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　　太原五中2015—2016学年度第二学期期末
　　高  一  英  语
　　第I卷 选择题 (共50分)
　　第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）
　　第一节 （共10题；每小题2分，满分20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。
　　A
　　My first full-time job after high school was selling vacation packages via the telephone for a well-known company. One day, I was put through to a man who sounded a bit out of breath. I started with my normal pitch (音高), expecting to hear the normal reply —"I don’t want any."
　　Instead, he spoke in a faint, weak voice and told me how he wished to take a vacation I was offering, but he couldn’t because he was dying of illness. He explained how he was lacking in oxygen then, and it took almost all his energy to answer the call. He asked if I smoked, which I did, and begged me to stop. He told me smoking was what was killing him. He told me to spend every day with my loved ones, and tell them how much I love them. At this point, I couldn’t control myself. We ended the call, but I held on my phone to prevent another call coming in so I could collect myself.
　　I wrote down his name and address, and sent him a card appreciating his advice and praying for him and his family. Shortly after, I received a letter from Frank, along with a picture of him and his wife. We continued to write back and forth over the next few months, and became very fond of each other. He was old enough to be my grandfather, and in many ways, I felt as if he was.
　　About a year later I received a letter from his wife. When I started to read, tears came to my eyes. She told me how Frank’s battle with the disease had finally come to an end, and he passed away shortly before the Christmas. She wanted to thank me for the letters to Frank, and explained how Franched many lives over the years. At his funeral, to show just that, they read the 1st letter I had written to Frank to show how he affected a 19-year-old he’d never met.
　　1. The underlined part "collect myself" in the second paragraph probably means "______".
　　A. gather together         B. comfort myself
　　C. relax myself           D. calm down
　　2. We can learn from the text that the author ________.
　　A. took down Frank’s name and address to visit him in person
　　B. was warmly welcomed by her customers when she called them
　　C. didn’t stop smoking even though Frank asked him to
　　D. kept in touch with Frangh letters until he died
　　3. At Franneral the author’s 1st letter to Frank was read in order to ____.
　　A. encourage people to fight against disease and live bravely
　　B. indicate that Franched many people’s hearts
　　C. show the good relationship between Frank and the author
　　D. praise Frank and give thanks to the author
　　B
　　Why do some clothes fit us and some don’t? It became clear to Louise Wannier in a fashion design class.” We were learning to draw body proportions (比例) just from one model,” Wannier, 53, says. “Since women come in all sizes and shapes, I asked the teacher when we would learn about other body proportions. And she said, ‘We don’t. There are 5,000 designers, and each one designs only for his own model.’”
　　Suddenly, Wannier understood why fitting rooms(试衣间) everywhere are full of frustrated women. “I knew right then that there was a business in helping women quickly find clothes for their shape and that it needed to be online.”
　　Wannier, who had already started two successful technology companies, rushed home to begin working on the idea. Two years later, in October 2006, she set up myshape.com. Customers go online to enter their measurements and are given one of seven body types based on their body proportions.
　　Seeing models of various shapes and sizes, many businessmen were impressed with Wannier’s idea and put up $32 million, helping her develop the business plan.
　　Once Wannier set up an online survey for potential customers. Within 24 hours, she got over 700 responses (响应) and a third of them signed up. “We were astonished," recalls Wannier. "It made us believe there was really a demand.”
　　Today, with 700,000 customers and 300 designers, the site has proved its usefulness. "For some weeks," says Wannier, "we get 100-percent customer satisfaction. And designers are very happy: they get a new channel to sell their products and more customers."