www.ks5u.com2018-2019学年年度第一学期期中考试高二英语试卷第一部分 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、D）中，选出最佳选项。AChinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will learn a musical instrument or ballet or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So the parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter. However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their childrens skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that todays children lack self-respect and self-confidence. The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents arent teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever. Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. Its an enjoyable but difficult experiment. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually to finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence. Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your children to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities arent merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.1. Parents in China, according to this passage, _.A. are too strict with their children B. are too rich to educate their childrenC have some problems in educating their children correctly D. are too poor to educate their children2. Generally speaking, childrens skills_.A. come from their parents B. have nothing to do with their educationC. may be different D. have something to do with their marks in the exams3. The writer of this passage doesnt seem to be satisfied with_.A. the parents idea of educating their children B. the educational systemC. childrens skills D. childrens hobbies4. According to the last paragraph, we can conclude that_.A. broken radios and television sets are useful B. ones curiosity may be useful for his later lifeC. an engineer must fix many broken radiosD. a good student should spend much time repairing radios BA Samoan airline says that it is the worlds first carrier to charge passengers by their weight. Samoa Air, which opened in 2012, asks passengers to give their personal weight during booking, which is then charged according to the length of a flight. The customers will also be weighed just before they board the plane.It is believed that all people throughout the world are the same size, Samoa Air CEO Chris Langton said. Airplanes always run on weight, not seats.There is no doubt in my mind that this is the concept of the future. This is the fairest way of your travelling with your family or yourself.Though the airline introduced the plan last November, it caught peoples attention last week when the carrier began international flights to neighboring American Samoa.Almost at the same time, a Norwegian economist, Bharat Bhatta, published a report suggesting that airlines should charge obese（过度肥胖的）passengers more.The Pacific Islands contain some of the worlds most common countries for obesity, many ranking in the top 10, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Samoa is ranked number four, with 59.6 percent of the population considered obese, said the most recent WHO report.According to Samoa Airs latest schedule, the airline charges up to $0.57 per kg for flights in Samoa and $1.03 per kg for its only international flight to American Samoa, around 250 miles.Children under 12 are charged 75 percent of the adult rate, with fares also based on weight. Any overweight baggage is calculated at the same rate as the passengers personal weight.The plan could actually prove cheaper in some cases, such as for families travelling with small children, and Langton said customer reaction has mainly been amazingly positive.The idea of charging passengers by weight h