1甘肃省通渭县第二中学甘肃省通渭县第二中学 2016-20172016-2017 学年高二英语上学期期中试题学年高二英语上学期期中试题注意事项：注意事项： 1.全卷共 120 分，考试时间 100 分钟。 2.考生必须将班级、姓名、学号、考场号和座位号填写在相应位置上。 3.考生必须将答案填写在答题卡上，在试卷上做答的一律无效。第一部分 阅读理解（共 20 小题；每小題 2 分，满分 40 分）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。ABefore you make friends, you have to decide who you want to be your friends. Most people like to have friends who like to do the same kind of things they do. The quickest way to make a friend is to smile. When you smile, people think you are friendly and easy to talk to. It may not be easy at first to smile, but remember most people will stay away from a scared or angry looking face. One easy way to start a conversation with someone is to say something nice about him. Think about how great you feel when someone says something nice to you. Doesnt it make you want to keep talking to that person?Ask your new friends questions about themselves. Whos their favorite singer, where do they live, what do they do after school are all good questions to start a conversation. Make sure you have something to add to the conversation, too. When someone asks you a question, do have an answer for them. Theres nothing that will stop a conversation quicker than a shrug (耸肩) for an answer.Kids who show an interest in other kids and who are kind and friendly make good friends. Remember, everyone wants to be around people who like to do similar things and people who are nice to them.1. This passage gives us some advice on_.A. how to make friends.B. what kind of person you can make friends with.C. how to start a conversation D. the importance of smile.2. Most people like to make friends with those_.2A. who are sad every day.B. who share the same interest.C. who are fond of talking.D. who say bad things to them.3. According to the third paragraph, most people enjoy talking to one_.A. who is always smiling. B. who seems to be friendly.C. who praises them. D. who points out their shortcoming.4. The underlined(划线的)part in this passage means “_”.A. being very proud. B. making no answer.C. knowing nothing D. not hoping to answer.BIn a great cities, hundreds of people ride bikes to work every day in New York, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They declare that if more people rode bikes to work, there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown part of the city and so less dirty air from car engines.For several years, this group had been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw special lanes(车道) for bikes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders must use the same lanes as cars there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes, more people would use bikes.But no bike lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good ideathey say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets dont like the ideathey say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business.The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. On weekends, Central Parkthe largest place open ground in New York is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bikes only.5. In New York, a group of bike riders_.A. are keeping practicing for health.3B. have no cars of their own.C. are complaining there are not enough buses.D. are trying to settle the problem of air pollution.6. The bike riders suggest that_.A. bike should be used instead of cars.B. bike lanes should be drawn.C. fewer buses or cars should be used.D. the number of special lanes should be decreased.7. The advantage of the special lanes is that_.A. they will make cars and buses run slowly.B. they will make it easier for bike riders to go to parks.C. they will make the city more beautiful.D. they will prevent accidentsCTom was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that during the holiday he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to make enough money to pay for his studies.One summer he managed to get a job in a butchers shop (肉店) during the day-time, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving(服务) while he went to the back room to do the accounts(账目).In the hospital, on the other hand, he was , of course, allowed (允许)to do the simplest jobs, like helping to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butchers shops and at the hospital, Tom had to wear white clothes.One evening at the hospital, Tom had to help to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation. The woma