高一年级第二学期期中考试英语试卷满分150份时量：120分钟第一部分阅读理解 (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，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AEvery year there is a Spring Festival in China. Usually it is in January or February. It is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home usually go back for it. So before it comes, everyone completely cleans the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils(炊具). They have to prepare things. They buy pork, beef, chicken, fruits and many other things. And they often make a special kind of food—"dumplings", which means "come together".On the day before the festival, parents buy new clothes for their children. Children also buy presents for their parents. On the Spring Festival Eve, all the family members come back to their home. This is a happy moment. Some sing and dance, some play cards and others get the dinner ready. After they enjoy the meal, they watch Spring Festival Gala and they give each other the best wishes for the coming year. They all have a good time.Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished.China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, but they have different customs.1. When is the Chinese Spring Festival usually celebrated?A. In March or April.B. In May or June.C. In January or February.D. In November or December.2. is the special kind of food for the Spring Festival in China.A. ChickenB. DumplingC. FishD. Sandwich3. The family when they are getting dinner ready on the Spring Festival Eve.A. give each other the best wishesB. buy each other presentsC. sing, dance and play cardsD. watch Spring Festival Gala4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in this passage?A. At the Spring Festival, the family members usually come back to their hometown.B. Before the Spring Festival, every family usually does some cleaning and shopping.C. You can hear the noise of burning fireworks and see lion dancing on the Spring Festival.D. Only the Han people celebrate their Spring Festival in China.BDo you know the term "tweenager"? It's a slang word being used in the UK to describe children 10-13 years old. They are between junior and the teenage years. Why are they suddenly referred to in this way?Tweenagers now have more money, freedom and influence upon their parents than they've ever had before. More and more companies are creating products and services for tweenagers. You can get everything from branded lunchboxes and mobile phone covers, to monthly fan magazines and clothing-it's all about sales.Most children in the UK today get more pocket money than kids did a decade ago. It is because parents are having fewer children on average than in the past. In addition, the divorce rate in the UK is continually rising and parents spend less time with their children than they used to. So, many parents try to compensate(补偿) by buying presents for them.And do tweenagers have more freedom? Well, UK children today are very familiar with media and computer. Many have a television, if not a computer, in their bedrooms. They have access to much more information about the world.They may have experienced a lot in life as well, since 24% of UK kids live in single-parent families. People now say that "Kids are getting older younger". With such sophistication(世故) at such a young age, they are much more fashion conscious and concerned about their image.In a world of TV programs that promise overnight success and fame at a young age, some people think it's extremely important to look fashionable. Surely none of the above is a good thing, is it? Can it really be healthy for us to encourage kids to be like adults at such a young age? Are we stealing childhoods in return for profit?The UK government is certainly concerned, and for that reason has strict laws preventing companies from marketing their products and services at children. So, is there a happy ending to this story?Companies have just worked out that the older tweenage audience is now looking for something darker and more rebellious. As a result, films such as Twilight are being produced for this older tweenage audience.5. More and more companies pay attention to the tweenagers because________________.A. tweenagers have a growing interest in lunchboxes and mobile phonesB. parents are more likely to spend money for their kids than beforeC. kids receive less pocket money now but have more freedomD. every kid has a computer or a TV in their bedroom6. What does paragraph 2 suggest?A. Kids have a great influence on the market.B. The products for the kids are of better quality.C. Kids are more fashionable than other earlier generations.D. Kids like to buy magazines and clothing most.7. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 5 mean?A. Children exercise too little to physically healthy.B. Children look older than they actually should be.C. Children know more than earlier generations of youngsters knew.D. Children have more freedom and appear more mature than previous generations.8. What's the main idea of the passage?A. The companies make use of tweenagers to make money.B. Young tweenagers are having a positive influence on adult.C. The market is changing to meet the demand of kids.D. Darker and more rebellious movies are popular with kids.CA poor traveler stopped under the tree to eat the boiled rice and vegetables which he had brought with him. A few meters away, there was a small shop by the side of the road where a woman was frying fish and selling it to travelers. The woman watched the poor traveler carefully, and when he finished his food and began to go, she shouted rudely, “You haven't paid me for the fried fish!”“But I have not had any fried fish !” he said.But everyone can see that you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice and vegetables,” said the woman, “If you had not smelled the fish, your meal would not have been so pleasant!”Soon a crowd collected, and although they supported the poor traveler, they had to admit that wind was blowing from the shop to the place where he had eaten, and that it had carried the smell of the fried fish to him.Finally, the woman took the poor traveler to a judge, who said: “The woman says that the traveler ate his meal with the smell of her fried fish. The traveler agrees that the wind was blowing from the woman's shop to the place where he ate his rice and vegetables and that it carried the smell of her fried fish to his nose while he was eating, so he must pay for it. What does your fried fish cost?” he asked the woman.“Twenty-five cents a plate,” she answered, delighted.“Then go outside together,” said the judge. “There the traveler must hold up a twenty-five-cent piece so that its shadow(影子) falls on the woman's hand. The price of the smell of a plate of fried fish is the shadow of twenty-five cents.”9. Why did the traveler refuse to pay the woman for the fried fish? Because .A. he was poorB. he was rudeC. he was supported by a crowdD. he hadn't eaten her fried fish at all10. When the judge asked the woman a question, she felt .A. excitedB. anxiousC. gladD. angry11. Which of the following statements is true?A. The traveler bought the boiled rice and vegetables and ate them by the side of the road.B. The judge had no idea what the woman meant.C. In the fifth paragraph, the first “it” has the same meaning as the second “it”.D. The woman got nothing but the shadow of twenty-five cents in the end.12. What do you think of the judge after reading the passage?A. He was foolish.B. He was clever.C. He was neither foolish nor clever.D. He was kind enough to give the woman twenty-five cents.DMore than 10 years ago, it was difficult to buy a tasty pineapple. The fruits that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not, hard with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1996, the Del Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green. It was slightly softer on the outside and had a lot of juice inside. But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known. In no time, the Del Monte Gold took the market by storm, rapidly becoming the world's best-selling pineapple variety, and delivering natural levels of sweetness in the mouth, up until then only found in tinned pineapple.In nutrition(营养) it was all good news too. This nice-tasting pineapple contained four times more vitamin C (维生素C) than the old green variety. Nutritionists said that it was not only full of vitamins, but also good against some diseases. People were understandably eager to be able to buy this wonderful fruit. The new type of pineapple was selling fast, and the Del Monte Gold pineapple rapidly became a fixture in the shopping basket of the healthy eater.Seeing the growing market for its winning pineapple, Del Monte tried to keep the market to itself. But other fruit companies developed similar pineapples. Del Monte turned to law for help, but failed. Those companies argued successfully that Del Monte's attempts to keep the golden pineapple for itself were just a way to knock them out of the market.13. We learn from the text that the new type of pineapple is .A. green outside and sweet insideB. good-looking outside and soft insideC. yellowy-gold outside and hard insideD. a little soft outside and sweet inside14. Why was the new type of pineapple selling well?A. It was rich in nutrition and tasted niceB. It was less sweet and good for healthC. It was developed by Del MonteD. It was used as medicine15. The underlined word “fixture” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to something .A. that people enjoy eatingB. that is always presentC. that is difficult to getD. that people use as a gift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。