高一英语上学期第二阶段测试时间100分钟 满分120第一部分阅读理解（共两节 ，满分40分）第一节 （共15小题，每题2分，满分30）A It is true that times are changing for the old people in Britain. But not all the changes are bad ones. Modern medicine, for example, has made old people healthier than ever before. Another advantage is that there are many more old people than there used to be. This means that old people often have a good social life with their own clubs and organizations. Old people, too, have more money now than their own parents and grandparents had. The biggest disadvantage of modem life is loneliness. The young leave home when they grow up and many old people live alone. Fewer old people have brothers and sisters. An old persons one or two children may have moved to another part of the country. Even when they live nearby, the young people have their own work to do and their own children to look after. They have not much time for the old. Problems of loneliness often start when people stop work. When people retire they often find it difficult to start a new life without their jobs. The world has changed so fast since 1900 that it is difficult for old people to understand the problems of the young. And the world is changing even faster these days than it was fifty years ago. It makes you thing, doesnt it? What will it be like when todays young people are old? To the old people, the changes in society are _. A. better than they expected B. not as good as they wish C. both good and bad D. difficult to understand According to this passage, the old people today _. A. often go to clubs with their brothers and sisters B. prefer lonely life to social life C. live more happily than their parents and grandparents D. like to share their feelings and thoughts with other people Although some old people live near their sons or daughters, _. A. they still feel lonely B. they want to move to other places C. they have no time to look after the young peoples children D. they like to live with their own brothers and sistersBAmericans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车)A small car can hold(容纳)four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded(拥挤). A van hold seven persons easily, so for a family three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel .They could all travel together.Mr.Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and bus a van.Sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, and for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats can then carry the grandparents.Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.4. From the passage, a van is also called _.A. a motor car B. a motor home C. a motorbike D. a big truck4. Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they_.A. sold their old house B. moved to their grandparents houseC. built a new place for a van D. sold their second car6. A motor home is usually owned by a family with_.A. a baby B. much money C. more than two children D. interest in vans7 Americans usually use motor homer_.A. to travel with all the family members of holidayB. to do some shopping with all the family membersC. to visit their grandparents at weekendsD. to drive their children to school every day CDick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, Im going to fly to New York next week because Ive got some work there. Where are you going to stay there? his wife asked. I dont know yet. Dick answered. Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报), his wife said. All right, Dick answered.He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.In the evening he didnt have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine oclock and said, Now Im going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner.He found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, Where do you want to go? But Dick didnt remember the name and address of his hotel.Which hotel are my things in? he said, And what am I going to do tonight? But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another