福建省龙海一中2020┄2021学年高二上学期第二次月考12月英语试题

I.听力（共30分）第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共1 5小题：每小题2分，满分30分）AA few weeks ago, while I was reading the morning paper, I turned the radio up to listen to a Saturday morning talk show and I heard an old sounding gentleman, with a golden voice. He was telling whoever he was talking with something about “a thousand marbles”.I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say …“Let me tell you something, T om, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities（优先考虑的事）.”He continued, “You see, I sat down one day and did a little math. The average person lives for about seventy-five years. Now then, I multiplied 75 by 52 and I came up with 3,900 which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now stick with （继续倾听……的话）me, Tom. I’m getting to the important part.”“It wasn’t until I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays that I started thinking about all this in any detail,” he went on. “I got to th inking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought 1,000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away.“I found that by watching the marbles diminish（变少）, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.“It was nice to meet you, Tom. I hope you spend time with your family, and I hope to meet you again.”You could have heard a pin drop on the radio when the old man signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had panned to work that morning. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. “Come on, honey, I’m taking you and the kids to breakfast. And can we stop at a toy store while we’re out？I need to buy some marbles.”21.The underlines word “intrigued” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ________”.A.encouragedB.movedC.worriedD.attracted22.The old man started practicing the theory of “a thousand marbles” ________.A.in his twentiesB.in his fiftiesC.in his seventiesD.in his eighties23.What life lesson does this text teach us？A.Spending more time with our family.B.Enriching our life with marble games.C.It’s never too late to love our family.D.Learning to live life to the fullest.BThe world was mysterious（神秘的）when I was a child, so miracles （奇迹）were welcome wonders. Now, there doesn’t seem to be space for them in this world I so intelligently understand.Perhaps it’s from years of working around sick and often dying children, watching time and time again as a child slips away from the arms of a begging mother. I have stopped hoping as the parents around me hope.I recently cared for a patient near the end of his life. Medically speaking, his situation was hopeless, which made me feel helpless and defeated.His mother came in to see him. I had prepared myself to support her, imagining she would crumble（崩溃） into a pile of tears.“Our God is faithful,” she said, with a smile on her face and the sunshine of hope in her eyes.“Cancer is faithful,” I muttered （嘀咕） in my mind.“We still believe he can heal him,” she continued, as if she had heard what I was thinking. I provided updates on his body. In a laundry list of updates, perhaps two things were positive. She thanked me for the information, repeating back the minor positive notes I had given.I became kind of angry. And I wanted to as k, “Do you really not understand the gravity（严重性） of this illness？” And then, yet again, as if she had heard me, she replied with this：A positive attitude gives us power over our circumstances, rather than allowing our circumstances to have power over us.I was shocked. Here I was, judging her positive attitude as a fault. I completely disregarded the choice to believe in something more powerful than me, more healing than the doctors on our team. It wasn’t blind faith. It was strength and devotion.When I came out of the room, tears welling in my eyes, I sat at my computer and looked down at a small plate of candies she must have left for me on her way into the room. A hand written note was laid above them：Kate, your devotion is so appreciated, it is your devotion that I am appreciating today. Because of you, I am begging again to believe in miracles.24.The author is probably a ________.A.nurseB.patientC.teacherD.mother25.Before seeing the patient’s mother, the author thought that the patient ________.A.would recover soonB.had got much betterC.was going to die of cancerD.might make a miraculous recovery26.Why was the auth or angry with the patient’s mother？