海南省高二上学期期中考试试卷--英语（原卷）.docxVIP

试卷第 =page 10 10页，共 =sectionpages 11 11页 试卷第 =page 11 11页，共 =sectionpages 11 11页 海南省高二上学期期中考试试卷--英语（原卷） 一、阅读理解 Your 2019 Reading List, Provided by Bill Gates Do you want to be a billionnaire? Most of us can’t live like billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, but we can read like him. Gates recommended four books in 2019—though some were published earlier. Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson (2018) The bestselling biographer of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein researched deeply into da Vinci’s contributions beyond art, highlighting the breadth of his scientific, technological, and creative output. “Leonardo nearly understood almost all of what was known on the planet at the time. That’s mostly because of his curiosity about every area of natural science and the human experience,” said Gates. The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui (2018) Gates calls this graphic novel “really impressive”. Bui is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees who came to America after the fall of Saigon, and becoming a parent inspired her to look into her own parents’ miserable history. “I was struck by how the experiences Bui describes manage to be both universal and specific to their circumstances,” said Gates. Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders (2018) Saunders, a long-time short story writer, won high praise for this novel. The book imagines the ghosts that haunt (萦绕) the basement of Willie Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s son, who died at 11 in real life. “Willie’s death after the Civil War made the president have a new understanding of the grief he’s creating in other families by sending their sons off to die in battle,” said Gates. Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, by David Christian (2018) This new book is by the creator of Big History, a free, online social studies course. It traces history in wide, sweeping movements, starting with the Big Bang, and it provides, in effect, a short course in modern science. This is a brief history of the universe. “David