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1、辽宁省实验中学分校 2015-2016 学年度上学期阶段性测试英语学科 高三年级 命题人：金娜 校对人： 崔志娇第一部分 （略）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。AI find it humorous sometimes that even the most ordinary incidents can have an impact on our awareness.My wife, daughter, and I moved i
2、nto our home nine years ago and we spent a lot of time and energy in the yard to get it looking like it does today. We live on a corner, higher than street level, and the entire side of the yard is surrounded by a professionally built rock wall. The front of the house though is another story because
3、 instead of a wall along the sidewalk, the rocks appear to be just thrown up onto the dirt as if someone were in a hurry to finish.来源:Z#xx#k.ComWe did the best we could with what we had to work with and called this area our “rock garden”. Whenever we had leftover flowers or plants, Denise or I would
4、 stick them out front, just to bring some color to the area.Last summer I had reached the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didnt plant it and Denise claimed that she didnt either. We decided to let it continue growing until we could
5、 figure out what it was.Weeks passed and as I made my wa y back to the mystery plant, it appeared to be a Sunflower. It had a tall skinny stalk (茎) and only one head on it. I decided to baby it along and weed around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something unusual
6、. The Sunflower had not started where I saw the stalk begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the sun.Thats when I realized that if a tiny little Sunflower didnt let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability to do the same thing.
7、We believe in ourselves like that little Sunflower, we can attain the same food and nutrition as well.Stand tall like the Sunflower and be proud of who and what you are and the environment will begin to support you. You will find a way to go under or around your big obstacle(障碍) in order to reach yo
8、ur desires.21. We can know from the second paragraph that _.A. the author finished building his home hurriedlyB. it took the author 9 years to make the yard beautifulC. the authors home was made of rock wallsD. the authors family have lived in this home for 9 years22. Why did the author and his wife
9、 decide to let the tiny little plant grow?A. Because they were interested in every little plant.B. Because t hey wanted to discover what it was.C. Because they wanted to use it to make the yard colorful.D. Because they were touched by its strong w ill.23. What does the underlined phrase “baby it alo
10、ng” mean?A. make shelter for it B. leave it aloneC. take good care of it D. put it elsewhere来源:Z,xx,k.Com24. What can be inferred from this passage?A. Human beings are able to remove obstacles.B. The universal truth made the Sunflower survive.C. A big rock blocked out the sunlight of the Sunflower.D
11、. We can achieve success as long as we are self-confident.BEducating girls quite possibly outputs a higher rate of return than any other investment (投资) available in the developing world. Womens education may be an unusual field for economists, but raising womens contribution to development is actua
12、lly as much an economic as a social problem. And economics, with its emphasis on motivation, provides an explanation for why so many girls cant receive education.Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the
13、family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody elses family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school the prediction becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of lack of a
14、ttention.An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance
15、. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a good circle.Few will disagree with it that educating women has great social benefits. But it has huge eco
16、nomic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each extra year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has an important influence on health practices, including family planning.25. The author argues that educating girls in
