山西授阳市第二高级中学文水县第二高级中学2017_2018年高二英语上学期第一次联考试题

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本试题分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，满分150分，考试时间120分钟。第Ⅰ卷为选择题，第Ⅱ卷为非选择题 第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共 100分） 第一节：阅读理解(共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分） 阅读下列短文，从题中所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 A What is your favorite holiday? Here are some students' opinions． Sandy from Taiwan says： My favorite holiday is the Mid-Autumn festival．I always visit my grandfather and grandmother，and we always go to the same restaurant on the mountain to hold jubilation．At night，we always have a barbecue，and watch the moon together．I enjoy it a lot． Zhenia from Ukraine says： My favorite day is New Year's Day．We celebrate the new year on the 31st of December．Father Frost comes with his granddaughter on that night．He puts his presents under the New Year Tree．We have a party and stay up until midnight to see the New Year in and the Old Year off．We cook delicious food for the party．People also celebrate Old New Year in our country．It is on the 14th of January． Yagna from India says： My favorite day is Deepavali(屠妖节)，which is also called Festival of Lights．People do some cleaning at home and light their oil lamps to thank for the defeat of the bad king．To celebrate it，we also eat sweets and delicious food，wear new clothes，and give presents to our friends and relatives． Pat from Thailand says： My name is Pat．My favorite holiday is Songkran．It takes place from the 13th to 15th of April．On the holiday people pour water on each other．It is a lot of fun．People also buy new clothes and they have big parties． - 2 -

1．What is Sandy's favorite holiday? A．The Mid-Autumn festival． B．New Year's Day． C．Deepavali． D．Songkran． 2．What does the underlined word "Songkran" probably mean in Chinese? A．音乐会 B．新年 C．中秋节 D．泼水节 3．In order to celebrate Deepavali，we can ________． A．eat sweets and delicious food B．do some cleaning C．give presents to others D．all of the above 4．Where does Zhenia come from according to the passage? A．Taiwan． B．India． C．Ukraine． D．Thailand． B I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The advertisement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre box in Richland Hills any day between 10：00 and 4: 00. Since I work from 9: 00 to 5: 30, the only time I could go to the theatre was during my 45­minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theatre is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for 15 minutes waiting for the bus.By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip. So I gave up and went back to the office.The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again next day. On Thursday, my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly 20 minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office, I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi, it was expensive, but I felt it would be worth it to hear the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, however，I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets. 5．The man learned ________ that there would be a concert last Friday. - 3 -

A．from his friends B．from one of his work­mates C．over the radio D．from the newspaper 6．He tried to go to the theatre every day but managed to get there only ________. A．once B．twice C．three times D．four times 7．One day the man took ________ to get to the theatre by bus. A．forty­five minutes B．fifteen minutes C．just twenty minutes D．over an hour 8．The underlined word“relieved” may best be replaced by ________. A．surprised B．pleased C．puzzled D．sorry C The interview had been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then, suddenly，the interviewer asks an unexpected question，“Which is more important，law or Dove？” Job applicants in the West increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China. Employers want people skilled，enthusiastic and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicants will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are. In response，employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality. The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Keirsey Personality Sorter.It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems，rather than what they know.This is often called an aptitude test (能力倾向测验)． According to Mark Baldwin many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult.When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test , he or she will think there is a right answer and they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see. This is sometimes called the prisoner’s dilemma.Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest.But they fail because they don’t understand what the interviewer is looking for.Remember that in an aptitude test，the correct answer is always the honest answer. 9．The writer wrote the passage to________.