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1、江苏省部分学校2021-2022学年高一下学期第一次月考英语试题分类汇编阅读理解江苏省泰州中学2021-2022学年高一下学期第一次质量检测英语试题第一节（共12小题;每小题2. 5分, 满分30分）阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。ABefore COVID-19, a friend, named Mark, who lived in a southern English village, used to commute to London. Hed leave home at 7:45 a. m. and return at 9:00 p. m. , u
2、pset and worn out. He rarely saw his children, let alone his neighbours. Now he works remotely from his garden, takes the kids to school and has used his spare time to volunteer to manage a village tennis club. He has gone from a commuter to a key member of the community. He isnt alone. In the forme
3、r commuter belts of big cities, remote work is now creating the community. Is this a net gain for humanity, or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages?Commuting worsened the decline of life. Ever fewer Americans knew their neighbours, worked as a volunteer or went bowling in clubs any more. Every
4、10 minutes of commuting results in 10 percent fewer social connections. The Office for National Statistics found fewer chats or exchanges of favours with neighbours, a weakening sense of local belonging and falling membership of political, voluntary, professional or recreational organizations in 201
5、8 Compared with 2012. Id seen this over the decades in the neighbourhood where I finished school and where I still had family. At some point the church on the high street was replaced by a pub. Once people stopped gathering in pubs too, the place became a bad chain restaurant. I returned to the neig
6、hbourhood last month. COVID-19 has transformed it into a 15-minute suburb, where all the necessities of life are a walk away. Many residents now work from home. Everyone goes for a morning run, exchanging favours and, afterwards, parents appear in local coffee shops or hot-yoga Studios. You may make
7、 fun of these new urban daily life all you like, but they are what makes up the 21st-century community. After a week there, I was waving to familiar faces on the street. It felt like the suburban idyll in the 1950s recalled by the Beatles in Penny Lane, with the coffee shops where “all the people th
8、at come and go/stop and say hello”. Some people worry that the neighbourhood revival will kill off city centres. But in the long term, that wont happen in attractive cities. The people living in suburbs are going to London a day or so a week, and theyll go more often when nightlife and cultural area
9、s revive. They love central London. Some would happily move there. They just dont want to commute there every day. David Milder, an expert living downtown, sees Central Business Districts giving way to Central Social Districts. 1. Which of the following can best describe Mark life before COVID-19?A.
10、 Normal. B. Stable. C. Peaceful. D. Stressful. 2. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?A. The changes of peoples lifestyles. B. The impacts commuting has on life. C. The diversity of means of transport. D. The appearance of local communities. 3. What does the author want to express by mentioning
11、the suburban idyll?A. Community life makes people live more leisurely. B. There are great differences between communities. C. People long desperately to live in the countryside. D. New urban life needs people to work in the fields. 4. What is the authors attitude towards the neighbourhood revival?A.
12、 Unclear. B. Intolerant. C. Optimistic. D. Doubtful. BThere is no such thing as a perfect woman, and Nothing but Thirty screenwriter Zhang Yingji wanted to convey this message in telling the stories of three different women, who have found very different ways to climb their own mountains. Wang Manni
13、 is a woman who will climb any mountain as long as she finds it challenging. Zhong Xiaoqin is one who will only climb if she has someone to go along with her. She will not overexert herself, and she will definitely stop once she has reached a comfortable place. Gu Jia, on the other hand, has already
14、 started to think about reaching the peak before she even starts the climb, regardless of whether she is alone or has company. In a sense, the scriptwriter purposely created Gu Jia as the perfect woman of thirty. She is married, with a successful husband and a young son. She is living the dream, but
15、 Gu Jia does not feel complete. She feels lost. She is flawed. She has episodes of succumbing to her own greed and disregard to those around her. “She is someone who chases alter perfection. ” said Tong Yao (who portrays Gu Jia). “Obviously, this is stressful for those around her. She hides things.
16、She isnt perfect, but in front of others, she has to stay perfect. ”Her chase for perfection and her stubbornness to maintain this image has effected many of the relationships in her life. She chases after what she believes is right for others. Because of this, she and her husband start to see and value things differently, which puts a strain on their relationship. Gu Jias personal struggles give life to the c
