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1、辽宁省实验中学分校2017届高三英语上学期期中试题本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分,考试时间120分钟，满分150分。第I卷第一部分：听力 (略)第二部分：阅读理解（共两节）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）AI am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up
2、. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约)mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends. And they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.So heres what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a
3、 desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that yo
4、u have no business taking it for granted.It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, i
5、t would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.I learned to love the journey, not the destination, I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally
6、. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face, Learn to be happy, and think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.21. The best title
7、of this passage probably is _. A. Love your friends B. Live a real life C. Dont waste time D. Be a good mother and wife22. How did the author form her view of life?A. Through social experience. B. By learning from her friends.C. Through an unfortunate experience. D. From her children and husband.23.
8、 By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to _. .A. make a living rather than live a real life B. work rather than enjoy lifeC. waste a lot in life D. forget the most important lessons in lifeBThousands of
9、 people began pouring into Pennsylvania from other states. They wanted to buy lottery tickets (彩票). The tickets cost only $ 0.9 each. But that small spending could bring them a reward of $ 90 million .That was the second largest lottery jackpot (积累奖金) in history . More than 87 million tickets were b
10、ought for the Pennsylvania lottery drawing. Those who bought tickets had to choose seven numbers from 1 to 80The chance of winning was one in 9.6 million, but that little chance certainly didnt affect ticket sales. In the last few days before the drawing, tickets were sold at the unbelievable rate o
11、f 500 per second . Experts say many people buy lottery tickets because they just want to have a piece of the action. Others say the lottery is a stock market for poor people. It allows them to dream about wealth theyll probably never have. But many people believe lotteries are no better than legaliz
12、ed (合法化的) gambling（赌博） . Some critics note that most people who play are poor and may not be able to afford the tickets. There are also many addicts who take the game seriously. They may pour their life savings into lottery tickets. Some clubs have been formed to help them kick the habit. Politician
13、s like lotteries because they provide money that would otherwise have to come from new taxes. The profits from lotteries are usually used to pay for education or programs for senior citizens. But critics say this arrangement just allows states to legalize vice (恶习), under the name of social progress
14、. No matter whether you regard state lotteries right or not, you cannot refuse to accept their extreme popularity with many Americans. 24. They main idea of the passage is that _. A. lotteries are of great benefit to everyone who buys them B. playing a lottery is just like investing in the stock mar
15、ket C. many people buy lottery tickets , but lotteries cause disagreement D. lotteries are nothing but legalized vice 25. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Politicians like lotteries because they dont have to pay extra taxes. B. The popularity of lotteries in America actually is social progress. C. Some critics dont like lotteries because many poor people waste money on them. D. People love the lottery because it is a stock market. 26. In just one hour in the last few days, the Pennsylvania lottery sold tickets totaling_. A. $ 1.62 mi
