汉源一中高二英语期中试题

A. a black suit B. a white suit

C. a white headdress D. a red dress

58. The passage is mainly about .

A. different color on different occasions

B. the traditional Chinese meaning of colors

C. the historic development of colors

D. the clothing in Chinese celebrations.

C

CROSS COUNTRY

Name: Frederick

I’m a 33-year-old man riding the TransAmerica Trail west to east starting on May 18th,2010 from Astoria. I would like to ride about 90 mils a day and end up in Virginia in about 50 days. I will be riding self-supported and mostly camping and cooking under the stars with a few stays in motel(汽车旅馆) along the way. Anyone is welcome to join me.

Name: Edmund

TransAmerica, west to east. My son (21) and I (52) are going to fide across-country from 06/02/2010 to 07/27/2010 with a 30-foot recreational vehicle. Until a few days ago, we had a driver who was going to join us the last part of each day. Our plan is to take turns driving, so we’re looking for two more companions to join us for all or part of the trip. We spend nights in campgrounds and ride about 70 miles per day.

Name: Willard

I’m planning on riding the TransAmerica Trail from west to east on or about May 15th,2010 from Astoria. I would like to ride 85-100 miles per day and end up in Virginia 43 to 50days later. Rest every7-8days. Travelling self-supported. Planning to camp with staying in motels when necessary. I’m a 50-year-old engineer. I f interested, e-mail me.

Name: Callum

Let’s ride together! 32-year-old, looking forward to three months’ trip. Cycling across the country along the TransAmerica Trail from east to west. I’m going to start in Maine and end in San Francisco. Traveling self-supported, depending mostly on camping and cooking. Planning to ride 50-60 miles a day. Looking at May1 as a start date.

59. What’s the purpose of these people in the passage?

A. to discuss a sports game B. to share travelling experience

C. to develop camping skills D. to look for travelling partners

60. Which of the following might travel together?

A. Edmund and Frederick B. Callum and Edmund

C. Frederick and Willard D. Willard and Callum

61. How many people does Edmund want in his travelling group?

A. three B. four C. five D. six

62. Callum planned to arrive in San Francisco around .

A. July 1 B. August 1 C. September 1 D. October 1

D

Not many years ago， a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five，he gave ￡12，000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.

As a result of his kindness，many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk，Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman，thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain，asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

63. The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson __________.

A. had no children.

B. was a strange man.

C. was very fond of children.

D. wanted people to know how rich he was.

64. Many people wrote to Johnson to find out __________.

A. what kind of whisky he had.

B. how to live longer.

C. how to become wealthy.

D. in which part of the neck to have an injection.

65. The newspaperman ____________.

A. should have reported what Johnson had told him.

B. shouldn‘t have asked Johnson what injection he had.

C. was eager to live a long life.

D. should have found out what Johnson really meant.

66. When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening， he really meant that ______.

A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening.

B. he needed an injection in the neck.

C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.

D. there was something wrong with his neck.

E

Of all systems of symbols，language is the most highly developed. It has been pointed out that human beings， by agreement， can make anything stand for anything. Human beings have agreed， in the course of centuries of mutual (相互的) dependency， to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs，throats， tongues， teeth， and lips systematically stand for certain happenings in their nervous system. We call that system of agreements language.

There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which it stands for. Just as social positions can be symbolized by feathers worn on the head，by gold on the watch chain， or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in， so the fact of being hungry can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in.

However obvious these facts may appear at first glance， they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other， yet we all have a way of feeling as if， and sometimes acting as if， there were necessary connections. For example， there are people who feel that foreign languages are unreasonable by nature： foreigners have such funny names for things， and why can’t they call things by their right names?This feeling exhibits itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough. Like the little boy who is reported to have said： “Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals，” they feel tha“ the symbol is inherently (内在地) connected in some way with the things symbolized.

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