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1、河北省保定市高阳中学2014-2015学年高二英语下学期第四次周练试题第一部分 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）ADear Santa,What do I ask this year? I have read each ad carefully in my mailbox, and looked through the colorful ads in the newspaper. There are so many lovely things, but I need nothing.I realize this as I walk up the hil
2、l on my strong legs. I can hear the air fill my lungs. I feel the cold on my cheeks. I smell the smoke of the fire that warms my home. I see the snow-covered mountains and the small river dotted with fat geese.I need nothing. There are people who love me. There are people who forgive my sometimes ba
3、d temper and who touch me with loving hands. There are neighbors who smile in the store. There are shopkeepers who tolerate me when I dont have enough money. There are kind faces in public places. There is a fat cat who often slides into my garage. Dogs and other cats share my hearth (炉床); I love to
4、 feel their fur with my feet. There are hawks that teach their young how to fly, right there behind my house. There are deer that wander into my yard and smell apples.Green beans, tomatoes, peas and carrots color my kitchen. And a full bucket (桶) of hand tools and neatly dried seeds promise next yea
5、rs rich harvest. I need nothing. Today I discovered a hole in my jeans. I felt the December air flow down my leg. How powerful the hand is that sweeps the wind along the mountains! Santa, dear old soul, just give me another day like this one in my life. 1. The author has read each ad in his mailbox
6、in order to . A. find something as a present for himself B. find something as a present for his kids C. get the news about vegetable prices D. get the news about pet animals 2. Whats the authors attitude towards life? A. Uncertain. B. Anxious. C. Hopeful. D. Dissatisfied. 3. We can learn from the te
7、xt that the author . A. is very old and in bad health B. lives alone and has few friends C. is too poor to pay for good clothes D. may live close to mountains and riversBI want to become a journalist and I wonder what makes a good journalist. In order to find the answer, I talked to Mary Harte who w
8、orked with the BBC for over 20 years as a journalist. “Youve got to have the interest. If you dont like it, you will not persist because journalism is a very difficult job,” Mary said.Out of experience Mary told me that it was very important for a journalist to watch and talk to people. She said, “W
9、hat a journalist does is painting a little picture of a story. The information has to be accurate. Therefore, you really have to be watching and listening.” Mary also emphasized (强调) the importance of experience. “It is important to collect as many skills as possible to be able to stand out of the c
10、rowd. A lot of the skills come from experience, so you wont walk in the street and be a good journalist. You will be a good journalist because youve done it long enough,” she said.Mary said, “You will not get a job handed to you. You will have to be prepared to put in long hours; you will have to be
11、 prepared to ring people, and you will have to be prepared to have no money for quite a while. In a word, you will have to work hard for it. Then it gets to the stage where you love your job and you think Why is somebody paying me to do something that I really love?” From what an experienced journal
12、ist said, I learn that it is not just about the skills, but also the passion required to work in the field of journalism.4. The underlined part “not persist” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “ ”. A. stay upB. stand outC. give upD. keep up5. In Paragraph 2, Mary Harte mainly tells us that .A. being
13、a journalist is interesting B. journalists will face a lot of difficultiesC. the author must be fond of journalism D. many people give up journalism6. According to Paragraph 3, Mary Harte thinks that it is important to . A. get accurate information through talking and watching B. watch what other jo
14、urnalists do to make a wonderful story C. talk to people about how they want their stories to be written D. add as much information to a story as possible to make it funny7. By saying “You will not get a job handed to you” in Paragraph 5, Mary Harte means the author .A. will not become a journalist
15、B. will have to work hard for the jobC. will not get any help from othersD. will get tired of being a journalist soonCVolcan de Lodo El Totumo, ColombiaIf in Colombia at the end of February, you should make Cartagena part of your journey here between December and March every year is the opportunity to get dirty. Bathing in mud from the Volcan de Lodo El Totumo can be best described as a primal (原始的) experience. The volcano is small, looking more like a little hill. If you reach the very top, youll discover gray mud. Its believed that the mud has a curing effect in cleaning your skin. La
