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1、此卷只装订不密封班级 姓名 准考证号 考场号 座位号 2018-2019学年福建省师范大学附属中学高二上学期期末考试英 语注意事项：1答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第I卷（选择题）一、阅读理解 On the eve of our daughters w
2、eddings， I gave both of them what I considered to be excellent marital advice： never leave your husband unsupervised （无人监督的） with pruning shears （修枝剪）If only I had taken my own advice I recently let my guard down Thirtysome years of marriage can do that to a woman Give a man pruning shears and elect
3、ric trimmers （电动修剪器） and he will give new meaning to armed and dangerousOne day earlier this year， my husband said that the crab apple tree was deadWhy do you think it is dead？ I askedLook at it Theres not a leaf on itTheres not a leaf on anything Its March， I saidIt looked sick last fall and with t
4、his bitter winter we had， Im convinced its deadThe truth is hes never liked the crabapple Sure， it has beautiful blooms in the spring， but then it gets a disease， the leaves curl， and it drops those little apples that sit on the drivewayEach passing week he pronounced the tree dead Eventually I bega
5、n to believe him Though he agreed it would be a regrettable loss， there was a twinkle in his eye He armed himself a couple of weeks ago and began trimming A branch here， a branch there， a small limb， then a large limb I watched and then decided to check the wood on some of the branches closer to the
6、 trunk I broke one off and saw greenThe crabapple was not dead It just hadnt had time to leaf out The tree was now falling to one side， but it was not dead I would have told him so， but he had moved on to a maple Once the man starts， he cant stop One trim leads to anotherPlease， stop! I calledHe smi
7、led and nodded， but he couldnt hear because he had started the hedge （树篱） trimmers and was getting ready to fix a line of hedgesZip （飕飕声）， zip， zipWhat do you think？ he shoutedIts supposed to be a privacy hedge； now all that will be private are our anklesHe started the trimmers againStop! I called，
8、Come back!Why？ he shoutedYoure in the neighbors yard1By saying If only I had taken my own advice the author means that Ashe didnt follow her own advice about pruning shearsBshe feels regretful about her marriage after many yearsCshe shouldnt have kept a close watch on her husbandDshe shouldnt have g
9、iven that marital advice to her daughters2We can learn from the article that the authors husband Ahas a great talent for gardeningBnearly ruined their neighbors gardenCmistook their crab apple tree for a maple treeDhad never used pruning shears before3What does the article mainly talk about？AWhy the
10、 authors husband insisted on trimming their crabapple treeBWhy the authors husband shouldnt have been allowed to trim their crab apple treeCHow the author has survived her thirtysome years of marriageDHow the authors husband killed their crab apple tree4What is the tone of the article？AAnxiousBCriti
11、calCSeriousDHumorous They say the average person makes 35， 000 decisions a day Yet in her new book， How Woman Decide， Therese Huston explores a widespread phenomenon that many women fail to notice Theres a huge double standard when it comes to how men and women are viewed as decisionmakers， explains
12、 Therese， a psychologist from Seattle University Therese decided to write the book after looking at her bookshelf： At one end， there were bestselling books about how to be a clever decisionmaker all written by men and featuring interviews with men like athletes At the other end were books aimed at w
13、omen on gaining leadership skills and confidenceOnce those women are at the table， will their decisions be taken as seriously as mens？ Therese wondered Men are respected as decisionmakers more than women， especially in the workplace， largely because theres this cultural belief that women are unable
14、to make smart choices at work So， Therese set out to pick apart the stereotypes（固有印象）to see what scientific research had found Scientific research shows that men and women struggle with decisionmaking equally The only disadvantage I found was that during the teenage yearsteenage girls are more indec
15、isive than teenage boys Otherwise， theres little difference between the genders（性别） However， there are some differences Women are more collaborative（协作的）， says Therese A female boss is more likely to ask the opinions of those around her when making a choice Women ask for input， which helps make better decisions However， this is often seen as a weakness rather than a strength Therese also found that during times of stress，
