重庆市万州二中20xx-20xx学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题(编辑修改稿)

重庆市万州二中20xx-20xx学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

turned on the electric light, only to find that there was no other fork but the one that had repeatedly troubled him. After reading this story, what reflections (反思 ) have you got for yourself? Do you still think that keeping old things in a private place sounds sound? Or don’t you believe that you have to be far away from forks because forks are the most powerful? Or what else… ..? 56. Why did the man keep old things in his room? A. He could hardly put them in any other places. B. He laid great values on old things. C. He was afraid someone would steal them. D. He wanted to let them have life. 57. Which of the following is true according to the story? A. The man believed that he could win the game. B. The man became mad after he was in the room. C. The man mistook one fork for more than one. D. The man was wondering how to kill thieves. 58. The underlined word ―reluctance‖ may most probably mean ―______‖. A. sadness B. unwillingness C. readiness D. hope 59. What does the last paragraph function as? A. An ending of the story. B. A conclusion of the story. C. The reflection of the story. D. A development of the story. B To succeed in business or life we must continually take actions. Putting yourself on the line day after day can be extremely boring, especially when things do not work out as desired. Each time a disappointing event happens, I like to get reminded of these famous failures: Gates has literally changed the work culture of the world in the 20the and the 21st centuries, by simplifying the way the puter is being used. He was the world’s richest man for more than one decade. However, in the 1970′s before starting out, he was a Harvard University dropout. The most ironic (讽刺的 ) part is that he started a software pany by purchasing the software technology from someone for only $50 back then. Lincoln received no more than five years of formal education throughout his lifetime. When he grew up, he joined politics and had 12 major failures before he was elected the 16th President of the United States of America. Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. His work on optics and gravitation made him one of the greatest scientists the world has even known. Many thought that Newton was born a genius, but he wasn’t! When he was young, he did very poorly in grade school, so poor that his teachers became helpless in improving his grades. Beethoven is widely regarded as one of history’s great posers. His reputation has inspired posers, musicians and audiences who were to e after him. Before the start of his career, Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him ―as a poser, he is hopeless‖. And during his career, he lost his hearing yet he managed to produce great music. A deaf man posing music, ironic, isn’t it! 60. What does the author do if something disappoints him? A. He will go on without thought even though he may fail. B. He will think of some famous failures in his life. C. He will start to tell himself some successful stories. D. He will refer to some famous persons’ failure stories. 61. What mon features do the above successful people share? A. All of them had a poor childhood. B. All of them failed before succeeding. C. All of them became rich in the end. D. All of them had a poor ending of their life. 62. Which of the following is true according to the above passage? A. Bill Gates never thought he would earn so much. B. Both Gates and Lincoln did well at school. C. Both Newton and Gates didn’t do well at school. D. Beethoven’s music teacher thought poorly of him. 63. What can we infer from the above passage? A. Failure is the mother of success. B. Success and failure e and go at the same time. C. If you want to succeed, you’ll have to fail. D. Whatever happens, stories of failures help. C The Church of England and other churches often operated primary schools in the United Kingdom, where students paid a small fee to study the religion, reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1833 the British Parliament passed a law that gave some government funds to these schools. In 1862 the United Kingdom established a school grant system, called payment by results, in which schools received funds based on their students’ performance on reading, writing, and arithmetic tests. The Education Act of 1870, called the Forster Act, authorized local government boards to establish public board schools. The United Kingdom then had two schools systems: board schools operated by the government and voluntary schools conducted by the churches and other private anizations. In 1878 the United Kingdom passed laws that limited child labor in factories and made it possible for more children to attend school. To make schooling available to workingclass children, many。