龙岩一中2018年保送生考试试题(英语)

龙岩一中2021届高一实验班选拔考试

英语试卷

（考试时间：90分钟满分：100分）

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第一部分阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

When your dream is to become a footballer and play for Barcelona, nothing should get in your way―even if you have no feel.

An 11-year-old schoolboy Gabriel Muniz, who was born without feel, will fly from his home in Brazil to take part in the Spanish club’s summer training camp. Although he is disabled, Muniz is one of the top players at the school and captain of his gym class. He can run, dribble(运球), pass and strike the ball as well as any of his able-bodied teammates. He spends all his spare time on the football pitch.

His best friend Lucas Santos spoke about his abilities on a video for the Sun, “He is skillful, he goes after it, he is fearless and he knows how to organize plays. He also makes good passes.” Mum Sandra was thrilled that her son would achieve his dreams. She said, “He started walking before he was one. We would go after him, expecting him to keep falling, but he never fell.” Muniz’s gym teacher added, “He is challenging the social norms(标准). When he arrived there, no one believed in him.” But he showed to everyone that he could play as well as any other boy. So he was invited to go to Spain to show his talent.

The Spanish La Liga soccer club has offered to fly Muniz to Spain in September, where he’ll be albe to show off his “fancy footwork” and meet his idol, Barca soccer player Lionel Messi.

Muniz wears a prosthetic(假体的) ankle and foot to keep him get around in rainy weather. He knows that his disability means he’ll never be able to play for a professional football team, so Muniz is hoping that football will one day become a Paralympic(残奥会的) sport.

1. What did Lucas Santos think of Muniz’s football abilities?

A. Just so-so.

B. Excellent.

C. Very bad.

D. Skilled.

2. What can we know about Muniz according to the passage?

A. He has a hope that playing football will be part of Paralympic Games.

B. His biggest dream is to play for a professional football team.

C. He has great difficulty in living a normal life.

D. He is going to play football for the Spanish La Liga soccer club.

3. Which saying can best describe Muniz’s experience?

A. A good beginning is half done.

B. All is well that ends well.

C. Never put off tomorrow what we can do today.

D. Where there is a will, there is a way.

B

How nice are you? Do you give money to homeless people? Do you offer your seat to someone in need on a bus?

Many people believe that confident people think more highly of themselves, while those who have low self-respect think less of their good qualities. However, a new study says it might not be true, reported The Guardian.

The study was done by Jonathan Freeman, a psychology(心理学) professor from the University of London, the UK. He found that 98 percent of British people consider themselves to be among the nicest 50 percent of the population.

In the study, Freeman first asked some people to rate(评级) their own niceness. Then he got people to answer questions like “Do you give directions to strangers?” and “Have you ever donated blood?”. The results showed that people are not as nice as they think they are. Two thirds of them seldom helped others carry heavy shopping bags, and only a quarter of them donated blood.

In another study by psychologists from universities in Chicago and Virginia, the US, some people were shown pictures of themselves. Some pictures had been slightly changed to make them appear more attractive. When asked to pick the unchanged pictures, people usually chose the more attractive ones.

So, why do we think we’re nicer than we actually are? There are many theories. A popular one says we unconsciously(无意识地) cheat ourselves, so that we can get confidence without knowingly lying to ourselves or each other.

How can we solve it? Other studies show that there is a simple way: feedback(反馈). Compare others’ opinion toward yourself with your own and you will see a clearer picture.

4. What did the new study find?

A. The more confident people are, the more good qualities they have.

B. Most of the people with low-respect are not nice.

C. People with great confidence do not like those with low-respect.

D. People are nicer in their own eyes than they really are.

5. Why did people choose the more attractive pictures of themselves?

A. Because they were not happy with their own looks.

B. Because they wanted themselves to look good.