内蒙古霍林郭勒市第三中学2014-2015学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题.docVIP

考试时间： 120分钟 分值：150分 注意事项:答题卡上从21题开始涂 第I卷（分）第二部分：阅读(每题2分，满分分) E Libraries give kids a quiet and safe place to read and learn. For over 100 years, libraries have played an important role in Americans’ education. But how are these book-filled buildings changing with the times? You may be surprised to find out. Benjamin Franklin famously founded (创建) America’s first lending library in 1731. But the public library system got its biggest?development in the American history in the late 1800’s. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated （捐赠）millions of dollars to help build free public libraries across the country. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie’s donations helped build 1,679 new libraries. Carnegie believed that libraries could offer the chances to?Americans, young and old. He knew that the more libraries there were, the more people would have opportunities to read and use books, speeches and news.? If you can easily find a public library in your community(社区), you’ll get more chances. After all, the United States has 9,225 public libraries. Today, libraries keep growing. Seven tenths of the libraries have free Internet. It provides（提供） much more information and opportunities机会） to ask for jobs online. Libraries are also teaching kids about the fun of reading. The new program Read! Build! Play! adds reading into playtime. As kids listen to a book that is being read aloud, they use Legos (乐高积木) to build images(图像) from the story happily. Today’s libraries are always looking for creative programs to bring people into the library. Benjamin Franklin once said, “The doors of wisdom(智慧) are never shut.” As long as（只要） the doors of public libraries are open, what he said is most certainly correct! 37. Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in _______. A. 1731 B. 1800 C. 1886 D. 1919 38. How many public libraries have free Internet now? A. 2767. B. 6458. C. 9225. D. 1679. 39. The right order of the following statements is __