2018年深圳二模英语

深圳市2018年高三年级第二次调研考试

英语

本试卷共10页,卷面满分120分，折算成135分计入总分，考试用时120分钟。

第二部分阅读理解（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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Life experiences can show one’s “grit”(坚韧). Complex challenges early in life helped the following people develop skills that got them to the top of their professions.

Ursula Burns, Chairwoman, VEON; Former CEO, Xerox

Her family was so poor that her single mother traded office cleaning for health Burns’ early gift for maths won her a scholarship and an internship at Xerox, where she would compete her way to the top. “ I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side,” she says, “Not a lot scares me.”

Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman, Starbucks

Schultz grew up in public housing in Brooklyn, surrounded by poverty, and was the first in his family to go to college (on a football scholarship).After training in sales, he set up the company that would later buy Starbucks. “In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said no.” he said.

Sean Combs, CEO, Sean John

Combs began a generation of hip-hop talent and made a lasting influence on he story could have turned out much differently: His drug dealer father was killed when he was3. “It made me work even harder.” he recently sa id.

Geisha Williams, CEO, PG&E

Her parents fled Cuba when Williams was 5. By 7, she was her parents main translator

in talks with lawyers and accountants at grocery stores they experience did help her. “I went from thinking I could be a manager to thinking I could do something much bigger.” she told Fortune.

Who did best in math at school?

Combs B. Burns C. Schultz D. Williams

How did the death of Combs’ father influence him?

It made him a failure.

He became a drug dealer.

It made him even stronger.

He became a hip-hopper.

What can we learn from the passage?

Cuba is a good place to do business.

No one wanted to help Schultz at first.

Poor family kids can be successful easily.

Difficulty in life pushed Williams forward.

B

Looking at a pile of old photos, I couldn't help feeling rather regretful.

I've never got into the habit of sorting out photos. However, it's almost a habit

of mine to have photos taken thoughtlessly. Thus, photos have been piling up

in my childhood to womanhood. In spite of that, those black-and-white pictures

taken in my early years are rarely kept, except a few survivals regarded as bald(秃头的) baby picture of me that I treasured, the only one left, it's now

missing.