【精准解析】福建省厦门外国语学校2020-2021学年高二上学期期中考英语试题（原卷版）

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厦门外国语中学 2020-2021 学年高二上学期英语期中考

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）

2020 SAN FRANCISCO

WRITERS CONFERENCE

17th Celebration of Craft, Commerce & Community

February 13-16, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Speakers: *Walter Mosley*Jonathan Maberry *Brooke Warner

Plus authors, editors, publishers & literary agents from New York, L.A. & S.F. Bay Area

Visit www.SFWriters.org to get event/contest/scholarship details, access online registration for

the free SFWC Newsletter.

Considerable Early Discounts and Special Room Rates!

2019 SAN FRANCISCO

WRITING FOR CHANGE

A one-day conference for all writers who want to change the world through their writing.

September 14th at the Unitarian Center Details and registration:

www.SFWritingforChange.org

SFWC/San Francisco Writers Foundation is a nonprofit organization

Behind the Scenes of a Writing Conference

When you attend a writing conference, you see a facade that took months or longer to

make up. Plenty is going on behind the scenes. Let’s take a look behind the curtain.

The day starts long before attendees walk through the door. Registration is set up, signs

posted and tables arranged. Logistics ( 后勤 ) all fall on the conference organizers. For

example, the annual conference I direct in San Francisco (see the poster above) is a simple one-

day conference that takes more than eight months to put together and around 15 staff and

volunteers to manage. Larger multi-day conferences have even more going on behind the

scenes.

Overseeing it all is the conference director, a conductor who typically works with

committee directors to make sure everything runs smoothly. Over the course of the conference,

staffers make sure everything stays on track. It’s not unusual for staff to walk miles in a day

and go without meals.

Conference staff and volunteers are always behind the curtains making sure your

experience is perfect. The next time you attend a well-run writing conference, take a moment to

thank staff and volunteers for their devotion. They deserve all the praise they can get because

without them, there would be no conference.

1. The underlined word facade refers to ___.

A. the effort behind the scenes

B. the scenes visible to the public

C. the literary masterpiece on display

D. the material distributed at the meeting

2. What’s the latest time to start to arrange for the one-day conference in San Francisco?

A. July, 2019. B. March, 209.

C. September, 2019 . D. January, 2019.

3. According to the writer, the attendees of the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference should

praise the ____ .

A. three speakers B. authors and editors

C. staff and volunteers D. corporate sponsors

Harper Lee(1926-2016) was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird

(published in 1960), which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern

American literature. The 1962 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck won three Academy Awards.

For decades, the book was Le’s only major work of published fiction, but it was hugely

influential for generations of US readers. It has sold more than 10 million copies, and is one of the

most widely taught novels in the US schools. In 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of

Freedom for her contributions to literature.

Lee wanted to live a simple life and was never comfortable with the attention the novel won

her, and she practically disappeared from public life after it appeared. The world, however,

continued waiting for a new novel from her, and on occasion she suggested that she had a story in

progress.

In 2015

a book did come out. Go Set a Watchman was more of a first draft, featuring Scout,

the young girl who was the main character of To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman tells a

story of Scout as an adult. Accusations arose that the 89-year-old Lee was not able to agree to the

manuscript’s release, and that various parties had signed on her behalf.

Though Lee moved to New York in 1949, she spent many years guarding her privacy (隐私)

in Monroeville, which served as the clear inspiration for the setting in To Kill a Mockingbird.

In 2007, Lee suffered a stroke (中风), but recovered and later settled in Monroeville

permanently to care for her sister, Alice, who died in 2014. She was said to eat breakfast every

morning at the same fast- food spot, and was friendly with her neighbors. The countless

Americans knew her only through her works, and they will undoubtedly miss her,

4. What can be learned about Harper Lee from the first two paragraphs?

A. She was regarded the greatest writer in America.

B. She made great contributions to American literature.

C. She once starred in a film adapted from her own novel.

D. She got her novels well accepted in most American schools.

5. Why did Harper Lee disappear from public life after her first novel came out?

A. She tried to get out of accusations.

B. She wanted to write another novel.

C. She intended to avoid being bothered.

D. She wasn’t comfortable with her novel’s influence.

6. What can we learn about Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman?

A. It is based on her own life story.

B. It is adapted into a famous film.

C. It won her lots of honors and awards.

D. It continues the story of her earlier novel.

7. What can be used to describe about Harper Lee?

A. Influential but simple. B. Ill-tempered but productive.

C. Caring but stubborn. D. Inspiring but struggling.

As humanity has got richer, animal’s roles have changed. People need their services less than

before. Fewer wolves and thieves meant less demand for dogs for protection; the internal

combustion engine（内燃机）made horses unneeded; modern sanitation（卫生设备）kept rats

in check and made cats less useful. No longer necessities, domestic animals became luxuries. Pet-

keeping seems to kick in when household incomes rise above roughly $5,000. It is booming.

The trend is not a new one. Archaeologists（考古学家）have found 10,000-year-old graves

in which dogs and people are buried together. Some cultures -- such as in Scandinavia, where dogs

have long been both working dogs and companions -- have kept pets for thousands of years. But

these days the pet-keeping urge has spread even to parts of the world which have no tradition of

sinking into a comfortable chair with a furry creature.

The pet business is growing even faster than pet numbers, because people are spending more

and more money on them. No longer are they food - waste - recyclers, fed with the remains that

fall from their masters’ tables. Pet - food shelves are full of delicacies crafted to satisfy a range of

appetites, including ice cream for dogs and foods for pets that are old, diabetic or suffer from

sensitive digestion; a number of internet services offer food, tailored to the pet’s individual tastes.

In the business this is called “pet humanisation” -- the tendency of pet owners to treat their

pets as part of the family. This is evident in the names given to dogs, which have evolved from

Fido, Rex and Spot to -- in America -- Bella, Lucy and Max. It is evident in the growing market

for pet clothing, pet grooming and pet hotels.

People still assume that pets must be working for humanity in some way, perhaps making

people healthier or less anxious. But the evidence for that is weak. Rather, new research suggests

that dogs have evolved those irresistible “puppy - dog eyes” precisely to affect human emotions. It

has worked. The species that once enslaved others now works very hard to pay for the care of its

pets. Sentimental（多愁善感的）Americans often refer to themselves not as cat-owners but as

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