河南省郑州市中牟县第一高级中学2019-2020学年高一英语下学期第二次限时练考试试题第卷第一部分：听力（略）第二部分：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）AEngland has been the birthplace of most of the great Englishlanguage theatre written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright (剧作家) with several famous plays.ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalogue (目录) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theatres around the world every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Nights Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard and Henry are very famous.Oscar Wilde and George Bernard ShawSeveral hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wildes plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more productive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaws plays are loved so much that an entire theatre company is devoted to performing his works in NiagaraontheLake in southern Ontario.Harold PinterThe plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play, The Room, are extremely well known.21. The writer wrote this passage to _Aadvise us to spend more time enjoying playsBexplain why England has so many wonderful playsCtell us about some famous British playwrights and their worksDtell us the differences among some British playwrights22. What do the works in the underlined part in Paragraph 2 have in common?AThey are all Shakespeares early works.BThey are all tragedies written by Shakespeare.CThey are all Shakespeares famous comedies.DThey all belong to the history category of Shakespeares plays.23. Which of the following plays were most probably written in the same period of time?AThe Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance.BRichard and A Woman of No Importance.CAn Ideal Husband and Candida.DCandida and Betrayal.BBad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking peoples emails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.“The if it bleeds rule works for mass media，” says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and dont care how youre feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You dont want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.”Researchers analyzing wordofmouth communicationemails, Web posts and reviews, facetoface conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didnt necessarily mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times website. He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most emailed” list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than nonscience articles. He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. They needed to be aroused one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr Berger explains in his new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On.24What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to?ADaily conversations. BResearch papers.CPrivate emails. DNews reports.25What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer?ATheyre socially inactive. BTheyre inconsiderate of others.CTheyre good at telling stories. DTheyre careful with their words.26