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1、黑龙江省哈尔滨师范大学青冈实验中学校2018-2019学年高二英语12月月考试题（实验班）第一部分: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。AAbout six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldnt help overhearing parts o
2、f their conversation. At one point the woman asked,“So, how have you been?”And the boy who could not have been more than seven or eight years old replied,“Frankly, Ive been feeling a little depressed lately.”This incident stuck in my mind because it strengthened my growing belief that children are c
3、hanging. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didnt find out we were“depressed”until we were in high school.The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children dont seem childlike any more. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave mor
4、e like adults than they used to.Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?Human development is based not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social r
5、ole to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new situation. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation machine has been fixed
6、 in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information, indiscriminately, to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pic
7、tures.Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practised. Children must read simple books before they can read compl
8、ex materials.1.Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world _ .A. through touch with society B. gradually and under guidanceC. naturally and by biological instinct D. through exposure to social information2.In the authors opinion, the phenomenon that todays children seem adultli
9、ke is caused by _.A. the widespread influence of television B. the poor arrangement of teaching contentC. the fast step of human intellectual development D. the constantly rising standard of living3.Why is the author in favor of communication through print for children?A. It enables children to gain
10、 more social information.B. It develops childrens interest in reading and writing.C. It helps children to memorize and practise more.D. It can control what children are to learn.BEndangered languages are languages that wouldnt exist any longer, much like endangered species of plants or animals. Lang
11、uages are considered to be endangered when parents are no longer teaching the language to their children and are not using it actively in everyday life. A language is considered to nearly disappear when it is spoken by only a few elderly native speakers.The world faces enormous challenges in order t
12、o protect different kinds of languages. Of the more than 6,912 languages, half may be in danger of disappearing in the next several decades.It is caused by many reasons: small numbers of speakers, the regular use of other languages, attitudes towards their languages, moving of the younger population
13、, government policies, and languages used in education and so on. A language may lack important things such as a body of literature, and people who read and write it. A language may also lack prestige (声望) and support of its speakers.The survival of a language is also threatened when speakers move t
14、o other areas where different languages are spoken, or when government policies improve the use of a specific language in school, official business and the media. These situations encourage people to learn the wider-known language and may cause them, especially the young, to stop using their mother
15、tongue. Often those speaking lesser-known languages will choose to learn a more prestigious language with the hope of greater economic opportunities. Most of the worlds parents are teaching their children English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian or some other main languages instead of thei
16、r own languages for social and economic reasons.4.Whats the main idea of this passage?A. Languages in the world. B. Reasons why languages become endangered.C. What an endangered language is. D. Languages spoken by few speakers.5.About _languages will probably disappear in this century according to the passage.A. more than 6,912 B. more tha
