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会宁四中2017-2018学年度第一学期高二级中期考试 英语试卷 命题教师：张海娟 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） A This year I’m buying presents for 16 children, as well as my own daughter, Mia-Grace, who will be two on Christmas Day. My tree will be beautifully decorated, I’m bringing the turkey to the family Christmas lunch and having an open house on Boxing Day. And the whole thing’s only going to cost me ￡150. We’re very careful now and we don’t overspend or owe anything on credit cards. I work for an electrician and my husband Neil, 33, works in construction business. We’re concerned about our jobs because our companies are quiet at the moment. We’ve also been hit by rising prices, particularly food, petrol, gas and electricity. Everyone I know is worried. One of my friends’ husband has just gone self-employed and if he doesn’t work, they have no money coming in. Christmas has been playing on my mind for the past three or four months. We decided on a budget of ￡150 because that’s just under my weekly wage and it meant we could afford Christmas while using Neil’s salary for our essential bills. We quickly realized that we buy some things every year just for the sake of it. Even though we have loads of decorations, we usually buy something new for the tree but this Christmas we’re not going to. We’ve already got our tree — a big artificial one which I bought half-price in the January sales. It will last us for years. After all, no one can escape from this financial crisis(经济危机) which is spreading throughout the globe. 1. From the passage, we can infer Boxing Day most probably falls on ______. A. January 20 B. May 5 C. October 24 D. December 26 2. Which of the following is TRUE about the author? A. She has bought an artificial Christmas tree at a low price. B. She has bought Christmas presents for 16 children altogether. C. Both the author and her husband are already out of work now. D. She’d like to buy a new Christmas tree for this Christmas. 3. Why can