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1、湛江一中2015-2016学年度第一学期第二次考试高二级英语科试卷考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分 第卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答題卡上将该选项涂黑。 A Put your car keys away and forget about your travel pass - its time to do a bit of walking. National Walking Month is organized every May by Living Streets, an organization
2、 that campaigns for the rights and the needs of pedestrians, so the organization is previously known as the Pedestrians Association. The associations aim is to make streets safe, attractive and enjoyable spaces for people to live, work, shop and play. By putting people (rather than vehicles) first,
3、Living Streets wants to create streets and spaces where people feel happier, healthier and more sociable. The annual campaign gives participants a great opportunity to experience the many virtues of walking. These include the physical health benefits of becoming fitter; the environmental advantages
4、of not using vehicles; the delight of local discoveries - seeing more of your local areas on foot; the enjoyment of walking with other people, whether family, friends or work colleagues and finally the stress relief that comes from walking - walking can clear your head. Walk to School Week, 18 to 22
5、 May, is part of the months activities and its aim is to encourage parents to send children to school on foot, rather than take them in the car or let them use public transport. The movement was started in 1995 with only five participating schools and now two decades later, more than one million chi
6、ldren take part. Similarly, there is Walk to Work Week, 11 to 15 May, where grown-ups are encouraged to walk. In the morning, getting off the bus a stop early or parking a few streets away is a good way to add more steps to the daily total. And during the working day, after having lunch at the desks
7、 or in the canteen, take a walk and get some fresh air. Walk home with your workmates and chat away about everything under the sun but work!1. Whats the purpose of Living Streets? A. To let people keep away from vehicles. B. To build safer walkways for pedestrians. C. To help people enjoy walking in
8、 the street and enjoy life. D. To make people aware of environmental pollution.2. Paragraph 3 is intended to show that walking is _. A. so interesting B. very relaxing C. perfectly safe D. highly beneficial3. What can we learn from Walk to School Week? A. It is organized by the government. B. It is
9、held before Walk to Work Week. C. It has developed rapidly over the last 20 years. D. It encourages students to walk to school alone.4. Whats the main idea of the last paragraph? A. An introduction to Walk to Work Week. B. A nationwide health movement. C. The influence of working day. D. National Wa
10、lking Months history.B Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask. But, as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history, I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history. Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for
11、studying history and two bad reasons for studying history. The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past. I am convinced that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these succes
12、ses and failures. However, as the unfortunately true statement goes the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we dont seem to learn from history. Perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this. The second major reason for studying history is tha
13、t it is hard to understand the current political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context. We can not even understand why we are and where we are without history, much less (更不必说) try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be. I teach my ch
14、ildren history, for one more reason. I purchased a set of historical audio (录音机) tapes for our children. My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over. It was my hope that he would become inspired by the accomplishments of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself. I thi
15、nk that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. if, in doing so, young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he accomplished. I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler, people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for.5 . In Paragraph 3, the author shows that history is useful because _. A. it makes the current political situation go smoothly B. it helps us realize the importance of historical events C. it helps us
