宁夏六盘山高级中学2020-2021学年高二下学期开学考试英语试题

宁夏六盘山高级中学2020-2021学年高二下学期开学考试英

语试题

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一、阅读选择

Finland is offering free trips to people in need of happiness lessons For the past two years, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world. Its citizens are relaxed and cheerful, enjoying life in a technologically advanced society. The Finns themselves owe(归功于) this to their connection with nature and their instinct(本能) to go outside whenever anxiety appears: “When others go to therapy(治疗), Finns put on a pair of rubber boots and head to the woods. A project called Rent A Finn will send a select number of guests to live in Finland for three days this summer. All travel and accommodation costs are covered, but you must be willing to be filmed throughout the experience.

Guest’s activities

Experience anything from visiting a national park to spending a weekend fishing at a real summer cottage，berry picking in the wilderness, enjoying a proper Finnish sauna(桑拿浴)一basically all the things that we Finns love to do in nature and what makes Finland the happiest country worldwide.

Esko, mayor(市长) of a small town, will take you boating and teach you to play molkky, a Finnish throwing game. If you stay with Hanna, an IT professional, you’ll travel to her

gran dmother’s lakeside home outside Helsinki, where you’ll pick blueberries and eat traditional foods. Linda and Niko, who live on Uto, an island with a population of around 40, will take you sailing, show you the lighthouse, and camp out on an island.

Application

Now is the time to apply by filling out an online application form and filming a 3-minute video describing yourself, your connection to nature, and why you want to visit Finland. Submit, breathe deeply, and wait. I know what I’ ll be doing this weeken d.

1．What do the Finns think mainly brings them happiness?

A．Getting close to nature.

B．Living in a rich country.

C．Remaining in high spirits.

D．Getting on well with others.

2．Who will lead guests to pick blueberries around a lakeside home?

A．Esko. B．Linda.

C．Hanna. D．Niko

3．What should you do if you want to join the project?

A．Complete a form online.

B．Make a video about Finland.

C．Pay the activity expenses in advance.

D．Learn how to make traditional Finnish food.

One piece of advice I give young people is that they don't have to decide what they want to do for the rest of their life at age 22. Just think of all the jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago and what might exist 10 years from now.

My daughter is a nurse practitioner(从业者). But she didn’t s tart there when she went to college. She got her undergraduate degree in hotel and restaurant management with a minor(辅修课程) in business. She wanted to find a job in travel and tourism and see the world. On graduation day she looked at me and said, “Mom, I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life that’s meaningful, but I don’t think it' s travel and tourism”. I looked at her and said, “Just get a job and then figure it out.”

She struggled for a year or two after college with a couple of different jobs including work in the travel industry for a short time. But she started thinking early on after graduation about becoming a nurse. Whenever she talked to me about it, I told her she’d be a great nurse-super organized, able to multitask better than anyone I knew, with amazing people skills. But I also told her that she’d have to work hard and study the sciences if she wanted to be a nurse.

She considered her choices and decided to enter a combined nursing/nurse practitioner program getting her second bachelor’s degree then her master’s. She had found her passion(热衷的爱好)!Her nursing career since 2005 has progressed. She now has a mix of leadership, administrative, and clinical work.

Do you know what your passion is? Have you found it in your work or are you still searching for it?

4．How did the author react to her daughter’s words on graduation day?

A．She recommended a job to her daughter.

B．She was worried about her daughter’s future.