1、2021年高二英语测试题（12月） 含答案AEveryone agrees that all the creatures want happiness and are afraid of pain and grief. The question, however, is “What is real happiness?” The desire for happiness has no meaning without understanding the real nature of happiness.Generally, ordinary beings consider sensual（感觉的
2、） pleasures as happiness, and their actions are directed toward gaining these. According to them, searching for happiness means searching for pleasures of the senses. The question, “What is happiness?”, does not arise（出现） in their hearts, because in their hearts they think of a life full of sensual
3、joys as a happy life.Some thinkers say, “Happiness does not lie in the objects of enjoyment; happiness or unhappiness lies in the imagination.” To prove their belief they give examples like the following one. A man has a two-storey house. When he thinks of those who have a house with three storeys o
4、r more, he feels unhappy. When he thinks of those who have just a cottage, he feels happy. Such happiness does not lie in possessions（占有物）, but in the imagination. They advise people to take inspiration from those who have few possessions but are quite happy. If you only consider people wealthier th
5、an yourself, you will always be unhappy.If you want to be happy, they say, look at the poor. But it is unreasonable to hold that happiness lies in the imagination. And it is inappropriate to think that someone is happy if he only imagines himself better than the poor and the unhappy. This attitude a
6、lso satisfies the sense of pride of possession. This can never be called happiness. Unless we find out where happiness lies, we cannot really bee happy.Some ask people to do this or that, and say, “This way your desires will be satisfied. That way you will get what you want and bee happy.” People ho
7、lding these views regard happiness as satisfaction of desires and unhappiness as denial(否定) of such satisfaction.71. What kind of life can make mon people feel happy?A. Life without pain and grief. B. Life full of sensual pleasures. C. Life with desire for possessions. D. Life full of imagination.72
8、. The underlined word “cottage” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to _.A. a house in ones imagination B. a modern building C. a desired object D. a small house 73. The author may agree that _.A. by paring themselves with the poor, people will feel happyB. people wont feel happy without a desire for hap
9、pinessC. possessing wealth may lead to a sense of prideD. people have to experience pain and grief before finding happinessBEight-year-old Bethany and seven-year-old Eliza are having a great time jumping around in the orchard （果园）of their home in a village near Penrith. They can play any time they l
10、ike because they dont go to school. Instead, they are educated at home by their parents, Paul and Veronika Robinson. But they dont have lessons, have never used a timetable and learn only what and when they want to learn.I want my kids to have freedom in their childhood, not spend it in an instituti
11、on, says 37-year-old Veronika, School is all about control and following the rules. Veronika and her 56-year-old husband Paul have never experienced the daily rush to get dressed and out of the door that is mon in most households with school-aged children. We get up at our leisure - usually around 8
12、:30, says Veronika. We might visit a friend, or go to the library, and on Tuesdays we shop at the market. In summer, we spend most of our time outside and the girls entertain themselves a lot.New research due to be published this spring reveals a very different picture of Britains home educators. Ou
13、t of 297 families, 184 said that they never use a timetable, says Mike Fortune-Wood of Home Education UK. Ninety per cent never or rarely use textbooks, and nearly all said that happiness, contentment and self-fulfillment were more important than academic achievement. Only 15% felt that planning wha
14、t to learn was important.So far, so good. But what, you might ask, are the children actually learning?It wasnt important to me that the girls could read by a certain age, but they both picked it up for themselves at around seven, says Robinson. Weighing cooking ingredients uses maths, and making a s
15、hopping list teaches them to write. Observing five hens has taught the girls about survival of the fittest. But what about when the children grow up? Can they go to university? The home educators answer is they can if they want to. There are a variety of routes into higher education, but probably th
16、e most mon is to join a local college. This is what Gus Harris-Reid has done. I was educated at home all my life. Id never had a lesson or been inside a classroom until I started GCSEs, says the 18-year-old. Im now studying for 4 A-levels at Exeter College. Ive had no problem with the work or with f
17、itting in. When asked to reflect on his experience of home education, his considered response is, Like a permanent holiday, really! Not a bad start for someone who plans to take a mechanical engineering degree next year.74. What is the topic of this article?A. New ways of learning to read and write
18、B. Problems with UK schoolsC. Home education in the UK D. New methods of teaching75. Why do the Robinsons not send their children to school?A. They think schools control children too much.B. They do not like the courses taught in schools.C. They want to teach their children skills by imitating .D. T
19、hey live in a remote area where there are no schools.76. According to the article, in homes with school-going children, _.A. mornings are rushed and stressful. B. the children hardly ever go outside.C. the family wakes up around 8:30am. D. the children must ask permission to go to the toilet.COne da
20、y Marilla said, “Anne, your new teacher, Miss Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for Queens College in two years time. Then if you do well, you can study at Queens in Charlottetown for a year, and after that youll be a teacher!”“That doesnt matter, Anne. When
21、Matthew and I adopted you three years ago, we decided to look after you as well as we could. Of course well pay for you to study.”So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school, and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work. Diana didnt want to go to Queens, s
22、o she went home early, but Gilbert stayed. He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies, because they both wanted to be first in the examination. Secretly, Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert werent friends, but it was too late now.For two years, Anne studied hard at schoo
