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1、郑州市第47中学2016-2017学年上期高二年级12月考英语试题 英 语 第I卷第一部分：听力（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中（A、B、C和D），选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Chinese New Year Celebration is the most important celebration of the year. Chinese people may celebrate the Chinese New Year in slightly different ways but t
2、heir wishes are almost the same; they want their family members and friends to be healthy and lucky during next year. Chinese New Year Celebration usually lasts for 15 days. Celebratory activities include Chinese New Feast, firecrackers, giving lucky money to children, the New Year bell ringing and
3、Chinese New Year Greetings. Most of Chinese people will stop the celebrating in their home on the 7th day of New Year because the national holiday usually ends around that day, however celebrations in public areas can last until the 15th day of New Year. It is the money given to kids from their pare
4、nts and grandparents as New Year gift. The money is believed to bring good luck, ward off monsters; hence the name lucky money. Parents and grandparents first put money in small, especially-made red envelopes and give the red envelopes to their kids after the New Years Feast or when they come to vis
5、it them on the New Year. They choose to put the money in red envelopes because Chinese people think red is a lucky color. They want to give their children both lucky money and lucky color.21. What can we learn from the Paragragh 1?A. Chinese New Year Celebration is one of the most important celebrat
6、ions in China of the yearB. Chinese New Year Celebration can bring luck to them during the next yearC. Some different celebrations still existD. Kids can get their lucky money during the Chinese New Year Celebration22. Where can we meet some celebrations in the 13th day of the New Year in China?A. W
7、al-Mart StoresB. Your uncles familyC. Yuanmingyuan Imperial GardenD. High school23. Which way is not mentioned in the passage below to celebrate New Year?A. Set off fireworksB. Come over relativesC. Receive presents D .Get lucky money24. Where can we probably find the passage?A. A travel brochureB.
8、A newspaper C. A tradition guideD. A textbookB At the age of ten I could not figure out what this Elvis Presley guy had what the rest of us boys did not have. I mean, he had a head, two arms and two legs, just like the rest of us. About nine oclock on Saturday morning I decided to ask Eugene Correth
9、ers，one of the older boys, what it was that made this Elvis guy so specialHe told me that it was Elvis wavy hair and the way he moved his bodyAbout half an hour later all the boys in the orphanage(孤儿院)were called to the main dining-room and told we were all going to downtown Jacksonville，Florida to
10、get a new pair of Buster Brown shoes and a haircut. That is when I got this big idea，which hit me like a ton of bricks. If the Elvis hair cut was the big secret, then thats what I was going to get.All the way to town I told everybody, including the matron(女管家)from the orphanage who was taking us to
11、town，that I was going to look just like Elvis Presley and that I would learn to move around just as he did and that I would be rich and famous one day, just like him. When I got my new Buster Brown shoes, I could hardly wait for my new hair cut and now that I had my new Busier Brown shoes I would be
12、 very happy to go back to the orphanage and practice being like Elvis.We finally arrived at the big barber shop, where they cut our hair for free because we were orphans(孤儿). I looked at the barber and said，“I want an Elvis hair cut. Can you make my hair like Elvis?”I asked him，with a big smile on m
13、y face. “Lets just see what we can do for you，little man. ”he said. I was so happy when he started to cut my hair. Just as he started to cut my hair, the matron signed for him to come over to where she was standing. She whispered something into his ear and then he shook his head，like he was telling
14、her “No”. Then he told me they were not allowed to give us Elvis hair cuts. Then I saw my hair falling onto the floor.25. In the authors eyes，Elvis Presley was_A. creative B. admirable C. ambitious D. funny26. From the passage，we can know that_A. Buster Brown was more appealing than Elvis PresleyB.
15、An Elvis hair cut cost the orphans a lot of moneyC. The matron did not want the boy to have an Elvis hair cutD. The barber was unwilling to give the boy an Elvis hair cut27. How would the boy probably feel when he walked out of the barber shop?A. Delighted. B. Guilty. C. Self-satisfied. D. Depressed. C Few of us make money by losing sleep. But three graduate students at Brown University in Providence built a company around sleep deprivation （
