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　　许昌市三校联考高一上学期第三次考试
　　英语试卷
　　（考试时间：120分钟   总分：150分）
　　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
　　If Confucius（孔子）were still alive today and could celebrate his September 28 birthday with a big cake, there would be a lot of candles. He’d need a fan or a strong wind to help him put them out.
　　While many people in China will remember Confucius on his special day, few people in the United States will give him a passing(短暂的) thought. It’s nothing personal. Most Americans don’t even remember the birthdays of their own national heroes.
　　But this doesn’t mean that Americans don’t care about Confucius. In many ways he has become a bridge that foreigners must cross if they want to reach a deeper understanding of China.
　　In the past two decades, the Chinese studies programs have gained huge popularity in Western universities. More recently, the Chinese government has set up Confucius Institutes in more than 80 countries. These schools teach both Chinese language and culture. The main courses of Chinese culture usually included Chinese art, history and philosophy（哲学）. Some social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantages of the ancient Chinese wisdom to map for the drawbacks of Westerners philosophy. Students in the United States, at the same time, are racing to learn Chinese. So they will be ready for life in a world where China is an equal power with the United States. Businessmen who hope to make money in China are reading boot Confucius to understand their Chinese customers.
　　So the old thinker’s ideas are still alive and well.
　　Today China attracts the West more than ever, and it will need more teachers to introduce Confucius and Chinese culture to the West.
　　As for the old thinker, he will not soon be forgotten by people in the West, even if his birthday is forgotten.
　　1. The opening paragraph is mainly intended to ________
　　A. provide some key facts about Confucius
　　B. attract the readers’ interest in the subject
　　C. show great respect for the ancient thinker
　　D. prove the popularity of modern birthday celebrations
　　2. We can learn from Paragraph 4 that American students______
　　A. have a great interest in studying Chinese
　　B. take an active part in Chinese competitions
　　C. try to get high scores in Chinese exams
　　D. fight for a chance to learn Chinese
　　3. What is the best title for the passage?
　　A. Forgotten Wisdom in America      B. Huge Fans of the Chinese Language
　　C. Chinese Culture for Westerners     D. Old Thinker with a Big Future
　　4. The passage is most likely to appear in ___________.
　　A. a biography lesson      B. a history paper
　　C. a newspaper           D. a philosophy textbook
　　B
　　The class of eighth grade at a Los Angeles middle school tap their rulers and nod their heads to the rhythm of the rap video shown on a screen. Their algebra（代数） teacher, LaMar Queen, uses rhyme to help them memorize seemingly difficult items to improve their grades.
　　Queen, 26, is now known at Los Angeles Academy Middle School as the rap teacher, but his fame has spread beyond the 2，200¬student school in this neighborhood. He's won a national award and shown teachers and parents how to use rap to teach children. “Math is a bad word for many students, but if we put it in a form that kids enjoy, they'll learn，” Queen said. “Rap is what the kids respond to. They don't have a problem memorizing the songs at all.”
　　Queen's math rap came about by chance. Two months after starting at LA Academy, he was frustrated（泄气的） when kids said his class was boring. They thought that he looked like the singer Kanye West, so they challenged him to rap.
　　Queen has been rapping since the seventh grade. With his students' challenge on his mind, he pushed aside work on his lesson plans and wrote a rap song Slope Intercept.