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1、2015学年第一学期萧山区城厢综合高中期终测试高一年级英语试题卷试卷说明：1、本试卷满分120分，答题时间100分钟。2、请将答案直接填在答题卷上，考试结束只交答题卷。 第一节：阅读理解。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，并在答题卷上将答案写上。（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分） A When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground. I was living in Conyers, Georgia the summer it all happened. I was a se
2、cond grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade. Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way. It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanies basement. As I opened the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, f
3、ull of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes. I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can. It was paint. I looked beyond it and there lay even more paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green. “Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paintbrushes. We ar
4、e fixing to paint.” She screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work. We gathered all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard. There on the road in front of my house, we painted big stripes ( 条纹) of colors across the pavement (人
5、行道). Stripe by stripe, our colors turned into a beautiful rainbow. It was fantastic! The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car. It was my mother. I couldnt wait to show her my masterpiece. The car pulled slowly into the driveway and from the look
6、 on my mothers face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble. My mother shut the car door and walked towards me. Her eyes glaring, she shouted, “What in the world were you thinking? I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors trees, but this! Come inside right now!” I
7、 stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she had insulted (侮辱) my art. “Now go clean it up!” Mother and I began cleaning the road. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my beautiful rainbow turn into black cement(水泥). Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has
8、gone. I wonder if, maybe when I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away. I guess we all need some sort of rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful.1. What did the writer want to do when his mother came home? A. To introduce St
9、ephanie to her. B. To show his artwork to her. C. To put the materials back in the yard. D. To prevent her from seeing his painting.2. In his mothers eyes, the writer _. A. always caused trouble B. was a born artist C. was a problem solver D. worked very hard3. The underlined word “rainbow” in the l
10、ast paragraph refers to _. A. the rainbow in the sky B. something imaginative and fun C. the stripes on the pavement D. important lessons learned in childhood4. It can be learned from the passage that parents should _. A. protect rather than destroy children s dreams B. value friendship among childr
11、en C. discover the hidden talent in children D. encourage children to paint B“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lives in Rome in AD53 wrote it. We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?Picture this: Youre rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise
