甘肃省会宁一中2016-2017学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷

会宁一中2016—2017学年度第二学期高二中期考试 英 语 试 卷 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，保留试卷，只交答题卡。注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、班级和考号填写在答题卡上 2．用2B铅笔涂选择题，用0.5毫米的黑色中性（签字）笔答题、字体工整、笔迹清楚。 3．请按照题号在各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。 4．保持答题卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15个小题；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 Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children. During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport. He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath. My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend. That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way. 1. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney A. Take a vacation. B. Go shopping. C. Find a house. D. Join his family. 2. The girl's parents got Rashid's phone number from _____. A. a stranger in Sydney B. a friend of his family C. a Sydney policeman D. a letter in his papers 3. What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean A. Gave back. B. Showed. C. Sent out. D. Delivered. 4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text A. In Search of New Friends. B. From India to Australia. C. Living in a New Country. D. Turning Trash to Treasure. B Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot “greener” toward the environment. “We didn't know at that time that there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it,” says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA. But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a ... ...