辽宁省阜新市第二高级中学2019-2020学年高二上学期第二次考试英语试卷

2019-2020学年上学期高二英语第二次考试 试卷满分：100分 考试时间：90分钟 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节 满分40分） （共15题 每题2分 共30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A Take a deep breath and drink some water for 15 seconds! This is just one of hundreds of tips you might get if you have the hiccups(打嗝). Hiccups are so mysterious that we really don’t know why they start and why they stop. Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups. Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well. Others eat a teaspoon of sugar. Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it. An American man named Jack O’Leary claimed (声称) to have hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years. He tried 60,000 cures, but none of them worked. Finally he prayed to Saint Jude（圣徒犹大）, the saint of hopeless cases, and his hiccups stopped at once. It took a British engineer eight months to cure his hiccups. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well. He tried them all, but the hiccups continued. Finally, he drank a ‘secret’ mixture someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone. Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure. 1. If something is mysterious, it is ____. A. hard to stop B. easy to hurt C. hard to understand D. easy to take care of 2. Which cure is NOT mentioned in Paragraph 2? A. A good scare. B. A special tool. C. A teaspoon of sugar. D. A glass of water with a knife in it. 3. How many times did Jack O’Leary claim to have hiccupped over a period of eight years? A. 8. B. 160. C. 60，000. D. 160，000，000. 4. The British engineer’s hiccups were cured by ____. A. taking a spoonful of salt B. taking a deep breath C. drinking a secret mixture D. drinking some water for 15 seconds 5. The passage is mainly about ____. A. a British engineer’s hiccups B. what makes hiccups happen C. Jack O’Leary’s hiccups D. different ways to stop hiccup B In different countries around the world, people become ‘adults’ at different ages. Being an adult means having the right to do certain things such as getting a part-time job, voting（投票）, getting married, or getting a license to drive. It also means accepting the responsibilities that go along with these rights. In many countries, sixteen or eighteen is the age at which a person becomes an adult. Young men and women at this age can get a part-time job, and begin to receive an income of their own. They no longer have to rely on their parents for money all the time. In many parts of North America, sixteen is also the age when one can get a driver’s license; in England, it is seventeen. There are responsibilities that go along with both of these rights. Getting a part-time job means that you have to pay income tax（税）. Driving a car demands that you follow certain rul ... ...