高中英语真题:2014-2015学年第二学期期中考试试卷测试时间： 90分钟总分： 120分第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）（A）A man in a very splendid restaurant started to take off his ja cket. Seeing this, the head waiter dashed to his table and said , “I’m afraid I must ask you to keep your jacket on, sir, for it is not good manners to do it in such a smart restaurant.”“Now listen,” said the man, “I’ll let you know that the Queen of England gave me permission to remove my jacket here.”“T he Queen of En gland?” said the waiter in great surprise. “Sur e,” replied the man, “ When I was in last month, a friend of mi ne who had a very important position in high society took me t o see the Queen. It was rather hot, so I started taking my coat off. The Queen looked over and said, “You may do that in the , but you may not do it here. ” So I got the Queen’s permissio n, right?1. When the head waiter asked the man not to take off his jacket, the man ______.A. took his advice immediatelyB. obeyed him wit hout any hesitationC. apologized for his bad mannersD. refused to listen to him2. What the Queen really meant was that ______.A. people in the were stupid and less politeB. she permitted him to take off his jacket inC. the English and the Americans enjoyed different ways of li feD. he shouldn’t take off his coat in such a formal occasion in3. It is certain that the story happened ______.A. inB. in the Queen’s partyC. inD. in an ordinary restaurant（B）Rain, who was born on June 2, 1982 in , , is a popular singe r with a very deep and rich voice. Jung Ji Hoon is his real nam e, known as the “Michael Jackson of ” for his amazing dancin g skills. Rain is very modest and friendly, even a little shy.He released his first album Bad Guy in 2002, which causeda sensation. It took him to all the major award ceremonies, an d many of them honored him with Best New Award. His follow ing album How to Run from the Sun was successful, and his t hird album It’s Raining topped the charts for weeks.Rain is not only a singer but also an actor, who has given im pressive performances in two TV series, Sang Doo! Let’s go t o school（《尚道，上学去》）in 2003 and Full House（《浪漫满屋》）in 2004. Rain’s leading role in Full House made him win Best Actor Award at the KBS Acting Awards and also deeply touch ed the hearts of many Asian female fans. At the same time it made him become one of the most popular Korean actors in Asia.Now Rain is very popular in . It’s Raining has already sold m ore than 100,000 copies in . Rain received the “Korean Artist of the Year” award at the MTV -- CCTV Mandarin Music Honors held on July 24, 2005 at the Workers Stadium in , . His recent Beijing concert caused a gr eat hit, creating “Korean Fever” in .4. The reason why Jung Ji Hoon is called “Michael Jackson of ” is that ______.A. he is a popular singer with a rich voiceB. his dancing skills are amazingC. he is very modest and friendlyD. he shares the same name with Michael Jackson5. What would be the best title for this passage?A. Michael Jackson of --RainB. Jung Ji Hoon’s First Album – Bad GuyC. Rain, a Singer and a PainterD. Korea Fever in6. Which of the following is True about Rain?A. His album “How to Run from the Sun” was so successful t hat it topped the charts for weeks.B. Rain’s leading role in “Sang Doo! Let’s go to school” mad e him win Best Actor Award at theKBS Acting Awards.C. Rain won the “Korean Artist of the Year” award because o f his music career.D. Rain has suffered a fever since his recent concert caused a great hit.7. Which of the following is the passage most likely from?A. Textbooks for senior school students.B. Entertainment newspapers.C. Textbooks for music students.D. A book written for Michael Jackson.（C）A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of read ing. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of new s from local crime to international politics, from sport to busine ss to fashion to science, and the range of comment and speci al features as well, from editorial page to feature articles and i nterviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music.A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one read s it: never completely, never straight through, but always by ju mping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, re ading another article all the way through, reading just a few p aragraghs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a var iety to attract many different readers, but far from one reader i s interested in what brings this variety together in. One place i s its topicality(时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of produ ction that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient(短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out ofthe pages of that day’s paper, his own selection and sequenc e, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspa pers efficiently, which means getting what you want from the m without missing things you need but without wasting time, d emands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading .8. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following EX CEPT its ______.A. wide coverageB. uniform styleC. speed in reporting newsD. popularity9. According to the passage, the reason why no two people re ally read the same newspaper is that ______.A. people scan for the news they are interested inB. different people prefer different newspapersC. people are not interested in the same kind of newsD. people have different views about what a good newspape r is10. It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper rea ders ______.A. apply reading techniques skillfullyB. jump f rom one newspaper to anotherC. appreciate the variety of a newspaperD. us ually read a newspaper selectively11. A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because _ _____.A. it tries to serve different readersB. it has to cover things that happen in a certain localityC. readers are difficult to pleaseD. readers like read different newspapers（D）Life is difficult.But life is no longer difficult once we truly understand and ac cept it.Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seem s to them that their difficulties represent a special kind of suffe ring especially forced upon them or else upon their families, th eir class, or even their nation.What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and sol ving problems is painful. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. Th ese are uncomfortable feelings, often as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, lifeis always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.Yet, it is in this whole of solving problems that life has its me aning.Problems are the serious test that tells success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit we encourage the human ability to solve problems just as in s chool we set problems for our children to solve. It is through t he pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. A s Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurts, instruct.” It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welc ome the pain of problems.12. From the passage, it can be inferred that ______.A. not everybody has problemsB. we become stronger by facing and solving the problems i n lifeC. life is difficult because our problems bring us painD. people like to complain about their problems13. The writer uses just one short sentence in the first paragra ph probably to ______.A. save spaceB. persuade read ersC. make readers laughD. get readers’ attention14. According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to ______.A. encourage them to learnB. make them suf ferC. help them learn to deal with painD. help them understand life is difficult15. “Those things that hurt, instruct.” From Benjamin Franklin suggests that ______.A. we do not learn from experienceB. we do not l earn when we are in painC. pain teaches us important lessonsD. pain can not be forgotten第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
