- 1 -河北省衡水市武邑县河北省衡水市武邑县 2017-20182017-2018 学年高二英语下学期开学考试试题学年高二英语下学期开学考试试题 注意事项： 一、本试卷分 6 页，包括三部分。其中第一部分、第二部分为选择题，包括 40 个小题； 第三部分为非选择题。 考试时间为 60 分钟，总分为 100 分。 二、所有题目均需在答题卡上作答，在试卷和草稿纸上作答无效。 第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 4040 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 1515 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2 2 分，满分分，满分 3030 分）分） A Steep Rock Skills $100 per person. This course will focus on techniques about climbing steep routes. Edging, off hands, high-stepping are some techniques you will work on. This course is best for women that have experience of top roping or climbing occasionally in a gym but have not had much experience outdoors.Half-Day Rappelling (绳索下降）Skills $ 100 per person. Theres a law that says, “What goes up must come down. ” Though it may be safer to walk off many climbs, there are climbs that require you ladies to come back down to the ground Learn various rappel techniques and use various types of rappel devices through this course. On Saturday the practice is in the morning.Hard Women Rock leader Skills $ 100 per person. Designed for any women with a desire to lead, efficient rope management will be covered. Bring your own equipment if you have any. Any leading will be done on top-rope. A fun and safe way to take a look at the “sharp” end of thing Half-Day Rock Rescue $ 50 per person. A course for experienced women climbers wishing to build fundamental rock rescue skills in order to deal with a possible emergency situation on the cliff. Participants should bring their own personal equipment if they have. On Saturday and Sunday the practice is in the morning. 1. Which course is the least expensive?A. Hard Women Rock Leader Skills. B. Steep Rock Skills.C Half-Day Rock Rescue. D. Half-Day Rappelling skills. 2. If Mary wants to be a rock-climbing leader, which of the following should she choose?A. Steep Rock Skills. B. Half-Day Rappelling Skills.C. Half-Day Rock Rescue. D. Hard Women Rock Leader Skills. 3. It can be inferred from the text that .A. the courses are specially for womenB. the courses are limited to 100 personsC. it may take half a day to attend the coursesD. men are allowed to participate in the practice 4. The authors purpose in writing the text is to introduce _.A. how to be women rock climbers B. various courses on rock climbingC. what to do at weekends D. how to keep fitB The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature RabindranathRabindranath Tagore(Tagore( 1913)1913) Prize motivation: “because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, - 2 -with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West“ WilliamWilliam FaulknerFaulkner (1949)(1949) Prize motivation: “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel“ ErnestErnest MillerMiller Hemingway(1954)Hemingway(1954) Prize motivation: “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea“ JohnJohn SteinbeckSteinbeck (1962)(1962) Prize motivation: “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception“ SirSir WinstonWinston LeonardLeonard SpencerSpencer Churchill(1953)Churchill(1953) Prize motivation: “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values“ ClaudeClaude SimonSimon (1985)(1985) Prize motivation: “who in his novel combines the poets and the painters creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition“ MoMo YanYan (2012)(2012) Prize motivation: “he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary“. BobBob DylanDylan (2016)(2016) Prize motivation: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition“ 5. Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?A. William Faulkner. B. Bob Dylan. C. Rabindranath Tagore. D. Claude Simon. 6. Which writer won Noble Prize for his specific work instead of his lifelong achievements?A. Ernest Hemingway. B. John Steinbeck. C. William Faulkner. D. Winston Churchill. 7. Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song writing Nobel Prize winner?A. Mo Yans. B. Bob Dyluns. C. Claude Simons. D. Rabindranath Tagores. 8. Who described real life experience in his historic works?A. John Steinbeck. B. Mo Yan. C. Ernest Hemingway. D. Winston Churchill. C Yesterday, I was walking past some lavender colored lilacs(淡紫色丁香) growing alongside the sidewalk on the way to catch a ride with my neighbor who was joining me for a community dinner gathering. The quiet and soft movement of the little flowers as they danced in the breeze just make me pause for a moment. I looked at them moving gently from one side to another in the breeze as if they - 3 -were alive and happy. I was thinking about what i