2016高二下期末考英语试题

英语试题

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）

第一节：（共 15 小题，每题 2 分，共 30 分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将其涂黑。

A

I was in a strange city I didn ’t know at all, and what ’s more, I could not speak a word of the

language. On my second day I got on the first bus that passed, rode on it for several stops, then got

off and walked on. The first two hours passed pleasantly enough, then I decided to turn back to my

hotel for lunch. After walking about for some time, I decided I had better ask the way. The trouble

was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the street in which I lived, and

even that I pronounced badly. I stopped to ask a newspaper-seller. He handed me a paper. I shook

my head and repeated the name of the street and he put the paper into my hands. I had to give him

some money and went on my way. The next person.I asked was a policeman. He listened to me

carefully, nodded and gently took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he

pointed left and right and left again. I nodded politely and began walking in the direction he

pointed.

About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green

fields were appearing on either side of me. I had come all the way into the countryside. The only

thing left for me to do was find the nearest railway station.

21. The writer preferred to walk back to his hotel because.

A. he had no money to buy a ticket

B. he wanted to lose himself in the city

C. he tried to know the city in this way

D.it was late and there were no buses passing by

22. The newspaper-seller .

A. didn ’ t know where the hotel was

B. didn ’ t understand what the writer said

C. could understand what the writer said

第 1 页 共 8 页 D. didn ’ t want to take the money from the writer

23. From the story we know that the policeman .

A. was kind but didn ’ t understand the writer

B. told the writer where to take a train

C. knew what the writer really meant

D.was cold-hearted and didn ’ t help the writer

24. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. The writer got close to the hotel where he stayed.

B. The writer got to the hotel with the policeman ’ s help.

C. The writer found he was much farther away from the hotel.

D.The writer found the hotel in the direction the policeman pointed.

B

Jesse Owens was born in Alabama in the USA, in 1913. There were ten children in his

family. Jesse was the youngest. He went to school in the city of Cleveland. At school he showed

he had a special talent for athletics ( 田径 ). He could run fast. He could jump high. He could jump

far. Because he was good at athletics, Jesse became a student at Ohio State University.

In May, 1935 in Michigan, USA, he broke the world record for the long jump. This was

his first world record. On the 25th May Jesse did something unusual. In 45 minutes he broke six

world records. Some people think that this was the greatest athletics achievement ever.

In 1936 Jesse went to the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. There were only nineteen

black athletes in the USA team. He won gold medals in the 100 meters race, the 200 meters race,

the long jump and the relay race.

Jesse was not a professional athlete. This meant that he could not get money for running.

Later, he became a professional athlete. To make money he had to appear in strange races.

Sometimes he had to race against horses.

In 1960 somebody broke Jesse's last world record. In 1980 Jesse died.

25. Jesse Owens was born in in the USA.

A. Alabama B. Cleveland C. Ohio D Michigan

26. Jesse showed he was very good at when he was at school.

A. basketball B. swimming C. athletics D. shooting

27. Jesse's first world record was for the .

A. running B. relay race C. high jump D. long jump

28. He won gold medals in 1936 in the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.

A. two B. four C. six D. eight

第 2 页 共 8 页 C

People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it.

People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research.

Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means

just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your

relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another

term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.

Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the

quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that

people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer,