辽宁省朝阳市第二高级中学2014-2015学年高三第二次月考英语试卷

朝阳市第二高级中学高三第二次月考 英 语 试 题 时间：100 分钟 第一部分：听力（略） 满分：120 分 第二部分：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 A、B、C 和 D 中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项 涂黑。 A Many years ago, I pulled a family out of a burning car somewhere in Wyoming. Last week I received a telephone call from a woman who could not stop crying as she told me that one of my stories had saved her son from committing suicide. In closing she called me a hero. That got me thinking about what a hero is. Was I a hero because I pulled a family from a burning car? If so, how could I be a hero just because I wrote a story that saved someone’s life? Today I looked up the word “hero”in the dictionary to see exactly what it meant. It read “a person who does something brave” and also“a person who is good and noble”. That statement impressed me more than the part about being brave. So I thought about something very i mportant. And I remembered what happened to me years ago. After my marriage of twenty years ended, I was in such a c