贵州省黔东南州振华民族中学2013-2014届高一下学期期中考试英语试卷 无解析.docVIP

英 语 试 题 命题人：张祝源 审题人：朱法敏 第一部分：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） A It happened at 7:12 p.m. on December 20, 2013. I was fanning my face with a plane ticket after racing to the gate at a flight at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, not noticing the young man running to catch up with me. He ran in front of me and said, “Excuse me, do I know you?” My heart fluttered for this, a loyal reader. I smiled. “Well.” I said, “Who do you think I am?” “Elaine?” I shook my head. “Connie.” “Oh,” he said. His eyes rested on my head. “It’s your hair,” he said. “You look younger from behind.” Silence, except for the sighs from the travellers who forgot to pretend they were not listening. At the very moment when I hoped exactly no one knew who I was, a woman said, “I look forward to reading this essay Connie.” Had this happened right after I turned 50, I might have spent the entire flight sitting in my sitting in my seat holding a mirror and combing (梳理) my hair. Five years into this adventure, I laughed and put the man’s observation on Facebook. It takes a little time to accept that the world is onto us. Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison said in a speech at Oberlin College last year that each of us sees ourselves at a certain age, frozrn in time, which may explain why my hair still brushes （拂过）my shoulder. Inside, I’m 27. When I was 30, I read Gail Godwin’s novel The Finishing Scholl. One particular passage says, “There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can tell just by looking at them at what point they became their final selves. However, the other kind keeps moving, changing. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive.” Life was hard, and then it got better. Fifty was hard, but 55 feels just right. 1. Hearing the first words of the young man, the author felt . A. embarrassed （尴尬的） B. frightened C. annoyed D. excited 2. After the event at the airport, the author . A. took it calmly B. cut her hair short C. dressed up smart