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　　辽宁省实验中学分校2015-2016学年度上学期期中考试
　　英语学科  高二年级  
　　第一部分  听力（ 共两节，满分30分）1-20题---略
　　第二部分  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
　　The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
　　Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
　　The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
　　Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own boor guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
　　21. The book Gone with the Wind was _________.
　　A. first published on a newspaper       
　　B. awarded ten Academy Awards
　　C. written in “The Dump”               
　　D. adapted from a movie
　　22. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to____.
　　A. be very pleased with                 B. show great respect for
　　C. be much taller than                  D. show little interest in
　　23. Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?
　　A. Because she was rich enough.        B. Because she was injured then.
　　C. Because her husband didn’t like it.     D. Because she wanted to write books.
　　24. We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.
　　A. her height made her marriage unhappy  
　　B. her interest in writing continued as an adult
　　C. writing stopped her working as a reporter 
　　D. her life was full of hardship and sadness
　　B
　　Why do Americans struggle with watching their weight, while the French, who consume rich food, continue to stay thin? Now a research by Cornell University suggests how life style and decisions about eating may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel full. However, Americans tend to stop when their plate is empty or their favorite TV show is over.
　　According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a health expert, the French see eating as an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a fairly long time at the table, while Americans see eating as something to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans lose the abilit