高二英语上期末考试试题

赤峰二中（2015级）2016-2017学年度上学期期末考试

英语试卷

满分：150分时间：100分钟

第Ⅰ卷

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

Once again, I was at a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That was where the similarities ended.

I was tall and she was small. I was one of the oldest in the class while she was the youngest. My hair was thick, short and ugly while hers was long and beautiful. I was awkward and shy. She wasn't. I couldn't stand her, considering her my enemy. But she wanted to be friends. One day, she invited me over and I said yes – I was too shocked to say no. Actually, no one had invited me over to play before. But this girl, who wore the latest fashions, wanted to see me.

She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister. When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies – which was my next surprise. I would have thought she had outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in cupboard laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That's when we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older. We both had wild imaginations.

We had a great time that afternoon. Our jaws ached from smiling so much. She showed me her outfits（服装）, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it sometimes used her as a model for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.

Paris charmed the whole neighborhood. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free pieces. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other's houses and spent every

free moment together. I let my hair grow out and learned to love being tall.

Paris, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through my tough teenage years and taught me an amazing thing about making friends: Your "worst enemy" can turn out to be your best friend.

1. At the time described at the beginning of the article, ______.

A. the author felt she had little in common with Paris

B. the author envied (嫉妒) Paris for being confident

C. the author felt she was in every way inferior (不如) to Paris

D. the author stayed away from Paris because of their differences

2. In the article, the writer describes Paris as a girl who _______.

A. knew how to exchange services

B. refused to grow up

C. had good people skills

D. bought a lot of designer clothing

3. From the article, we can tell that through her friendship with Paris, the writer ______.

A. started to accept herself

B. also became a neighborhood star

C. learned more about fashion

D. was able to fit in at her new school

4. Which answer best sums up the article's main message?

A. Life holds a lot of surprises for us.

B. If you hate the differences between you and someone else, you'll be bored to death.

C. Never judge a person from their appearance.

D. Sometimes you can make friends if you get past what seem to be differences.

B

In a bookstore, we can lose ourselves and forget what time it is. Being surrounded by walls and walls of stories gives us endless chances to find exactly what we are looking for, or a novel we had no idea even existed. Walking up and down a bookstore, we can look at hundreds of covers and read the backs of many different books. We can open a book and