高三第二阶段英语试题出题人: 李庆明审题人: 杨丽丽第二部分阅读理解（共两节,共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）第一节阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C，D）中，选出最佳选项。

AMicro-Enterprise Credit for Street YouthIntroductionAlthough small-scale business training and credit programs have become more common throughout the world, relatively little attention has been paid to the need to direct such opportunities to youth living on the street or in difficult circumstances. Over the past years, Street Kids International (S.K.I.) has been working with partner organizations in Africa, Latin Africa and India to support the economic lives of street children. The purpose of this paper is to share some of the lessons S.K.I. and our partner organizations have learned. BackgroundTypically, children end up on the streets not due to a single cause, but a combination of factors: the lack of adequately funded schools, the demand for income at home and so on. The street may be attractive to children as a place to find adventurous play and money. However, it is also a place where some children are exposed, with little or no protection, to exploitative employment, and urban crime.Street Business PartnershipsS.K.I. has worked with partner organizations in Latin America, Africa and India to develop innovative opportunities for street children to earn income.● The S.K.I Bicycle Courier Service first started in the Sudan. Participants in this enterprise were supplied with bicycles, which they used to deliver parcels and messages, but they were required to pay for it gradually from their wages.● The Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative in Zambia is a joint program with the Red Cross Society. Street Youths are supported to start their own small business through business training, life skills training and access to credit. Lessons LearnedThe following lessons have emerged from the programs that S.K.I. and partner organizations have created.● It’s important for all loans to be linked to training programs that includethe development of basic business and life skills.● Small loans are provided initially for purchasing fixed assets such as bicycles, shoe shining kits.● All S.K.I. programs have charged interest on the loans, primarily to get the business runners used to the concept of paying interest on borrowing money. Generally the rates have been modest.ConclusionThere is a need to recognize the importance of access to credit for poor young people seeking to fulfill economic needs.1. The organization, S.K.I., aims to _________________.A. give business training and loans to street childrenB. provide schools and social support for street childrenC. share the lessons S.K.I. learned to help street childrenD. draw the attention of the government to street children2. This passage implies that with the help of S. K. I. street children may ______________.A. reject paid employmentB. set up their own businessC. leave their familiesD. employ other children3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. The link of all loans to training programs is important.B. Interest is charged for the loans in all S.K.I. programs.C. The S.K.I Bicycle Courier Service provides the participants with free bicycles.D. The Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative in Zambia works with another organization.BMy father’s family is not a musical family. They are a family of words. My brother has my father’s dark hair, his love of a good argument. I take after my mother. From her I inherited a curious nature, a sense of adventure, bright red hair. I did not, contrary to her hopes, inherit a talent for the piano. That fact was established beyond doubt after unsuccessful attempts to draw music from me.The piano lessons began when I was four. My mother was convinced that I would be a child Mozart. She found the ideal teacher--Madame Oblenka, a strict Russian woman, whose pursed lips were enough to frighten a wild horse into submission. Madame Oblenka, who expected a little Mozart, was not very delighted to find a little girl banging her fists on the keys.I tried to please her. “Feel the music,” she urged. I “felt” it and winced (退避) my ear--for what is more unpleasant than a series of wrong notes played continuously? She “felt” my music, too, which is why she always left with an angrier expression than when she came.Once, when I was ten, I managed to record one of my own rehearsals (练习). In order to escape my practice sessions, I would close myself behind the door of the piano room, put on the tape recording, and read until the tape had finished. That method worked for a week, until my mother began to wonder why I always missed the same B-sharp. She knocked on the door, and, receiving no answer, came in to check on me and found that I had fallen asleep while the tape of my performance played on and on.I was twelve when my parents finally acknowledged that my hidden talent was not about to emerge any time soon. My mother, refusing to admit defeat, told me to pick another instrument. “Choose anything you want, Honey,” she said, assuming that freedom of choice would inspire devotion. I thought long and hard and chose the drums. My parents, sensitive to noise, would be less than overjoyed by a daily bombardment of playing. I imagined my father in his study, cotton wads in his ears.I worked my way through several other instruments before my mother hit on another idea. Maybe I wasn’t meant to be an instrumentalist. Realizing that drama might be more suited to my talents, Mom took me to a drama teacher. However, he put me backstage, painting scenery. Once I recovered from my sense of injury, I realized the wisdom of his choice. I loved the active, practical backstage world, and I discovered that I had a knack for constructing and painting. I loved the challenge of taking our scanty (贫乏) supplies and using them to make somethingbeautiful. Imagining a scene and then seeing it emerge before me--this, to me, was close to magic.I’m a sculptor now, and every day I experience afresh the joy of being fully absorbed in the act of a rtistic creation. It’s a wonderful, blissful (乐而忘忧) feeling. I realize that my parents, in their misguided attempts to interest me in music, were trying to give me this feeling. And now I feel grateful. Perhaps they went about it in the wrong way, but their hearts were in the right place.4. The underlined word “emerge” in the fifth paragraph can be replaced by _____.A. disappearB. failC. turnD. show5. Which of the following best reveals the author’s attitude towards pianopractice?A. She tried to make the piano teacher pleased.B. She repeated the same mistake in practicing.C. She played the recording instead of practicing.D. She recorded her performance for