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　　广东惠阳高级中学2015—2016学年度
　　第一学期中段考试高二英语试题
　　2015.11.
　　本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分135分--最终成绩按总分150分进行折算，折算公式：最终成绩（150分）=卷面成绩（总分135分）×1.112，四舍五入取整数计分。考试用时120分钟。
　　注意事项：
　　1、 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。
　　2、 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡相应的位置。
　　3、 全部答案应在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
　　4、 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
　　第I卷
　　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）
　　阅读下面短文，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
　　What will our future look like? People have always been wondering about this question. Go on reading this text and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.
　　How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you must know the past. What has tas to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but we humans are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.
　　What inventions have really made a difference in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have affected most people around the world for everyday living are the telephone, electricity, radio, television, computer, the car and the ability to communicate through the Internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster transports etc. In general, human beings have been working hard in the last 150 years to make the inventions so that they will be able to get control of the time and the world. Since there is still much to do in this area, this will be the focus at least for the next 150 years.
　　Why do we need to predict the future? Predicting the future is important for two reasons: first we need to start to thint what kind of what kind of future we would like for ourselves and to pass on to the next generation, and then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give the best result in the future.
　　1. What does the author try to tell us in the second paragraph?
　　A. Humans will no longer enjoy food in the future.
　　B. The world will be completely changed tomorrow.
　　C. The world is quite different from what it was.
　　D. Our basic needs will not change in the future.
　　2. Our past inventions have made __________.
　　A. our daily life more stressful
　　B. it easy for us to live
　　C. us work less time
　　D. our work easily done
　　3. What will humans do in order to keep the world under control?
　　A. To focus on making more inventions.
　　B. To produce more cars for transportation.
　　C. To spend more time working on the Internet.
　　D. To worch harder to achieve their goals.
　　4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
　　A. What result we’ll receive in the future.
　　B. The decisions we make for our future.
　　C. The two reasons of predicting the future
　　D. The importance of predicting the future.
　　B
　　CELL PHONES ARE THE NEW CIGARETTES
　　When you sit down, you pict. When you are in your car, you reach for it．When you’re at wor take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it．
　　Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phone．An