河北省邯郸市曲周县20xx-20xx学年高二英语下学期第一次考试试题

河北省邯郸市曲周县20xx-20xx学年高二英语下学期第一次考试试题内容摘要：

B. The men seated at tables in the locker room are lost in the significance of life. C. For some people, no way can be found to escape the realities of life other than scotch and soda. D. The men acquire wealth by planting fruit trees. 29. The underlined sentence In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread means _ A. Bread tastes delicious when sweat pours off your face B. No pains, no gains C. Failure is the mother of success D. Bread es from the sweat on your face 30. We learn from the passage that the author_______ . A. was a wealthy person in the munity B. held a positive attitude towards an active life C. was fond of associating with celebrities (名人 ) D. kept a secret of the reason why he was so impressed 31. What is implied in the passage by the writer? A. To use wealth properly, eat, drink and be merry. B. Where there is a will, there is a way. C. As life is but like a dream, a man is like a fruit tree. D. If you cease to struggle, you cease to live. D We know the famous onesthe Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper (雨刮器 ) ? Shouldn39。 t we know who they are? Joan Mclean thinks so. In fact, Mclean, a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range, feels so strongly about this matter that she39。 s developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning who invented what , however, Mclean also likes her students to learn the answers to the why and how questions. According to Mclean, When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try. Her students agree. One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean39。 s statement. If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper39。 s invention, said Tommy Lee, a senior physics major. I never would have dreamed of tuming my bad experience during a rain storm into something so constructive. Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer. So, just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well, Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy, but Anderson still wanted to see the sights, so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow b covering the windshield, she found herself wondering why there couldn39。 t be a built in device for cleaning the window. Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birmingham, Alabama, Anderson started drafting out solutions. One of her ideas, a lever (操作杆 ) on the inside of a vehicle that would control an arm on the outside, became the first windshield wiper. Today we benefit from countless inventions and innovations. It39。 s hard to imagine driving without Garrett A. Man39。 s traffic light. It39。 s equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J. Blodgett39。 s innovation that makes glass invisible. Can you picture life without clear windows and eyeglasses? 32. By mentioning traffic light and windshield wiper , the author indicates that countless inventions are_______. A. beneficial, because their inventors are famous B. beneficial, though their inventors are less famous C. not useful, because their inventors are less famous D. not useful, though their inventors are famous 33. Professor Joan McLean39。 s course aims to _____. A. add color and variety to students39。 campus life B. inform students of the windshield wiper39。 s invention C. carry out the requirements by Mountain University D. prepare students to try their own invention 34. Tommy Lee39。 s invention of the unbreakable umbrella was _ A. not eventually accepted by the umbrella producer B .inspired by the story behind the windshield wiper C. due to his dream of being caught in a rainstorm D. not related to Professor Joan McLean39。 s lectures 35. Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage? A. How to Help Students to Sell Their Inventions to Producers? B. How to Design a Built in Device for Cleaning the Window? C. Shouldn39。 t We Know Who Invented the Windshield Wiper? D. Shouldn39。 t We Develop Invention Courses in Universities? 第二节（共 5小题；每小题 2分，共 10分） Stay on the brighter side of life One very important ponent of optimism is gratitude or feeling grateful. In fact, there is a strong connection between a grateful attitude and a heightened sense of well being. Appreciate all the positives in your life by starting a gratitude journal in order to remember what you39。 re grateful for. 36 F。