2020年度高二下学期英语期中试题
第一部分阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40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
At a meeting, a well-known speaker lifted up a bill of 20 dollars before starting his speech.
Facing 200 people, he asked, “Who wants this 20-dollar bill?” A great many ha nds were put up. Then he continued to say, “I intended to give it to any one of you, but allow me to do a thing before giving it to you.” Suddenly he crumpled it into a round mass. Then he asked, “Who wants it?” Still some hands were lifted up.
He asked ag ain, “Well, how could it be if I do it like this?” he threw the bill onto the ground, stepped on it and twisted it. As he picked it up, the bill had become not only dirty but wrinkled.
“Who still wants it?” Still a few people put up their hands.
“My dear f riends, you have had a meaningful class. No matter how I treated this bill, you still want it, because it is worth 20 dollars. On your life road, you may be knocked down or even broken into pieces by your determination or unfavorable situations. We may feel ourselves worth nothing, but, my darling, remember that whatever happens in the future, you should never lose your value in the God’s heart. You’re particular ---- never forget it.”
1. How many times did the speaker ask the people whether they wanted the bill?
A. Once
B. Twice
C. Four times
D. Three times
2. The underlined word “wrinkled” in the third paragraph probably means _____.
A. having small lines or folds in it
B. broken
C. flat
D. having holes on it
3. The speaker did this test in order to _____________.
A. tell the audience that God values money most
B. tell the audience that one should never lose one’s own value
C. test if some of the audience were extremely interested in money
D. play a trick on the audience
4. What would the speaker probably talk about next?
A. How money can make people crazy.
B. How to avoid being knocked down in one’s life.
C. How to give a meaningful class.
D. How to keep one’s value of life.
B
More and more students are going abroad for their further study. Do you want to know some famous colleges and universities? Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
In the early years, these schools were much alike .Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive the ir training in Harvard’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began teaching American history.
As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.
Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer it all.
5. From the second paragraph, we can see that in the early years, ______.
A. those colleges and universities were similar
B. people, young or old, might study in the colleges
C. students studied only some languages and science
D. when the students finished their school, they became lawyers or teachers
6. As knowledge increased, _______.
