上砂中学2015-2016年度高二年级第一学期期中考
英语（试卷）
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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、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
According to “Evening Peak News” of V oice of China, Chine se netizens (网民) have summed up top 10 network buzzword (网络用语) of 2014. Here are some of them.
1.Rich and Bitch(任性)
Have you noticed that so many people claimed themselves “rich and bitch” in friends circle and Weibo. The buzzword originates from a real event: In April, Mr. Liu spent 1760 yuan online buying a health care product. Soon after, he got calls from a stranger who persuaded him to buy other matched medicines. In the following four months, Mr. Liu sent a total of 540,000 yuan to the swindler(骗子). He said that he had already found himself cheated(被欺骗) when he was fooled out of 70,000 yuan. “I just wanted to see how much could they take from me!”
2.It’s so beautiful that I’m too scared to open it
This is another joke in which unsightly(难看的) things are intended to be good-looking. The buzzword comes from a sentence of Jolin’s song “Prague Square”(布拉格广场), which was extended to describe strange thing. For example, when you see a very shocking picture, you can use this sentence to express the visual or psychological impact.
3.It is to be cherished (珍惜)
On March 31, 2014, Ma Yili responded to Wen Zhang’s cheating on Sina Weibo. It reads as follows: “Being in love is easy, being married is not. It is to be cherished.” Soon many Internet users began to make sentences with this pattern. For example, “Eating is easy, losing weight is not. It is to be cherished.”
1.Why did Mr. Liu pay the money although he had found himself cheated?
A.He wanted to buy the medicines.
B.He wanted to see how much could the swindler take form him.
C.He did not know they are swindlers.
D.He has too much money.
2.When you see a terrifying picture, which sentence can you use to express your
feeling?
A. Rich and bitch.
B. It is to be cherished.
C. It’s so beautiful that I’m too scared to open it.
D. None of the above.
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
work buzzwords all come from songs.
B.“Rich and bitch” is often used to describe the rich.
C.“It is to be cherished” was first said by Wen Zhang.
D.Mr. Liu was totally fooled out of 70,000 yuan.
B
Robert and Peter study in the same university. They do everything together and help each other. But they often play jokes on each other.
The school year was over last month and they decided to travel through the country in America. They drove a car and could stop wherever they were interested in and started whenever they wanted. Of course they enjoyed themselves. It was very hot one day and they were both hungry and thirsty. They stopped in front of a restaurant by the road. They came in, sat down at a table and ordered some dishes. Robert looked around and found there was a small bowl on the table. He thought there was some ice cream in it and took a spoonful of it and put it into his mouth. Immediately he knew it was mustard (芥末), but it was too late. Tears ran down his face, but he pretended nothing had happened. The other young man, seeing his friend crying, asked, "What are you crying about, Robert?"
"I'm thinking of my father who was hanged(上吊) twenty years ago," he answered.
After a while Peter made the same mistake. Tears ran down his cheeks, too. And his friend asked him why.
"I wonder why your father hadn't been hanged before he got married？”
4. Robert and Peter went to travel____________.
A. by bus
B. on foot
C. by car
D. by air
5. Robert took a spoonful of mustard because ___________.
A. it was free
B. he liked mustard
C. he thought it was ice-cream
D. it was delicious
6. Robert didn’t tell Peter the true reason why he cried because ____________.
A. he didn’t know his friend hated mustard
B. he wanted Peter to make the same mistake as he
C. he thought his friend knew what it was
D. he thought his friend was interested in it
7. What did Peter’s last words mean?
A. Robert’s father was hanged before he got married.
B. His friend Robert shouldn’t be born and he wouldn’t be cheated.
C. It was fine to play a joke on a friend.
D. He must give Robert a lesson.
C
Rice is an important part of many people's diets. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have published a report about rice. It shows that eating white rice increases the risk of diabetes(糖尿病). However, eating brown rice(糙米) reduces the risk of the disease.
