甘肃省庆阳市孟坝中学2016--2017学年高一上学期期中考试英语试卷 含答案.docVIP

高一年级英语期中试题 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） A Today, roller skating is easy and fun. But many years ago, it wasn’t easy at all. Before 1750, people never tried skating on wheels. That changed because of a man named Joseph Merlin. Merlin’s work was making instruments. In his free time he liked to play the violin. Merlin was a man with many ideas and many dreams. People called him a dreamer. One day Merlin received an invitation to go to an important party. He was very pleased and a little excited. As the day of the party came near, Merlin beg