首发甘肃省天水市第二中学学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题.docx
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Robert Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer hada large private library so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and atnineteen he was given the job of superintendentat aManchester cotton mill. He was so successfulthere that he persuaded his employer to buythe New Lanark mill in Scotland.
When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people.Nobody paid any attention to the workers' houses or their children's education. The conditions inthe factories were very bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages onalcoholic drinks.
Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He openedashop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholicdrinks. Above all, he fixed his mind on the children's education. In 1816 he opened the first freeprimary school in Britain.
People came from all over the country to visit Owen's factory. They saw that the workers werehealthier and more efficient than in other towns. Their children werebetter fed and better educated.Owen tried the same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825,but the [community was too far away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.
Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born goodor bad. He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good workingconditions," he thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give themthe chance to learn, they will be better people."
1、For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was _____________.
A.improving worker's houses
B.helping people to save money
C.providing the children with a good education
D.preventing men from getting drunk
2、From the passage we may infer that Owen was born ___________.
A.into a poor family
B.into a rich family
C.into a noble family
D.into a middle class family
3、Owen's experiment in the United States failed because _______.
A.he lost all his money
B.it was too far away for him to organize it properly
C.people who visited it were not impressed
D.he did not buy enough land
4、We may infer form the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free educationuntil ________.
A.1771 B.1825
C.1816 D.1860
Woulditsurpriseyoutolearnthat,likeanimals,treescommunicatewitheachotherandpassontheirwealthtothenextgeneration?
UBCProfessorSimardexplainshowtreesaremuchmorecomplexthanmostofuseverimagined.AlthoughCharlesDarwinthoughtthattreesarecompetingforsurvivalofthefittest,Simardshowsjusthowwronghewas.Infact,theoppositeistrue:
treessurvivethroughtheirco-operationandsupport,passingaroundnecessarynutrition“dependingonwhoneedsit”.
Nitrogen(氮)andcarbonaresharedthroughmilesofundergroundfungi(真菌)networks,makingsurethatalltreesintheforestecologicalsystemgiveandreceivejusttherightamounttokeepthemallhealthy.Thishiddensystemworksinaverysimilarwaytothenetworksofneurons(神经元)inourbrains,andwhenonetreeisdestroyed,itaffectsall.
Simardtalksabout“mothertrees”,usuallythelargestandoldestplantsonwhichallothertreesdepend.Sheexplainshowdyingtreespassonthewealthtothenextgeneration,transportingimportantmineralstoyoungtreessotheymaycontinuetogrow.Whenhumanscutdown“mothertrees”withnoawarenessofthesehighlycomplex“treesocieties”orthenetworksonwhichtheyfeed,wearereducingthechancesofsurvivalfortheentireforest.
“Wedidn'ttakeanynoticeofit.”Simardsayssadly.“Dyingtreesmovenutritionintotheyoungtreesbeforedying,butwenevergivethemchance.”Ifwecouldputacrossthemessagetotheforestryindustry,wecouldmakeahugedifferencetowardsourenvironmentalprotectioneffortsforthefuture.
5、Theunderlinedsentence“theoppositeistrue”inParagragh2probablymeansthattrees____.
A.providesupportfordyingtrees
B.protecttheirownwealth
C.competeforsurvival
D.dependoneachother
6、“Mothertrees”areextremelyimportantbecausethey________.
A.passonnutritiontoyoungtrees
B.knowmoreaboutthecomplex“treesocieties”
C.lookthelargestinsizeintheforest
D.seemmorelikelytobecutdownbyhumans
7、Theunderlinedword“it”inthelastparagraphrefersto
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