improvement.6. The author’s mother can be best described a s __________.A. devoted and stubbornB. encouraging and independentC. helpful and considerateD. hardworking and generous7. We can learn from the passage __________.A. art should be treated as a joy rather than a burdenB. the ordinary backstage work can help one succeedC. you can only get better at something if you practiceD. parents should encourage their children to create artCTwo of the saddest words in the English language are “if only”. I live my life with the goal of never having to say those words, because they convey regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and disappointment.My father is famous in our family for saying, “Take the extra minute to do it right.” I always try to live by the “extra minute” rule. When my chil dren were young and likely to cause accidents, I always thought about what I coulddo to avoid an “if only” moment, whether it was something minor like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding (衬垫) onto the sharp corners of a glass coffee table.I don’t only avoid those “if only” moments when it comes to safety. It’s equally important to avoid “if only” in our personal relationships. We all know people who lost a loved one and regretted that they had foregone an opportunity to say “I love you” or “I forgive you.” When my father announced he was going to the eye doctor across from my office on Good Friday, I told him that it was a holiday for my company and I wouldn’t be here. But then I thought about the fact that he’s 84 years old and I realized that I shouldn’t give up an opportunity to see him. I called him and told him I had decided to go to work on my day off after all.I know there will still be occasions when I have to say “if only” about something, but my life is definitely better because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that eventuality. And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to make a personal connection, I know that I’m doing the right thing. I’m buying myself peace of mind and that’s the best kind of insurance for my emotional well-being.8. Which of the following is an example of the “extra minute” rule?A. Start the car the moment everyone is seated.B. Leave the room for a minute with the iron working.C. Wait for an extra minute so that the steak tastes better.D. Move an object out of the way before it trips someone.9. The author decided to go to her office on Good Friday to ______.A. keep her appointment with the eye doctorB. meet her father who was already an old manC. join in the holiday celebration of the companyD. finish her work before the deadline approached10. T he underlined word “foregone” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to___________.A. abandonedB. lackedC. avoidedD. wasted11.W hat is the best title for the passage?A. The Emotional Well-beingB. The Two Saddest WordsC. The Most Useful RuleD. The Peace of MindDAs rules, laws are people’s rights and responsibilities toward society. Laws are agreed on by society and made official by governments.Some persons look on laws with fear, hatred, or annoyance. Laws seem to limit people’s freedom to do many things they would like to do. Though laws may prevent us from doing things we wish to do at the moment, laws make everyone’s life safer and more pleasant. Without laws we could not hold on to our property; we could not go to bed at night expecting to wake up in the morning and find that we had not been robbed; no stores in which we buy food, clothes, and other necessities could stay open and sell to us. Our banks would not be safe places to keep our money.Social life would be impossible without laws to control the way people treat one another. It is not the laws that should be feared but the trouble that comes to everyone when laws are broken. Once this is understood, a citizen will not fear or hate the law. Understanding the need for good laws and the evil results of breaking laws is the first requirement of good citizenship and government.Philosophers once believed that in prehistoric time people lived without laws in a “state of nature”. People were free to do as they pleased unless someone stronger stopped them by force. As a result, life became so dangerous and unsafe that leaders had to create laws to protect life and property.This is no longer believed to be true. Scholars now think that as soon as people began living in small groups, they worked out rules for getting along with one another. In time everyone accepted and supported the rules. Manners, customs and beliefs controlled the living habits and behavior of the group. Such rulesand habits of life are called folkways.Folkways are probably the real meaning of human laws, as well as of religion, morals, and education. As life became more complex, folkways became more complete guides to living. After thousands of years, some of the important folkways were put into writing as the earlier laws. And as life grew more and more complicated with faster transportation and the rise of modern industry and big cities, more human acts and interests had to be ruled by law. This led to a great increase in the number of laws.But we know that unless laws are enforced, they cannot protect us. Poorly enforced laws invite crime and violence. So we agree that the best protection against crime is planned social change and law reform -- to reduce the causes of crime and to encourage people to obey the laws. Such a solution would join a sound system of law enforcement with forces working to prevent crime. To attain this goal, all citizens must understand the need for good laws and for their enforcement.12. Some persons look on laws with fear, hatred, or annoyance, because_____.A. they can’t do whatever they want toB. they feel it unnecessary to have lawsC. laws only protect those who worked out themD. laws and rules are too complicated to understand13. Which of the following statement is NOT TRUE?A. Without laws we may fail to hold on to our propertyB. In prehistoric time people lived happily without laws in a “state of nature”.C. Human laws, as well as of religion, morals, and education, are believedto originate from Folkways.D. Good citizens and government should be aware of the need for good laws andthe evil results of breaking laws14. A sound system of law enforcement is necessary because_____.A. some citizens fear or hate the law.B. poorly enforced laws cause crime and violence.C. we need someone stronger to stop crime by force.D. the evil results of breaking laws are getting fewer and fewer .15. What’s the best title of this passage?A. The Origin of LawsB. Enforcement of LawsC. Leaders and LawsD. Laws and rules.第二节、七选五（共5小题）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。