tired D. ashamed
7. A. saddest B. happiest C. loneliest D. luckiest
8. A. smoking B. bathing C. dieting D. running
9. A. but B. although C. while D. because
