辽宁省辽阳市2021届高三上学期期末考试英语试题 含解析.docVIP

PAGE 1 高三考试英语试卷 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在 答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A The Friends of Charles Dickens Dickens was born in 1812. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors prison. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors jail became topics of several of Dickens, novels。. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) Although twelve years younger than Dickens Wilkie Collins became one of Dickens best friends. Collins was a popular novelist who developed the mystery novel style. The Moonstone is one of his best. He and Dickens wrote The Frozen Deep . Wilkie was the son of the painter William Collins. He was born in London and lived in Italy and France as a child. John Elliotson (1791-1868) Elliotson was Dickenss family doctor for many years and thus they became good friends. Elliotson was an early advocate for the use of the stethoscope (听诊器). He also believed in the use of acupuncture (针灸). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Poe was an American author best known for his poems and short fiction. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Murders in the Rue Morgue are two of his most popular works Dickens and Poes friendship began in Philadelphia while Dickens was on his first tour of the United States. They talked about literature and seemed to enjoy one anothers company However，two years later Poe broke off the relationship because he was angry about an article on American poetry. The article was written by Thackeray, but Poe believed that Dickens was behind the article. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) William Makepeace Thackeray was a novelist His best known work is Vanity Fair. He was also a friend of Charles Dickens. While Dickens and Thackeray were friends, the relation ship wasnt always smooth. They had several serious quarrels. One quarrel involved Dick