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1、天水一中2015-2016学年第二学期高二第二阶段考试试卷英语注意事项：1.本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填涂在答题卡相应的位置。3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。第I卷（选择题）第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第1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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AChoose Your One-Day-Tours!Tour ABath &Stonehenge including entran
2、ce fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge 37 until 26 March and 39 thereafter. Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum, Stonehenge is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.Tour BO
3、xford & Stratfordincluding entrance fees to the University St Marys Church Tower and Anne Hathaways 32 until 12 March and 36 thereafter. Oxford: Includes a guided tour of Englands oldest university city and colleges. Look over the “city of dreaming spires(尖顶）”from St Marys Church Tower. Stratford: I
4、ncludes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.Tour CWindsor Castle &Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace 34 until 11 March and 37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIIIs favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle(
5、entrance fees not included).With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫)where it is easy t
6、o get lost!Tour DCambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great33 until 18 March and 37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.1. Which tour will you choose if you want to see Englands oldest university
7、 city? A.Tour A B.Tour B C.Tour C D.Tour D2. Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March? A.Windsor Castle & Hampton Court B.Oxford & Stratford C.Cambridge D.Bath & Stonehenge3. Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction? A.It is a world-famous castle B.It used to be a well-
8、known maze C.It is the oldest palace in Britain D.It used to be the home of royal families B The kids in this village wear dirty, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They have no school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabet, and some can make words
9、. The key to their success : 20 tablet computers(平板电脑) dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. group called One Laptop Per Child. The goal is to find out whether kids using todays new technology can teach themselves to read in places where no schools or teachers exist. The Massa
10、chusetts Institute of Technology researchers analyzing the project data say theyre already amazed. “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than theywould have in one year of kindergarten,” said Matt Keller, who runs the Ethiopia program. The fastest learnerand t
11、he first to turn on one of the tabletsis 8-year-old Kelbesa Negusse. The devices camera was disabled to save memory, yet within weeks Kelbesa had figured out its workings and made the camera work. He called himself a lion, a marker of accomplishment in Ethiopia. With his tablet, Kelbasa rearranged t
12、he letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own. “Seven months ago he didnt know any English. Thats unbelievable,” said Keller. The project aims to get kids to a stage called “deep reading,” where they can read to learn. It wont be in Amharic, Et
13、hiopias first language, but in English, which is widely seen as the ticket to higher paying jobs.4.How does the Ethiopia program benefit the kids in the village? A. It trains teachers for them. B. It helps raise their living standards C. It contributes to their self-study. D. It provides funds for b
14、uilding schools.5.What can we infer from Kellers words in Paragraph 3? A. They need more time to analyze data. B. He is confident about the future of the project. C. More children are needed for the research. D.The research should be carried out in kindergartens.6.It amazed Keller that with the tabl
15、et Kelbesa could _. A. learn English words quickly. B. draw pictures of animals. C. write letters to researchers. D. make phone calls to his friends.7.What is the aim of the project? A. To offer Ethiopians higher paying jobs. B. To make Amharic widely used in the world. C. To help Ethiopian kids read to learn in English. D. To assist Ethiopians in learning their first language.
