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山东省临沂市重点中学2022-2023学年高一上学期9月入学考试英语试题

阅读下面短文,根据短文内容从方框中选出恰当的单词或短语填空,使语意通顺完整。每个选项只能使用一次,每框有一项剩余。

A. thanked    B. garden    C. last    D. excited    E. bedroom

When his grandchildren came, they promised him they would find the watch which was given by their grandma.

One granddaughter asked," Grandpa, do you remember when you saw it the time? "I guess when I was cleaning the!" he replied.

The children looked for more than two hours with Joe, but they couldn't find it. The kids were now also sad, but they tried to comfort their grandpa.

One grandson went back to the garden to look again. He was there for about 15 minutes and rushed back with a(n)  look on his face.

Then everyone was very surprised to see the watch in his hand. They asked how he was able to find it. The little boy replied, "I sat there without making a noise. After a few minutes, I heard the ‘tick, tick' sound and found the watch. "

Joe hugged and  the little boy.

This is the power of silence. If we stay calm (冷静), we are more able to find the ways of solving problems.

举一反三
Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. honored  B. set  C. historic  D. secretly  E. citizen  F. granted  G. route  H briefly  I. restoration  J. leading  K. witnessed

    Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a{#blank#}1{#/blank#} voice in the year before the Civil War.

    A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Douglass's birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a{#blank#}3{#/blank#}  site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass's personal possessions, had undergone a three-year {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don't have to live in the nation's capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father who never knew Douglass grew up to become the first black {#blank#}5{#/blank#} to hold a government office— as US minister and consul general (总领事)to Haiti.

    As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he{#blank#}6{#/blank#}  taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

    In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system {#blank#}7{#/blank#} up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} , housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.

    He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution (美国宪法修正案), which{#blank#}10{#/blank#} African-Americans the right to vote.

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