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　　沈阳铁路实验中学2014—2015学年度下学期期中考试
　　高一英语
　　时间：100分钟      总分：120分 
　　第I卷（请将答案涂在答题卡上）
　　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）
　　从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A
　　That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad didn't care for insects much more than Mamma，but he could tolerate(容忍) a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to prove her point she wouldn't go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father's cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave，so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed (喷射) poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it.
　　For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we'd all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn't lise it scratched for no reason.
　　However，soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought the dead crickets came bact Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison，and then he sprayed the basement again.
　　A couple of weeks later，when both live and dead crickets rning up，Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.
　　While we ate supper that evening，the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower's(割草机) fuel tant that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught fire，there wasn't much anyone could do.
　　After the fire truck left，Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail's. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn't talch，while all around the noise of crickets bror silence.
　　1．What do we know about the author's mother?
　　A．She didn't like insects at all. B．She liked insects more than his father.
　　C．She cared for insects very much. D．She could only tolerate a few insects.
　　2．The author fed a few dozen crickets to the cat probably to ________.
　　A．make his mother happy B．help his mother clear away the crickets
　　C．play with the cat D．harm the cat
　　3．The author's father burned the old newspapers and magazines because he thought ________.
　　A．they were no longer useful B．the crickets were afraid of fire
　　C．they became the home of crickets D．the dead crickets came back to life
　　4．We learn from the last paragraph that ________.
　　A．the author's parents brop.
　　B．the author's parents learned to get along with insects
　　C．the author's family didn't suffer much in the fire
　　D．the author's family lost their battle against the crickets
　　B
　　Confucius was born in today’s Qufu in Shandong Province in 551 BC. His family was far from being wealthy. But he was a hard-worpil even in his childhood. As a young man of a little over twenty, he became a small official of the state. Since he was very knowledgeable and serious in work, he had become quite well-known by the time he turned thirty. Confucius had been to many of the states of the time, trying to make his political views accepted by the rulers in running their states. But they turned a d deaf ear to his views and opinions. As a result, Confucius made up his mind to devote all his energies to education. When people learned about this, many of them sent their children to him to be educated. They were accepted and so Confucius became the first man in the history of Chinese education to start a private school.
　　Yan Hui, a young man of humble origin, wanted to be accepted as Confucius’s student. But the family was so poor that they even had difficulty providing themselves with daily necessities. He was afraid he would be rejected as he could not afford the tuition(学费) One day he came to where Confucius was giving lectures and overheard Confucius say, “I’m ready to accept anyone that can bring 10 pieces of preserved meat for tuition, whatever his origin” Greatly heartened by this, Yan Hui hurried back home and told his friends Zi Lu and Zi Gong about it. A few days later, all three became Confucius’s students.
　　Confucius was a dedicated educator, having accepted a total of 3,000 students in his life, of whom 72 were outstanding scholars. Through educational worcius succeeded in spreading his political views, which eventually became an independent school of thought and had an impact on China for thousands of years.
　　5. Confucius had become very famous by the time he turned thirty because ______.
　　A. he had rich knowledge and took his worsly
　　B. he was a hard-worpil when he was young.
　　C. many people in the government knew him well
　　D. his political view had been widely accepted
　　6. The underlined phrase “turned a deaf ear to” in the first paragraph probably means “______”.
　　A. were willing to accept something
　　B. refused to listen to someone
　　C. gave away something important to others.
　　D. made someone’s ear deaf
　　7. From the last part of the first paragraph, we can learn that _____.
　　A. nobody hoped to send their children to school then
　　B. Confucius was the first person to start education for all in China
　　C. Confucius was happy to work in the government
　　D. Confucius started his school with the help of the government
　　8. Which of the following statements is NOT true according the passage?
　　A. Confucius used to work for the government.
　　B. Confucius made his political views known through educational work.
　　C. Some young men failed to be accepted by Confucius because of their poor origin.
　　D. Confucius political views had a great effect on China
　　C
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