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1、山西省祁县中学2020学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 Word版含答案2020年高二英语期中测试卷考试时间：120分钟 总分：150分第I卷第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节（共15小题，每小题3分，共45分）ALong ago in a small Italian town, a businessman owed a large sum of money to a moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, loved the businessmans beautiful daughter. He suggested a
2、 bargain.The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble ( 鹅卵石 ) and a white one into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylenders wife and her fathers debt would be gone. If she picked the white pebble,
3、 she need not marry him and her fathers debt would still be gone. But if she refused to pick, her father would be thrown into jail.They were standing on a path full of pebbles. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he
4、 had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her pebble from the bag.What would you have done if you had been the girl? Refuse to take a pebble? Say the moneylender is cheating? Or pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself to save her father?The girl did
5、 none of the above. She put her hand into the bag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she let it fall onto the path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles. She said, “Im sorry I was so careless. But dont worry. If you look into the bag for the one that is left, you wi
6、ll tell which pebble I picked.” The moneylender dared not admit his dishonesty and had to let them go. The girl found a perfect solution to her problem.1 Why did the moneylender suggest the bargain?A. He wanted to help out the businessman.B. He wanted to marry the businessmans daughter.C. He wanted
7、to show his love for the businessmans daughter.D. He wanted to force the businessman to pay back the money at once.2. What would happen if the girl picked the white pebble?A. Her father would be put into jail.B. Her father could pay the debt later.C. She would have to marry the moneylender.D. She an
8、d her father would be free from their trouble.3. From Paragraph 3 we can infer that the moneylender _.A. was careless and picked a wrong pebble.B. didnt really love the businessmans daughter.C. was sure the girl would get a black pebble.D. didnt want the businessmans debt to be gone.4. What does the
9、 story want to tell us?A. All is well that ends well.B. A man can do no more than he can.C. We should never lie to other people.D. Every difficult situation has a good solution. BTwo men, both seriously ill, lived in the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each a
10、fternoon. His bed was next to the rooms only window. The other man had to spend all his time lying on his back. He was depressed and just wanted to die as soon as possible.Every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up, he would describe to his roommates all the wonderful things that he cou
11、ld see outside the window. The man in the other bed started to live for those periods when his world would be brightened by all the activities and colors of the outside world.The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats.
12、 Young lovers walked arm in arm among flowers of every color of the rainbow. As the man by the window described all these in detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the beautiful scenes.One morning the man by the window died peacefully in his sleep. After the b
13、ody was removed, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. There the man took his first look at the world outside. But it faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse why that man described so wonderful things outside this window while what he saw was just a blank wall. The nurse r
14、esponded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.5. What did the man by the window like to do when he was sitting up in bed?A. He liked to look out of the window.B. He liked to tell the other man stories.C. He liked to tell about his past experiences.D. He liked to describe good thing
15、s to the other man.6. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?A. The daily life of people in the hospital.B. The beautiful scenes outside the window.C. The happy memories of the man by the window.D. The beautiful things that the man by the window described.7. After the man finally looked out of the window
16、by himself, he was most likely_.A. shocked B. excited C. satisfied D. relaxed8. The man by the window did that probably because_. A. he wanted to share whatever he saw. B. he wanted to make fun of his roommate. C. he wanted to encourage his roommate to live on. D. he was too bored and just wanted to kill the time.CPeople often
