第十单元检测-【艺考一本通】2024年高考英语小题量检测

艺考一本通 英语 第十单元检测 ©限时：60分钟©总分：52.5分 一、阅读理解（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） curious about how the experts did it.How she is After years of observing human nature,I have one of the experts,writing books on flower decided that two qualities make the difference arrangement. between men of great achievement and men of One way to begin is to answer your own average performance curiosity and discontent.I excuses.You haven't any special ability?Most have never known an outstanding man who lacked people don't;there are only a few geniuses.You either.And I have never known an average man haven't any time?That's good,because it's who had both.The two belong together. always the people with no time who get things Together,these deep human urges(驱策力) done.Harriet Stowe,mother of six,wrote parts of count for much more than ambition.Galileo was not Uncle Tom's Cabin while cooking.You're too old? merely ambitious when he dropped objects of Remember that Thomas Costain was 57 when he varying weights from the Leaning Tower at Pisa published his first novel,and that Grandma Moses and timed their fall to the ground.Like Galileo,all showed her first pictures when she was 78. the great names in history were curious and asked in However you start,remember there is no discontent,“Why?Why?Why?” better time to start than right now,for you'll never Fortunately,curiosity and discontent don't be more alive than you are at this moment. have to be learned.We are born with them and need 1.In writing Paragraph 1,the author aims to only recapture them. “The great man,”said Mencius(孟子)，“ishe who does not lose his child's heart."Yet most of us A.propose a definition do lose it.We stop asking questions.We stop B.make a comparison C.reach a conclusion challenging custom.We just follow the crowd.And the crowd desires restful average.It encourages us D.present an argument to occupy our own little corner,to avoid foolish 2.What does the example of Galileo tell us? leaps into the dark,to be satisfied. A.Trial and erro