2019-2020年高二英语测试题(12月)含答案

2019-2020年高二英语测试题（12月）含答案

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Everyone agrees that all the creatures want happiness and are afraid of pain and grief. The question, however, is “What is real happiness?”　The desire for happiness has no meaning without understanding the real nature of happiness.

Generally, ordinary beings consider sensual（感觉的） pleasures as happiness, and their actions are directed toward gaining these. According to them, searching for

happiness means searching for pleasures of the senses. The question, “What is happiness?”, does not arise（出现） in their hearts, because in their hearts they

think of a life full of sensual joys as a happy life.

Some t hinkers say, “Happiness does not lie in the objects of enjoyment; happiness or unhappiness lies in the imagination.” To prove their belief they give examples

like the following one. A man has a two-storey house. When he thinks of those who

have a house with three storeys or more, he feels unhappy. When he thinks of those

who have just a cottage, he feels happy. Such happiness does not lie in possessions

（占有物）, but in the imagination. They advise people to take inspiration from those who have few possessions but are quite happy. If you only consider people wealthier

than yourself, you will always be unhappy.

If you want to be happy, they say, look at the poor. But it is unreasonable to

hold that happiness lies in the imagination. And it is inappropriate to think that

someone is happy if he only imagines himself better than the poor and the unhappy.

This attitude also satisfies the sense of pride of possession. This can never be called happiness. Unless we find out where happiness lies, we cannot really bee happy.

Some ask people to do this or that, and say, “This way your desires will be satisfied. That way you will get what you want and b ee happy.” People holding these views regard happiness as satisfaction of desires and unhappiness as denial(否定) of such satisfaction.

71. What kind of life can make mon people feel happy?

A. Life without pain and grief.

B. Life full of sensual pleasures.

C. Life with desire for possessions.

D. Life full of imagination.

72. The underlined word “cottage” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to ________.

A. a house in one’s imagination

B. a modern building

C. a desired object

D.

a small house

73. The author may agree that ________.

A. by paring themselves with the poor, people will feel happy

B. people won’t feel happy without a desire for happiness

C. possessing wealth may lead to a sense of pride

D. people have to experience pain and grief before finding happiness

B

Eight-year-old Bethany and seven-year-old Eliza are having a great time jumping

around in the orchard （果园）of their home in a village near Penrith. They can play

any time they like because they don't go to school. Instead, they are educated at

home by their parents, Paul and Veronika Robinson. But they don't have lessons, have never used a timetable and learn only what and when they want to learn.

"I want my kids to have freedom in their childhood, not spend it in an institution," says 37-year-old Veronika, "School is all about control and following the rules."

Veronika and her 56-year-old husband Paul have never experienced the daily rush to

get dressed and out of the door that is mon i n most households with school-aged children. "We get up at our leisure - usually around 8:30," says Veronika. "We might visit a

friend, or go to the library, and on Tuesdays we shop at the market. In summer, we

spend most of our time outside and the girls entertain themselves a lot."

New research due to be published this spring reveals a very different picture

of Britain's home educators. "Out of 297 families, 184 said that they never use a

timetable," says Mike Fortune-Wood of Home Education UK. "Ninety per cent never or

rarely use textbooks, and nearly all said that happiness, contentment and self-fulfillment were more important than academic achievement. Only 15% felt that

planning what to learn was important."

So far, so good. But what, you might ask, are the children actually learning?