高二英语45分钟限时训练8

高二英语45分钟限时训练8

第二部分阅读理解（两节总分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

A

Not many years ago，a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five，he gave ￡12，000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.

As a result of his kindness，many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection （注射）in my neck each evening.” he told the newspaperman，thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain，asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

21. Johnson became a rich man by _______.

A. doing business.

B. making whisky.

C. cheating.

D. buying and selling land.

22. When Johnson said he had an injection each evening, he really meant that .

A he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening.

B.he needed an injection I the neck.

C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.

D. there was something wrong with his neck.

23. The newspaperman _________.

A. should have reported what Johnson had told him.

B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had.

C. was eager to live a long life.

D. should have found out what Johnson really meant.

B

Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play music loudly as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio stations in many places broadcast.Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a pop star.

There are other kinds of music that are popular among Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. 24．________ kinds of music are mentioned in this passage．

A．Two B．Three C．Four D．Five

25．When pop singers ________, they are regarded as pop stars．