2019年上半学期育才中学高二英语试题月考一，听力（30分）二，阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 （共15小题，每题2分，满分30分） A In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell. My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait. Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 2019, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2019, I gave birth to another boy. You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester. The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives. In 2019, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree! I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when youre looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when youre in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want wont arrive in your life on one day. Its a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.21. When the author went to Howard University,her dream was to be _.A. A teacher B.a doctor C. a writer D. a judge22. Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?A. She fell in love and got marriedB. She suffered from a serious illnessC. She wanted to study by herself D. She decided to look after her grandma23. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?A. She was busy et happy with her family lifeB. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sonsC. She wanted to remain a full-time housewifeD. She was too confused to make a correct choice24. What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?A. Little by little ,one goes far B. Well begun,half doneC. Failure is the mother of successD. Every coin has two sides BEvery human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to get rid of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problemhow to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs（灯泡）and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the campus six buildings comfortable.Some parts of most modern buildingstheaters and offices as well as classroomsare more than sufficiently（足够）heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned even in winter. The technique of saving heat and redistributing it is called “heat recovery”. A few modern buildings recover heat, but the Universitys system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it in others.Along the way, Pitt has learned a great deal about some of its producers. The harder a student studies the more heat his body gives off. Male students send out more heat than female students and the larger a student, the more heat he produces. It is tempting to conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard-working overweight male genius（天才）.25. Which of the following is true of the heating system of the Johnstown campus? The heat is supplied by_.A. human bodies, other heat sending objects, and fuelB. both human bodies and other heat sending objectsC. both human bodies and fuelD. human bodies26. The technique of heat recovery is used_.A. to produce a special form of air-conditioningB. to provide heat for the hot water systemC. to find out the source of heatD. to collect and reuse heat27. The words“the hottest prospect”refer to_.A. the person who suffers most from heatB. the person who produces most heatC. the person who uses most heatD. the person who takes in heat28. A good title for the passage would be_.A. MODERN BUILDINGS HEAT SYSTEMB. A NEW HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM IN PITTSBURGHC. A STRANGE OBJECT IN HEAT