广东省湛江市第二十一中学高二英语上学期期中试题

广东省湛江市第二十一中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题

(总分： 120分）

选择题部分

第一部分阅读理解(共两节,满分35分）

第一节：(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

There are a number of sports writers who are now widely regarded as some of the best sports journalists of our time。 Here are five of the most well-known sports writers.

Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated

Rick Reilly became famous as the back page columnist （专栏作家） for Sports Illustrated magazine。Then he moved to ESPN in 2008 and began working as a columnist for their website — ESPN。com。 Now he has his own show with ESPN, and he also contributes articles to ABC sports。

Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe

Bob Ryan rose through the ranks thanks to his skill and knowledge about basketball。He very soon became known as a guru of the sport，writing an impressively large number of articles about The Boston Celtics — a National Basketball Association （NBA) team based in Boston， Massachusetts.

John Feinstein of The Washington Post

John Feinstein is primarily a columnist with The Washington Post but during his long career he has published two best—selling sports books A Good Walk Spoiled and A Season on the Brink。 He is a regular with the Golf Channel and has a very popular blog called Feinstein on the Brink.

Joaquin Henson of The Philippine Star

Joaquin Henson started out his sports journalism career in 1973 and became popular through his column Sporting Chance，which has been published in The Philippine Star since the 80's。He has given a number of catchy nicknames to some of the most famous sporting stars of our time.

William Rhoden of The New York Times

Apart from being a columnist with The New York Times since the 80’s，William Rhoden is a respected sports journalist known for his two books Forty Million Dollar Slaves and Third and a Mile. Both books deal with the problems that face black athletes in the field of sport。

1. Before working for ESPN, Rick Reilly _____。

A。 was a regular with the Golf Channel B. started his column Sporting Chance C。 wrote articles for Sports Illustrated D。 worked as a sports talk show host

2。 Both John Feinstein and William Rhoden _____。

A. have worked as writers for ten years

B。 work as columnists and write books

C. like to give nicknames to sporting stars

D. are known as columnists for ABC sports

3。 What would be the best title for the text？

A。 Useful tips for a sports journalist B. How to be a newspaper columnist C。 Newspapers that influence us a lot D。 Famous and popular sports writers

B

Londoners are great readers. They buy large numbers of newspapers, magazines and books — especially paperbacks (平装书）, which are still cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing。 They still continue to buy "proper” books， too， printed on good paper.

There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book—selling。 Perhaps the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very

heart of London。 Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found， from the celebrated one which is said to be ”the biggest bookshop in the world” to