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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 2017-2018学年南宁市第三中学高二下学期第一次月考英 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。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AChinese writers seldom win a big
2、 prize in the world. One of those prizes is the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, the highest honor in the world that can be given to an author and an illustrator of childrens books. No Chinese writer had ever won it, until April 4, 2016, when 62-year-old Cao Wenxuan received the prize. Cao received th
3、e honor at the Bologna Childrens Book Fair in Italy.Patricia Aldana praised Caos “deeply humanistic” books. These novels admit that life can be sad for children.Instilling children with good virtues for the sake of humankind is something that Cao stresses. He said, “Its time for us to alter our unde
4、rstanding of reading. Books should bring not only joy to young readers, but also have their ideas about life.”That feature of his works has touched many adults too. “The common choice of the judges, Cao writes beautifully about the lives of children facing great challenges,” said Aldana.After his su
5、ccess, Cao praised good translation for bringing attention to his work. Chinese childrens literature could get high honor in the world if it were correctly translated in a style that could be easily understood, he said.Other writers, including Jin Bo, have also blamed poor translation as the reason
6、why Chinese literature fails to get honor in the world. Jin was named for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 1992, but at that time, he had to translate, in a hurry, several paragraphs from his book to give to the judges. On one hand, the jury has little knowledge of Chinese authors. On the other
7、hand, it is we ourselves who didnt introduce our work and promote (促进) ourselves enough, he said in a class in 2013.1According to the passage, Cao was awarded, because _.A. the children in his books are poorB. he wrote books for childrenC. his books are about human kindnessD. he came to the Bologna
8、Childrens Book Fair2According to Cao, reading should _.A. change the ideas of children on booksB. help kids kill time gladlyC. bring more joy to childrenD. make children think actively about life3The last paragraph suggests that most Chinese writers _.A. poorly translate their books into EnglishB. f
9、ailed to get to know the judgesC. didnt try to introduce their books to foreignersD. didnt know how to introduce themselvesBYou may think, salt is just a simple cooking element we shake on our food for a littleextra taste. But salt is much more than that. Without salt our muscles would not move. Our
10、 nervous systems would not operate. Our hearts would not beat.But do not think rubbing salt in a wound will help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound. To rub salt in a wound is an idiom that means to purposefully make a bad situation worse.Early humans got the salt they needed to stay
11、 alive from the animals they killed. But advances in agriculture led to a diet low in salt. So, humans needed to find other sources. Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were lucky. Those who did not had to trade for salt. In fact, people used salt as a method of payment
12、in many parts of the ancient world. The word “salary” comes from the word “salt”.Salt also played an important part in population movement and world exploration. Explorers understood that if they could keep food fresh, they could travel longer distances. So they used salt to preserve food and explor
13、ed the world.Salt was so important that, according to food historians, it was traded pound-for- pound for gold. Today, people still use the expressions “to be worth ones salt” or “worth ones weight in salt”. The expressions describe a person of value.A person might also be called “salt of the earth”
14、. That description means he or she is dependable and trustworthy. However, when you say “I think we should take what he said with a grain of salt” you mean you accept it but maintain a degree of doubt about its truth.4What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Salt plays an important part in our
15、life.B. Salt makes food tasty.C. Salt is considered to be part of our muscles.D. Salt is sure to damage nervous systems.5A beggars bread was stolen last night, which means .A. salt of the earth B. rubbing salt in a woundC. a diet low in salt D. worth his salt6If you describe a person as a great help, you mean .A. he is called salt of the earth B. he is often taken as a grain of saltC. he often uses salt to preserve meat D. he is worth his weight in salt7Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Salt is more than a fo
