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　　2015-2016学年度上学期期中考试
　　高三英语试题
　　时间：100分钟      满分：150分
　　第二部分  阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
　　第一节（共15小题；每题2分，满分30分）
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　　Who’s in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it’s other people—society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people lis. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”
　　So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it mas feel good. We long for this good feeling lig. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix (一剂毒品). We worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.
　　But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom—the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, they're more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions allthe time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.
　　So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way—make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values---not values imposed（强加）from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.
　　21．What Oscar Wilde says implies that _____________.
　　A. most people’s thoughts are controlled by others
　　B. most people have a variety of thoughts
　　C. we have thoughts similar to those of others
　　D. other people’s thoughts are more important
　　22．What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph ?
　　A. We need to pay for what we want to get.
　　B. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.
　　C. We may lose ourselves to please others.
　　D. The price of tags is freedom.
　　23． In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should _________.
　　A. care about others’ opinions and change opinions all the time
　　B. guide ourselves by means of values from the outside
　　C. sticr own values
　　D. persuade others to accept our opinions
　　24．It can be concluded from the passage that __________.
　　A. it’s important to accept others’ opinions
　　B. it’s better to do what we like
　　C. we shouldn't change our own opinions
　　D. we shouldn’t care what others thinch
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