河南省鹤壁市淇县第一中学学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案.docx

1、河南省鹤壁市淇县第一中学学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案淇县一中2017-2018学年高二第一学期期中考试英语试卷 本试试卷满分120分。考试用时100分钟。 本试题分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，只交答题卷和答题卡，试卷自己保留。第卷第一部分：听力 （共两节，满分30分）（略）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。AWhen I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the

2、 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldnt take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer

3、.Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery” and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.All of this

4、was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldnt freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taki

5、ng a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not hav

6、e been practical to have a delivery service.Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my sons friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman wh

7、o brought us friendship along with his milk. 21Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer _. Ato show his magical power Bto pay for the delivery Cto satisfy his curiosity Dto please his mother 22What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boys house? AHe wa

8、nted to have tea there. BHe was a respectable person. CHe was treated as a family member. DHe was fully trusted by the family. 23Why does home milk delivery no longer exits? ANobody wants to be a milkman now. BIt has been driven out of the market. CIts service is getting poor. DIt is forbidden by la

9、w.BMemory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.Sometimes you rememb

10、er things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before. Memory “trick” work the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something, a

11、nd then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber（理发师）shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office. We always seem to find something funny and am

12、using（有趣的）in incidents caused by peoples forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “trick” of our memory can caus

13、e us great trouble. 24. If you want to have a good memory, . A. you should force yourself to remember things B. you should try hard to remember things C. you should never stop learning D. you should make a conscious effort of practice and exercise 25. Which of the following statements is true accord

14、ing to the passage? A. The writer remembered unlocking the front door. B. One night the writer forgot having locked the front door. C. The writer remembered to lock the door. D. One night the writer forgot to lock the front door. 26. From the sentence “We never get tired of hearing new ones”, we can

15、 infer that . A. absent-mindedness happens not only to professors but to many other people B. we dont want to know anything more about absent-mindedness of professors C. we will never get tired of listening to new stories about absent-mindedness D. we enjoy hearing new stories about absent-mindednes

16、s of professors 27. The best title for this passage is . A. How to Get a Good Memory B. “Tricks” Of Memory C. Forgetfulness and Absent-mindedness is Dangerous D. Get Rid of Absent-mindednessCNowadays，Korea is influenced by American culture.If you visit Seoul (汉城)，you will see a lot of fast food stores in each avenue，places such as KFC，McDonalds and Burg