福建省福州市2020届高三第三次质量检测(线下二模)英语

2020年福州市高中毕业班第三次质量检测

英语试卷

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

Want to be more successful?If so,then you need to read a few self-help books.Here are four popular ones to get you going.

59Seconds(2009)by Richard Wiseman

This is a self-help book with a difference.Wiseman,a scientist,uses science to prove many self-help myths(神话)are false.For example,self-help books say that if you want to achieve a goal,you should visualize it.But Wiseman says that's the worst thing to do.Studies show that you need to visualize the steps required to achieve the goal.

How to Win Friends&Influence People(1936)-by Dale Carnegie

This is the book that launched the self-help type.Carnegie says financial success is15% professional knowledge and85%the ability to express ideas,assume leadership,and motivate

people.The book is full of practical advice on how to influence people by making them like you.

The Millionaire Next Door(1996)by Thomas Stanley&Wlliam Danko

The authors of this book spent years interviewing American millionaires to figure out the secrets of their success.And they discovered that a majority of millionaires don't live luxury lifestyles.They're rich because they live below their means and reinvest what they earn.

Who Moved My Cheese?(1998)-by Spencer Johnson

Who Moved My Cheese?An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on September8,1998,is a motivational business fable(寓言).The text describes change in one's work and life,and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two"little people"，during their hunt for cheese.

21.What is the key to achieving success in59Seconds?

A.To employ science.

B.To follow examples.

C.To picture procedures.

D.To visualize the goal.

22.What is Dale Carnegie's book mainly about?

A.How to master occupational knowledge.

B.How to apply practical techniques.

C.How to gain strong management.

D.How to become popular persons.

23.Which book can help you adapt to change in your life?

A.59Seconds

B.Who Moved My Cheese?

C.The Millionaire Next Door

D.How to Win Friends&Influence People

B

When Millet was a boy he worked on his needy father's farm.At the rest hour in the fields the other workers would all take naps,but young Millet would spend time drawing,Finally the village where he lived gave him a little money to Paris to study art.

When Millet reached Paris he had a tough time.Fortunately,when he was almost starving,someone bought one of his peasant paintings,which enabled his family to leave for Barbizon.

Millet's pictures of peasants at work were painted in a unique way.The painter would go out on the farms and watch them carefully--digging,hoeing,spreading manure,sawing wood,or sowing grain.Then he would come home and paint what he had seen.So astonishingly accurate was his memory that he could paint at home without models and get all the movements of his figures right.When he did need a figure to go by he would ask his wife to pose for him.

One of his noted artworks is called"The Sower",which shows a man seeding.He reaches into his bag for seed and then swings backward to scatter the seed,and with each swing of his hand the sower strides forward.In Millet's picture the sower has been working hard,but his swinging step and arm still move smoothly,like a machine.Only the man's head reveals his great tiredness.

Another masterpiece is called“The Gleaners."A gleaner is someone picking up the leftover in the field after the wheat harvest.When farmers near Barbizon are extremely badly-off,even the little the gleaners can find is a help.You can see from Millet's picture what back-breaking work gleaning must be.

24.What do we know about Millet?

A.His wife supported him to be a painter.

B.He was keen on painting as a kid.

C.He spent his whole life in Barbizon.

D.He was brought up in Paris.

25.How did he paint the laboring farmers?

A.Asking models for help.

B.Imagining figures in the field.

C.Remembering what he had observed.

D.Recalling the days on his father's farm.

26.What do Millet's works convey?

A.The farmers'hardships.

B.The scene of farming.

C.His love for the village.

D.His anxiety about the farmers.

27.What painting style of Millet can be inferred from the text?