广西钦州市钦州港区2016-2017学年高二12月月考英语试题（含听力）

广西钦州市钦州港区2016-2017学年高二年级上学期12月份考试 英 语 试 题 (时间：120分钟　满分：150分) 第一卷 第二部分 阅读理解 （共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） （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。 (A) Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner did not know what to do. The price was reasonable and the food was of good quality, but nobody seemed to want to eat there. Then he did somet hing that changed all that, and in a few weeks his restaurant is always full of men with their lady friends. Whenever a gentleman came in with a lady, a smiling waiter gave each of them a menu(菜单), The menu looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter gave to the man supplied the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine. while the menu that he gave to the lady supplied a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous(慷慨) than he really was. 21. Why didn’t people come to the White Rose Restaurant to eat at first A. Because the price was high. B. Because the food was too cheap. C. Because the food was not good. D. The passage didn’t mention. 22. According to the passage we can conclude that the people who eat at this restaurant are mostly _____. A. poor old people B. rich young people C. men with their g irl friends D. parents with their children 23. According to the passage we can infer that when men with their girl friends eat at this restaurant, the food was paid _____. A. always by the ladies only B. always by the men only C. sometimes by the ladies D. either by the men or by the ladies (B) Daniel Defoe (abo ut 1660—1731) was an important novelist in the English literature(文学). When he was young, he served as a soldier and had been to Spain, Italy, France and Germany. At the same time, he went in for politics. He cared much about the development of capitalism(资本主义). He had written a lot of articles against it and he was put into prison twice for that. It was not until that he was nearly sixty that he began to write the famous novel “Robinson Crusoe”, which was published in May, 1709. It spread so rapidly that the story was known to every household very soon. “Robinson Crusoe” can be divided into three parts. The first part is about Crusoe’s three voyages, the second part about his hunting, hiding in caves farming and his hard struggles against nature on a small island, the third about the things which happened after his return from the island. The second part is the body of the novel, in which Robinson’s characters are clearly shown. Defoe wrote his novel in a simple style and his language is easy to understand. His novel writing set a milestone of the modern English novel. In his later part of life, He was in poor health and lived very poorly. He died on April 24, 1731. 24. Deniel Defoe was ____ ... ...