河北省石家庄二中2014年8月高三开学考试英语试题及答案(2)

6. Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?
A. Because mistakes make us suffer a lot.
B. Because it’s a natural part in our life.
C. Because we’ve been taught so from a young age.
D. Because mistakes have ruined many people’s careers.
7. According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?
A. We should try to avoid making mistakes.
B. We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.
C. We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.
D. We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.
8. The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph 6 probably means         .
A. a small child learning to walk            B. a kindergarten child learning to draw
C. a primary pupil learning to read          D. a school teenager learning to write
9. We can learn from the passage that         .
A. most of us can really grow from success
B. growing and improving are based on mistakes
C. we learn to make mistakes by trial and error
D. we read about something and know how to do it right away
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding.   71  
The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else.   72   Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don’t have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement. 
The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.   73   Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “learning” means understanding more, not remembering more information.
What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding.   74   Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.
  75   It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.
A. Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.
B. Such communication between unequals must be possible.
C. We can get access to the content of those materials easily.
D. The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.
E. The writer should have a better communicating skill. 
F. Besides gaining information and understanding, there’s another goal of reading—entertainment.
G. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.


第二部分 英语知识运用
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Can I see my baby?” the happy new mother asked. When the baby was placed in her arms, she was   10  . The baby had been born without ears. Time   11   that the baby’s hearing was perfect. It was only his   12   that was damaged. When he rushed home from school one day and     13   himself into his mother’s arms, she sighed,   14   that he would have many heartbreaks in his life. He grew up and became a(n)   15   with his classmates. He might   16   have been class president, but for that. The boy’s father   17   with the family physician in secret. “Could   18   be done?” the father asked. “I believed I could   19   on a pair of outer ears, if they could be got.” the doctor answered. So the   20   began for a person who would make such a   21   for a young man. Two years went by. Then the father said, “You are going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will give the ears you need.   22   it’s a secret,” said the father. The operation was very   23  , and a new person appeared. “But I must know!” he urged his father. “Who   24   so much to me? I could never do enough for him.” “I do not believe you could,” said the father. The secret was   25   for years till he stood with his father over his mother’s coffin(棺材). Slowly and   26  , his father raised his mother’s thick brown hair to   27  that his mother had no outer ears. “Mother said she was   28   she never let her hair be cut,” he whispered gently, “and nobody ever thought she was less   29  , did they?” 
10. A. angry           B. disappointed  C. surprised    D. curious
11. A. proved    B. seemed      C. told          D. saw
12. A. figure         B. face      C. ear           D. appearance