《辽宁省沈阳市第二十八中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《辽宁省沈阳市第二十八中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题（11页珍藏版）》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、辽宁省沈阳市第二十八中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题满分：120分 考试时间：100分钟 第I卷 （客观题，共70分）第一部分 阅读理解（共二节，满分40分）第一节：（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项AChinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or ev
2、en abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the bet
3、ter it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.Parents can see that their childre
4、n are very skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that todays children lack self-respect and self-confidence. The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are no
5、t teaching them the most important skills that they need to be confident, happy and clever.Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands pa
6、tience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.Some old machines, suc
7、h as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not merely teaching a child to read a book, but rathe
8、r to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.1. Parents in China, according to this passage, _.A. are too strict with their childrenB. are too rich to educate their childrenC. have some problems in educating their children correctlyD. are too poor to educate their children2. Generally spe
9、aking, what most parents fail to realize is _.A. that their children need to take extra-course activitiesB. that the more expensive an education is, the better it isC. that todays children lack self-respect and self-confidenceD. that their children first need to be a good cook if they want to get go
10、od marks in the exams3. The writer of this passage does not seem to be satisfied with_.A. the parents ideas of educating their childrenB. the education system C. childrens skills D. childrens hobbies4. Doing some cooking at home helps children_.A. learn how to serve their parents B. learn how to bec
11、ome strong and fat C. benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future D. make their parents believe that they are cleverBFinding a job is difficult. But what might be even more untowardis figuring out how to get used to the new environment that you are working in when you do finally manage to
12、get a new jobHere are some tips for dealing with the adjustment period Be friendly to people. Any job is better when you are friends of the people that you are working withYou should be friendly to everyone that you are meetingActually listen to what these people tell you. Most people like making fr
13、iends with those who are willing to listen. Stay positiveOne of the things that makes it difficult to adjust to a new job is negativityIf you automatically (无意识地) make judgments about things at the office that you arent going to like，then youre going to find it difficult to approach the job with a p
14、ositive attitudeTry to focus on the things that you like about the work and stay away from anyone that is saying negative things on the job Keep relaxed. Accept the fact that you probably arent going to get used to the new job immediately. You are going to make some mistakes; You are going to get co
15、nfused or youre going to confuse others by doing things differently from what theyre used toBe relaxed. The thing that you really need to get used to a new job is just time.Getting used to a new job or a new work environment isnt easy，but it doesnt have to be particularly difficult either. Get to kn
16、ow the people that you are working with and the unspoken rules of the place by paying attention to what is going on around you and accepting that its going to take some time to get used to it all! After you have adjusted to your new job，the way to do the job well is coming to the first question5. The underlined word “untoward” in Para.1
