河北辛集中学2018-2019学年度高二英语寒假作业（十五）
完成日期：正月初九 家长签字： 命题： 校对：
There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self. 这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进，那就是你自己。
一、 完形填空
During my school days, I was one of those shy and distant kids who would just sit in a corner for an entire day. For me, my books were my 1._____ world. Even during breaks, I used to just sit in a corner of the 2._____ and see others play games. It was not as if I wasn’t interested in 3._____ others or making new friends, but I always felt lacking in energy when 4._____ my peers(同龄人). I always had an opinion that my advances towards new 5._____ would be limited. And I just didn’ t want to 6._____ a rejection.
Once during my English class, my teacher shared a(n) 7._____ with us. It was about King Bruce and a spider. It revolved around a lost battle and talked about how King Bruce, despite losing the battle 8._____ in the end. He was 9._____ by a little spider. The little 10._____ of the spider and the way it was taking rejections impressed me a lot. I was so surprised that I myself started 11._____ the movements of spiders at home. Once, a spider took around an hour to reach the top of a wall and I 12._____ knocked it down. To my 13._____, within seconds it started making its 14._____up again.
For me, this 15._____ was a game changer. I realized that rejections are 16._____ a failure. The
world may mistreat me 17._____ I can stand up and start working again. There would be time when people would like and 18._____ me. At present, I 19._____ mixing with people, learning new things and making new friends. I think, there are just no such 20._____ as rejections or failures as everything can change at any moment. 1. A. real B. new C. next
D. only 2. A. office
3. A. visiting 4. A. related to 5. A. friendships 6. A. avoid 7. A. story 8. A. failed
9. A. confused 10. A. improvements 11. A. adjusting 12. A. cruelly 13. A. delight 14. A. progress 15. A. incident 16. A. often 17. A. so 18. A. train
19. A. enjoy
20. A. approaches 二、阅读理解
B. station
B. watching
B. compared with B. courses B. suffer B. task B. won B. hurt
B. changes
B. observing B. angrily B. surprise B. way B. research
B. sometimes B. though B. meet B. suggest
B. values
C. playground C. helping
C. separated from C. teachers C. cause
C. experience C. left
C. persuaded C. movements C. showing C. luckily
C. amusement C. web C. trouble C. never C. or
C. appreciate C. imagine C. things
D. street D. joining D turned to D. programs D. fear D. song D. refused D. inspired D. advantages D. guiding D. bravely D. disappointment D. mistake D. adventure D. ever D. but D. remember D. risk D. solutions
As a young boy，Abraham Lincoln got to know the law when he read his first law book，Revised Statutes of Indiana．Later he read more law books by himself and dreamed of becoming a lawyer．Once he read all the books required，he decided to take his bar exam（律师资格考试）．He passed the exam and received his law license on September 9，1836．
Lincoln continued studying hard after he became a lawyer．According to William Herndon，his partner，Lincoln would lie in bed and read by candlelight，sometimes until two o'clock in the morning，while his workmates were sleeping．
He disliked office work，such as writing legal papers and writing letters，and he left all that to Herndon．When either Lincoln or Herndon received a fee they divided the money immediately．But if his partner were not in the office at the time，Lincoln would wrap up half of the money in a piece of paper，on which he would write \，giving the name of the case，and place it in his partner's desk．
And in court，Lincoln also did very well．Even when he had a weak case he was a strong defender，and when he had fairness on his side，as he nearly always had，no one could beat him．He loved to support those whom he knew to be wronged，but he would stop making any effort if he discovered he was on the wrong side．
Once，while working on a case，Lincoln found that his client's case was not a good one，and he refused to defend．His partner，who felt differently about the case，defended the client and won the case．The fee was nine hundred dollars，half of which was given to Lincoln，but he refused to accept a single cent of it．
1．What do we learn about Lincoln from Paragraph 1？ A．He disliked reading law books at first．
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