高二英语期中考试试卷

郑州中奥维也纳音乐学校

2015-2016学年上期期中考试高二英语试卷

时间:90分钟

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。

（A）

Habits, whether good or bad, are gradually formed. When a person does a certain thing again, he is driven by some unseen force to do the same thing repeatedly, then a habit is formed. Once a habit is formed, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get rid of. It is therefore very important that we should pay great attention to the formation(形成) of habits. Children often form bad habits, some of which remain with them as long as they live. Older persons also form bad habits lasting as long as they live, and sometimes become ruined by them.

There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are of great help. Many successful men say that much of their success has something to do with certain habits in early life, such as early rising, honesty and so on.

Among the habits which children should not form are laziness, lying, stealing and so on. These are all easily formed habits. Unfortunately older persons often form habits which could have been avoided(避免) .

We should keep away from all these bad habits, and try to form such habits as will be good for ourselves and others.

1. ________ are formed little by little.

A. Good habits

B. Bad habits

C. Both good habits and bad habits

D. Either good habits or bad habits

2. Why should we pay much attention to the formation of habits?

A. Because habits are of great help to every one of us.

B. Because a man can never get rid of a habit.

C. Because it's hard and sometimes even impossible to throw away bad habits.

D. Because we are forced to do them again and again.

3. According to the passage, early rising ________.

A. has something to do with success

B. is an easily formed habit

C. is such a habit as should have been avoided

D. is such a habit as will be kept

(B)

The child of today owes much of its pleasant school life to the work of Maria Montessori and others who felt as she did.

Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern Italy. Both her parents were well educated.

While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature（独有的本性）of the child's mind. It came to her that small children should have freedom to learn.

Maria became a doctor and a professor at Rome University. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the Children's House. The rooms were bright and colorful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.

Maria Montessori was one of the world's great teachers. She traveled in Europe, America and Far East. She thought that true education, providing(提供) the real needs with the child, would produce wise and happy grown-ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea of what childhood is.

Maria Montessori died in Holland at the age of eighty-two.

4. The short passage is mainly about .

A. the education of backward students

B. a new idea of education

C. the importance of proper education

D. the life of Maria Montessori

5. Maria traveled a lot in the world to .

A. teach the backward students

B. enjoy her life in real nature

C. spread her ideas of teaching

D. study the situation of education

6. In what way did Maria teach the children in the Children's House?

A. She taught them the best way of learning well.

B. She let them learn in a very pleasant way.

C. She taught them by showing them how to do things.

D. She just let them choose the most interesting subjects.

7.We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. Maria fully understood the child's mind

B. Maria didn't get married

C. Maria's own parents were her teachers

D. Maria left her homeland in order to study abroad

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