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　　集宁一中2015-2016学年第一学期第二次月考考试
　　高二年级英语试题
　　本试卷满分为120分，考试时间为100分钟
　　第I卷（选择题 共70分）
　　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
　　Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents' home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站)about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.
　　I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smored from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend's. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
　　I wrote him and his wife a than note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.
　　Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I'd left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池)was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership - a shop selling cars - was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.
　　"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a picck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say than, and it meant a lot, he said.
　　"Than" - two powerful words. They're easy to say and mean so much.
　　1. The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City_________.
　　A. to visit a friend                 B. to see his parents
　　C. to pay at the cash register         D. to have more gas for his car
　　2. The words “toonderlined in Paragraph 2 mean “______”.
　　A. turned off    B. moved off    C. put up    D. set up
　　3. What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?
　　A. He had it pulled back to the gas station.      B. The couple sent him a business card.
　　C. The couple offered to help him.            D. He called his friend for help.
　　4. The battery of the author’s car was dead because_______.
　　A. something went wrong with the lights         B. the meeting lasted a whole day
　　C. he forgot to turn off the lights                D. he drove too long a distance
　　5. By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show______.
　　A. how to write a than letter        B. how to deal with car problems
　　C. the kind-heartedness of older people    D. the importance of expressing thanks
　　B
　　Facial expressions carry meaning that is determined by situations and relationships. For example, in American culture the smile is in general an expression of pleasure. Yet it also has other uses. A woman’s smile at a police officer does not carry the same meaning as the smile she gives to a young child. A smile may show love or politeness. It can also hide true feelings. It often causes confusion across cultures. For example, many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities). Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the wrong places; some Americans believe that Russians don’t smile enough. In Southeast Asian cultures, a smile is frequently used to cover painful feelings. Vietnamese people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile.
　　Our faces show emotions, but we should not attempt to “read” people from another culture as we would “read” someone from our own culture. The fact that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as members of another culture, but it does not mean that they do not experience emotions. Rather, there are cultural differences in the amount of facial expressiveness permitted. For example, in public and in formal situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as freely as Americans do. When with friends, Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions similarly.
　　It is difficult to conclude about Americans and facial expressiveness because of personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural bacnds in the United States seem to be more facially expressive than others. The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotion are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the mistake of “reading” the other person incorrectly.
　　6. The author mentions the smile of the Vietnamese to prove that smile can ___.
　　A. show friendliness to strangers       B. be used to hide true feelings
　　C. be used in the wrong places        D. show personal habits
　　7. What should we do before attempting to “read” people?
　　A. Learn about their relations with others.
　　B. Understand their cultural bacnds.
　　C. Find out about their past experience.
　　D. Figure out what they will do next.
　　8. What would be the best title for the test?
　　A. Cultural Differences                B. Smiles and Relationships
　　C. Facial Expressiveness                D. Habits and Emotions
　　C
　　Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius（天才） of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.