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安阳市第三十六中学2018——2019学年三月月考

高二英语

第I卷

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） (共15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。

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Dogs Don't Tell Jokes - By Louis Sachar Twelve-year-old Gary Boone knows he was Mia Winners Never Quit - By Mia Hamm Hamm, American soccer born to be a comedian. He never stops champion, tells a true-to-life joking, regardless of the fact that inspiring story of learning that nobody laughs much and his classmates winning and losing aren't as think he is stupid. Therefore he had no important as being part of a team. real friends at school. Due to being More than anyone, soccer superstar laughed at by his classmates, Gary Boone Mia Hamm knows the value of thought winning the school talent show teamwork. She shares this lesson, would be his dream of proving himself to paired with energetic pictures by be a real comedian, but on the big night Carol Thompson, and this story is his dream went wrong with funny results. perfect for soccer kids and their soccer moms. 1

Shack let on s Incredible Voyage - By Alfred Lansing The astonishing adventure The Alchemist - By Paulo Coelho The Alchemist, by Paulo of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's Coelho, continues to change the survival for over a year on the ice-bound lives of its readers forever. It Antarctic seas, as Time t magazine tells the magical story of an Andulusian put it, \Santiago, authoritative story, Lansing consulted shepherd-boy (牧童) who desires to with ten of the surviving members and travel in search of treasure. The gained access to diaries and personal story of the treasures Santiago accounts by eight others. The book has finds along the way teaches us a first-hand account, expanded with maps about the essential wisdom of and illustrations especially for this listening to our hearts and above edition. all, following our dreams. 21. Why did Gary Boone want to win the school talent show? A. To develop his comedy skills. C. To make more friends.

B. To please his classmates.

D. To realize his dream.

22. From Shackletoris Incredible Voyage, we know the main character ______. A. is a writer for Time magazine

B. is a survival of one polar exploration C. has left a lot of diaries and accounts

D. has formed a close friendship with Alfred Lansing

23. If you want to know more about teamwork, you can read ______. A. Dogs Don't Tell Jokes B. Shackletoris Incredible Voyage C. Winners Never Quit

D. The Alchemist

24. What do we know about The Alchemist?

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A. It tells a story of how to find treasures.

B. It is mainly about the wisdom of listening to others. C. It teaches us to seek valuable advice from others. D. It encourages people to pursue their dreams bravely.

B

You may not have heard of Ashoka, but for the past 27 years, this association, founded by Bill Drayton, has fought poverty (贫穷)and sickness, promoted education and encouraged small businesses. To support these worthy causes, Ashoka provides money for the world’s most promising \seeking to solve (解决) urgent problems and would like to create a world in which every citizen is a changemaker.

Drayton believes that anyone can become an agent for change. The important thing is to simply give yourself permission. If you see a problem that you care about, you can help solve it. The young in particular are willing to accept this concept because at heart every child wants to grow into a happy, healthy, contributing adult. In fact, it is many young people’s ambition to set up programmes or businesses that improve social conditions. An excellent example is an Ashoka project started in 1995 in Dhaka, which handled the rubbish problem facing the city helped local farmers and provided an income for poor people there .

When Masqsood and Iftekhar began to study the problem of all the uncollected rubbish that lay in Dhaka’s streets, attracting rats and disease, they discovered that 80% of it was natural waste. So they educated the poor people in the city to compost (把…制成堆肥)this waste. They knew that they would have a market for the end product because local farmers were struggling with chemical fertilisers (化肥) which were expensive and had reduced the natural minerals in the soil over the years. At first, they were refused, but once they were able to persuade them that

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