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　　东北育才学校高中部2015-2016年度期初测试英语试题
　　答题时间：90分钟  满分：120分 
　　第一部分：听力（略）
　　第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题, 每小题2分, 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，从每篇短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A
　　The Man of Many Secrets — Harry Houdini — was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes — from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanll of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks.
　　Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
　　Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.
　　It was the publicity(宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck — and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.
　　Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame, and a name remembered today.
　　1. According to the passage, Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on _______.
　　A. his special tricks and supernatural powers   
　　B. his unusual ability and a skeleton key
　　C. his magic tricnhuman powers      
　　D. his wisdom and magic tricks
　　2. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “this” refers to _______.
　　A. his first prison escape   B. the year 1898  C. the publicity D. Harry Houdini’s success
　　3. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _______.
　　A. in 1894   B. before he married    C. at the age of 17 D. when he was about 24
　　B
　　Many immigrants(移民) to the United States find the decision to seek better lives for their families in America can have an unexpected and tragic consequence(后果). Deep differences with their children develop over language and culture.
　　“Many immigrants arrive here without much education. Their kids soon gain language skills and also street marts(耍时髦) on how to live in America, leaving the parents at a disadvantage,” Ileana , Roses, pastor of a Methodist church group operating in Virginia, said.
　　“Not only that but they find they cannot relate to children who quickly absorb American culture,” she said.
　　According to the US Census Bureau(人口调查局), the number of foreign born or first generation Americans reached 55 million last year, a record one in five of the total population.
　　A government survey of 922 immigrants in 2000 found that nearly 40 percent of those who had been in the United States for more than 15 years would still like to take English classes if they had the time.
　　Two thirds of low income households depended on their children for translation.
　　Psychologists(心理学家) and sociologists say parents can lose their position of authority(权威) in a family as a result and the effects of that can be far-reaching.
　　Children exposed to American pop culture that glorifies(颂扬) youth and sexuality(性感) often rebel when their parents try to impose the conservative values they brought with them.
　　“Americanization erodes(侵蚀) all important aspects of parenting,” said Richard Weissbourd, who teaches education at Harvard University.
　　“I feel a part of me is dying with my children. They don’t listen to my music. I have to play it on Sunday morning when they are not around,” said an immigrant.
　　4. What troubles the immigrant parents most is ___________.
　　A. that they can’t understand the English language
　　B. that they lose their position of authority in their families
　　C. that their children have lost sense of their own national values
　　D. how they can master the English language as soon as possible
　　5. From the passage we can infer that the population of the states at present is about____.