内蒙古鄂尔多斯市一中2015-2016学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题（含答案）.pdfVIP

市一中2015～2016 学年度第二学期期末考试试题 高二英语 答题要求： 1.答第 I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2．选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动， 用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。 考试结束只交答题纸 第 Ⅰ卷 一、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，并在答 题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Last year my summer holiday was spoiled by my bringing along my iPad. Instead of looking at nature, I checked my e-mail. Instead of paddling a small boat, I followed my Twitter feed （推特简讯）. I wasbehaving as if I were still in the office.My body was on vacation,butmyheadwasn’t. So this year I made up my mind to try something different: withdrawal from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, since I’m bad at self-control. But I was determined. I startedby givingtheiPadtomywife. The cellphone signal at our house was worse than in the past, making my attempts at cheating an experience in frustration . I was trapped, forced to go through with my plan. Largely breaking away from e-mail and Twitter, I had few ways to connect to the world except for the radio—and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had to do what I had plannedtodoall along:readbooks. This experience has had a happy ending.With determination and the strong support of my wife, I won in my vacation struggle against the Internet, realizing finally that it was I, not the iPad, that was the problem. I knew I had won when we passed a Starbucks and my 高二英语 第 1 页 共 13 页 wifeaskedifIwantedto stoptousetheWi-Fi.“I don’tneedit,”I said. However, as we return to post-vacation life, a harder test begins: Can I continue when I’m back at work?Ihaveno intention ofgivingup my convenience completely.But Ihopeto resist the temptation to check my e-mail every five minutes, which leads to checking my Twitter feed . I think a vacation is supposed to help you rest your brain to be