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　　试卷类型：A
　　广东省肇庆市中小学教学质量评估2014-2015学年第二学期统一检测高二英语试题
　　本试卷共8页，满分135分．考试用时120分钟.
　　注意事项：
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　　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）
　　阅读下面短文，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
　　A girl became a volunteer in the activities of Deathbed Care, which meant visiting and taking care of a patient suffering from an incurable disease with days numbered.
　　The girl was assigned to look after an old man suffering from cancer whose children lived abroad. Their living conditions were not satisfactory while the old man had a lot of savings. She was expected to comfort him and p his spirits.
　　Every Saturday the girl came on time to keep him company, telling him stories. When he was having an intravenous drip (静脉滴注), she would help massage his arms. The doctor found the patient much improved mentally. The old man began to involve himself actively in the medical treatment and he seldom shouted at others.
　　But something that happened made the doctor uneasy and puzzled. Each time the girl left, the old man would give her some money. The doctor did nothing to interfere, unwilling to offend the old man. A month later the old man showed evident signs of decline after suffering coma (昏迷) a few times.
　　When rescued from the latest coma, the old man told the doctor his last wish, “I have deep sympathy for the girl. Will you be kind enough to help her finish her studies？”
　　But the doctor knew that her family was well¬ off and she had no difficulty pursuing her studies. Sometimes she even came to the hospital in her father’s car.
　　When the girl came at the weekend after the death of the old man, the doctor told her the bad news. She was very sad and burst into tears. Then she handed $ 500 to the doctor, saying, “The old man had all along thought I came to do the job because of poverty. He gave me money so that I could continue my schooling.”Now he got the answer to the puzzle. In the last period of his life, the old man found it a real pleasure to be able to help a girl badly in need.
　　1. If you’re a volunteer in the activities of Deathbed Care, what kind of people do you have to attend to?
　　A．Patients with a lot of money.         B．Patients suffering from cancer.
　　C．Patients without many days left.      D．Patients living alone.
　　2. What can we learn from the passage?
　　A．The doctor told the old man the truth.  
　　B．The old man’s children were wealthy.
　　C．The girl’s father encouraged her to accept the money.
　　D．The girl didn’t accompany the old man when he died.
　　3. What is the real reason resulting in the old man’s mental improvement?
　　A．The girl’s love and great care.        B．The pleasure of helping people in need.
　　C．The doctor’s medical treatment       D．His children’s progress in life.
　　B
　　We know the famous ones--the Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells --but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper (雨刮器) ? Shouldn't we know who they are?
　　Joan Mclean thinks so. In fact, Mclean, a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range, feels so strongly about this matter that she's developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning "who" invented "what" , however, Mclean also likes her students to learn the answers to the "why" and "how" questions. According to Mclean, "When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try. "
　　Her students agree. One young man with a patent for an unbreambrella is walking proof of McLean's statement. "If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper's invention," said Tommy Lee, a senior physics major. "I never would have dreamed of turning my bad experience during a rain storm into something so constructive." Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer.
　　So, just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well, Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy, but Anderson still wanted to see the sights, so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow covering the windshield, she found herself wondering why there couldn't be a built-in device for cleaning the window. Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birmingham, Alabama, Anderson started drafting out solutions. One of her ideas, a lever (操作杆) on the inside of a vehicle that would control an arm on the outside, became the first windshield wiper.
　　Today we benefit from countless inventions and innovations. It's hard to imagine driving without Garrett A. Morgan's traffic light. It's equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J. Blodgett's innovation that makes glass invisible. Can you picture life without clear windows and eyeglasses?
　　4. By mentioning "traffic light" and "windshield wiper", the author indicates that countless inventions are_______.
　　A. beneficial, because their inventors are famous
　　B. beneficial, though their inventors are less famous
　　C. not useful, because their inventors are less famous
　　D. not useful, though their inventors are famous
　　5. Professor Joan McLean's course aims to _____.
　　A. add color and variety to students' campus life
　　B. inform students of the windshield wiper's invention
　　C. carry out the requirements by Mountain University
　　D. prepare students to try their own invention
　　6. Tommy Lee's invention of the unbreambrella was       .
　　A. not eventually accepted by the umbrella producer
　　B. inspired by the story behind the windshield wiper
　　C. due to his dream of being caught in a rainstorm
　　D. not related to Professor Joan McLean’s lectures
　　7. Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage?
　　A. How to Help Students to Sell Their Inventions to Producers?
　　B. How to Design a Built —in Device for Cleaning the Window?
　　C. Shouldn’t We Know Who Invented the Windshield Wiper?
　　D. Shouldn’t We Develop Invention Courses in Universities?
　　C
　　Disease, poverty, hate, love－Charles Dickens’ stories opened his readers eyes to the most important themes of his age. Two hundred years on, his stories still speames across the world, proving that Dickens’ legacy（遗产）was far greater than just “great-literature”.
　　February 7 marks the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birthday. To mark this date, BBC writer Alex Hudson listed six things Dickens gave the modern world. Let’s take a look at two of them.
　　A White Christmas
　　Dickens is described as “the man who invented Christmas” — not the religious festival, but the cultural aspects that we associate with the festive season today.
　　In the early 19th century, Christmas was barely worth mentioning, according to critic and writer Leigh Hunt. The committee which ran the Conservative Party even held ordinary business meetings on Christmas Day—unthinkable in the West nowadays, when everyone but the most necessary workers takes at least three days off.
　　Many people believe that Dickens’ popular descriptions of the fes