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1、- 1 - 河南省南阳市第一中学河南省南阳市第一中学 20182018 届高三英语第十九次考试试题届高三英语第十九次考试试题 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，阅读理解（共两节，满分满分 4040 分）分） 第一节（共 15 小题，每小题 2 分，共 30 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个 选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A A ClimbingClimbing WithoutWithout RopesRopes The popular image of the mountain climber is of a person carefully climb
2、ing a steep cliff with a network of safety ropes, but it is not the only kind. Many climbers now enjoy bouldering. Its more accessible and better for the environment. WhatWhat isis bouldering?bouldering? Bouldering is a sport that involves climbing on, over, and around boulders up to approximately t
3、wenty feet above the ground. Participants employ no safety ropes. WhyWhy boulder?boulder? improve your climbing skills by focusing on basics places to climb, such as climbing walls at gyms and parks, easy to find less time commitment to bouldering than to mountain climbing intellectual and physical
4、enjoyment as one solves problems BoulderingBouldering TermsTerms crimp: a very small handhold foothold: a place where one may place a foot to aid in climbing boulder jug: a very large handhold that is easy to use problem: The path up a boulder is referred to as the “problem” that one must solve. The
5、 “solution” is the sequence of moves one makes up and over a boulder. Here is an example of a climber addressing a bouldering problem. FigureFigure 1:1: The climber has two routes she could take, one to the left and one to the right. The left one appears easier because it has a jug within easy reach
6、, but look what happens if she chooses that direction. She gets stuck on the rock and has to go back down. Sometimes that is even difficult than going up. FigureFigure 2:2: The climber takes the one to the right this time. using a foothold and placing her right hand in a crimp, she is able to life h
7、erself up and locate other handholds. After only a few moves, she is able to throw her leg over the top of the - 2 - boulder and pull herself up. 21. According to the passage, bouldering _. A. is an indoor sport B. has no safety protection C. needs maps and equipment D. is a steep cliff climbing 22.
8、 Bouldering becomes popular because _. A. it challenges the limits B. it costs less C. it builds minds and bodies D. it is a team game 23. According to the example, the right route is _. A. a shortcut B. a dead end C. tough but to the top D. lined with jugs B B Finding true love can be prey tough fo
9、r a lot of people, but a lady from a fairly well-known San Francisco advertising agency seems to think money helps. She is offering $10,000 to any of her friends who can introduce her to her Mr. Right. She wants to find her future husband through this way. The unnamed husband seeker who sent out the
10、 email had just finished reading the best-selling book named Lean In. It was 11 p.m. on a Sunday night and she realized this was the second self-help book she had read in the month. She was still single. Things were not looking fine, but there was hope for her still. If the book had taught her anyth
11、ing, it was that she needed to take a more positive role in finding love. After all, if she wanted to get a better job, she wouldnt just sit outside an employers building and wait for someone to offer it to her, so why should finding a husband be any different? But instead of going out and meeting n
12、ew people she decided to write an email to all her friends, offering to give them $10,000 on her wedding day if any of them managed to introduce her to her future husband. - 3 - “I am writing you today because Ive decided to make an aggressive action plan on finding the man that I get to hang out wi
13、th forever,” the woman writes in her email. “Introducing me to my husband is just not high on your to-do list. But I think I have an idea that might change that” You guessed it, and this is where she offers to reward her “closest friends” with cold hard cash. “I will personally give ten thousand dol
14、lars to the friend who introduces me to my husband.” Here is how the program works: Step 1: You set me up on a date with a man. Step 2: I marry that man. Step 3: I give you $10,000 on my wedding day. I know youre thinking that this is nuts. Just plain crazy. You can find a husband without giving $10
15、,000. Well for starters, thank you! Im happy.” 24. What does the lady offer $10,000 to any of her friends for? A. Celebrating the fact that she has made a decision to find a husband. B. Checking the power of money among her circle of friends. C. Encouraging her friends to help find her Mr. Right. D.
16、 Sharing her happiness of having found true love. 25. What does the underlined word “nuts” mean in the last paragraph? A. delicious B. sensible C. angry D. foolish 26. Whats the purpose of the authors mentioning getting a better job in Paragraph 2? A. To stress the importance of finding a good job. B. To stress the importance of taking a positive atti
