安庆二中2019届高三第一次教学质量检测
英语试题
第一部分 听力 （略）
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
A
There is no better way to broaden your horizons and open your mind than traveling around the world. Here are a couple of tips to get you started. Get Insurance
Make sure that youget right travel insurance for your trip. What you get covered depends on your own values, but there is a lot out there to consider. Medical, lost luggage, the list goes on.
Another thing to look into is where to get your insurane from. Banks and other institutions （机构）can provide it., but so can credit cards, so check and see if you may already be covered, Online Booking
There are a lot of online booking sites you can check out to book your vacation. Because there is so much competition, you can oftgen get good deals on packages. This is especially true if you are flexible on dates. Expedia.com is one website that can be trusted to get a good deal. One tip: if you find a deal that is too good to be sure, do a search on the company to make sure it is a legal offer.
Packing
Pack clothes that can dress up or dress down. Also, very important: make sure you bring good shoes for your destination. Diary
Your vacation is going to the filled with amazing experiences that will be so vivid at the time, but will slowly disappear after you return home. Try to keep a diary at regular intervals to think back your experiences. This is the best gift you can give yourself.
So have fun planning your first trip and keep these tips in mind. Happy travels! 21, What?s the purpose of the passage?
A. To give some tips on a trip B. To explain how to travel across the world C. To plan your first trip D. To know how to start your holiday 22, What do we learn from the passage?
A. You can only book your vacation online B. Expedia .com is the most popular site C. You should be careful with any deal. D. Your fixed time is good for you. 23, Why are you advised to keep a diary?
A. You can send it to your friends as a gift. B. You have enough time to do so.
C. You may forget to bring your good shoes.
D. It can help remember your travel experiences.
B
Even though my grandfather was a farmer, my grandmother would iron （熨烫）his work clothes every day. I thought every old woman in the world did it. But as the years passed, I began to question this practice. Why did Grandfather need his work clothes ironed? Most days, he never
saw anyone but me and maybe a few other farmers.
One day when I was about 13, I asked Grandmother about it. I wanted to know why she
thought it necessary to spend time and effort pressing clothes that were seldom seen and would be no longer clean in just a short time.
She tole me that Grandfather wa the most handsome man in the world. She said he was her best friend and the love of her life. She loved every chance she got to show him off and make the rest of theworld jealous （嫉妒）that he was hers.
Later that day, I looked closely at Grandfather. His hair was thin on top, and his artificial teeth didn?t line up too well when he smiled. I really didn?t see how anyone could consider this man the most handsome one that God ever made. So asked Grandmother about it again a few days later. She gave me a smile: “You just aren?t looking in the right light. Those eye wrinkles have?t always been there. He has the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen. His whole face lights up when he smiles, and his voice is so calming and full that everyone wants to hear him talk. ” She continued, “I want him to feel beautiful. I want him to look like the past every day.”
24, Why did theauthor question Grandmother ironing Grandfather?s work clothes? A. Grandfather was a farmer B. Grandfather never saw anyone.
C. Grandfather hardly saw others D. Grandfather wasn?t good with others. 25, How did the author?s grandmother feel about her own practice? A. It was normal. B. It was common C. It was important D. It was necessary
26, What made Grandmother think her husband was the most attractive?
A. Appearance B. love C. Honesty D. Character 27, What?s the result of the author looking closely at Grandfather? A. The author agreed with what Grandmother said B. The author though highly of Grandfather C. The author looked down on Grandfather
D. The author didn?t consider Grandfather handsome.
C
Since 2008, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China – the BRIC countries – have met every year to discuss topics of global importance. At their third summit (峰会) in China in 2011, the leaders invited South Africa to join, thus becoming the BRICKS. The four foreign ministers met on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly in the fall of 2016. Their leaders? first meeting was held in Sapporo on the eve of the G8 Toyako-Hokkaido Summit in 2008, and their first standalone (单独的) summit was the following year in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Since then, the BRICs ministers responsible for foreign affairs, finance and the economy, trade, agriculture and health have met. At the official?s level, there have been meetings held to discuss science and technology, national security, competition and statistics.
While the concept “BRICS” was first created by Jim O?Neill of Goldman Sachs to refer to the investment opportunities of the rising economies, the leaders? meetings transcend the financial topics to involve many different summit-level topics relating to global governance, such as development, peace and security, energy and climate change and social topics.
The mission of the BRICS Information Center is to serve as a leading independent source of information and analysis on the BRICS interaction and institutions. Documentation from the
BRICS and research and reports will be published on this website as they become useable. Special attention will be paid to the interaction (合作) and each other?s influence of the
BRICS with the world, and including the BRICS relationship with the Group of Eight (G8), Group of Twenty (G20), and other different summit institutions and broadly many-sided organizations. 28, We can learn about BRICS from the passage that _______________ A. South Africa refused to join it in 2008.
B. It was firt called the Group of Eight in 2008.
C. Its leaders held the first standalone summit in 2009. D. Its ministers have met every year since 2008.
29, What does the underlined word “transcend” probably mean?
A. pay attention to B. go beyond C. turn to D. replace 30, The BRICS information Center___________ A. can deal with all kinds of information B. is an independent organization C. doesn?t have its own website. D. has a lot of researchers
31, What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. BRICS has specially stressed the interaction.
B. BRICS has built good relationship with other organizations C. BRICS will build closer relationship with G20 D. BRICS will make much difference to the world.
D
With apologies to the hundreds of machines pressing self-help books at this very moment that argue for the life-chaing benefits of happiness, it is my duty to say: It will not save you from death. But there have been a quantity of studies in recent years suggesting that happier people may live longer and that happiness could evern help protect against some health problems, like heart diseases.
According to a massive new study published in The Lancet, happiness has no such power. The data came from the Million Women Study in the U.K., which surveyed a million women between the ages of 50 and 69. Three years after joining the study, the women filled out a questionnaire about their happiness, and during 10 years of follow-up, electronic records let the researchers know how many dies, and how. Being in ill health was associated with unhappiness, so the researchers failed to include women who had already had cancer, heart disease, or strokes. That way, they could see if it was unhappiness alone that made people more likely to die. It did not. Peto believes that the previously established connections between unhappiness and earlier death were actually “reverse causality（反向因果关系）” in which unhappiness was by-product of the illness that led to death. “In our view, the previous studies haven?t been well done,” he said. “All that?s going on is ill health which actually was causing unhappiness and stress. There?s a sad old joke, where the question is “What?s the most dangerous place in the world?? and the answer is ?Bed. Look at the number of people who die in bed.? Well, that?s just a sad old joke, but that?s reverse causality.”
32, What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Sel-help books bring life-changing benefits of happiness.
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