黑龙江省大庆市第一中学2018-2019学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题附答案解析

2018-2019学年黑龙江省大庆一中高二（上）期末

英语试卷

一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共30.0分）

A

"Indeed，" George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785， "some kind of fly， or bug， had begun to eat the leaves before I left home．" But the father of America was not the father of bug． When Washington wrote that， Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century， and Americans had already created lightning-bug（萤火虫）． But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language， leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries．The American bug could also be a person， referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity． Although fan became the usual term， sports fans used to be called racing bugs， baseball bugs，and the like．

Or the bug could be a small machine or object， for example， a bug-shaped car． The bug could also be a burglar alarm， from which comes the expression to bug， that is， "to install （安装） an alarm"． Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation． Since the 1840s， to bug has long meant "to cheat"， and since the 1940s it has been annoying．We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design． That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison． In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product． In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug' in his invented record player．"

1. We learn from Paragraph 1that ______ ．

A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

B. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

C. the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century

D. both Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

2. What does the word "flaw" in the last paragraph probably mean？ ______

A. Evolution．

B. Finding．

C. Origin．

D. Fault．

3. "BUG" can referred to the following except ______ ．

A. A man who is crazy about sports

B. A man who installs an alarm

C. An insect in natural world

D. A device for listening secretly

4. The passage is mainly concerned with ______ ．

A. the misunderstanding of the word bug

B. the development of the word bug

C. the public views of the word bug

D. the special characteristics of the word bug

【答案】1. D 2. D 3. B 4. B

【解析】

本文属于记叙文阅读，作者通过这篇文章向我们介绍了"bug"一词的演变过程，并列举了历史上著名的名人的例子帮助读者理解．

【1题详解】

细节理解题。根据第一段"Indeed，"George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785，"some kind of fly，or bug，had begun to eat the leaves before I left home．提到乔治华盛顿在1785年用到这个词汇，而第一段最后一句话But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language英国很快就不用这个词，美国却在19和20世纪继续使用．推断出18世纪英国还在用，故选D。

【2题详解】

细节理解题。根据最后一段We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design．That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison．我们也知道错误是一个计算机程序或其他设计的一个缺陷，故这个单词用来说明电脑出现故障，故选D。

【3题详解】

细节理解题。根据文章第三段 The bug could also be a burglar alarm， from which comes the expression to bug， that is， "to install （安装） an alarm"． Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation． Since the 1840s， to bug has long meant "to cheat"，and since the 1940s it has been annoying．可知窃听器也可能是一种防盗报警器，从中可以表达为窃听器，即"安装一个报警器"，而不是一个安装报警器的人，由此可知答案选B。

【4题详解】

主旨大意题。通读全文可知本文主要讲述了"bug"一词的演变过程，故选B。

B

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