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1、安徽定远县2017高考英语课外阅读理解一轮改编（二）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。 Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as honor help you create this life of good feelings. Heres an example to show how honorable
2、 actions create happiness. Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerks mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about t
3、he uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul. Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness? In the first case, where we dont tell the clerk, a couple of things would
4、 happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot lie trusted, since we advertise Our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling o
5、thers. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerks attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodne
6、ss and a sense of nobility. There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And its easy to think and act honorably again when were happy. While the positive cyc
7、le can be difficult to start, once its started, its easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.6. According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to ourA. self-respect B. financial rewards C. advertising abilit
8、y D. friendly relationship7. The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to_.A. lying B. stealing C. cheating D. advertising8. The phrase bringing the error to the clerks attention (in para.5) means_.A. telling the truth to the clerk B. offering advice to the clerkC. aski
9、ng the clerk to be more attentive D. reminding the clerk of the charged item9. How will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?A. Well be very excited. B. Well feel unfortunate.C. Well have a sense of honor. D. Well feel sorry for the clerk.10. Which of the following can be the best title of t
10、his passage.*A. How to Live Truthfully B. Importance of PeacefulnessC. Ways of Gaining Self-respect D. Happiness through Honorable Actions【参考答案】ABACD阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。He was once referred to as the Picasso of poetry. Beloved by Chileans of all classes, he is one of the most widely read a
11、nd respected poets in history. And this year is the 100th birthday of Pablo Neruda (1904-1973).Born with the name Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto, he was a tall, shy and lonely boy. He loved to read and started to write poetry when he was ten. The American poet Walt Whitman, whose framed picture Nerud
12、a later kept on his table, became a major influence on his work.However, his father did not like the idea of having a poet for a son and tried to discourage him from writing. To cover up the publication of his first poem, he took the pen name Pablo Neruda.In 1924 Neruda gained fame with his most wid
13、ely read work “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Yet his rich experience as a diplomat and exile made him go beyond the theme of love. His work also reflected the political struggle of the left and development of South America. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.Neruda love
14、d the sea which he saw as creative, destructive and forever moving. He found inspiration in the power and freedom of the waves and the seabirds on the coast. “I need the sea because it teaches me,” he wrote. “I move in the university of the waves.” He loved how the sea forever renewed itself, a rene
15、wal echoed in his work.5. The underlined word “Picasso” can probably be replaced by “_”.A. most important person B. famous person from PicassoC. freedom fighter in Picasso D. poem fan6. Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto took the pen name Pablo Neruda because _.A. literary greats usually used the pen name B. his father encouraged him to use the nameC. he wanted to prevent his father knowing the publicationD. he was greatly influenced by other poets7. Which of the following is not the theme of his works?A. Love. B. Political struggle. C. Social reform. D. Develop
