2019年四川省南充市高考英语一模试卷

2019年四川省南充市高考英语一模试卷

第二部分阅读理解（共两节）第一节（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．

1．（6分）On a cold winter day，many years ago，a French art teacher named Pierre Chevalier got on a train in Lyon to go to Paris．When he started his journey，he didn't know that it was the beginning of almost 40 years of accidents and near death experiences．

During the journey，the train fell into an icy river，killing 12 passengers．Chevalier managed to swim back to the river bank．He only had a broken leg．

Two years later，Chevalier was on a plane from Paris to Moscow when a door suddenly opened and he fell out．A few minutes later，the plane crashed（坠毁）；27 people were killed．Chevalier was so lucky that he landed in a haystack（干草堆）．

A few years later，he was hit by a bus，but again had no serious injuries．Then a year after

that，he was driving on a mountain road when he saw a truck coming straight at him．He drove the car off the road，jumped out，landed in a tree﹣and watched his car fall 100 metres down the mountain．

"There are two ways you can look at it，"Chevalier said．"I'm either the world's unluckiest man，or the world's luckiest．"When a reporter asked Chevalier what he thought，he chose the"luckiest"one．

Two years ago，aged 71，Chevalier bought his first lottery ticket（彩票）in 50 years and won more than 2 million．

After this，a TV company in America said they wanted him to make an advertisement．At first he accepted，but then he changed his mind．Chevalier said he wouldn't fly to Los Angeles for the filming，because he didn't want to push his luck．Who knows？If he had accepted the invitation，maybe he would have had another accident．But Mr Chevalier is a lucky man．If he'd had another accident，he probably would have survived that too!

（1）In the train accident many years ago，Chevalier．

A．didn't get injured at all

B．was lucky enough to be alive

C．was finally pulled out of the river

D．was the only passenger to survive

（2）Why did Chevalier refuse to make the advertisement？

A．Because he had won 2 million．

B．Because he didn't want to leave home．

C．Because he didn't want to risk losing his life．

D．Because he didn't like the TV company．

（3）The text mainly talks about．

A．a man with nine lives

B．the unluckiest man in the world

C．a man who traveled around the world

D．a man who earned 2 million in a lottery

2．（8分）According to a new US study．couples who expect their children to look after them in old age should hope they have daughters because daughters are twice as attentive as sons overall．

The rescarch by Angelina Grigoryeva，from Princeton University，found that，while women provide as much care for their elderly parents as they can manage．men do as lite as they can get away with and often leave it to female family members．

Her analysis of the family networks of 2600 old Americans concluded that gender（性别）is one of the most important things that decide whether or not people will actively care for their elderly parents．

In a paper presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco，she concludes that simply having a sister makes men likely provide less care．Using data from the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study，a study which has been tacking a cross﹣section of over 50s for the last decade，she calculated that women provide an average of 123 hours a month of care for elderly parents while men offer only 5.6 hours．

"Sons reduce their relative caregiving efforts when they have a sister．while daughters increase theirs when they have a brother．"

"This suggests that sons pass on parent caregiving responsivities to their sisters．"