延边第二中学2017-2018学年度第二学期第二次阶段检测高一英语试卷注意事项：答案必须写在答题卡上，答在试卷上无效。

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，本试卷满分120分。

考试时间90分钟。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题共70分）第一节：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文， A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑AOur neighbour’s son was getting married at an out-of-town church, and my husband and I were invited. We immediately rushed out to a store, and I bought a nice pink dress with a jacket. The dress was a little tight, but I had a month to go before the June 30 wedding and I would lose a few pounds.June 29 came and, of c ourse, I hadn’t lost a single pound; in fact I had gained two. But I figured a nice new girdle (紧身内衣)would cure everything. So on our way out of the city we stopped once again at the store. I ran in and told the clerk I needed a large-size girdle. The shop assistant found the box with the described girdle marked "LG", and asked if I would like to try it on. “Oh, no, a large will fit just right. I needn’t try it on.”The next morning was rather hot, so I waited to get dressed until about 45 minutes before time to go. I opened the box only to find a new girdle in a small size. Since it was too late tofind another one and the dress wouldn’t fit right without a girdle, a fight broke out in the hotel room between me and the girdle. Have you ever tried to shake 20 pounds of potatoes into a five-pound ba g? That’s it. Finally my husband, laughing like crazy, got hold of each side and shook me down into it. At once I put on the pink dress, which didn’t match my red face well, and was ready to go.Finally we got to the church. I heard one of the people say that they were having a High Mass. I turned to my husband and asked, "What is a High Mass?" He shrugged his shoulders. Unfortunately, I learned that this particular mass would last one hour, twenty-two minutes and eight and one half seconds—the priest (神父) was going to bless everything except my girdle. 1．The author most probably bought a nice pink dress with a jacket__________.A. 4 weeks laterB. 4 weeks earlierC. a fortnight earlierD. a fortnight later2．What had the author wanted to do with the tight dress ? A. To make herself thinner B. To buy a large size girdle C. To put on some weight D. To shake herself into it 3．What can we know about the author ?A. She was very lucky to buy a girdle to go with her dress .B. She had no choice but to put on the dress without a girdle .C. She complained to the shop assistant about her carelessness .D. She managed to put on the girdle with her husband’s help .4．What would be the best title for the passage ?A. A Funny WeddingB. A Wise DecisionC. A Tight SituationD. A Fierce FightB“Keep your eyes on the ball.” That is good advice when you are on the playing field, and good advice for everyday life. “Keep your mind on what’s important,” is the way I’d put it. But people are funny. They think too much about the details.I had a secretary once. She was very hardworking. I ran a school and people used to call up to enroll（注册，登记） for courses. Berry used to get angry at the phone. “If they keep on ringing, I’ll never get my typing done!” she’d shout.People just don’t see the big picture. One evening, after leaving work, I was sitting next to a man on the train. I was feeling tired. My eyes fell on the paper he had spread out in front of him. You know how you feel to read over someone’s shoulder?I read the page and leaned back. I guessed I was waiting for him to turn it. After a while, I realized—he wasn’t turning the page. He just kept on reading.Now if you knew the page he was reading, you’d know that there weren’t many words on the page to read anyway. The layout（布局，设计）was mostly pictures. So I turned to the man and said,” You know, you really read very slowly.”“What do you mean?” he asked. “Well,” I told him, “I readthe page in about a minute, and you have taken about ten. And you are still reading. You know,”I went on “If you learned to read faster, you could get more reading done.” He remained silent for a minute or two. “If I read too fast, my paper wouldn’t last me to my station.”5．The writer wasn’t satisfied with his secretary because ___.A. she didn’t put first thing firstB. she was too busyC. she was easy to get angryD. she couldn’t finish her work on time6．The train rider read newspaper ___.A. to take in informationB. to enjoy picturesC. to save timeD. to kill time7．The writer thinks that people seem to need a sense of ___.A. what to read firstB. how to read fastC. what is importantD. what is funny8．The passage is mainly about the writer’s opinion on people’s ___.A. judgmentB. workC. lifeD. habitsCSteve and Yaser first met in their chemistry class at an American university. Yaser was an international student from Jordan. He was excited to get to know an American. He wanted to learn more about American culture. Yaser hoped that he and Stevewould become good friends. At first, Steve seemed very friendly. He always greeted Yaser warmly before class. Sometimes he offered to study with Yaser. He even invited Yaser to have lunch with him.But after the term was over, Steve seemed more distant. The two former classmates didn’t see each other very much at school. One day Yaser decided to call Steve. Steve didn’t seem very interested in talking to him.. Yaser was hurt by Steve’s change of attitu de. “Steve said we were friends,” Yaser complained. “And I thought friends were friends forever.” Yaser is a little confused.He is an outsider(局外人) to American culture. He doesn’t understand the way Americans view friendship. Americans use the word “friend” in a very general way. They may call both casual acquaintances(熟人) and close companions(伙伴) “friends”. Americans have school friends, work friends, sports friends and neighborhood friends. These friendships are based on common interests.American society changes rapidly. Studies show that one out of five American families moves every year. American friendships develop quickly, and they may change just as quickly. People from the United States may at first seem friendly. Americans often chat easily with strangers. They exchange information about their families, hobbies and work. They may smile warmly and say, “Have a nice day.” or “see you later.” schoolmates may say,“Let’s get together sometime.” But American friendliness is not always an offer of true friendship.9．According to the text , what made Yaser a little confused ?A. Steve’s inviting him to dinnerB. Steve’s study ing with himC. Steve’s cold attitudeD. Steve’s misunderstanding him 10．In Paragraph 4, what does the underlined word “ they ” refer to ?A. American familiesB. American friendshipsC. People from the United StatesD. Misunderstandings 11．Why do American friendships develop and change so quickly ?A. Americans may not only call casual acquaintances but close companion “friends”.B. American society changes rapidly, and the families move frequently.C. Americans often seem friendly, and chat easily with strangers at first.D. Americans think friendship means a strong lifelong relationship between two persons.12．This text mainly tells us __________.A. that people should not make friends with Americans.B. that everyone needs friends.C. the importance of keeping friendship.D. how Americans view friendship.DTell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people’s mind to anothe r culture or race.People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.“Most local stories are based on a larger theme（主题）,” American storyteller Opalanga Pu gh says, “Cinde rella, or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don’t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “there is a greater need for communication”. Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned howclosely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. “The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere,” she says.“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” sh e says, “What I do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody’s story.”13．What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2?A. They share the same way of storytelling.B. They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures.C. They learn their stories from the American natives.D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults. 14．The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____.A. start a new lifeB. settle down in another placeC. direct filmsD. become good actors 15．Pugh has practiced storytelling with _____ groups of people.A. 2B. 3C. 4D. 5第二节 (共5小题 ;每小题 2分 ,满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项（选项中有两项为多余选项），并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。