高二英语试题第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。

AThere was a story many years ago of a school teacher Mrs. Thompson. She told the children on the first day that she loved them all the same. But that was a lie. There in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. He didn’t play well with the other children and he always needed a bath. She did not like him.Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his mother. Mrs. Thompson was a shamed of herself. She felt even worse when, like all her other students, Teddy brought her a Christmas present too. It was his mother’s perfume （香水）。

Teddy said, “Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to.”After the children left she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she began to teach children.Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The boy’s mind seemed to come alive. The more she encouraged him, the faster he improved. By the end of the sixth grade, T eddy had become one of the smartest children in the class.Six years went by before she got a note from Teddy. He wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life. He wentto college. Mrs. Thompson got two more letters from him with the last one signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, M. D.（医学博士）.The story doesn’t end there. On his wedding day, Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson’s ear, “Thank you, Mrs. Thompson, for believing in me. You made me feel important and showed me that I could make a difference.”Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back, “Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn’t know how to teach until I met you.”1. What did Mrs. Thompson do on the first day of school？A. She made Teddy feel ashamed.B. She asked the children to play with Teddy.C. She changed Teddy’s seat to the front row.D. She told the class something untrue about herself.2. What did Mrs. Thompson find out about Teddy？A. He often told lies.B. He was good at math.C. He needed motherly care.D. He enjoyed playing with others.3. In what way did Mrs. Thompson change？A. She taught fewer school subjects.B. She became stricter with her students.C. She no longer liked her job as a teacher.D. She cared more about educating students.4. Why did Teddy thank Mrs. Thompson at his wedding？A. She had kept in touch with himB. She had given him encouragement.C. She had sent him Christmas presents.D. She had taught him how to judge people.BSomething in chocolate could be used to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicines, say UK researchers.Their study found that theobromine, found in cocoa, was nearly a third more effective in stopping coughs than codeine, which was considered the best cough medicine at present.The Imperial College London researchers who published their results online said the discovery could lead to more effective cough treatment. “While coughing is not necessarily harmful（有害的） it can have a major effect on the quality of life, and this discovery could be a huge step forward in treating this problem,” said Professor Peter Barmes.Ten healthy volunteers（志愿者）were given theobromine, codeine or placebo, a pill that contains no medicine, during the experiment. Neither the volunteers nor the researchers knew who received which pill. The researchers then measured levels of capsaicin, which is used in research to cause coughing and as a sign of how well the medicines are stopping coughs.The team found that, when the volunteers were given thebromine, the capsaicin needed to produce a cough was around a third higher than in the placebo group. When they were given codeine they need only slightly higher level of capsaicin to cause a cough compared with the placebo.The researchers said that theobromine worked by keeping down a verve activity （神经活动）, which cause coughing. They also found that unlike some standard cough treatments, theobromine caused no side effects such as sleepiness.5. According to Professor Barnes, theobromine ________.A. cannot be as effective as codeineB. can be harmful to people’s healthC. cannot be separated from chocolateD. can be a more effective cure for coughs6. What was used in the experiment to cause coughing？A. TheobromineB. CodeineC. CapsaicinD. Placebo7. We learn from the text that volunteers in the experiment ________.A. were patients with bad coughsB. were divided into three groupsC. received standard treatmentsD. suffered little side effects8. Which of the following would be the best title for the text？A. Codeine：A New MedicineB. Chocolate May Cure CoughsC. Cough Treatment：A Hard CaseD. Theobromine Can Cause CoughsCWhen her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strengthin unity（团结）. To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn’t have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny’s mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains, “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans’corporation makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.9. Helene tied several chopsticks together to show _________.A. the strength of family unityB. the difficulty of growing upC. the advantage of chopsticksD. the best way of giving a lesson10. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family _________.A. started a business in 1975B. left Vietnam without much moneyC. bought a restaurant in San FranciscoD. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles11. What can we infer about the An daughters？A. They did not finish their college education.B. They could not bear working in the family business.C. They were influenced by what Helene taught them.D. They were troubled by disagreement among family members.12. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage？A. How to Run a CorporationB. Strength Comes from PeaceC. How to Achieve a Big DreamD. Family Unity Builds SuccessDWe all know the names of certain famous male inventors throughout history, from Galileo to Alexander Graham Bell to Steve Jobs. Do you know the outstanding ladies listed below？Margaret Knight（1838—1914）Margaret Knight was nicknamed “the lady Edison”for her productive inventions whichincluded a safety device for textile looms, shoe manufacturing machines, a rotary engine and internal combustion engine（内燃机）, among many others, Knight received 27 patents in her lifetime.Josephine Cochran（1839—1913）Cochran, a wealthy woman who often entertained, wanted a machine that could wash dishes faster than her servants , and without breaking them. When she couldn’t find one, she built the first dishwasher herself in 1886. She received a patent for her famous invention and started a company to sell her invention to restaurants and hotels.Katharine Burr blodgett（1898—1979）Katharine Blodgett was the first woman to receive a Ph. D. in physics at England’s Cambridge University and the first woman hired by General Electric. Her most influential invention was non-reflective glass, which today is still essential for eyeglasses, car windshields and computer screens.Stephanie Kwolek（1923—2014）In 1965, Stephanie Kwolek created an unusually lightweight and durable new fiber which was later developed by a chemical company DuPont into the synthetic Kevlar（凯夫拉尔纤维）, used in everything from military helmets and bulletproof vests to work gloves, sports equipment, and building materials, Kwolek was awarded the National Medal of Technology for her research on synthetic fibers and was admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1994.13. Why was Margaret Knight nicknamed “the lady Edison”？A. She was married to EdisonB. She lived the same age as Edison.C. She made many inventions like Edison.D. She made similar inventions to Edison’s14. What did Cochran invent the dishwasher for？A. T o make a fortune.B. To entertain more guests.C. T o receive a patent.D. T o wash dishes more effectively.15. Who contributed a lot to military needs？A. Stephanie KwolekB. Josephine CochranC. Margaret KnightD. Katharine Burr Blodgett第二节（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15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。