西藏日喀则地区第一高级中学2016届高三上学期期末考试 英语试题
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。
A
My son David, who was three and a half years old, taught me a beautiful lesson today. After we finished playing with the beads, David slowly picked up each bead, looking at them as if they were made of chocolate and then put them into the box they were stored in. With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting impatient. “Why could he not pick up 10 in one go and put them in? My morning was going to be ruined today!”
But then it hit me like a brick. I noticed that he did this with as much interest as he had while we were playing. The boy was enjoying the whole process. For him the fun was in the game itself as well as in the process of properly picking up and cleaning up. It was not just about his turn or the fun part. Every bit was as fun as the other.
I thought of myself as a kid when we would go out to play cricket(板球). If I was not batting(用球板击球) or bowling(投球) , I was unhappy as I impatiently waited for my turn to do so. As a result, I was unhappy while waiting for my turn and only happy for the few moments I either batted or bowled. Only the process of doing something I combined with happiness made me cheerful. The rest of the time I was waiting for my turn in the future or recalling great bowling from the past.
Looking at how peacefully my son was putting beads in the box taught me that the process is the goal. The joy of journey is not in getting there but in every step of it.
1. Why was the father getting upset?
A. He wasn’t interested in the game.
B. It’d take long to put away the beads.
C. David put away the beads casually.
D. His son didn’t do it as he was told to.
2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. I was hit by David with a brick.
B. I felt very annoyed at what David did.
C. I suddenly understood David’s behavior.
D. I was at a loss what to do with David.
