河南省新野县第三高级中学2014-2015学年高二英语上学期第三次周考试.docVIP

高二上学期第三次周考英语试题 一、听力：(共20题，每小题1分，共20分) 二、阅读理解（每小题1.5分，共22.5分） A WHEN cars drive in a circle，do they go around a “traffic circle” or a“roundabout”？The first choice sounds strange to me，as we dont say it in Britain．but Ive made Americans laugh for minutes at a time just by saying“roundabout”before． Irish author George Bernard Shaw is believed to have said．“England and America are two countries separated by the same language．”This idea might seem strange, but I think of it whenever I have this type of communication problem with my friends from across the Atlantic。 Often，American people simply dont know who Im talking about．Many times Ive had to explain who a British celebrity(名人)is，even though I assume (猜想)that they must be well-known outside of the UK．Its sometimes seems like most Americans dont know who UK Prime Minister David Cameron is，yet in the UK we know all about Paris Hilton and other unimportant US celebrities—hardly fair! There are also many differences in meaning between words and idioms in our two forms of English．I once tried to break up an argument between two Americans by saying，“Come on，leave it out!”(meaning “stop doing or saying that”)but they just turned to me looking confused (困惑的)，wondering what exactly they were supposed to“leave out”．At least the argument finished! Another unexpected problem with the two types of English happened to me when I was a teacher. I realized that sometimes when I wrote a word with a British spelling, such as“colour”with a“u”，my students would think that I had spelled it wrong and try to correct me． Having said a11 of that，I should say that I do really like the way American English sounds，and Ive got nothing against people learning it—just “leave it out” if youre thinking of correcting my spelling! 21．The author mentions the word“roundabout”in the first paragraph to ． A．introduce some confusing English words B．show how self-centered Americans are C．give an example of the diff