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1、2016-2017学年第二学期高四英语周练试题（4.16） 一、阅读理解When I first saw the book Alice in Lace, I thought I was going to like it. And as it turned out, I love it! I love books about life and being a kid. And Alice in Lace is just that kind. Its a humorous book about being thirteen and the problems kids might face. Ali
2、ce and her friends get a strange assignment from their totally cool teacher, Mr. Everett. It was like playing the game of “Life,” but you had to act it out. So Pamela is pregnant, Elizabeth buys a car and Alice gets married. Well, of course, Pamela wasnt really pregnant, but she walked around with a
3、 pillow under her shirt to get peoples reactions. Elizabeth didnt really buy a car, but she went to the car lot and made the sales guy think she was. The whole class got assignments like these! I would love to do something like that for school. In the book Alice has a lot to think about. “Getting ma
4、rried is hard!” Alice says. She has to plan the ceremony, the honeymoon, find a place to live, pay for furniture and two months rent and food. Maybe she and her “husband” could work it out if they were getting on fine! Although this book was funny, it really made me think about how problems like the
5、se could really mess up your life. Take teenage pregnancy for example. How could you have a baby and stay in school? You couldnt find a babysitter every day to stay with your kid. A child really consumes your life. I understand what the teacher was trying to do. He was trying to discourage the class
6、 from getting into these problems by giving them a glimpse of life. As someone about to become a teenager myself, I can say sometimes a story makes you think about whats up ahead.Overall, I would say this book is wonderful. My favorite part of the book is discovering that if I like it, there are sev
7、en other Alice books I can check out at my local library. I love this book, and I hope you will too.1We can infer from the passage that Pamela, Elizabeth and Alice _.A. turn out to be the authors classmates B. are characters in Alice in LaceC. get along quite wellD. become dismissed from school2By s
8、aying “getting married is hard” in the paragraph 3, Alice means _. A. life isnt easy as expected B. it is hard to deal with her husband C. she regrets getting married D. its fun to get married3Why did Mr. Everett give his students such assignments?A. To encourage them to enjoy a meaningful life.B. T
9、o prevent them getting into those troubles at an early age. C. To make them realize the hardship of life. D. To teach them how to make a living. 4The author writes the passage mainly to _.A. advise us to buy Alice in LaceB. tell us how wonderful Mr. Everetts idea isC. share her inspiration from Alic
10、e in LaceD. show off her reading ability Have you ever seen a real night sky that looks like Van Goghs Starry Night? I hope not! So, why would an artist paint the sky this way? Perhaps I can answer that with another question. When youre happy, why do you sing instead of speaking? Or when youre in lo
11、ve, why do you speak of roses and honey? When we do these things, we, too are artists. Were using something that goes beyond a mere scientific description in order to communicate our feelings more powerfully than straightforward words can. So consider for a moment that Van Gogh might not have been h
12、allucinating on the night he painted this. Maybe he felt something so powerful that he had to go beyond the familiar to express it.I hope Im reminding you of something you already know as I describe the experience of being outside at night under a crystal clear sky that makes everything seem clean a
13、nd refreshing. So you look up. And suddenly you see the sky that youve seldom seen before. Its not just the same old dark night sky tonight. Instead, the blackness is a deep, rich blue that is more bottomless than any ocean. The stars are not spots of light but brilliant, magical diamonds that dance
14、 like tiny angels. In just this special moment, the sky is somehow alive, and it seems to speak to you silently about the meaning of infinity.Now look at the painting again. Can you see something of what makes this such a famous and well-loved image? But theres more here than that. Van Gogh painted
15、this while he was quite struck down by a mental disease. It is natural to imagine that he frequently battled the fear that he would never escape his prison to true freedom. It is natural for us to imagine this because each of us has faced our own personal prison, whether it be disease, the loss of a
16、 loved one, serious financial problems In such moments it is tempting to give up to despair and collapse in hopelessness.Looking at this painting, I imagine Van Gogh in just such a moment of despair, when he is struck by the memory of one of those amazing night skies. He recalls the sense that he is not alone, that there is a living, infinite world with rich colorful creatures and scen
