2019-2020学年度深圳市高一英语必修二期末模拟测试试题(一)有解析.pdf

期末模拟测试题(一)

第一部分阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)

第一节(共10小题；每小题 2.5分，满分25分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

“Why do I feel cold when I have a fever?”“Why does the sun rise in the east?” I knew the would come when my little girl Sophie would learn to talk and inevitably (不可避免地) start

asking those questions. The questions themselves weren’t worrying me. I was actually looking

forward to seeing where her curiosity would lie.

What was bothering me was whether or not I would know the answers. In the age of the smart-

phone, this may seem like a silly worry. The answers to almost everything would be just one

Google away.

Still, I struggled with how I was going to prepare to become an all-knowing mother. Then one day,

it struck me: I didn’t need to have all the answers. What a great example I could set if I let my

daughter know that I, too, was still learning. And I realized how much more I could learn if I took

another look at things I thought I already knew the answer to with the curiosity of a child. My

little girl’s mind is a beginner’s mind — curious, open to new ideas, eager to learn, and not based

on knowledge that already exists. I decided that I would deal with her questions with a beginner

mind, too.

Once I decided to become more curious, I started noticing that curiosity was becoming more

important in the workplace, too. It seems that leaders don’t need to have all the answers, but they do need to be curious.

famous words, UI

Curious about curiosity, I searched for answers, and found Albert Einstein’s

have no special talent. I am only passionately (热情地) curious.” We might quibble over the view

that Einstein had no special talent, but there is one thing for certain — he wouldn’t hav the puzzles of the universe without his passionate curiosity. Then I came across another Einstein

quote, “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

1. How did the author feel while thinking of the possible questions from her daughter?

A. She thought it was a natural thing.

B. She was nervous to answer the questions.

C. She tried to refuse to deal with those questions.

D. She was worried about her daughter’s development.

2. The advantage of having a beginner’s mind is that ____________.

A. people can learn much faster

B. people are willing to receive new things

C. people won’t be afraid to make mistakes

D. people won’t be expected to answer difficult questions

3. What does the underlined phrase “quibble over” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. Forget.

B. Accept.

C. Work out.

D. Argue about.

B