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　　山西省山大附中2014-2015学年高二12月月考英语试题
　　考试时间：80分钟满分：100分
　　注意：本考试严禁使用手机，电子词典或其它电子存储设备，违者按作弊处理。
　　第Ⅰ卷（选择题共50分）
　　第一节：阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A   
　　Fourteen­year­old Richie Hawley had spent five years studying violin at the Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles when he took part in a violin contest. Ninety­two young people were invited to the contest and Hawley came out first.
　　The contest could have been the perfect setup for fear, worrying about mistakes, and trying to impress the judges. But Hawley said he did pretty well at staying calm. “I couldn't be thinking about how many mistakes I'd make —it would distract me from playing.”he says. “I don't even remember trying to impress people while I played. It's almost as if they weren't there. I just wanted to masic.”
　　Hawley is a winner. But he didn't become a winner by concentrating on winning. He did it by concentrating on playing well.
　　“The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part，”said the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin. “The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
　　A characteristic of high performers is their intense, pleasurable concentration on work, rather than on their competitors or future glory or money, says Dr. Charles Garfield, who has studied 1,500 achievers in business, science, sports, arts, and professions. “They are interested in winning, but they're most interested in self­development, testing their limits.”
　　One of the most surprising things about top performers is how many losses they've had —and how much they've learned from each. “Not one of the 1,500 I studied defined losing as failing，”Garfield says. “They kept calling their losses ‘setback’．”
　　A healthy attitude towards setbacks is essential to winning, experts agree.
　　“The worst thing you can do if you've had a setback is to let yourself get stuck in a prolonged depression. You should analyze carefully what went wrong, identify specific things you did right and give yourself credit for them.”Garfield believes that most people don't give themselves enough praise. He even suggests keeping a diary of all the positive things you've done on the way to a goal.  
　　1. What is common among high performers is that they tend to give priority to ________.
　　A．glory                B. Wealth     C. pleasure        D. Work
　　2. According to the passage, successful people concentrate on _______.
　　A．challenging their own limits B. learning from others
　　C. defeating their opponents D. avoiding setbacks
　　3. The passage tells us that “praise”in times of trouble ________.
　　A．helps people deal with their disappointment B. makes people forget their setbacks
　　C. makes people regret about their past D. helps people realize their goals
　　B       
　　Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert, seeking a million in prize money. To win, they had to finish the 142­mile race in less than 10 hours. Teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all, because these vehicles were missing a key part —drivers.
　　DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, organized the race as part of a push to develop robotic vehicles for future battlefields. But the Grand Challenge, as it was called, just proved how difficult it is to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance. One had its brake lock up in the starting area. Another began by throwing itself onto a wall. Another got tied up by bushes near the road after 1.9 miles.
　　One turned upside down. One took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote  control. One went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence; another managed to go for six miles but stuck on a rock. The “winner”，if there was any, reached 7.8 miles before it ran into a long narrow hole, and the front wheels caught on fire.
　　“You get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things，”says Reinhold Behringe, who helped design two of the car­size vehicles for a company called Sci­Autonics.“Even ants can do all these tasks effortlessly. It's very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines.”
　　The robotic vehicles, though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and GPS guidance, had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two­year­old human recognizes immediately. Sure, that very young child, who has just only learned to walk, may not think to wipe apple juice off her face, but she already knows that when there's a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table, and that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good. She is more advanced, even months old, than any machine humans have designed.
　　4．Watchers doubted if any of the vehicles could finish the race because ________.
　　A. they did not have any human guidance B. the road was not familiar to the drivers
　　C. the distance was too long for the vehicles D. the prize money was unattractive to the drivers
　　5．From the passage we know “robotic vehicles”are a kind of machines that________.
　　A. can do effortlessly whatever tasks living things can
　　B. can take part in a race across 142­miles with a time limit
　　C. can show off their ability to turn themselves upside down
　　D. can move from place to place without being driven by hu