高三英语周考试题

高三英语周考试题

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Ⅱ阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

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For the majority of us, when we were 12 years old, schoolwork and videogames may well be our only memories of those days. If we remember guns being pointed at our heads, we think that we must be remembering videogames or movies.

Unfortunately, at age 12, that was Malala Yousafzai’s real life.

Born in Swat Valley in Pakistan in 1997, Malala lived a quiet life until 2009, when the Taliban, an Islamic organization of violence took control of her village. They forbade girls to go to school as groups. They believe that educating girls is against Islam, according to Sky News. But Malala didn’t agree. She wouldn’t give up her education and started to write a blog that was critical of the Taliban. “What is wrong with us (female students)?” she wrote on the BBC site. “We want all girls to get their schools back.”

However, her actions put her in danger. On Oct 9, 2012, when Malala was taking a bus to her home, CNN described, a man from the Taliban holding a gun got on board and demanded: “Which one of you is Malala?”. “I am Malala,” she answered, and a bullet instantly hit her in the head.

Luckily, the shot didn’t kill her. She was taken to a hospital in the UK, and she gr adually recovered.

The shot didn’t kill her courage to carry on, either. At the start of this year she set up the Malala Fund. In April, the fund helped put 40 girls from her former home province in Pakistan into schools.

Malala Yousafzai has become an international symbol of inspiration and bravery, commented ABC News. Her survival has “instilled educators with courage –and is slowly helping make Pakistani schools safer”.

Being called “the bravest girl in the world” by CNN, Malala gave a speech at the Uni ted Nations in New York on education rights on July 12, her 16th birthday.

“They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed,” Malala said in her speech. “The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.”

On Oct 10, the European Union awarded Malala its top human rights prize. “She is an icon (符号) of courage for all teenagers who dare to follow their aspirations ,”said Joseph Daul, chairman of the European People’s Party.

1. We can infer from paragraph 1 that________.

A. Students at the age of 12 watch videogames every day.

B. We often watch movies in which there are guns pointing at our heads.