甘肃省张掖中学2015届高三第四次月考 英语试卷
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每题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
I was living in York around twenty years ago.Though I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find satisfying work.
I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and living with a friend of mine,for I had lost my flat. I had attended five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not get the job.“Why has my life become so hard?" I thought painfully.
One afternoon, while doing my rounds, I pulled the bus over to drop off a little girl, she handed me an earring saying I should keep it so that somebody could claim(认领)it.The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry. Then it hit me—I had been giving all of my attention to what was going wrong with my life rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a list of fifty things I was happy with. Later,I decided to add more things to the list．That night there was a phone call for me from a lady who was a director at a large hospital. She asked me if I would give a one-day lecture on stress management to 200 medical workers.I said yes.
My day there went very well，and before long I got a well-paid job.To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of thinking that I completely changed my life.
1.We can learn from the first two paragraphs that the author
A.was content with his personal life
B.was a college student doing a part-time job
C.was grateful for the hard but precious experience
D.felt hopeless in the face of difficulties
2.Which statement is true about the black earring?
A.The author got angry because he was unhappy.
B.The little girl gave him the earring as a gift.
C.The earring was returned to its owner very soon.
D.The lady who called him was the owner of the earring.
