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　　太原五中2014-2015学年度第二学期阶段性检测
　　高  二  英  语
　　（本试卷包括四个部分，总分100分，时间90分钟）
　　第一部分  阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）
　　第一节  (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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，并将答案涂在答题卡上。
　　A
　　Do you enjoy reading poems? Rabindranath Tagore (泰戈尔) was an Indian writer and poet, who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Composed of 326 short verses, Stray Birds (飞鸟集) is a collection of short verses translated from Bengali into English by the poet himself, where Tagore spiritualizes nature into the experiences of human existence while demonstrating his love for nature and simplicity through poetic words.
　　Now read the following verses taken from Stray Birds (1916) and try to answer the questions.
　　•Man does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it. (verse 52)
　　•The cloud stood humbly (谦逊的) in a corner of the sky.
　　The morning crowned it with splendor (光辉). (verse 100)
　　•Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. (verse 248)
　　•Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
　　The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. (verse 127)
　　•The stream of truth flows through its channels of mistakes. (verse 243)
　　•Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose. (verse 230)
　　•Set bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky. (verse 231)
　　•Men are cruel, but Man is kind. (verse 219)
　　•Let me not put myself wrongly to my world and set it against me. (verse 206)
　　•Wrong cannot afford defeat but right can. (verse 68)
　　•“I give my whole water in joy,” sings the waterfall. “though little of it is enough for the thirsty.” (verse 69)
　　•The woodcutter’s axe(斧头) begged for its handle from the tree.
　　The tree gave it. (verse 71)
　　•Thank the flame for its light, but do not forget the lampholder standing in the shade with constancy of patience. (verse 64)
　　1. Which of the verses sing praise for those who are ready to sacrifice (奉献) themselves without asking anything in return?
　　A. verse 248 &69 B. verse 71 & 100 C. verse 69 & 71 D. verse 100& 52
　　2. Which of the verse makes strong comparison and contrast between two opposite types of persons?
　　A. verse 68 B. verse 248 C. verse 127 D. verse 243
　　3. Which of the verses might be most suitable said to parents, telling them not to spoil their children with wealth?
　　A. verse 231 B. verse 71 C. verse 127 D. verse 100
　　B
　　When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate（照亮）me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.
　　When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say: “Let’s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
　　When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair (失望) and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walntil our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
　　For almost four years I have had a remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think: “Yes, I must tell….”We have never met.
　　It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetim