湖南省浏阳一中高二英语期中试题

D. Inviting children's friends to family activities is good for them to make friends.

60. The passage mainly talks about ________.

A. how to help an unpopular child

B. why some children are unpopular

C. who is responsible for unpopular children

D. how to find out good points of unpopular children

B

Yu Pengnian is an 88-year-old real estate Chinese businessman. He amassed(积聚) a fortune of $1.3 billion dollars during his career but instead of keeping the money and living like an emperor, he decided to give it all away. All of his fortune will be spent on helping poor Chinese students get a better education.

And Yu isn’t the only super-rich person in China who has this spirit of giving. Chen Guangbiao, a Jiangsu recycling tycoon, has given millions of dollars to charity (慈善)and promises to give all of his money to charity when he dies.

Yu and Chen are among the many businessmen who have become prosperous during China’s economic rise. An American business magazine, Forbes, estimates that there are 117 billionaires in China and hundreds of thousands of millionaires. What sets Yu and Chen apart from the rest, though, is their tremendous generosity(慷慨，大方) when it comes to donating money to charity.

Last week Bill Gates and Warren Buffett came to Beijing. Gates and Buffett, two of the world’s richest men, are also the world’s biggest philanthropists. They invited fifty of China’s richest people to have dinner with them and talk about the spirit of giving. At first, only a few people accepted their invitation. It seemed some of the invited guests were afraid that Buffett and Gates were going to pressure them into giving their wealth to charity.

A lot of people are angry at the billionaires who are not willing to give away their fortunes. They criticize them for being miserly and not caring about the poor and the less fortunate. But I think this criticism is wrong. A gift, any gift, should come from the heart. Instead of criticism, these reluctant billionaires should be encouraged to follow the examples of Yu Pengnian and Chen Guangbiao. Encouragement is always a better strategy than criticism. As we say in English, “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”

( )61. Yu Pengnian will spend all of his fortune in _______

A helping poor Chinese students get a better education

B helping the students in earthquake-stricken area

C helping his off-springs lead a rich life in the future

D achieve his aim of living like an emperor

( )62. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A Yu Pengnian is the only super-rich person in China who has the spirit of giving.

B Chen Guangbiao is a real estate Chinese businessman.

C Yu and Chen become wealth during the rise of China’s economy.

D When Bill Gates and Warren Buffett invited fifty of China’s richest people to have dinner with them, they all felt honored and accepted their invitation at once.

( )63. What sets Yu and Chen apart from other rich people in China?

A When it comes to charity work, they are very generous.

B They had dinner with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, talking about the spirit of giving.

C They are pressured into giving their fortune to charity.

D They are both businessmen.

( )64.According to passage, why does the author end the passage with the English saying “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”?

A The author wants to tell us that flies prefer honey to vinegar.

B The author wants to prove that encouragement is always a better strategy than criticism when it comes to charity.

C The English saying expresses the main theme of the passage.

D The author wants to criticize those billionaires who are not willing to give away their fortunes for being miserly and not caring about the poor and the less fortunate.

( )65.Which phrase in the following can be used to take the place of the underlined word “criticize”in the last paragragh.

A show their respect to

B have bad comments on

C show their thanks to

D have good comments on

C

Some scientists say that animals in the oceans are increasingly threatened by noise pollution caused by human beings.

The noise that affects sea creatures comes from a number of human activities. It is caused mainly by industrial underwater explosions, ocean drilling, and ship engines. Such noises are added to natural sounds. These sounds include the breaking of ice fields, underwater earthquakes, and sounds made by animals themselves.

Decibels (分贝) measured in water are different from those measured on land. A noise of one hundred and twenty decibels on land causes pain to human ears. In water, a decibel level of one hundred and ninety-five would have the same effect.

Some scientists have proposed setting a noise limit of one hundred and twenty decibels in oceans. They have observed that noises at that level can frighten and confuse whales.

A team of American and Canadian scientists discovered that louder noises can seriously injure some animals. The research team found that powerful underwater explosions were causing whales in the area to lose their hearing. This seriously affected the whales' ability to exchange information and find their way. Some of the whales even died. The explosions had caused their ears to bleed and become infected.

Many researchers whose work depends on ocean sounds are against a limit of one hundred and twenty decibels. They say such a limit would mean an end to important industrial and scientific research.

Scientists do not know how much and what kinds of noises are harmful to ocean animals. However, many scientists suspect that noise is a greater danger than they believed. They want to prevent noises from harming creatures in the ocean.

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