2016-2017学年内蒙古赤峰二中高二上学期期末考试英语试题.doc

赤峰二中（2015级）2016-2017学年度上学期期末考试 英语试卷 满分：150分 时间：100分钟 第Ⅰ卷 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) 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 Once again, I was at a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That was where the similarities ended. I was tall and she was small. I was one of the oldest in the class while she was the youngest. My hair was thick, short and ugly while hers was long and beautiful. I was awkward and shy. She wasnt. I couldnt stand her, considering her my enemy. But she wanted to be friends. One day, she invited me over and I said yes ?I was too shocked to say no. Actually, no one had invited me over to play before. But this girl, who wore the latest fashions, wanted to see me. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister. When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies ?which was my next surprise. I would have thought she had outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in cupboard laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. Thats when we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older. We both had wild imaginations. We had a great time that afternoon. Our jaws ached from smiling so much. She showed me her outfits（服装）, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it sometimes used her as a model for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange. Paris charmed the whole neighborhood. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free pieces. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each others houses and spent every free moment together. I let my hair grow out and learned to love being tall. Paris, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through my tough teenage years and taught me an amazing thing