甘肃省静宁县甘沟中学2014-2015学年高一英语下学期期中试题（无答案）.docVIP

2014——2015学年度第二学期高一年级期中英语水平测试 A卷（100分） 一．阅读理解（共20小题,每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 (A) ??? Every night before going to bed, Jasmine would take a bath. That was a good habit, but the problem was that Jasmine liked to take really long baths. So one day Jasmine’s mom said to her, “We won’t have stories anymore because you spend too much time bathing. We have no time to read the stories.” This made Jasmine a little sad, because she enjoyed the stories her mother read to her before she slept, but she enjoyed bath time more, so she gave up her story time. She still get out of the bathroom until her mom ordered her to. ??? A few days later, Jasmine’s mom told her, “If you stay in the bathtub (浴缸) too long you’re going to turn into a fish.” That didn’t sound bad to Jasmine. She thought that turning into a fish would be great because being a fish could stay in the water all the time. ??? One night Jasmine dreamed that she really became a fish. In her dream, she was playing in the bathtub like she always did when she suddenly became smaller and smaller until she turned into a little fish. Then Jasmine’s mom came in to tell her that it was time to go to bed, but she didn’t see Jasmine. Jasmine’s mom was happy. So she began to drain (使流走，放掉) the water from the bathtub, and then began to clean the bathroom. As the water started going down, Jasmine got scared. She shouted, but her mom couldn’t hear her. Then Jasmine started jumping out of the water trying to catch her mom’s attention. But her mom had already walked out the bathroom. Jasmine cried and she woke up. She was so happy when finding herself still a girl. Never did Jasmine waste time in the bathroom again. 1. From the first paragraph we know that ____. A. Jasmine thought listening to stories was a terrible thing B. Jasmine preferred taking long baths to listening to stories C. Jasmine’s mother was happy that Jasmine bathed every day D. Jasmine’s mother often read stories to her when