厦门同安一中2018-2019 学年高二下期中考试
英语试卷
第二部分 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。
A
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B. ￡80.
C. ￡72.
D. ￡64.
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D. North America, South America and Australia 23. How many advertisements offer holidays to Peru? A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
B
When I was in fourth grade, I worked part-time as a paperboy. Mrs. Stanley was one of my customers. She’d watch me coming down her street, and by the time I’d biked up to her doorstep, there’d be a cold drink waiting. I’d sit and drink while she talked.
Mrs. Stanley talked mostly about her dead husband, “Mr. Stanley and I went shopping this morning.” she’d say. The first time she said that, soda (汽水) went up my nose.
I told my father how Mrs. Stanley talked as if Mr. Stanley were still alive. Dad said she was probably lonely, and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile, and maybe she’d work it out of her system. So that’s what I did, and it turned out Dad was right. After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery (墓地).
I finally quit delivering newspapers and didn’t see Mrs. Stanley for several years. Then we crossed paths at a church fund-raiser ( 募捐活动). She was spooning mashed potatoes and looking happy. Four years before, she’d had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with. Now she had friends. Her husband was gone, but life went on.
I live in the city now, and my paperboy is a lady named Edna with three kids. She asks me how I’m doing. When I don’t say “fine,” she sticks around to hear my problems. She’s lived in the city most of her life, but she knows about community. Community isn’t so much a place as it is a state of mind. You find it whenever people ask how you’re doing because they care, and not because they’re getting paid to do so. Sometimes it’s good to just smile, nod your head and listen.
D. Four.
24. Why did soda go up the author’s nose one time? A. He was talking fast C. He was in a hurry A. He wanted to be helpful C. He took the chance to rest A. speak out about her past C. turn to her old friends A. Care about one another C. Pay for others’ help
B. He was shocked D. He was absent-minded B. He enjoyed the drink D. He tried to please his dad B. move out of the neighborhood D. recover from her sadness B. Depend on each other D. Open up to others
25.Why did the author sit and listen to Mrs. Stanley according to paragraph 3?
26.Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase “work it out of hersystem”?
27.What does the author think people in a community should do?
C
British Writer John Donne once said: “No man is an island; every book is a world.” As an enthusiastic reader, I can’t agree with the latter part of the sentence more. Every summer, I endeavor to find some peaceful places where I can attack some classics without being disturbed. Thomas Hardy wants to live far from the madding crowd. I am no friend to chaos, either.
I read George Orwell’s 1984 in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms. 1984 is a good book that needs deep reflection. Attempting Sound and Fury lying on the bed of a poorly-occupied motel, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes, but then my eyelids were so heavy that I couldn’t keep them open.
But this summer I find myself at a loss. I'm not quite interested in J. D. Salinger, say, or Frankenstein. There’s always War and Peace which I’ve covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the “War” part, set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite—once more into The Call of the Wild or Alice in the Wonderland, which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong to serious literature.
And then there’s John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. This title do not amaze but confuse. We’re never short of sour grapes, but we’ve never heard of angry grapes. Anyway grapes are my favorite fruit of summer. These stone fruits can always make me feel cheerful and peaceful all at once.
28. What can we infer from Paragraph 2? A. The author has a cottage in New England. B. 1984 is a book that needs careful thought. C. Both of the reading attempts were not fruitful. D. Sound and Fury was set in a poorly-occupied motel.
29. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating? A. He finishes them quickly. B. He barely understands them. C. He should read something serious. D. He gets amazed by their titles.
30. What can we know about the author from this passage? A. He is a literary-minded man. B. He is quite forgetful. C. He shows talent for literature. D. Thomas Hardy is his friend.
31. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A. To criticize the uneasy world we live in. B. To encourage readers to read books. C. To introduce good books to readers. D. To share his reading experience.
D
We talk continuously about how to make children more “resilient ( 有恢复力的)”, but whatever we’re doing, it’s not working. Rates of anxiety disorders and depression are rising rapidly among teenagers. What are we doing wrong?
Nassim Taleb invented the word “antifragile” and used it to describe a small but very important class of systems that gain from shocks, challenges, and disorder. The immune ( 免 疫 的 ) system is one of them: it requires exposure to certain kinds of bacteria and potential allergens (过敏原) in childhood in order to develop to its full ability.
Children’s social and emotional abilities are as antifragíle as their immune systems. If we overprotect kids and keep them “safe” from unpleasant social situations and negative emotions, we deprive ( 剥 夺 ) them of the challenges and opportunities for skill-building they need to grow strong. Such children are likely to suffer more when exposed later to other unpleasant but ordinary life events, such as teasing and social rejection.
It’s not the kids’ fault. In the UK, as in the US, parents became much more fearful in the1980s and 1990s as cable TV and later the Internet exposed everyone, more and more, to those rare occurrences of crimes and accidents that now occur less and less. Outdoor play and independent mobility went down; screen time and adult-monitored activities went up.
Yet free play in which kids work out their own rules of engagement, take small risks, and learn to master small dangers turns out to be vital for the development of adult social and even physical competence. Depriving them of free play prevents their social-emotional growth. Norwegian play researchers Ellen Sandseter and Leif Kennair warned: “We may observe an increased anxiety or mental disorders in society if children are forbidden from participating in age adequate risky play.”
They wrote those words in 2011. Over the following few years, their prediction came true. Kids born after 1994 are suffering from much higher rates of anxiety disorders and depression than the previous generation did. Besides, there is also a rise in the rate at which teenage girls are admitted to hospital for deliberately harming themselves.
What can we do to change these trends? How can we raise kids strong enough to handle the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of life? We can’t guarantee that giving primary school children more independence today will bring down the rate of teenage suicide tomorrow. The links between childhood over protection and teenage mental illness are suggestive but not clear-cut. Yet there are good reasons to suspect that by depriving our naturally antifragile kids of the wide range of experiences they need to become strong, we are systematically preventing their growth. We should let go--and let them grow.
32. Why does the author mention the immune system in Paragraph 2? A. To stress its importance. C. To question the latest discovery. 33. Parents overprotect children because A. they want to keep children from being teased B. they are concerned about their children’s safety C. parent-monitored activities are a must D. children are not independent enough 34. According to the author, free play can A. promote children’s resilience C. reduce children’s risky behavior A. Stop trying to perfect your child. B. It takes great courage to raise children.
C Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.
D. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us in turn.
. B. strengthen children’s friendship D. develop children’s leadership skills B. To analyze the cause of anxiety. D. To help understand a new word. . 35. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?
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