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　　2014年河南省实验中学高考考前学校模拟三
　　英语试题卷
　　本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。第I卷包括第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节，第II卷包括第三部分的第二节和第四部分。考试时间120分钟，满分150分（听力算作参考分）。考生应首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上作答无效。交卷时只交答题卡。
　　第I卷
　　第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）（略）
　　第二部分阅读理解（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和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A
　　Willa Cather once said，"When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road，I always answer with the famous saying：The end is nothing; the road is all. That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never used the computer with the thought that one more task had to be done.”
　　Like most writers，Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her，but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were，like her，simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska，where she grew from child to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild flowers，wheat fields and rivers.
　　“It's a rather strange thing about the flat country，”she wrote later. “It takes hold of you，it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull；they lirch tower，an old factory，a waterfall，the country all made to look like a German Christmas card…But when I come to the open plain，something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently.”
　　21. Willa Cather wrote because she found writing_______.
　　A. simple and lively          B. opened up a road to success
　　C. neither too hard nor too easy          D. interesting and enjoyable
　　22. What was the place like where Cather grew up? _______
　　A. It was cold，plain and without a church.  B. It was vast, open, flat and wild.
　　C. It was like a German Christmas card. D. It was a colorful world of wild flowers.
　　23. When she said “It takes hold of you，it leaves you perfectly cold.”，Willa Cather meant that______.
　　A. you either love the place or hate it   
　　B. you decide either to stay or to leave
　　C. some find the place warm；others find it cold
　　D. some find the place peaceful；others find it wild
　　24. What happens when Cather comes to the open plain?______
　　A. She breathes differently from others.       B. She wants to make the place her home.
　　C. She feels completely comfortable.    D. She finds the place similar to her home.
　　B
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