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2013-2014学年度下学期期中考试

高二英语试题（外研）

一、阅读理解

A

A British schoolboy has been excluded from lessons after he organized a mass protest over a lack

of homework.

Aaron Parfitt, 14, led 100 of his fellow pupils on a walkout at Bispham High School in Blackpool on 12 March over concerns about teaching standards.

Despite his eagerness to learn, Aaron was told he was banned from lessons for the next two days, and now claims to have been excluded again ahead of a meeting between teachers and his mother on 17 March.

Aaron originally contacted Blackpool Council and Ofsted to raise concerns over the quality of teaching before losing patience and organizing the 100-strong walkout last Wednesday.

Teachers took a dim view of his actions and excluded him for two days on Thursday and Friday last week - much to the anger of his mother Janet, 52.

“I'm very angry that they've excluded him because he's doing the best he can to get a good education,”she said.

“He was only trying to stick up for himself and his mates and then he gets told to stay away from the school for two days,” she added.

Aaron said: “We've had loads of different teachers and we weren't getting enough homework. I failed my maths exam in school and I was really worried because I just wanted to make sure I was able to do the work properly.”

21. Why was Aaron Parfitt excluded from school? A. Because he didn’t pass the maths examination. B. Because he didn’t perform well in school.

C. Because he organized a 100-strong workout, protesting about little homework.

D. Because he organized a 100-strong workout, protesting about loads of different teachers. 22. How about his mother?

A. She was ashamed of his child. B. She was in favor of his son. C. She knew nothing about it.

D. She was also excluded from school.

23. What did he do before he organized the 100-strong walkout?

A. He failed the examination and worried about the coming examination.

B. He told his parents about it and his mother encouraged him to stick up for himself. C. He discussed with his classmates about it.

D. He raised his concerns about the quality of teaching to the school.

B

I promised Michael I wouldn’t mention this until the season was over．Now I think it's time．

Early last season, I wrote a column about an art of kindness I had seen Jordan do to a disabled child outside the stadium．After it ran，I got a call from a man in the western suburbs．He said，“I read what you

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wrote about Jordan, but I thought I should tell you another thing I saw．”

Here it comes, I thought. It always does. Write something nice about a person, and people call you up to say that the person is not so nice.

A few weeks later Jordan and I were talking about something else before a game, and I brought up what the man had said. Was the man right? Had Jordan really been talking to those two boys in that poor and dirty neighborhood?

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And he named them. He said four names. And what did they talk about?

\they're paying attention to their study. If it turns out that one or two of them may need teaching, I make sure they get it.\

It's just one more part of Michael Jordan's life，one more thing that no one knows about, and one more thing Jordan does fight for. The NBA season is over now, and those boys have their memories. So do Jordan! When the expert reviewers begin to turn against Jordan as they surely will, I'll think about those boys under the streetlight, waiting for the man they know to come. For someone they can depend on. 24. The writer wrote this story about Jordan and his young friends because _______ A. he thought highly of Jordan's deeds B. he hated to see Jordan do something bad C. he believed it was time to help the disabled D. he felt sure he needn't keep the promise then

25. A man in the western suburbs made a call to_______ A. know why Jordan stopped in a bad area B. get a chance to become famous himself C. let the writer know Jordan was not that nice

D. offer an example to show how Jordan helped others 26. Jordan talked with the boys because he _______. A. needed their support B. had promised to do so

C. liked to teach them to play basketball D. wanted to make sure they all studied well 27. The text implies that Jordan is _______. A. an excellent basketball player

B. good at dealing with problems of life

C. always ready to make friends with young People D. willing to do whatever he can for the good of society

C

Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that man and animals possess if they

are used. If fire didn’t hurt when it burned, children would play with it until their hands were burned away. Similarly, if pain existed but fear didn’t, a child would burn itself again and again because fear would not warn it to keep away from the fire that had burnt him or her before. A really fearless soldier—and some do exist—is not a good soldier because he is soon killed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which man and animals might soon die out.

In our first sentence we suggested that fear ought to be properly used. If, for example, you never go

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out of your house because of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too much. Even in your house you are not absolutely safe: a plane may crash on your house, or ants may eat away some of the wood in your roof, and they later may fall on you, or you may get cancer!

The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but instead to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; then you have to decide what action to take.

In many cases, you can take quick and successful action to avoid the danger. For example, you see a car coming straight towards you; fear warns you, you jump out of the way, and all is OK.

In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to avoid the danger. For example, you cannot prevent an airplane crashing into your house, and you may not want to go and live in a desert where there are no airplanes. In this case, fear has given you its warning, you have examined it and decided on your course of action, so fear of the particular danger is no longer of any use to you, and you have to try to overcome it.

28. The best title for this passage should be __________. A. No Pains, No Gains B. Pain and Actions C. The Value of Fear

D. The Reason Why People Fear

29. Children would play with fire until their hands are burnt away if _________. A. they were given no waring beforehand. B. they didn’t have any sense of pain at all. C. they had never burnt themselves D. they feel afraid of the fire

30. A really fearless solider _________. A. is of a little use to his army. B. is not afraid of battles at all. C. is nothing but a dead solider. D. is easy to get killed in a battle.

31. Fear should be used properly because________. A. an airplane may crash on your house. B. you may get cancer.

C. fear can only be used as a servant and guide. D. men are now letting fear rule them too much.

D

Hello and welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS.

I'm Carl Azuz reporting from the CNN Center as March marches on.

We're glad you're taking ten minutes out of your Tuesday to watch our show.

First up, the Middle East where there's been fighting for decades between Palestinians and Israelis. President Obama like other U.S. and international leaders is trying to encourage peace talks between the two sides.

But they are not going well.

And violence between Israelis and Palestinians flared up this month. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was at the White House yesterday.