Unit 3 单元清能力测试 -2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 3单元清能力测试 第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分35分) 第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A I had just given a speech and was waiting for the results. A silence fell across the room. The contest (比赛) organizer read the third-place winner. The name was not mine. Then he read the second-place winner, and once again it was not me. At last, the moment of truth came. I finished fourth of the four competitors. Losing is a part of life, and I have experienced it more than once. After Lincoln lost the 1858 Illinois Senate race, he said, “I felt like the 12-year-old boy who hurt his foot. I was too big to cry and it hurt too bad to laugh.” I could understand that. I had spent many hours in libraries researching on Lincoln. As I read several books about him, one idea stood out: Lincoln met with many failures, but he never allowed them to stand in the way of his success. I thought “failing successfully” was a very proper topic, considering the many failures Lincoln experienced. So this became the title of my speech. After not winning the speech contest in the first year, I really wanted to compete again. Lincoln had been the perfect example of persistence (坚持不懈), so I was not going to give up on a contest on a historic people who did not give up. I continued practicing my topic. This time I did not come last. But I couldn’t accept the fact that I didn’t win anything that I had worked so hard on, until I thought carefully about the man. Never mind the lost prize money and praise — I had learned, really learned, about a great man who had experienced failures, and had many chances to give up but never did. Now, whenever I face difficulties, I remember Abraham Lincoln. 21. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 1? A. She was the last to give the speech. B. She thought the contest was unfair. C. She came last in the speech contest. D. She felt sorry for not working hard. 22. What’s the author’s purpose in writing Paragraph 3? A. To explain how she picked up her