高一英语限时训练

限时训练（7）班级：_________ 姓名：___________ 限时20分钟成绩：______一．阅读理解(每小题2分，共10分)I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故的)woman said to me, “ If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “ If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today.. that long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course—keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation—would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?There are seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens that leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens , especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believe that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him , and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.41. What is said about the two diseased elderly women?A. They lived out a natural lifeB. They died of exhaustion after the long plane rideC. They weren’t used to the change in weather.D. They died due to lack of care by family members.42. The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because ______.A. he wanted to comfort the two familiesB. he was an official from the communityC. he had great pity for the deceasedD. he was minister of the local church43. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because _____.A. they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrowB. they believe that they were responsibleC. they had neglected the natural course of eventsD. they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction44. According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that_____.A. everything in the world is predeterminedB. the world can be interpreted in different waysC. there is an explanation for everything in the worldD. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world45. What’s the idea of the passage?A. Life and death is an unsolved mystery.B. Every story should have a happy ending.C. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away.二．语法填空（每小题1分，共10分）One day，Nick invited his friends to supper.He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen.Suddenly，he __1__ (find)that he had run out of salt.So Nick called to his son，“Go to the village and buy some salt，but pay a fair price for it：neither too much __2__ too li ttle.”His son looked surprised.“I can understand why I shouldn't pay too much，Father，but if I can pay less, __3__ not save a bit of money?”That would be a very __4__(reason)thing to do in a big city，but it could destroy a small village like ours，”Nick sa id.Nick's guests, __5__ had heard their conversation，asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could.Nick replied，“The only reason a man would sell salt __6__ a lower price would be because he was desperate for money.And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect __7__ the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”“But such a small thing couldn't __8__(possible) destroy a village.”“In the beginning, there was only __9__ very small amount of unfairness in the world，but everyone added a little，always__10__(think) that it was only small and not very important，and look where we have ended up today.”1.____________2.___________3.____________4.___________5.____________6. ____________7. ___________8.____________9.___________ 10.____________ADBCC【语篇导读】本文通过Nick叫儿子去买盐要给合理价格的故事说明，一定要公平对待他人，尊重努力工作的人的汗水和努力。