甘肃省嘉峪关市高二英语上学期期末考试试题
嘉峪关市2017-2018学年第一学期期末考试
高二英语试题
本卷满分为120分，考试时间为100分钟
第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共70分）
第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（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和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl going to Howard University, aiming at a law career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different story to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to leave college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a mix of adopted and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To put eyes on him was wonderful and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No.3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8. Our home was a complete zoo—a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave upon the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each term.
The hardest part was feeling sorry about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to give up, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
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甘肃省嘉峪关市高二英语上学期期末考试试题
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you're looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you're in the middle of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won't arrive in your life on one day. It's a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
1. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be _____. A. a judge B. a teacher C. a writer D. a doctor
2. Why did the author give up school in her second year of college? A. She wanted to study by herself. B. She fell in love and got married. C. She suffered from a serious illness. D. She decided to look after her grandma.
3. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 4? A. She was busy yet happy with her family life. B. She ignored her sorry feeling of her sons. C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife. D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.
4. What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph? A. Failure is the mother of success. B. Little by little, one goes far. C. Every coin has two sides. D. Well begun, half done.
B
Can dogs and cats get along well in the same home? People who are thinking about getting a dog as a friend for their cat are worried that they will fight. A recent research has found that if the cat is taken back home before the dog, and if they are introduced when still young (less than 6 months for cats, a year for dogs), it
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甘肃省嘉峪关市高二英语上学期期末考试试题
is highly probable that the two pets will get along swimmingly. In two-thirds of the homes cats and dogs have a good relationship.
However, it isn’t all sweetness and light. There was a reported coldness between the cat and dog in 25% of the homes, while aggression(侵略，好斗) and fighting were found in 10% of the homes. One reason for this is probably that some of their body language is just different. For example, when a cat turns its head away it means aggression, while a dog doing the same means submission(顺从).
In homes with cats and dogs living peacefully, researchers found a surprising behavior. They are learning how to talk each other’s language. It is a surprise that cats can learn how to talk “Dog”, and dogs can learn how to talk “Cat”.
What’s interesting is that both cats and dogs have appeared to become smarter. They can learn to read each other’s body language, suggesting that the two may have more in common than expected. Once familiar with each other’s body language, cats and dogs can play together, and enjoy sleeping together on the sofa.
The importance of this research on cats and dogs may go beyond pets — to people who don’t get along well, including neighbors, colleagues at work, and even countries. If cats and dogs can learn to get along, surely people have a good chance. 5. The underlined word “swimmingly” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “________”.
A. early B. mostly C. quickly D. smoothly 6. What is found surprising about cats and dogs? A. They eat and sleep together. B. They watch each other’s behavior.
C. They learn to speak each other’s language. D. They know something from each other’s voice.
7. It is suggested in Paragraph 4 that cats and dogs ________. A. have common interests
B. are less different than thought
C. have a common body language D. are not so smart as expected 8. What can we human beings learn from cats and dogs? A. We should learn to get along well with others.
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甘肃省嘉峪关市高二英语上学期期末考试试题
