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　　兰州一中2015-2016-2学期期中考试高二英语
　　说明：本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分100分，考试时间100分钟。答案写在答题卡上，交卷时只交答题卡。
　　第I卷（选择题）
　　第一部分： (共三节，满分50分)
　　第一节 阅读理解（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）
　　A
　　The U.S. Department of Labor statistics (统计) show that there is an oversupply of college-trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there have been more than enough teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts, and other specialists. Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren't there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree.
　　On the other hand, there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, TV repairmen.
　　These people have more work than they can deal with, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old gap that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.
　　The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that college degree is a passport to a prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life equally with a college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating (灌输) their children with this myth before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Under this pressure the kids fall in line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn't matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments (入学) go up and up, and more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them.
　　One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up.
　　1. It's implied but not stated in the passage that ________ .
　　A. many other countries are facing the same problem
　　B. white-collar workers in the US used to make more money than blue-collar workers
　　C. fewer students will prefer to go to college in the future
　　D. the law of supply and demand has a strong effect on American higher education
　　2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why college enrollments go up every year?
　　A. Many people believe that the only way to success is a college education.
　　B. Many parents want their children to go to college.
　　C. High school teachers urge their students to go to college.
　　D. Every young man and woman wants to go to college.
　　3.By saying that“many people go to college who do not belong there”, the author means that    ________ .
　　A. many people who are not fit for college education go to college
　　B. many people who do not have enough money go to college
　　C. many people who go to college drop out within the first year
　　D. many people who go to college have their hopes destroyed
　　4. We can infer from the passage that the author believes that _______ .
　　A. every young man and woman should go to college
　　B. college education is a bad thing
　　C. people with a college education should receive higher pay
　　D. fewer people should go to college while more should be trained for skilled jobs
　　B   
　　One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like“I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say,“I was wrong, and you were right about that.”
　　I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons (in many countries, eggs are sold by the dozen and are put in cartons.) Then he related an incident (event, matter) and I began to remember unclearly the incident he was describing.
　　I was about eight years old at the time. I went into the store with my mother to do some shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the food department where the incident took place.
　　There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there were lots of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were put three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of the piles of egg cartons. Just then a woman came by pushing her shopping cart and knocked off the cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the eggs back together, so I went to work.
　　The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees looking at some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were brot to him it looked as though I was the one who just did it. He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, it is plain that the manager did not.
　　5. Which is the correct order of the following?
　　a. I forgot all about the incident.            b. I went into the store.
　　c. A woman knocked off the egg cartons.        d. I stood in front of the egg cartons.
　　e. The manager reminded me of the incident.    f.The manager didn't believe my explanation.
　　g. I picp the unbroken eggs.
　　A. b; d; g; c; a; f; e  B. b; d; c; g; f; e; a     C. b; c; d ;g; e; f; a    D. b; d; c; g; f; a; e
　　6. The word “reprimanded” in the last paragraph most exactly means “_________ ”.
　　A. frightened       B. scolded        C. warned        D. comforted
　　7. The best title for this passage should be________ .
　　A. A Case of Mistake                 B. The Manager I Never Forget
　　C. The Manager and I                 D. An Incident 15 Years Ago