23、l. She enjoyed learning, and Miss Stacy was pleased with her. But she didnt study all the time. In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends, or walked through the fields with Diana, or sat talking to Matthew.“Your Anne is a big girl now. Shes taller than you,” Rachel Lynde told Marilla o
24、ne day.“Youre right, Rachel!” said Marilla in surprise.“And shes a very good girl now, isnt she? She doesnt get into trouble these days. Im sure she helps you a lot with the housework, Marilla.”“Yes, I dont know what Id do without her,” said Marilla, smiling.“And look at her! Those beautiful grey ey
25、es, and that red-brown hair! You know, Marilla, I thought you and Matthew made a mistake when you adopted her. But now I see I was wrong. Youve looked after her very well.”“Well, thank you, Rachel,” replied Marilla, pleased.That evening, when Matthew came into the kitchen, he saw that his sister was
26、 crying.“Whats the matter?” he asked, surprised. “You havent cried since well, I cant remember when.”“Its just well, I was thinking about Anne,” said Marilla. “IllIll miss her when she goes away.”“When she goes to Queens, you mean? Yes, but she can e home at weekends, on the train.”“Ill still miss h
27、er,” said Marilla sadly.”In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to take their examinations.“Oh, I do hope that Ive done well,” Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables. “The examinations were very difficult. And Ive got to wait for three weeks before I know! Three
28、 weeks! Ill die!”Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert. But she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla. That was very important to her.Diana was the first to hear the news, she ran into the kitchen at Green Gables and shouted, “Look, Anne! Its in Fathers newspaper! Youre first with Gilbert o
29、ut of all the students on the island! Oh, how wonderful!” Anne took the paper with shaking hands, and saw her name, at the top of the list of two hundred. She could not speak.“Well, now, I knew it,” said Matthew with a warm smile.“Youve done well, I must say, Anne,” said Marilla, who was secretly ve
30、ry pleased.For the next three weeks Anne and Marilla were very busy. Anne needs new dresses to take to Charlottetown.77. Which of the following statements is true?A. To be a teacher was one of Annes dreams.B. Both Anne and Diana studied hard for the special examination.C. Matthew and Marilla were An
31、nes parents.D. Anne was adopted by Matthew and Marilla.78 .Why are Anne and Gilbert enemies? Because _.A. they were petitors in school B. they didnt like each otherC. it wasnt mentioned in the passage D. Gilbert didnt stay late at school79. What will be written in the following paragraph?A. Annes su
32、mmer holiday.B. What will Anne talk about her college life with DianaC. How will Miss Stacy help Anne study.D. What will Anne do before attending college.DI live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a splendid, fun-filled place are happier than others. If
33、 so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.Many intelligent people still equate(使相等) happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in mon. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more
34、 lasting emotion.Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.I have often thought that if Ho
35、llywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. But in memoir（回忆录）after memoir, they reveal the unhappiness hi
36、dden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage, if hes honest, and he will tell you that he is afraid of making a mitment, for mitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is
37、filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they can
38、. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or a three-day vacation. I dont know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating（解放性的）realizations.
39、It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those
40、rich and glamorous （迷人的）people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.80. We can learn from the passage that_.A. fun creates long-lasting satisfactionB. fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happinessC. happiness is lasting whereas
41、fun is short-livedD. fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness81. To the author, the role Hollywood stars will play is to _.A. write memoir after memoir about their happinessB. tell the public that happiness has nothing to do with funC. teach people how to enjoy their livesD. bring happiness t
42、o the public instead of going to parties82. In the authors opinion, marriage_.A. affords greater fun B. leads to raising childrenC. indicates duty and devotionD. usually ends up in pain 阅读理解专练二 A Researchers found that walking around with a forced smile and fake (假的) happiness simply leads to people
43、 feeling unhappier. So, putting a brave face on your sadness could be harmful. The research also found that women suffered more than men when pretending to be happy.Dr. Brent Scott, who led the study, said employers should take note because forcing workers to smile when dealing with the public can r
44、esult in bad outes. He said, “Smiling for the sake of smiling can lead to emotional tiredness, and thats bad for the organization.” He also said the research showed customer-service workers who had “fake smiles” throughout the day fell into a bad mood and didnt want to work, so their productivity dr
45、opped.The study is one of the first of its kind to examine emotional expressions over a period of time and pare the different effects on men and women. Dr. Scotts team examined the effects of “surface acting”, or fake smiling, pared to “deep acting”, or making people smile by thinking of pleasant me
46、mories.Dr. Scott said, “Women were harmed more by surface acting, meaning their moods worsened even more than mens. However, they were helped more by deep acting, which means their moods improved more by thinking of pleasant memories. ”According to Dr. Scott, women tend to suffer more when pretendin
47、g to be happy because they are expected to be more emotionally expressive than men. Therefore, forcing a smile while feeling down is more likely to go against their normal behavior and cause more harmful feelings.Although deep acting can improve moods a little in the short term, Dr. Scott says, its
48、not a long-term solution to feeling unhappy. “There have been some suggestions that if you do this over a long period you start to feel unreal. Youre trying to develop positive emotions, but at the end of the day you may not feel like yourself any more.”59. According to the passage, Dr. Scotts study _.A. is supported by some big employers in the USAB
