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1、2018-2019学年下学期高二第二次月考英 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。用2B铅笔将答题卡上试卷类型A后的方框涂黑。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。第卷第一部分 听力(共两节,满分 30 分)(略) 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共15小
2、题:每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ANew York Bicycle ToursBiking is the perfect way to see Lower Manhattan. The area is rich in architectural, historical and cultural beauty. Brooklyn Bridge Bike Rental makes your sightseeing easier by providing a map, a helmet, a chain lock
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10、ater. Let the dust settle a bit. But I have my fathers insistent voice in my head: the story is now, so you write it now. No one wants to read last weeks news.My father Michael was a journalist. He started at age 16 on his local paper, the Luton News, and after nine years there, he went on to a six-
11、decade career that saw him write more than 40 biographies of Hollywood stars and spend a quarter-century presenting a weekly radio show.From him I learned about deadlines and accuracy, and absorbed his rule about professional clothing, one he had been taught by his first boss. Even when he was worki
12、ng at home, my father would follow that rule: shirt and tie, every day.There were other less obvious lessons. The first is about being manly. Driven and competitive, he wasnt present for the birth of any of his three children, but he was the very model of being loving and faithful. In a pub, he migh
13、t manage some drinks, but his main focus would usually be the food menu. He was a model of a different kind of maleness.But perhaps the biggest lesson I learned from him was about resilience (恢复). He got deep blows, losing both his wife and firstborn child, my sister Fiona, within two years of each
14、other. And yet, somehow, he got back up again. He taught himself to cook and continued to dress neatly, picking out a bright jacket that ensured he stood out in a room. He would meet editors and write stories with the same hunger he had 65 years earlier. Younger colleagues keep using the same word a
15、bout him: appealing.I hope I learned his resilience, the way I learned about being a journalist. People keep telling me that my father was proud of me; and the truth is I was proud of him. Raised in a hard-up corner of wartime England, he went off to see the worldand he never stopped looking forward
16、 and upward, staring at the stars.24What has made the author write down the text so soon?AHis fathers words motivated him to do so.BHe wanted to settle down after the writing.CHe wanted to write it before he forgot it.DIt was the story he insisted on writing.25What was the authors impression of his father?AHe always man