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　　天水市一中2013级2015-2016学年度第一学期第二次考试
　　英语试题
　　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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．          
　　A
　　One day, I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physical problem, while the student claimed a perfect score. I was elected as their arbiter（仲裁人）. I read the examination problem: “Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer（气压计）. ”The student had answered; "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of it is the height of the building.”
　　The student had really answered the question completely, but the answer didn't confirm his competence in physics. I suggested the student try again. I gave him six minutes to answer the question, warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. Five minutes later, he said he had many answers and dashed off one, which read：“Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, use the physical formula（公式）to calculate the height of the building.”
　　At this point, my colleague had to accept it, and then the student made almost full marks. I couldn't help asking the student what the other answers were. He listed many others, and then added, "Probably the best is to take the barometer to the administrator and said to him, ‘Sir, here is a fine barometer. If you tell me the height of the building, I will give it to you.”,
　　Then, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.
　　The name of the student was Bohr who later was famous all over the world. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.
　　1. The student got a zero at the beginning because _____.
　　A. the teacher wasn't satisfied with him
　　B. his answer wasn't complete or correct
　　C. the teacher didn't fully understand his answer
　　D. his answer didn't show his knowledge of physics
　　2. We know from the passage that _____.
　　A. the student knew the expected answer
　　B. the administrator told Bohr the height
　　C. the author preferred Bohr's last answer
　　D. the teacher was a very stubborn person
　　3. We can learn from the passage that _____.
　　A. instructors can teach students how to think
　　B. arbiters can help students to get high scores
　　C. students should be given more freedom in thinking
　　D. teachers should madents use physical formulas
　　4. What was Bohr's attitude toward his schooling?
　　A. Optimistic    B. Critical        C. Approving D. Neutral
　　B
　　Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives (蜂窝)—either recorded or real—may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer’s crops.
　　In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.
　　Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assis