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　　辽宁省实验中学分校2014-2015学年高二下学期期初考试英语试题、第一部分  听力（ 共两节，满分30分）1-20题---略
　　第二部分  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（A、B、C和 D ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A
　　My husband Ollie had retired from teaching and we were making plans to travel together to Florida. Then he was terribly ill and became very weak, hardly able to speak. Weeks passed and it became clear that Ollie was near death, but I prayed day and night that he could get better.
　　One of us was always in Ollie's hospital room--either me, or our grown children, Bruce and Karen. One day, in his broken and weak speech, Ollie told Bruce,  “Go home. You should be with Gwen.” Gwen was Bruce's wife. They had been married for six years and lived hundreds of miles away. Gwen was about to have a baby. We felt an extra sadness, knowing Ollie would never see his first grandchild.
　　“I don't want to leave you, dad, ”  Bruce said. Ollie repeated, “You should be with Gwen. ” Reluctantly, Bruce left.  “When the baby comes, ”he promised Ollie, “you will be the first to know. ”  A few days later, around 2 p. m., Ollie awoke from a sleep. He turned and looked at me. I sat close to hear his weak words. “The baby is coming now. It's a boy, ” he said. For a moment his eyes were filled with tears. Then he went back to sleep again. Not long after that, Karen ran into the room. “Bruce called, ” she said, a smile lighting her face. “Gwen gave birth to a healthy baby boy around two o' clock. ”
　　Ollie smiled; he had been the first to know. That night, Ollie died in his sleep.
　　22. Why did Ollie want Bruce to be with Gwen?
　　A. Ollie didn't want his son to be absent when his baby was born.
　　B. Ollie wanted Bruce to bring the baby along as soon as it was born.
　　C. Ollie thought it was too much trouble for Bruce to stay at hospital.
　　D. Ollie couldn't bear his son seeing him dying with a broken heart.
　　23. The underlined word in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to            .
　　A. Disappointedly             B. Immediately
　　C. Excitedly                  D. Unwillingly
　　24. What can we learn from the passage?
　　A. Ollie and his wife had planned to settle in Florida.
　　B. Ollie cared for his son more than his daughter.
　　C. Ollie died happy and in peace.
　　D. Ollie was sad about not being able to see his first grandchild.
　　B
　　Sorry to say, our brains naturally start slowing down at the cruelly young age of 30. It used to be thought that this couldn’t be helped, but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster. “Your brain is a learning machine ”, says University of California scientist Dr. Michael Merzenich. Given the right tools, we can train our brains to act like they did when were younger. All that’s required is the practice designed just for the purpose: a few exercises for the mind.
　　Merzenich has developed a computer---based training method to speed up the process in which the brain deals with information. Since much of the data we receive comes through speech, the Brain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to better speed and accuracy.
　　Over the course of training, the program starts as to distinguish sounds (between “dog” and “bog”, for example) at an increasingly faster speed. “It’s a bit like tennis instructor,” sa