2021年高二英语测试题（12月） 含答案
福满家园A
Everyone agrees that all the creatures want happiness and are afraid of pain and grief. The question, however, is “What is real happiness?” The desire for happiness has no meaning without understanding the real nature of happiness.
Generally, ordinary beings consider nsual（感觉的） pleasures as happiness, and their actions are directed toward gaining the. According to them, arching for happiness means arching for pleasures of the ns. The question, “What is happiness?”, does not ari（出现） in their hearts, becau in their hearts they think of a life full of nsual joys as a happy life.
Some thinkers say, “Happiness does not lie in the objects of enjoyment; happiness or unhappiness lies in the imagination.” To prove their belief they give examples like the following one. A man has a two-storey hou. When he thinks of tho who have a hou w导读怎么写
隔壁李阿姨ith three storeys or more, he feels unhappy. When he thinks of tho who have just a cottage, he feels happy. Such happiness does not lie in posssions（占有物）, but in the imagination. They advi people to take inspiration from tho who have few posssions but are quite happy. If you only consider people wealthier than yourlf, you will always be unhappy.
If you want to be happy, they say, look at the poor. But it is unreasonable to hold that happiness lies in the imagination. And it is inappropriate to think that someone is happy if he only imagines himlf better than the poor and the unhappy. This attitude also satisfies the n of pride of posssion. This can never be called happiness. Unless we find out where happiness lies, we cannot really bee happy.
Some ask people to do this or that, and say, “This way your desires will be satisfied. That way you will get what you want and bee happy.” People holding the views regard happiness as satisfaction of desires and unhappiness as denial(否定) of such satisfaction.
71. What kind of life can make mon people feel happy?
A. Life without pain and grief. B. Life full of nsual pleasures.
C. Life with desire for posssions. D. Life full of imagination.
饮料店72. The underlined word “cottage” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to ________.
A. a hou in one’s imagination B. a modern building乌梅的作用与功效 C. a desired object D. a small hou
73. The author may agree that ________.
A. by paring themlves with the poor, people will feel happyB. people won’t feel happy without a desire for happiness
C. posssing wealth may lead to a n of pride
D. people have to experience pain and grief before finding happiness
B
21世纪英文报Eight-year-old Bethany and ven-year-old Eliza are having a great time jumping around in the orchard （果园）of their home in a village near Penrith. They can play any time they like becau they don't go to school. Instead, they are educated at home by their parents, Paul and Veronika Robinson. But they don't have lessons, have never ud a timetable and learn only what and when they want to learn.傻瓜的英语
"I want my kids to have freedom in their childhood, not spend it in an institution," says 37-year-old Veronika, "School is all about control and following the rules." Veronika and her 56-year-old husband Paul have never experienced the daily rush to get dresd and out of the door that is mon in most houholds with school-aged children. "We get up at our leisure - usually around 8:30," says Veronika. "We might visit a friend, or go to the library, and on Tuesdays we shop at the market. In summer, we spend most of our time outside and the girls entertain themlves a lot."
New rearch due to be published this spring reveals a very different picture of Britain's h
ome educators. "Out of 297 families, 184 said that they never u a timetable," says Mike Fortune-Wood of Home Education UK. "Ninety per cent never or rarely u textbooks, and nearly all said that happiness, contentment and lf-fulfillment were more important than academic achievement. Only 15% felt that planning what to learn was important."
春读音So far, so good. But what, you might ask, are the children actually learning?
"It wasn't important to me that the girls could read by a certain age, but they both picked it up for themlves at around ven," says Robinson. "Weighing cooking ingredients us maths, and making a shopping list teaches them to write. Obrving five hens has taught the girls about survival of the fittest. "
But what about when the children grow up? Can they go to university? The home educators' answer is they can if they want to. There are a variety of routes into higher education, but probably the most mon is to join a local college. This is what Gus Harris-Reid has done. "I was educated at home all my life. I'd never had a lesson or been inside a classroom until I started GCSEs," says the 18-year-old. "I'm now studying for 4 A-levels
at Exeter College. I've had no problem with the work or with fitting in." When asked to reflect on his experience of home education, his considered respon is, "Like a permanent holiday, really!" Not a bad start for someone who plans to take a mechanical engineering degree next year.
