1湖北省黄冈中学 2015-2016 学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题考试时间：150 分钟满分：120 分第一部分听力（共两节，满分 30 分）略第二部分阅读理解（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。AImagine how boring life would be, if not for creative and useful inventions.Rolling Bench. Sitting on a park bench especially after a rain is a nightmare, and I bet most of you have had that uncomfortable experience of rising to a wet bottom. These benches can accurately save you on a rainy day. They have a handle that can turn the seat surface to face a relatively clean side. Be careful with the people who might turn the handle and land you into water.Stairway Drawers. Stairways are generally considered a threat as it occupies a lot of space, but what about one that will serve its purpose and can also be used to store things. Its a pretty interesting concept: the stairway has built-in one push drawer into every step that can store your shoes.Stairway Library. These stairways are specially made to house your collection of books and magazines or even your favourite music CDs. This fashionable stairway is an obvious must-have for those of you owning your own library. You can even use it to show off your collection of vases and antiques.Pocket Chair. Say goodbye to pains especially when working in a garden for a long time. You can now carry your foldable, pocket chair with you, wherever you go. Take it along with you if you have to go for a long trip too, you can simply open it up and sit at ease.21What should you do first before sitting on a rolling bench after a rain?ARemove the surface of the seat.2BTurn the surface upside down.CFix a clean surface on the seat.DTurn the handle repeatedly.22Stairway drawers are the names of containers _.Afor you to house vases and antiquesBfor children to show off their CDsCused to put aside your shoesDused to collect books and magazines23If Mary wants to go for a camp on Sunday, she is advised to take along the _.Arolling benchBstairway libraryCpocket chair Dstairway drawersBThere is a 9-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle (一滩水) between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. Its never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out they will never let him forget it. When the girls find out, theyll never speak to him again as long as he lives.The boy believes his heart is going to stop. He puts his head down and prays: “This is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now Im dead meat.”He looks up from his prayer, and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and spills the bowl of water in the boys lap.3The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself. “Thank God!”Now all of a sudden, instead of being made fun of, the boy gets sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But the ridicule that should have been his is given to someone elseSusie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. “Youve done enough!”Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers: “You did that on purpose, didnt you?” Susie whispers back: “I wet my pants once too.”24What is the boys reaction to this incident at first?AHe is calm but worried.BHe thinks he is going to die.CHe is afraid and embarrassed.DHe prays and asks for help from his teacher.25The underlined word “sympathy” probably means _.AcareBcheatingCbeliefDcontribution26After Susie spills the bowl of water in the boys lap, _.Aother students ask Susie for help and yell at herBthe teacher sends the boy downstairs to clean up around his deskCthe little boy becomes really angry and runs away to change his clothesDthe little boy is saved from embarrassment and gains others sympathy27From the story, we can conclude that _.Aall the children feel wonderful about being able to helpBthe teacher does not know what actually happened to the little boy4CSusie spends a long time coming up with a plan to help the little boyDSusie is kindhearted and still tries to help even though she is ridiculedCHe is probably the greatest artist of the 20th century. As CBS said, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) “defined modern art”.In the past, artists had made paintings look like windows they painted to make it look like there was depth. You could tell which objects were “close” to you and which objects were “far away”, as if the picture were a window you were looking through.But Picasso and his colleague George