甘肃省甘南州卓尼县柳林中学2018-2019学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

2018-2019学年年度第一学期期中考试 高二英语试卷 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) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 A Chinese 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 even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will learn a musical instrument or ballet or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So the 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 children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s 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 aren’t teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever. Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It’s an enjoyable but difficult experiment. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually to finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence. Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your children 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 aren’t merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather 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 children B. are too rich to educate their children C have some problems in educating their children correctly D. are too poor to educate their children 2. Generally speaking, children’s skills_____. A. come from their parents B. have nothing to do with their education C. may be different D. have something to do with their marks in the exams 3. The writer of this passage doesn’t seem to be satisfied with_____. A. the parents’ idea of educating their children B. the educational system C. children’s skills D. children’s hobbies 4. According to the last paragraph, we can conclude that_____. A. broken radios and television sets are useful B. one’s curiosity may be useful for his later life C ... ...