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1、福建省福州市2020届高三英语第三次质量检测（线下二模）试题第二部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B.C和D)中,选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWant to be more successful? If so, then you need to read a few self-help books.Here are four popular ones to get you going.59 Seconds ( 2009) by Richard WisemanThis is a self-help b
2、ook with a difference. Wiseman, a scientist, uses science to prove many self-help myths(神话) are false. For example, self-help books say that if you want to achieve a goal, you should visualize it. But Wiseman says thats the worst thing to do. Studies show that you need to visualize the steps require
3、d to achieve the goal.How to Win Friends& Influence People ( 1936) -by Dale CarnegieThis is the book that launched the self-help type. Carnegie says financial success is 15%professional knowledge and 85% the ability to express ideas, assume leadership, and motivatepeople. The book is full of practic
4、al advice on how to influence people by making them like you.The Millionaire Next Door (1996) by Thomas Stanley & Wlliam DankoThe authors of this book spent years interviewing American millionaires to figure out the secrets of their success. And they discovered that a majority of millionaires dont l
5、ive luxury lifestyles. Theyre rich because they live below their means and reinvest what they earn.Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)-by Spencer JohnsonWho Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on September 8, 1998, is a motivational business fable(寓言)
6、. The text describes change in ones work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two little people，during their hunt for cheese.21. What is the key to achieving success in 59 Seconds?A. To employ science. B. To follow examples.C. To picture procedures. D. To visualize t
7、he goal.22. What is Dale Carnegies book mainly about?A. How to master occupational knowledge. B. How to apply practical techniques.C. How to gain strong management. D. How to become popular persons.23. Which book can help you adapt to change in your life?A.59 Seconds B. Who Moved My Cheese?C. The Mi
8、llionaire Next Door D. How to Win Friends& Influence PeopleBWhen Millet was a boy he worked on his needy fathers farm. At the rest hour in the fields the other workers would all take naps, but young Millet would spend time drawing, Finally the village where he lived gave him a little money to Paris
9、to study art.When Millet reached Paris he had a tough time. Fortunately, when he was almost starving, someone bought one of his peasant paintings, which enabled his family to leave for Barbizon.Millets pictures of peasants at work were painted in a unique way. The painter would go out on the farms a
10、nd watch them carefully- digging, hoeing, spreading manure, sawing wood, or sowing grain. Then he would come home and paint what he had seen. So astonishingly accurate was his memory that he could paint at home without models and get all the movements of his figures right. When he did need a figure
11、to go by he would ask his wife to pose for him.One of his noted artworks is called The Sower , which shows a man seeding. He reaches into his bag for seed and then swings backward to scatter the seed, and with each swing of his hand the sower strides forward. In Millets picture the sower has been wo
12、rking hard, but his swinging step and arm still move smoothly, like a machine. Only the mans head reveals his great tiredness.Another masterpiece is called“The Gleaners. A gleaner is someone picking up the leftover in the field after the wheat harvest. When farmers near Barbizon are extremely badly-
13、off, even the little the gleaners can find is a help. You can see from Millets picture what back-breaking work gleaning must be.24. What do we know about Millet?A. His wife supported him to be a painter. B. He was keen on painting as a kid.C. He spent his whole life in Barbizon. D. He was brought up
14、 in Paris.25. How did he paint the laboring farmers?A. Asking models for help. B. Imagining figures in the field.C. Remembering what he had observed. D. Recalling the days on his fathers farm.26. What do Millets works convey?A. The farmers hardships. B. The scene of farming.C. His love for the villa
15、ge. D. His anxiety about the farmers.27. What painting style of Millet can be inferred from the text?A. Impressionistic. B. Abstract. C. Romantic. D. Realistic.CThe London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), scheduled to open in 2021 with a target of admitting 100 students, will abandon traditional academic subjects and offer a three year bachelor of arts and sciences degree designed to deal with real-world issues. The curriculum is built around interdisciplinary problems- - knife crime , childhood obesity, plastic pollution, among others-as well as quantitative and qualitative research
