哈三中高一上期中考试

黑龙江省哈三中2014-2015学年高一上学期期中考试第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节选择题（共15小题，每小题2分，共30分）

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How do you get a man to do his share of the housework? If you are like most women, you’ve faced this question the hard way.

A man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to clean or organize it. This doesn’t mean that a woman has to do all the housework; she may have to manage many of the household duties, and request her partner’s participation(参与). A woman can often say that men and women should take equal responsibility for housework.

Very few men are raised to be fully responsible for housework, and many men look on housework as women’s work. On the other hand, most men will readily work around the yard, make repairs and complete projects on week ends or evenings, and it’s important that you give your man appreciation for those things, too. Most men will take on a little extra housework around the house if asked politely. They are even more likely to do housework if they can choose what they want to do, and do it without being monitored (监督).

Here’s the key: men want to feel that they are doing housework either because they want to do a task, or because they simply want to please their women. Men are much less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant. In a word, men are likely to do a household task just for the good of the house.

21.The passage is mainly about ______________.

A. how to get men to take on some housework

B. how to get men to serve their families

C. how to praise men’s housework

D. how to make men do all the housework

22.According to the passage, a man ______________.

A.is willing to do any housework

B. likes to be told to do housework

C. is taught to be responsible for housework from childhood

D. likes a clean house but doesn’t make efforts to clean it

23.In order to get men to do some housework, women should often_____.

A.order them to do their share

B. ask them to do some housework politely

C. blame men’s laziness

D. monitor men’s work

24.According to the passage, which of the following would a husband most probably like to

do?

A.Wash the dishes.

B. Do some sewing.

C. Paint the roof.

D. Ask his wife to work on the yard.

B

WHAT can help you make a fortune in the future? Graduating from a top university might not be enough. A new study from the University of Essex in Britain has shown that the more friends you have in school, the more money you ’ll earn later.

The idea that popularity could have a serious influence on one ’s earning potential shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. The researchers noted that if you want to get ahead in life, social skills and networking are easily as powerful as talent and hard work.

“If a person has lots of friends, it means that he or she has the ability to go along with others in all kinds of different situations,” said Xu Yanchun,17, from Nantou High School in Shenzhen, who totally agreed with the recent finding. “Also, friends always help each other.‖ They not only create wider social circles for you but lift your mood when you are occasionally in low spirits,” said Xu. She believed that all this helps you ―earn a higher salary.