广东省阳春市2016_2017学年高二英语上学期第二次月考试题201704050132.docVIP

专业文档 PAGE  珍贵文档 广东省阳春市2016-2017学年高二英语上学期第二次月考试题 （时间：120分钟，满分：150分） 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15题；每小题2分，满分30） 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。 A All over the world people enjoy sports.Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer. Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! And think of people in cold countries. Think how many love to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada. Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports. People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace. 1. Why do people all over the world enjoy sports? A. Because sports can make people healthy. B. Because sports can make people happy. C. Because they want to live longer. D. All the above. 2. According to the passage,what excites people is that_______. A. their favourite player or team wins B. they win the game C. they get the good news D. they can’t help themselves 3. Which of the sports does not have a long history? A. Running. B. Jumping. C. Volleyball. D. Chinese wushu.