内蒙古包头市包钢四中20152016学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

包钢四中2015-2016 学年第一学期期末考试

高二英语试题

（满分:120分，答题时间：100分钟）

第I卷

第一部分听力（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中选出最佳答案

(A)

Dear Laura,

Hi! I am Veronica, your new pen friend from Singapore. I got your name and address from the Making Pen Pals' Column in Buddies magazine and thought I'd write to you. Well, let me start by telling you something about myself. I am 13 years old and I am studying in secondary one at Westdove School. I have just finished my exams. I live with my parents and younger sister in a five room apartment. I like swimming, playing tennis and reading novels. I love the outdoors, especially the sea and I have been on several trekking (long and hard) tours abroad. I enjoy listening to both pop and classical music. My favorite food is pizza and I love making it myself because I like to make it with lots of cheese and pepper. To sum it up, I am a talkative, caring and patient person.

I guess life in London must be wonderful with all the interesting places and good food to enjoy. I'd love to see the famous Big Ben. I hope to visit London during one of my school holidays. Laura, I would really like to learn more about your culture and lifestyle. I hope you will write back. I have enclosed(附有) my address and telephone number. Please feel free to call me if you make a trip to Singapore. I think you should because it is a wonderful place to shop. Till then, good-bye.

Yours faithfully

Veronica

21. Veronica writes the letter to Laura because she wants to ______.

A. tell something about her hometown

B. know something about her

C. invite her to her country

D. make friends with her

22. Veronica says she loves making pizza because ______.

A. there is no pizzas in Singapore

B. people can not buy fresh pizza in Singa pore

C. she can make pizza to her own taste

D. she thinks it is cheap to make pizza

23. From the letter we know that ______.

A. Ve ronica is not interested in traveling

B. Veronica has traveled a lot

C. Veronica has been to London before

D. Veronica thinks Singapore is the best place for travelers

( B )

As we know, most of the material things in our daily life have to be bought with money. But money is not all powerful. Money can't buy many things such as time and true love. There are

24 hours in a day. Sometimes when we are very happy, we wish that the period of happiness would last(持续）longer. But no matter what we do, or how much money we are willing to pay, we cannot make a day last longer than 24 hours. On the other hand, when we are unhappy, money cannot make the unhappy time pass away more quickly. True love is another thing which money cannot buy. Suppose we have someone who really loves us very much. Once he dies, he can give us no more love. Can our money raise him from death and make him love us as before? Here we can see very clearly that money cannot buy us love. Money can buy us diamond things, beautiful clothes, but never time and love. So money, after all, is not all powerful.

24. According to the passage, it is quite impossible for you to buy ______.

A. true friendship

B. real diamond

C. a large house

D. an expensive car

25. Which of the sentences expresses the main idea of this passage?

A. Money cannot buy time and love.

B. Money is the most powerful thing in the world

C. Money can buy people material things.

D. Money doesn't mean everything.

26. Through the passage the writer wants to tell people not to ______.

A. make money

B. waste money

C. save money

D. worship (崇拜) money

27. From the passage we can see that in our life, besides something material, we need something

______.

A. spiritual (精神上的)

B. beautiful

C. lovely

D. useful

( C )

More than 10,000 people were made homeless in Ternang when the Sungai Mas overflowed its banks yesterday after six days of continuous heavy rain.

The wooden bridge across the river has been washed away. The town is cut off by flood waters. At the fifth mile, Jalan Tengkn, the water is two meters deep. It is closed to all traffic. Flooding first happened at mid-afternoon yesterday along the river banks. People trying to get to higher ground were just in time to escape the destroying of the flood. Most of the flood victims(受害者) had to leave all their things behind.

The National Flood Relief(救济) Center was reported to give its help and by early evening the whole town was moved out, helped by the army, police, Red Cross Society and volunteers(志愿者).

The flood victims are now housed in different simple relief centers in the nearby town of Ternang. “Everything possible is being done to help the unlucky people,” a government spokesman said, “In fact, money, food and clothing have begun to come in from public or ganizations and helpful people. A Disaster Relief Fund（救灾基金会）will be started as soon as possible.”

According to the latest reports it is still raining heavily at Ternang. The whole town is expected to be wholly covered by the water. So far no deaths h ave been reported.

28. This passage is probably taken from ______.

A. a storybook

B. a textbook

C. a magazine

D. a newspaper

29. It seems that the flood happened just because ______.

A. the banks were too low

B. the wooden bridge is solid (坚固)