高二英语月考试卷

　　the manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of the

　　se was：you couldn’t accept tips(小费).Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction(反应)is to take a quarter and give it me. I’d say,I’m sorry, I can’tThey’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say,Oh

　　, thanks a lot.When you say,I’m sorry, I can’tthey feel a little put down. They say,No one will know.And they put it in your pocket. You say,I

　　really can’tIt gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically(身体上)to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in aGREement with the story’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just

　　couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to

　　throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.

　　I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I

　　had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.

　　64.What can be the best title for this text?

　　A.How Hard Life is for Box Boys B.Getting along with Customers

　　C.Why I Gave up My Job D.the Art of Taking Tips

　　65.Form the second paragraph, we can infer that________.

　　A.the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job

　　B.with a name plate, people can easily start talking

　　C.Mr Castle mistook Irving for Brett

　　D.Irving was the writer’s real name

　　66.the box boy refused to accept tips because_______.

　　A.customers only gave small tips

　　B.some customers had strange ideas about tipping

　　C.the store forbade the box boys to take tips

　　D.he didn’t want to fight with the customers

　　67.the underlined phraseput downin the third paragraph probably means_______.

　　A.misunderstood B.defeated C.hateful D.hurt

　　D

　　During World War II, Polish pilots in GREat Britain were famous for showing off their flying skills.

　　One morning, I was returning from a flight test and made the mistake of beginning my land approach

　　(降落) at too low a speed. Just as I crossed the airfield, something was wrong with my plane and it

　　dropped from 2000 feet onto the landing trip and bounced back (弹起) into the air.

　　I gave it full speed, but the plane leaned onto its left wing, and I was off the runway. In despair, I

　　cut all power and used full right brake (制动闸). The plane turned 180 deGREes back onto the landing trip, tail first. The firm P51 was not

　　damaged. Did you see that plane? a visiting air official said breathlessly.

　　Don’t worry, sir, the Air Force commanding officer replied, it’s only one of those Polish pilots trying to show off.

　　68. the writer of the story was _____.

　　A. a Polish pilot B. an English official

　　C. a visitor D. an officer

　　69. the pilot who flew the plane _____.

　　A. was showing off his flying skills B. had GREat difficulty in landing the plane

　　C. repaired the plane before landing D. landed on the airfield without difficulty

　　70. the plane bounced back into the air because _____.

　　A. the pilot began his landing approach too late B. the pilot suddenly decided not to land

　　C. something was wrong with the left wing D. it was out of control

　　E

　　Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia((南斯拉夫),on August 27,1910.She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen.

　　At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often wrote

　　to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.

　　When she left school, she went first to Britain. then a year later she went to India, where she began

　　to train to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta((加尔格答),where she taught geography

　　at a school and soon after became headmistress(校长).

　　However, although she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in

　　the poor parts of Calcutta. Later she trained to become a nurse in Patna, and then began her work

　　helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, others came to help her,

　　and her work spread to other parts of India.

　　Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. many photos have been taken of her, as she travels the world to open new schools

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