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1、高二年级开学之初英语考试试题一、阅读理解：60AMost of my friends speak several Ianguages. My friend Hans Kimmel, for example, speaks three Ianguages German, French and English. And my friend Pavlov speaks four Ianguages Russian, French, Spanish and English. Then there is Charles Zhou. His native Ian guage is Chin ese, bu
2、t he speaks three or four other Ian guages flue ntly. I do not un dersta nd it. They speak, read and write all those Ian guages, and I only know one Ian guage En glish. Why can t I speak any foreign larigages? Am I stupid to learn a foreign Ianguage?Maybe it is all a questi on of home and environmen
3、t. My pare nts do not speak any other Ian guages, so of course we speak En glish at home. But look at Hans. His father is Germa n and his mother is French. So he speaks two Ianguages at home. And look at John family. His father is Russia n and his mother is Spani sh. So they speak two Ian guages at
4、home.Perhaps it is a question of geography, too. I live in the United States, and I can travel hun dreds of miles with only one Ian guage En glish. But it is differe nt for Hans in Europe. He lives in Germa ny, but i n a few hours he can travel to France, or to Italy, or to Holla nd, or to Denm ark.
5、 So of course he hears other Ian guages all the time. And he n eeds other Ian guages.I am studying Italian this term at the university, but I am not learning very much Italian. I can not practice it at home or in restaura nts or in stores. I only speak it three hours each week in the classroom. That
6、 s all. The rest of thqoemieE nglish. Maybe I should go to Italy fora few mon ths. The n perhaps I could really learn Italia n.1. Who can speak Fren ch, Germa n and En glish ?A) The author himself.B) Hans Kimmel.C) Charles.D) Joh n.2. The pers on whose mother ton gue is Chin ese is.A) a friend of Zh
7、ou sB) PavlovC) ZhouD) Hans3 According to the writer s opinion, the reason why he canknothspeanguages is that _A) he is stupidB) he is not good at lear ning Ian guagesC) he is not in terested in lear ning Ian guagesD) he lives in an English- speaking country and his parents don t speak any other Ian
8、guagesexcept En glish4. The writer thinks that if a pers on wants to lear n a foreig n Ian guage well, he should.A) study hardB) go to ItalyC) have a good Ian guage situati onD) be clever and good at lear ning Ian guages5. The writer s native langu .A) Russia nB) Italia nC) En glishD) Germa nBMany a
9、 young pers on tells me he wants to be a writer. I always en courage such people, but I also explain that there s a big differenee betweend wbeigg aiumoet” ancases individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. “ You ve got to want to write,” I say to them, no
10、t want to be a writer.The reality is that writing is a Ionely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the US Coast Guard to become a freelanee writer（自由撰稿者）,I had no prospects at all
11、. What I did have was a friend who found me a room in a New York apartme ntbuildi ng. It did nt even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.After a year or so, however, I still had nt got a break and began to doubt myse
12、lf. It washard to sell a story that barely made eno ugh to eat. But I knew I wan ted to write. I had dreamed about it for years, I wasn g oing to be one of those people who die wondering. What if? I would keep putt ing my dream to the test-eve n though it mea nt livi ng with un certa inly and fearof
13、 failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and any one with a dream must learn to live there.6. The passage is meant toA. war n young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experie nees unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fameB. advise young people to give up their idea of
14、beco ming a professi onal writerC. show young people itD. encourage young people to pursue a writing career7. What can be con cluded from the passage ?s success depends on luck rather than on effort.C.Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolati on.9.“ Iwasn going to be one of those people who
15、 die wondering. What if ?” refers to“ those. ”A. who thi nk too much of the dark side of lifeB. who regret givi ng up their career halfwayC. who think a lot without mak ing a decisi onA. Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.B. A writer“ Shadowland ” in the last paragraph r
16、efers toD.who are full of imagi nati on even upon death10.A. the won derla nd one ofte n dream abouts final goal is reached s imaginationCB. the bright future that one is look ing forward toC. the state of un certa inty before oneD. a world that exists only in oneJules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828 and died in 1905.