A.Because of her optimism.B.Because of her impoliteness.C.Because she couldn’t stop crying.D.Because she was always complaining.27.Finally, the patient’s mother made the author become ________.A.more patientB.more positiveC.more aggressiveD.more sympatheticCThere are times when nothing seems to be working in our favor. We may use complaining as a coping mechanism（办法，途经） when we are truly unhappy. However, there are many ti mes when we don’t try our best and just want things to work our way. We may try to cover our faults by complaining about the unfairness of it all. These are expressive complaints where the complainer just wants to let out his/her anger or frustration, with no real intention of solving the problem. The complainer expects pity and recognition from the listeners although the results often disappoint him/her.Sometimes, we use complaints as a conversation starter. Conversations that start with a complaint often have a domino effect. It may cause the listener to include his/her complaints in the conversation as well, which makes you think that you are not the only one facing problems. However, your good feeling won’t last long as long as you are always focusing o n the negative.When complaining becomes a habit, you complain to anyone that comes around. Negativity that comes from complaining kills creativity and innovation （创新）. Habitualcomplainers are less likely to come up with new ideas, as they are busy finding faults and discourage others from trying new things by making them feel that they won’t work. When you spend time with people who constantly complain, you are likely to view things in a negative light. This will make things worse. This can affect the way you perceive your own situation, and even the people around you.Though expressing your feelings may momentarily improve your state of mind, it could sometimes have a bad effect on the listener’s state of mind. A recent study has shown that at social gatherings while people who are unhappy may join you when you play the victim at the beginning, the majority would start avoiding you because of your negativity.28.Why do people who don’t try their best often complain？A.They want to get others’ pity.B.It is the best way to let out their anger.C.They try to find an excuse for their faults.D.They hope to get a solution to their problems.29.According to Paragraph 2, complaints in conversations ________.A.are easy to deal withB.can spread to othersC.may help you make friendsD.help focus on the similar unfairness30.What do we know about habitual complainers？A.They can hardly influence others in their negative way.B.They can get momentary comfort by complaining.C.They have a better understanding of their faults.D.They are more likely to put forward new ideas.31.According to the author, complaining at social gatherings is ________.A.unusualB.acceptableC.unwelcomeD.frustratingDMy 11-year-old son and I rides bikes to and from his school every day. I accompany him on the 20-minute ride through Manhattan, drop him off and return at the end of day to pick him up. We always ride together; sometimes he leads; sometimes I do. And as we ride, we communicate the ways to minimize（使减少或缩小到最低限度）the dangers：Don’t go too fast, and watch out for doors suddenly swinging out from parked cars and jaywalking pedestrians, etc. Some friends worry about the risk of riding in traffic, but is there a better way to let my son know how to deal with traffic dangers？But recently he requested me to start hanging back a half block or so. This way he could enjoy the feeling of riding on his own, with the security of knowing that I was nearby in case he needed me. This is healthy, of course, as my son needs space to develop independence in preparation for his inevitable （不可避免的，必然发生的） departure from home. However, that means soon he will want to ride to school on his own, and I will no longer have this wonderful routine. “Let your children go if you want to keep them.” I understand this and am trying to let my son go in age-appropriate phases, but I still suffer. It’s one of the most troubling experiences of parenthood — recognizing that your presence is becoming less welcome.My dilemma as a husband mirrors the concern I feel as a parent. My wife has just left on a six-month mission to cover the situation in Libya. In the days leading up to her departure, we spoke openly about the possibility, however unlikely, that she might be killed. But while I influence her decisions, I do not control them. Finally, it was her decision. I know that letting go is the wisest path in this case too.As we travel through life’s phases, we must let go of so much. And I don’t think it getseasier with practice. But maybe just accepting that eventually we will have to let go is the secret to living a full life.32.Why does the writer accompany his son on his daily ride to school？A.To build up his strength.B.T o teach his son to ride in traffic.C.To tell his son the way to school.D.T o communicate more with his son.33.Although he thinks his son’s request understandable, the writer ________.A.is worried about his son’s safetyB.is angry for his son’s leaving aloneC.feels upset for being rejected by his sonD.feels sorry for not giving his son enough space34.What does the writer’s wife do？A.She is a soldier.B.She is a politician.C.She is a media person.D.She is a businesswoman.35.What would be the best title for the passage？A.Letting go.B.Father’s love.C.Living a full life.D.Lessons from riding.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。