此资源为用户分享，在本站免费下载，只限于您用于个人教学研究。

约20270字。

　　湖北省武汉市2016年高三最后冲刺英语试题
　　第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
　　A.
　　“Dr. Papaderos, what is the meaning of life?”
　　The usual laughter followed, and people stirred to go. Papaderos held up his hand and stilled the room and looked at me for a long time, asking with his eyes if I was serious and seeing from my eyes that I was.
　　“I will answer your question.”
　　Taking his wallet out of his hip pocket, he fished into a leather billfold and brought out a very small round mirror, about the size of a quarter. And what he said went like this:
　　“When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a remote village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror. A German motorcycle had been wrecked in that place.
　　I tried to find all the pieces and put them together, but it was not possible, so I kept only the largest piece. This one, and, by scratching it on a stone, I made it round. I began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine—in deep holes and crevices（裂缝）and dark closets. It became a game for me to get light into the most inaccessible places I could find.
　　I kept the little mirror, and, as I went about my growing up, I would tat in idle moments and continue the challenge of the game. As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child’s game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life. I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of light. But light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is there, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.
　　I am a fragment（碎片）of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world—into the black places in the hearts of men—and change some things in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.”
　　21. On hearing the author’s question, Dr. Papaderos __________ at first.
　　A. laughed at his foolishness     B. wasn’t sure of the answer
　　C. doubted his seriousness        D. wasn’t interested at all
　　22. How did Dr. Papaderos get the small round mirror when he was a child?
　　A. He found it on the road and made it round.
　　B. A dying German soldier gave him as a present.
　　C. He chanced to find it in the street while playing.
　　D. He put the broken pieces together and made it.
　　23. Why did Dr. Papaderos like the small round mirror so much as a child?
　　A. Because he was too poor to afford other toys.
　　B. Because it could shine the places where the sun couldn’t reach.
　　C. Because he believed it would bring good luck to him.
　　D. Because it told him a lot about what life really meant to him.
　　24. The underlined “metaphor” in the 7th paragraph most probably means _____ .
　　A. symbol      B. source         C. light    D. purpose
　　B.
　　The new world of today introduced new threats that were not known in the previous generations: Internet predators(掠夺者). Often we do a lot of our researching, shopping, talst about everything online nowadays. New advancements in revolution comes along with the unwanted attackers. There are people out there who gain pleasure from, interrupting and taking from our peaceful lives what’s not rightfully theirs. But like with everything, there are indeed counteractive measures that can be set in place to fend off these predators from such damage. I’d like to introduce the Guardian Eye.
　　Within this program is a complex program which has several functions to create a safe atmosphere for whomever uses the computer, It has the ability to track and log every key stroke, every website that has ever been accessed, takes screenshots of web pages, blocks web pages according to content and even sends you messages via email once conspicuous(可疑的) activity has been reported and logged. Just thin or child could be browsing and searching through the