2016-2017学年甘肃省兰州一中高二上学期期末考试英语试卷.doc

兰州一中2016-2017-1学期期末考试试题 高 二 英 语 说明：本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，满分100分。考试时间100分钟。交卷时只交答题卡。 第Ⅰ卷 （选择题） I：阅读理解：阅读下列各短文，从题中所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中选出最佳选项. （共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分） A Everyone knows that grains of sand can be grouped together to form a pagoda. In the same way, wealth starts with a goal saving a dollar at a time, which we call the piggy bank strategy. There are lessons in that time-honored coin-saving container. Any huge task seems easier when reduced to baby steps. If you wished to climb a 12,000-foot mountain, and could do it a day at a time, you would only have to climb 33 feet daily to reach the top in a year. If you want to take a really nice trip in 10 years for a special occasion, to collect the $15,000 cost, you have to save $3.93 a day. If you drop that into a piggy bank and then once a year put $1,434 in a savings account at 1% interest rate after-tax, you will have your trip money. When I was a child, my parents gave me a piggy bank to teach me that, if I wanted something, I should save money to buy it. We associate piggy banks with children, but in many countries, the little containers are also popular with adults. Europeans see a piggy bank as a sign of good fortune and wealth. Around the world, many believe a gift of a piggy bank on New Year’s Day brings good luck and financial success. Ah, but you have to put something in it. Why is a pig used as a symbol of saving? Why not an elephant bank, which is bigger and holds more coins? In the Middle Ages, before modern banking and credit instruments, people saved money at home, a few coins at a time dropped into a jar or dish. Potters made these inexpensive containers from an orange-colored clay called “pygg,” and folks saved coins in pygg jars. The Middle English word for pig was “pigge”. While the Saxons pronounced pygg, referring to the clay, as “pug”, eventually the two words changed into the same pronunciation, sounding the “i” as in pig or pigg