白银九中2014学年第二学期期中考试.doc

白银九中2014学年第二学期期中考试 高二英语试卷 注意事项： 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，满分分值120分，考试时间100分钟。 请将选择题答案涂在答题卡上，任务型阅读和主观题答案写在答题卷相应位置上。 请在答题卷上认真填写姓名、班级、考号，并正确填涂答题卡。 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中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Cyril was a small town. The houses there were all made of wood; almost everything in the houses were made of wood, too. And all the houses faced south. The town was never peaceful. Fire broke out once a week on summer afternoons. People were puzzled who was the real firebug (纵火犯). One day a big fire broke out. It was said that a Negro(黑人) had jumped out of the house on fire, so the police arrested all the Negroes in the street. However, there were fires breaking out when the Negroes were in prison. Mauson, a physics teacher, didn’t believe that the Negroes were the firebugs, and decided to find out who the real firebug was. One day, he was invited to drink in a pub and happened to notice that many bottles and plastic plates were baked by the hot sunrays. Suddenly he realized what the actual fact was. He dashed out of the pub to his friend’s house nearby, which also faced south. He made an experiment there to prove his idea. The next Saturday afternoon, Mauson asked some policemen to come to the house. They were told that the real firebug would be shown there. At that time, the sun was shining full into the house and it became hotter and hotter inside the room. “Now,” said Mauson, “this house will soon catch fire.” People looked at each other in surprise. Mauson asked them to look at the bottles and focus on the table cloth. After a while the cloth gave off a burning smell and began to catch fire![来源:学。科。网Z。X。X。K] The mystery of fire was discovered, but the police wouldn’t believe him and insisted that Negroes had been the firebugs. Instead they arrested Mauson and put him into prison. But Mauson said he would never turn against science. 1. The town was never peaceful, for fire broke out ________. A. on Sundays