吉林省长春市实验中学2019届高三上学期开学考试英语含答案.pdf

长春市实验中学2018-2019学年上学期学期初考试
高三英语试卷
第一部分听力（1—20小题）在笔试结束后进行。

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。

A
You probably know who Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is, but you may not have heard of Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell if you are not interested in foreign literature. Of the outstanding ladies listed below,
who is your favorite?
Jane Austen (16 December, 1775-18 July, 1817)
Jane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Steventon, Hampshire. She began writing early in life, although the prejudices (偏见) of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously (匿名).
She wrote many books of romantic fiction about the gentry (贵族). Her works made her one of the great masters of the English novel. Only four of her novels were printed while she was alive. They were Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and (1816).
Charlotte Bronte (21 April, 1816-31 March, 1855)
She first published her works, including Jane Eyre, under the false name of Currer Bell. Her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by many publishers. It was not printed until 1857. She is famous for her novel Jane Eyre (1847), which was very popular when it was printed. Jane Eyre was a strong story of a plain, brave, clever woman struggling with her passions, reasons, and social condition.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (8 November, 1900-16 August, 1949)
She was an American author and journalist, a lifelong resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil-War-Era novel, Gone with the wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a coll ection of Mitchell’s girlhood writings and a novel she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The
Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
21. Why did Jane Austen publish her books with a false name?
A. She lacked confidence.
B. She was not well educated.
C. Women were discriminated.
D. Women were well protected.
22. Which novel was set in the background of war?
A. Sense and Sensibility.
B. Gone with the Wind.
C. Lost Laysen.
D. The Professor.
23. Who won the most prizes for her works?
A. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell.
B. Charlotte Bronte.
C. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton.
D. Jane Austen.
24. What can we infer about the women mentioned in the text?
A. They were all fond of poetry.
B. They all died in their forties.
C. Their works were once rejected.
D. They are famous for their great works.
B
A year after graduation, I was offered a position teaching a writing class. Teaching was a profession I
had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. I accepted the job without
hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis. My father went by the same
name, and I liked to imagine people getting t he two of us confused. “Wait a minute,” someone might say “are you talking about Mr. Davis the retired man, or Mr. Davis the respectable scholar?”
The position was offered at the last minute, and I was given two weeks to prepare, a period I spent
searching for briefcase and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words, “Hello, class. I Davis.” Sometimes I would give myself an aggressive voice. Sometimes I would sound experienced. But
when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Davis was there. I sounded not like a
thoughtful professor, but rather a 12-year-old boy.
I arrived in the classroom with paper cards designed in the shape of maple leaves. I had cut them
myself out of orange construction paper. I saw nine students along a long table. I handed out the cards, and。