四川省凉山州木里藏族自治县中学2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题
第一部分：听力测试（共两节，共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 第二部分 阅读理解
第一节： 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。（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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Fun Day To celebrate the Year of the dog Organised by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High School Date: 2 February 2018 Time: 10 am—5 pm Place: Kwun Tong Playground Fee: $20 (buy three get one free) Programmes: drama, lion dance, magic show and ballet performance Highlights:1) enter the lucky draw to win a digital camera 2) learn to make festival food with extra 5 dollar Join us on the Fun Day! All are welcome! - 1 -
Free Soft Drinks Note: ● Tickets are available at the General Office of Lam Tin Youth Center ● For those who would like to be a volunteer, please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before the activity. 21. What you have just read is a ________.
A. note B. report C. schedule D. advertisement 22. How much do you have to pay in total if four of you go together? A. $20. B. $40. C. $60. D. $80. 23. Which of the following statements is true? A. Tickets are sold in Kwun Tong High School. B. It’s unnecessary to take soft drinks with you. C. Free digital cameras are provided for everybody. D. Festival food will be served without extra charge. 24. What is going to take place on 2 February 2018? A. A big event to celebrate a Chinese new year. B. A social gathering to raise money for wildlife. C. A party for close friends to meet and have fun. D. A meeting of Kwun Tong High School students.
B
Language experts say that spoken English was almost the same in the American colonies and Britain two hundred years ago. Americans began
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to change the sound of their speech after the Revolutionary War in1776. They wanted to make it different to separate themselves from the British in language, in the same way they separated themselves from the British government.
Some American leaders proposed major changes in the language. Benjamin Franklin wanted a whole new system of spelling. His reforms were not accepted. But his ideas did influence others. One was Noah Webster.
Webster wrote language books for schools. He believed the United States should have a system of its own language as well as government. Webster published a dictionary of the American language in 1828. It established rules for speaking and spelling the words used in American English.
Webster wrote that all words should be said in the order of the letters that spell them. This is why Americans use the letters “e-r” to end many words instead of the British “r-e.” He spelled the word “center,” for example, “c-e-n-t-e-r,” instead of the British “c-e-n-t-r-e.”
Webster’s rule for saying every part of a word made American English easier for foreign settlers to learn. They learned to say “waist-coat,” for example, the way it is spelled instead of the British “wes-kit.”
The different languages of immigration who came to the United States also helped make American and British English different. Many of their foreign words and expressions became part of English As Americans speak
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them.
Sometimes Americans and British people do not understand each other because of different word meanings. For example, the word “jumper” in Britain means a sweater. In the United States, it is a dress. The British word “brolly” is an “umbrella” in America. And the British call potato chips “crisps”. All of these differences led British writer George Bernard Shaw to joke that Britain and America are two countries separated by the same language!
25. What does the underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refer to?
A. written English in Britain. B. Written English in America.
C. Spoken English in America. D. Spoken English in Britain.
26. Why did American want their language to differ from British English?
A. Because they wanted to have their own language and government. B. Because they found British English hard to spell. C. Because they found British English hard to speak
D. Because foreign settlers wanted them to change their language. 27. Why do Americans use the word “meter” instead of the word “metre”? A. Because Benjamin Franklin didn’t like the word “metre”. B. Because the word “meter” was absorbed from other languages. C. Because Webster thought the word should be said in order of the letters that are spelt.
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D. Because Webster thought American English should be made easier for foreign settlers to learn.
28. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why English began to change in America?
A. The government leaders. B. Webster.
C. Immigration to America. D. The difficulty Americans had in understanding the British.
C
“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects (昆虫) as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安装) an alarm”. Now
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