江苏省高邮市2015-2016学年高二上学期期中调研英语试卷

trip in the rain for nothing was a slight chuckle (轻声地笑) and this comment: “The important thing is you are home.” The important thing is you are home ...

Today, remind someone how important it is that they are at home with you. If they live far away, tell them how important it is that they have a home in your heart. 48. What trouble did the writer have?

A. She was informed of the web-based training too late and was going to miss it. B. She failed to give the web-based training as no one was informed to log in on time.

C. Her plane was delayed and she had to rearrange her connecting flight home. D. She had a big argument with an annoying airline gate agent and missed her flight. 49. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? A. The writer cancelled her web-based training permanently.

B. Jim drove the writer all the way home from the airport to get her there in time for her training.

C. The writer took it for granted that Jim would pick her up from the airport. D. The writer caught her connecting flight and was back home in time for her training.

50. The writer felt worried about owning up to Jim because ______. A. she knew he would get really upset and yell at her

B. she had mistaken the date for the training and he needn’t have picked her up C. she was sorry that it had taken him so long to get home D. she was afraid he might tell her friends 51. What do we know about Jim from the text? A. He is willing to do anything for his wife. B. He does not want to feel regret. C. He cares about his family.

D. He loves driving more than anything else.

C

Are you an introvert (内向的人) or an extrovert? Before you say you are either one, you

should know that there is a third option.

According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, experts say there’s a middle

ground between the two personality types ---people who they call “ambiverts (中间性格者)”.

Introverts don’t like crowds and enjoy keeping their thoughts to themselves, while

extroverts, on the other hand, like meeting new people and being the center of attention. Ambiverts, as the name suggests, have both introverted and extroverted characteristics. But neither set of characteristics is completely in control. As a result, they can move between being social and being alone with greater ease (轻松) than either extroverts or introverts. For example, ambiverts often enjoy other people’s company. But after a long day of hard work, they sometimes prefer to read a book or watch a TV series at home alone.

“It is like they’re bilingual,” Daniel Pink, the host of Crowd Control, a US TV series on

human behavior, told The Wall Street Journal. “They have a wider range of skills and can connect with a wider range of people in the same way someone who speaks English and Spanish can.”

Ambiverts have gotten more attention in recent years, thanks to books, TED talks and

consulting (咨询的) firms focusing on how personality traits (特征) change people’s behavior in relationships and careers. In fact, roughly two-thirds of people in the US are ambiverts, according to a personality survey done by Adam M. Grant, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Grant believes ambiversion takes good parts from introversion and extroversion. “The

ambivert advantage comes from being enthusiastic enough to persuade, but at the same

time, listening carefully to others and avoiding seeming overly confident or excited,” he told Forbes magazine.

But he also points out that unlike extroverts and introverts who tend to know what gives them energy, ambiverts can sometimes get stuck. They are often unsure which side of their personality should lead in a given situation. 52. What is the article mainly about?

A. Differences between introverts and extroverts. B. How personality traits change people’s behavior. C. Why ambiverts have gotten more attention recently. D. Characteristics and advantages of ambiverts. 53. According to the article, ambiverts ______.

A. prefer being the center of attention to being alone B. usually work hard and are successful in their careers C. tend to connect with more people than introverts D. want to keep their thoughts to themselves all the time

54. The underlined word “bilingual” in Paragraph 5 probably means ______. A. able to adapt to a new environment well B. able to speak two languages equally well C. always ready to help those in need D. good at drawing attention from the crowd

55. What advantage does Grant think ambiverts have over introverts and extroverts? A. They know what gives them energy.

B. They seem more enthusiastic and confident. C. They have more balanced personalities. D. They can deal with a given situation better.

D

One of the executives gathered at the Aspen Institute for a day-long leadership workshop using the works of Shakespeare was discussing the role of Brutus in the death of Julius Caesar. “Brutus was not an honorable man,” he said. “He was a traitor（叛徒）. And he murdered someone in cold blood.” The agreement was that

Brutus had acted with cruelty when other options were available to him. He made a bad decision, they said—at least as it was presented by Shakespeare—to take the lead in murdering Julius Caesar. And though one of the executives acknowledged that Brutus had the good of the republic in mind, Caesar was nevertheless his superior. “You have to endeavor,” the executives said, “our policy is to obey the chain of command.”

During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare’s wisdom for profitable ends. None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman, well-known advisers to the White House, who started up a training company called “Movers and Shakespeares”. They are amateur Shakespeare scholars and Shakespeare lovers, and they have combined their passion and their high level contacts into a management training business. They conduct between 30 and 40 workshops annually, focusing on half a dozen different plays, mostly for corporations, but also for government agencies.

The workshops all take the same form, focusing on a single play as a kind of case study, and using individual scenes as specific lessons. In Julius Caesar, for example, Cassius’s sly provocation（狡诈的挑唆） of Brutus to take up arms against Caesar was a basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organizing.

Although neither of the Adelmans is academically trained in literature, the programmes, contain plenty of Shakespeare tradition and background. Their workshop on Henry V, for example, includes a helpful explanation of Henry’s winning strategy at the Battle of Agincourt. But they do come to the text with a few biases (偏向): their reading of Henry V minimizes his misuse of power. Instead, they emphasize the story of the youth who seizes opportunities and becomes a masterful leader. And at the workshop on Caesar, Mr. Adelmans had little good to say about Brutus, saying “the noblest Roman of them all” couldn’t make his mind up about things.

Many of the participants pointed to very specific elements in the play that they felt related. Caesar’s pride, which led to his murder, and Brutus’s mistakes in