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2013---2014学年度高一下学期期中考试120分钟，满分150分。 第卷（共100分） operation. 7. Why does the man want to speak to Dr. Jones? A. To borrow a book from him. B. To discuss something with him. C. To ask him to give a lecture. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 听第段材料，回答第至题。 听第10段材料，回答第至20题。 18. How many people were badly injured in the storm? A. Nine. B.Seven. C. Ten. 19. What do we know about the farmer? A. His wife was missing. B. His house was destroyed. C. One of his children was killed. 20. What did the woman do when she saw her house shaking? A. She tried to take something out. B. She told her husband not to leave. C. She rushed out with her children. 第二部分 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） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A A person has to be sixteen to drive, seventeen to see certain movies, and eighteen to vote. People can get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuff－provided they’re over sixty-five. Everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and can’t do. But creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. Anyone can invent. And they do. Inventors are popping up at the youngest ages. Sitting in the car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, Becky decided she might as well try to finish her math homework. But it was growing dark and getting hard to see the paper. “I didn’t have a flashlight, and I didn’t want to open the car door because then the whole car would light up.” recalled Becky. “So I thought it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow, and that’s when the idea came to me.” It isn’t every day that a ten-year-old invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but that’s exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark. Her invention? The Glo-sheet. That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark. She remembered all sorts of glow-in-the-dark toys－like balls and Frisbees－and wondered how they were made