河南省兰考县第三高级中学2020学年高二英语上学期周测试题
（12.8）（无答案）
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） A
Four books that will change your life
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Thirteen Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin You can’t escape misfortune in life. But you can change how you respond to it.Do you struggle to get over your failures? Or live with things out of your control? Getting over these troubles can have a great influence on your everyday life, Morin shares how her most successful therapy（治疗）patients overcame these difficulties.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Ever wondered why you can’t stop worrying about something? No matter how hard you try, do you focus on the same issue? By defining the source of your stress, you can get over it once and for all. Camegie came up with an effective way that helps you deal with any over-thinking situation.
Finding Your Element by Ken Rotoinson
Society often encourages us to follow a certain linear plan. Everyone has a passion. If you don’t know what yours is, it just means you haven’t discovered it yet. Or perhaps you have, buth disappeared early in life. Find
out how you can break free of society’s strict rules and find your calling in life.
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Did you know if your pulse rate rises above 100 bpm, you’re considered too emotional to think rationally（理智地）? You probably let feelings cloud your judgment more often than you know. Goleman explains how you can avoid letting your emotions rule you and make better decisions in life.
1. What is Amy Morin’s book mainly about?
A. Unavoidable failures in life. B. Life stories of successful people C. Methods of treating mental diseases D. Approaches to handling challenges in life.
2. What does the book by Ken Robinson encourage us to do? A. Draw up our own plans.
B. Discover what we truly love.
D. Obey society’s strict rules.
C. Follow a certain linear plan.
3. Whose book helps us learn how to control our emotions? A. Amy Morin’s
B. Dale Carnegie’s
D. Daniel Goleman’s
C. Ken Robinson’s B
My wife and I went to this vegan(严格的素食主义的) restaurant to give it a try. As we were eating our pepper and salt tofu, a young lady named Debra walked in. She wasn’t aware that the place is vegan and was looking for some meat. My wife and I talked up the place and invited her over to try some of our tofu. Debra tried it, nodded and went out.
After a few minutes, she and her mother both walked back in. We were having the rest of our meal at that time, so we told her what we had ordered. Debra then asked the waitress to just repeat our order for them. Next, Debwra said. \
to say no, but Debra wouldn’t listen.
That was not the end of it. Hugs were in order. Debra came over to our table and my wife got up to hug her. Debra hugged my wife and put $ 100 into her hand. My wife firmly said NO, but Debra insisted. Debra kept talking about our kindness, and we did the same about hers and her mother’s.With tears in the eyes, the workers were blown away by this whole exchange between four strangers.I left the waiters and waitresses a tip that would cover all of our meals and we were on our way.
I’ve been witnessing so much kindness, especially over the last few years, as I began to pay more attention. We now have a new favorite restaurant and every time we go there my plan is to pay for someone else’s meal.
4. Why did Debra go out after trying some tofu? A. To bring her mother in
B. To look after her mother. D. To look for another restaurant
C. To get away from the food. 5. What did Debra insist on? A. Hugging the author’s wife
B. Ordering a meal for the author
D. Tipping the waiters and
C. Treating the author and his wife waitress
6. How did the workers feel when seeing the exchange between four strangers?
A. Curious
B. Funny
C. Surprised D. Touched
7. What can we know about the author and Debra? A. They’ve been friends.
B. They were both vegan D. They once worked together
C. They met for the first time C
Engineers have put a huge garbage collector to gather plastic material
in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, the world’s largest spread of garbage, twice the size of the state of Texas.
The Ocean Cleanup organization created the collector. The group’s founder, Boy an Slat, an inventor born in 1994, was just 16 when he was moved to clean up the oceans when he was on a dive and saw more plastic bags than fish
Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco. Attached to it is a screening skirt that hangs three meters down in the water. The screen is designed to collect the plastic as it moves through the water. Sea animals can safely swim under the barrier
The cleanup system also comes with lights powered by the sun, cameras, and other special devices, so the system can communicate its position at all times. That way a support ship can find it every few months to remove the plastic that has been collected.
Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment and are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be recycled. The free-floating barriers are made to survive extreme weather conditions and damage from continual use. They will stay in the water for twenty years, thus collecting 90% of the garbage in the area.
The Ocean Cleanup has received $ 35 million in donations to pay for the project, hoping to put 60 free-floating barriers in the Pacific Ocean by 2020. \’s important to turn off the taps on plastic entering the ocean, but I also think people can do more than one thing at a time to deal with this problem,\
8. What drove Slat to invent the collector?
A. The interest in invention B. His failure to dive due to rubbish.
C. The sight of too many plastic bags D. His knowledge of garbage in the Pacific Ocean
9. How does the floating barrier work?
A. It reaches into the water to collect the plastic B. It has large containers to produce power
C. ‘It forms barriers to protect sea animals D. A ship drags it along in the ocean.
10. Which does the underlined word \A. The support ship. B. The floating barrier
C. The plastic to be recycled. D. The position of special devices. 11. What is important for protecting the ocean according to Slat? A. Sending more collectors into the ocean B. Inventing more ocean cleanup devices
C. Stopping plastic from entering the ocean D. Banning the use of plastic bags in boats D
When people find themselves in difficult conflicts, they often turn to mediation(调解). Mediator are advised to listen attentively, avoid favoring the ideas of one party, and make both sides feel at ease. Surprisingly, new research that my colleagues and I conducted shows that, to effectively help people settle their conflicts, mediators should adopt a hostile(敌对的 ) attitude rather- than a calming one. A hostile mediator, we find, brings better results than a nice one
Why would adding more negativity to an already hostile situation prove beneficial? Consider how parents typically react when they can’t get their children to stop quarreling: \’t care who started it, both of you, go to your rooms!\
河南省兰考县第三高级中学2020学年高二英语上学期周测试题(12.8)(无答案)
