广东省华南师范大学附属中学2019届高三上学期第二次月考英语试题

2018-2019学年度华南师范大学附属中学高三年级月考(二) 英 语 试 题 2018-10-26 第一卷(满分70分) 第一部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Life experiences can show one’s “grit” (坚韧). Complex challenges early in life helped the following people develop skills that got them to the top of their professions. Ursula Burns, Chairwoman, VEON; Former CEO, Xerox Her family was so poor that her single mother traded office cleaning for health care. But Burns’ early gift for maths won her a scholarship and an internship at Xerox, where she would compete her way to the top. “I’m a black lady from the Lower East Side,” she says, “Not a lot scares me.” Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman, Starbucks Schultz grew up in public housing in Brooklyn, surrounded by poverty, and was the first in his family to go to college (on a football scholarship). After training in sales, he set up the company that would later buy Starbucks. “In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I sp