广东省韶关南雄市黄坑中学2013-2014届高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 含解析.docVIP

高二下学期期末考试英语试题 本试卷共三大题，满分150分。考试用时120分钟。 Ⅰ 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分50分) 第一节 完形填空 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。 Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe (订阅) to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers？Five hundred years ago, 1 of important happenings—battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed——took months and even years to 2 from one country to another. The news 3 by word of mouth and was never 4 . Today we can read in our newspaper of important events that