2021届北京市丰台区丰台第一中学高三英语一模试卷及答案解析

2021届北京市丰台区丰台第一中学高三英语一模试卷及答案解析

第一部分 阅读（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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项

A

Thank you. It’s my great honor to be given this award.

You cannot imagine that I have always been a late starter. Years ago, when I was 16, I took an important exam

— GCE(General Certificate of Education), which turned out to be a failure. My dad was reading my report card and

saw that my position in class was 29th, but the number in class was 29. It meant that I had achieved the

distinction of being bottom of my class.

I wasn’t lazy, and I was really trying. You can picture how I felt. Dad put his hand on my shoulder and said,

“You can only do the best you can, but whatever you decide to do, make sure you love it.” He was a really sweet

guy and a great man. I knew his attempt to hide his disappointment with some of his encouraging words. I was

depressed for a week, but his advice was a wake-up call.

Fortunately I love working with my hands, and I was good at two things: woodwork and art, and I really loved

to draw and paint. I was quite talented. Dad strongly encouraged me to go to art school, which in those days

wasn’t the obvious place that a father would suggest.

So I got into Hartlepool College of Art. The college was a revelation (出乎意料), the passionate teachers there,

who were extremely interested in the students, not just tolerating them but actually engaging with them. It was a

world apart from my schooling until then. It’s extraordinary what an enthusiastic teacher can do, drawing the

student out, lighting independence, and encouraging a design of your own future, rather than waiting for

something to happen. I’m honored to have become one of these passionate teachers years later.

My teachers inspired me, and thanks to my dad, here I am tonight. I think I should mention all the talents I

have worked with over time, and to my kids and my wife Giannina, thank you.

Thank you for this great award. I shall find a very special place for it.

1. How did the author feel after taking GCE?

A. Happy. B. Upset. C. Tired. D. Relieved.

2. What didHartlepoolCollege of Art impress the author most?

A. The teachers were strict with students.

B. The students set good examples for each other. C. The teachers inspired students’ passion for learning.

D. The students got prepared for their lessons independently.

3. The author gave this speech to ________.

A. share his career choice

B. explain his teaching methods

C. describe his life experience

D. show his appreciation

B

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people were always in the right place at

the right time, while others consistently experienced ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers

asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky. Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered

for my research. Over the years I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in various

experiments.

In one of the experiments, I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, asking them to look through it

and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the

newspaper, saying, “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and you will win $50.” This message took up half of

the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone in the face, but the

unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally more nervous than lucky people, and this anxiety affects their ability to notice

the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.

They go to gatherings concentrating on finding their perfect partners and miss opportunities to make good friends.

They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of

jobs.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are

looking for. My research eventually showed that lucky people are skilled at noticing opportunities, make lucky

decisions by listening to their intuition (直觉), are open to new experiences, and adopt a never-say-die attitude

that transforms bad luck into good luck.

4. What’s the purpose of the author’s research?

A. To discover what luck means to people.

B. To find lucky people and unlucky people.