吉林省东北师范大学附属中学2023-2024学年高一上学期英语大练习（2）

志存高远学求博深 东北师范大学附属中学2023—2024学年上学期 高一年级(英语)学科大练习(2) 考试时间：40分钟 满分：100分 A thousand-mile journey begins with the first step. -Laozi I.阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20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 The student arrived early, sat front and center, and stood out in my classroom in more ways than one. I'd say that he was about 40 years older than his classmates in my undergraduate communications class ..He eagerly jumped into class discussions, with his humor and wisdom (智慧) of experience. And he was always respectful of the other students' opinions, as if each of them were a teacher.Jerry Valencia walked in with a smile — and he left with one too. "These students gave me the confidence that I didn't need to feel bad about my age,"Valencia says. One day, I saw Valencia on campus. He said he would have to stop taking classes that semester and reapply for next year. By then, he hoped to have earned enough money and have his student-loan(贷款)papers in order .He asked seriously whether he could still sit in on my communications class. Sure, I said. But he wouldn't get any credit (学分). No problem, he said. Soon there he was again, back at his old desk, jumping into our discussions on how to find and tell stories in Los Angeles—a 63-year-old man with as much energy and curiosity as any of the youngsters in class. A lot of Valencia's classmates obviously knew he couldn't afford that semester's tuition (学费) but was still doing the homework."Here he is, willingly taking a class for the delight of it and benefit of learning," says Jessica Espinosa, a 25-year-old junior. Afterward, I heard Valencia wanted to stay in school until he earned a master's degree, but it had taken him 12 years to finish community college,so he had a long way to go. There is something splendidly unreasonable about Valencia's determination to get a four-year degree and then a master's. At his current pace, he'll be 90 when he finally hangs all that paper on the wall. But it seems to make no difference