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崇礼一中2016-2017学年度第一学期期中考试 高一英语试卷 出题人 耿长君 审题人 赵莉萍 阅读理解 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A.B.C.D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A 　　One day, Bruce played in front of a house. A woman came up and asked Bruce, “Little boy, is your mother at home?” 　　“Yes, she is,” answered the boy. 　　Then the woman went over to ring the bell. The bell rang and rang, but no one came to open the door. The woman got angry and called out to him, “You told me your mother was at home, didn’t you?” “Yes,” the boy answered. “My mother is at home, but this isn’t my home.” 1．One day, Bruce played ________. A. in a park B. in the street C. in front of a shop D. in front of a house 　　2．The woman wanted to see ________. A. Bruce’s mother B. Bruce’s father C. Bruce himself D. nobody 　　3．The woman went over to ________ after she talked with Bruce. A. knock at the door of the house B. ring the bell of the house C. give a call to his mother D. ask his mother some questions 　　4．The woman got ________ because no. one came to open the door. A. pleased B. surprised C. angry D. afraid 　　 People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be pleased only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He thought what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. He tried to understand them, and then he tried to learn what he could usefully do with them. Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people would do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking could give men enjoyment and pleasure. Edison could