中华资源库 www.ziyuanku.com山西大学附中山西大学附中 2014-2015 学年第一学期高二（学年第一学期高二（12 月）月考月）月考 英语试题英语试题考试时间：考试时间：8080 分钟分钟 满分：满分：100100 分分 注意：本考试严禁使用手机，电子词典或其它电子存储设备，违者按作弊处理。注意：本考试严禁使用手机，电子词典或其它电子存储设备，违者按作弊处理。第第卷（选择题卷（选择题 共共 50 分）分） 第第 1 节节：阅读理解（共：阅读理解（共 10 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2 分，满分分，满分 20 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Fourteen-year-old Richie Hawley had spent five years studying violin at the Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles when he took part in a violin contest. Ninety-two young people were invited to the contest and Hawley came out first. The contest could have been the perfect setup for fear, worrying about mistakes, and trying to impress the judges. But Hawley said he did pretty well at staying calm. “I couldnt be thinking about how many mistakes Id make it would distract me from playing.” he says. “I dont even remember trying to impress people while I played. Its almost as if they werent there. I just wanted to make music.”Hawley is a winner. But he didnt become a winner by concentrating on winning. He did it by concentrating on playing well.“The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part， ” said the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin. “The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”A characteristic of high performers is their intense, pleasurable concentration on work, rather than on their competitors or future glory or money, says Dr. Charles Garfield, who has studied 1,500 achievers in business, science, sports, arts, and professions. “They are interested in winning, but theyre most interested in self-development, testing their limits.”One of the most surprising things about top performers is how many losses theyve had and how much theyve learned from each. “Not one of the 1,500 I studied defined losing as failing， ” Garfield says. “They kept calling their losses setback ”A healthy attitude towards setbacks is essential to winning, experts agree.“The worst thing you can do if youve had a setback is to let yourself get stuck in a prolonged depression. You should analyze carefully what went wrong, identify specific things you did right and give yourself credit for them.” Garfield believes that most people dont give themselves enough praise. He even suggests keeping a diary of all the positive things youve done on the way to a goal. 1. What is common among high performers is that they tend to give priority to _.Aglory B. Wealth C. pleasure D. Work2. According to the passage, successful people concentrate on _.中华资源库 www.ziyuanku.comAchallenging their own limitsB. learning from othersC. defeating their opponentsD. avoiding setbacks3. The passage tells us that “praise” in times of trouble _.Ahelps people deal with their disappointmentB. makes people forget their setbacksC. makes people regret about their pastD. helps people realize their goalsB Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert, seeking a million in prize money. To win, they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10 hours. Teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all, because these vehicles were missing a key part drivers.DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, organized the race as part of a push to develop robotic vehicles for future battlefields. But the Grand Challenge, as it was called, just proved how difficult it is to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance. One had its brake lock up in the starting area. Another began by throwing itself onto a wall. Another got tied up by bushes near the road after 1.9 miles. One turned upside down. One took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote control. One went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence; another managed to go for six miles but stuck on a rock. The “winner”， if there was any, reached 7.8 miles before it ran into a long narrow hole, and the front wheels caught on fire.“You get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things， ” says Reinhold Behringe, who helped design two of the car-size vehicles for a company called Sci-Autonics.“Even ants can do all these tasks effortlessly. Its very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines.”The robotic vehicles, though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and GPS guidance, had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two-year-old human recognizes immediately. Sure, that very young child, who has just only learned to walk, may not think to wipe apple juice off her face, but she already knows that when theres a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table, and that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good. She is more advanced,