2018—2019学年度上学期省六校协作体高三期中考试 英语试题 阅读理解，共15小题，每题2分，共计30分。 A After a few moments, my passenger started a conversation. It began ordinarily enough: “How do you like driving a cab?” “It’s OK,” I said. “I make a living and meet interesting people sometimes. How about you? His reply intrigued me. “I would not change jobs even if I could make twice as much money doing something else.” I’d never heard that before. “What do you do?’’? “I’m in the neurology department at New York Hospital.” Then I decided to ask for this man’s help. We were not far from the airport. “Could I ask a big favor of you? I have a son, 15, a good kid. He wants a job, but a 15-year-old can’t get hired unless his old man knows someone who owns a business, and I don’t.” I paused. “Is there any possibility that you could get him some kind of summer job?” He didn’t respond for a while. Finally, he said: “Well, the medical students have a summer research project. Maybe he could fit in. Have him send me his school record.”I tore off a piece?of my brown lunch bag, and he scribbled his name on it and paid me. It was the last time I ever saw him. After I nagged, yelled, and finally threatened to cut off his pocket money, my son Robbie sent off his grades to the guy the next morning. Two weeks later, when I arrived home from work, my son was beaming. He handed me a letter from my passenger, saying he was to call my passenger’s secretary for an interview. Robbie got the job. He did minor tasks, unpaid, but he fit in well. The following summer, he worked at the hospital again with more responsibility. As high school graduation neared, Dr Plum was kind enough to write letters of recommendation for Robbie and he was accepted by Brown University. Finally, Dr Robert Stern, the son of a taxicab driver, became OB-GYN chief president at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Some might call it fate, and I guess it was. But it shows that something as ordinary as a taxi ride can change your life. 21. What does the underlined word “intrigued” in the second paragraph mean? ?? A. interested??????? B. confused??????? C. benefited???? D. challenged 高三英语，共（8）页 第1页 22. After the author got the passenger’s name, he _____. ?? A. found that his son got the summer job immediately. ?? B. found his son wasn’t interested in getting a summer job. ?? C. had difficulty persuading his son to send his school record. ?? D. asked for his help more than once. 23. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article? ?? A. The author loves his job and devotes himself to it. ?? B. Robbie was very eager to work at New York Hospital.? ?? C. The small summer job led to Robbie’s career. ?? D. Dr. Plum promised to help the author without hesitation. 24. The author develops the article mainly by_____. ?? A. providing examples???????? B. following the natural time order ?? C. making comparisons??????? D. presenting causes and effects B Have you ever had your hand held dur ... ...
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