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1、山西省朔州市怀仁某校2018-2019学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第1节 （共15小题，每小题3分，满分45分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、和D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 AWhen I was growing up，I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl，a spy or a great actressNot a dentist，like my father，or a homemaker，like my mother-certainly not a writer，although I always lov
2、ed to readI didnt know anything abut writers，even though I loved to make up stories inside my headI made up stories while I bounced （反弹） a ball against the side of our houseI made up stories playing with paper dollsAnd I made them up while I practiced the piano，by pretending to give piano lessonsI a
3、lways had an active imaginationBut I never wrote down any of my storiesWhen I grew up，my need for story telling didnt go awaySo when my own two children started pre-school I began to write and Ive been writing ever since!My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start to wr
4、ite a book about themThen，they become so real to me that I talk about them at the dinner table as if they were realSome people consider this weirdBut my family understandMany of my books are set in New Jersey because thats where I was born and raisedI lived there until my kids finished elementary sc
5、hoolThen we moved to New Mexico，the setting for Tiger EyesI also spent two years in Connecticut，where Just As Long As Were Together and Heres To You，Rachel Robinson are setI dont think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really wellNow I live in New York City with my husband，George Coop
6、erBetween us we have three grown children and one grandchildOur lives are busy，sometimes too much so，but never dullAnd yes，Im still writing1When the writer was young she_Aheard many love stories Benjoyed writing story booksCnever thought of becoming a writer Dcould make up stories of different peopl
7、e2The writer always had a gift for_Aplaying at home alone Bcreating all kinds of storiesCattracting others attention Dsolving problems by herself3. The writer started to write when_Ashe began primary school Bher first grandchild was bornCher children started preschool Dshe got married to George Coop
8、er4 What can be conclude from the text？_AIt is never too late to learn BWell begun is half doneCActions speak louder than wordsDInterest is the best teacher BA funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution：we stopped talking to one anotherI was walking in the park with a friend re
9、cently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversationThere we were walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day andI became invisible, absent from the conversationThe telephone used to connect you to the absentNow it makes people sitting next to you feel absentWhy is it that the more connec
10、ted we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction(互动)With email and instant messaging over the internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one anotherWith voice mail, you can conduct entire conver
11、sations without ever reaching anyoneIf my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machineAs almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated(自动化), the alienation index(疏远指数)goes upYou cant even call a person to get the phone number of another person any moreDirector
12、y assistance is almost always fully automatedI am not against modern technologyI own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice mail system, and an email accountGiving them up isnt wisetheyre a great help to usIts some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasyMore and moreI find myself hiding
13、behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversationOr being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didnt really have time to talkThe industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelieror at least facilitating my antisocial instinctsSo Ive put myself on technology restriction：no ins
14、tant messaging with people who live near me, no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when Im at home5.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?AThe Advance of Communications TechnologyBThe Consequences of modern TechnologyCThe Story of Commu
15、nications RevolutionD .The Automation of Modern Communications6.The sentence “Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent” means that _Athe people sitting beside you have to go away to receive a phone callB. you can hardly get in touch with the people sitting beside youC.modern technology makes it hard for people to have a face to face talkD.people can now go to work without going to the office now7.The writer feels that the use of modern communications is _Asatisfying Bencouraging Cdisappointing De
