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1、辽宁省葫芦岛市第一高级中学20212021届高三上学期期中考试 英语试题辽宁省葫芦岛市第一高级中学20212021学年度上学期期中考试高三英语试题命题人：凤城一中校对人：凤城一中高三英语组时间：100分钟满分：150分第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每题2分，满分30分）AWhos in control of your life？ Who is pulling your string？For the majority of us, its other peoplesociety, colleagues, friends, family or our religious
2、 community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are oth
3、er people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry（模仿）, their passions a quotation.”So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and l
4、imited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix （一剂毒品）. We worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug
5、is freedomthe freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end,theyre more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will b
6、uild our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions allthe time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.So how can we take back control？I think theres only one waymak
7、e a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values-not values imposed（强加）from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of othe
8、rs, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life. 21What Oscar Wilde says implies that _.A. most peoples thoughts are controlled by othersB. most people have a variety of thoughtsC. we have thoughts similar to those of othersD. other peoples thoughts are more important22What d
9、oes the author try to argue in the third paragraph ？A. We need to pay for what we want to get.B. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.C. We may lose ourselves to please others.D. The price of taking drugs is freedom.23 In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should _.A. care
10、 about others opinions and change opinions all the timeB. guide ourselves by means of values from the outsideC. stick to our own valuesD. persuade others to accept our opinions24It can be concluded from the passage that _.A. its important to accept others opinionsB. its better to do what we likeC. w
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