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前一高2015-2016学年高二英语期中考试试题 第一部分：听力（120题）略 第二部分：阅读理解 （共1题;每小题分，满分分） 从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中 ，选出最佳选项，题卡上将该项涂黑。Did you know the meaning of a word may change over time? Many English words we know now had different meanings a long time ago. One example is the word nice. Around the year 1300, nice was first used in English to mean “stupid”. Two hundred years later, nice began to carry a “better” meaning. If people said a book was written nicely, they meant the book was written “clearly” or “carefully”, not “stupidly”. After 1800, nice began to take its meaning like “kind” or “friendly”. Since