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山西省晋中市祁县中学校2019-2020学年高二英语10月月考试题
满分:150分
第一部分 阅读理解(满分60分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题3分,满分45分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A
Four books that will inspire you to travel the world
There’s truly nothing like travel when it comes to gaining perspective(远景) and exposing yourself to other cultures. To get you in the adventuring mood, we asked Amazon Senior Editor Chris Schlep to help us come up with a list of books that transport readers to another time and place. Below, see his list of four books that will inspire you to travel around the world. For more information, please click A.
SEATTLE: Where You’d Go, Bernadette
Price: $16.73
Maria Sample’s first novel is not exactly a love story to Seattle, but if you read it, you just might want to come here to see if people are really as self-involved as the characters in her book. What really shines through is the strange storytelling and the laughs. Buy it on Amazon.
ITALY: Beautiful Ruins
Price: $16.29
This book by the popular author Jess Walters is a love story that begins on the Italian Coast in the early 60s and eventually appears on the screen in Hollywood. With the settings of the background from Italy to Edinburgh to Los Angeles, you will find yourself longing to go as well. Buy it on Amazon.
ENGLAND: Wolf Hall
Price: $15.57
You can’t travel to Thomas Cromwell’s England without a time machine,but reading Hilary Mantel’s prize-winning novel is the next best thing. It will make you long to see the ancient buildings and green grass of the English countryside, much of which is still there. Buy it on Amazon.
NANTUCKET: Here’s to Us
Price: $ 17.16
Eli Hildebrand has built a writing career out of writing about her hometown island of Nantucket. Her latest is Here’s to Us, which, perhaps not surprisingly, is a great beach read. Buy it on Amazon.
21. What can you buy if you have only $32?
A. Beautiful Ruins and Wolf Hall. B. Where You’d Go, Bernadette and Wolf Hall.
C. Beautiful Ruins and Where You’d Go, Bernadette. D. Wolf Hall and Here’s to Us.
22. What do the four books have in common?
A. They have the similar content. B. They have the same price.
C.They have the same place of sales. D. They have the similar background.
23. Where does the text probably come from?
A.A textbook. B. A magazine. C. A newspaper. D. A website.
B
? An 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old son.?Suddenly a crow (乌鸦) landed on their window. The father asked his son, "What is that?" The son replied, "That is a crow."
? After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, "What is that?" The son said, "Father, I told you just now. It's a crow." After a little while, the father asked his son the same question for the third time, "What is that?" This time, the son said to his father in a low and cold tone, "It's a crow, a crow."
? After a moment, the father yet again asked his son for the fourth time, "What is that?" This time his son shouted at his father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? I have told you already, 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand?this?"
? A minute later the father went to his room and came back with a diary, which he had kept since his son was born. On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page.
?"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow suddenly landed on the window edge. My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied him 23 times that it?was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question. I didn't at all feel?angry, but instead felt?affection?for my son.
? If your parents reach old age, do not look at them as a burden, but speak to them gently,?and be kind to them. From today say this aloud, "I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered me with love. I will?take care of my old parents in the BEST way no matter how they behave."
24. The writer mainly intends to ______.
A. introduce a pair of son and father B. tell us the function of a diary
C. teach us what a crow is? D. call on us to love our parents
25. The underlined word "affection" probably means______.
A. Love B. puzzle? ?C. worryD.?hatred(恨)?
26. We can infer that the father wrote that piece of diary at the age of ______.
A.forty-five B. thirty-five?C. thirty-eight? D. eighty?
27. Why did the father ask his son questions about the crow?
A. Because he had difficulty in hearing.?
B. Because he tried to remind his son of what he did in the past?.
C. Because he didn’t want to be treated as a burden.
D. Because he wanted to test his son’s patience.
C
Meeting people from another culture can be difficult. From the beginning, people may send the wrong signal. Or they may pay no attention to signals from another person who is trying to develop a relationship.
Different cultures emphasize (强调) the importance of relationship building to a greater or lesser degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in “small talk”, usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job. In many European countries—like the UK or France—people find it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafes rather than at the office.
Talk and silence may also be different in some cultures. I once made a speech in Thailand. I had expected my speech to be a success and start a lively discussion; instead there was an uncomfortable silence. The people present just stared at me and
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