2020-2021学年浙江省温州市某校高一（上）期中英语试卷第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分25.0分）第一节（共3小题；每小题2.5分，满分25.0分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。1. Nowadays more and more people like to travel, especially when vacations come. A great number of people rush out of their homes or companies to travelling spots. They either drive or take a bus, a train, a ship and so on. Some even ride bikes.However, there is another way of travelling _. People have a tour in the poorest areas of the world. Some people may take a oneday poor tour, and some even pay to stay in very poor neighborhoods to experience the lowest living standards in the world. Poorism tours take place around the world, and not just in the third world countries. You can, for instance, tour New York neighborhoods in the Bronx, in the Bund of Shanghai. Such tours can take people into the heart of poor areas within some large and rich cities. These tours may awaken people to pay more attention to longstanding poverty, or the effects of war.Somesuggest that tours in the poor areas can raise social care. And the money from the tour can be donated to help the people there. （1）Whats the meaning of the underlined word poorism in the second paragraph？_A.贫困B.穷人C.穷游D.可怜的人 （2）Some people have poorism tours_.A. to show how rich they areB. to experience the poor lifeC. to enjoy the beautiful scenesD. to see poor people （3）Poorism tours can make people_.A. care for the poverty more. know about the countrysideC. go to big citiesD. go into the heart of rich cities2. Onesummer I was driving from my home town of Tahoe City, Calif, to New Orleans. In the middle of the desert, I came upon a young man standing by the roadside. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time in the country when youd be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. Now you are a fool for helping. With gangs, drug addicts, murderers（杀人凶手）, rapists, thieves lurking everywhere, I dont want to get involved has become a national motto.Several states later I was still thinking about the hitchhiker. Leaving him standing in the desert did not bother me so much. What bothered me was how easily I had reached the decision. I never even lifted my foot off the accelerator.Doesanyone stop any more? I wondered. I recalled Blanche DuBoiss famous line: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Could anyone rely on the kindness of strangers these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey from coast to coast without any money, relying solely on the good will of his fellow Americans. What kind of Americans would he find? Who would feed him, shelter him, carry him down the road?Theidea intrigued me.Theweek I turned 37, I realized that I had never taken a gamble in my life. So I decided to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. It would be a cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. I would only accept offers of rides, food and a place to rest my head. My final destination would be Cape Fear in North Carolina, a symbol of all the fears Id have to conquer during the trip.Irose early on September 6, 1994, and headed for the Golden Gate Bridge with a 50pound pack on my back and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles: America.Forsix weeks ,I hitched 82 rides and covered 4,223 miles across 14 states. As I traveled, folks were always warning me about someplace else. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming; in Nebraska they said people would not be as nice as in Iowa. Yet I was treated with kindness everywhere I went. I was amazed by peoples readiness to help a stranger, even when it seemed to run contrary to their own best interests. （1）Why did the author drive past the young man in the desert without stopping？_A. Because he failed to notice this man.B. Because he was driving too fast.C. Because he thought the young man didnt need help.D. Because he was afraid of being tricked. （2）What was it that made the author upset？_A. Leaving the young man alone in the desert.B. Being considered a fool.C. Making the decision of not offering help so easily.D. Keeping thinking about the young man. （3）The author decided to travel without a penny in order to_.A. find out how long he could survive without helpB. go through the great difficulty in surviving unexpected environmentC. find out whether strangers would offer help to himD. figure out how strangers thought of his plan （4）The following part might probably_.A. describe how he fooled the strangersB. describe how strangers went out their way to help himC. explain why people refused to help strangersD. explain how he overcame his difficulties on the way第二节（共1小题；每小题10分，满分10