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　　辽宁省实验中学分校2016-2017学年度上学期阶段性测试
　　英语学科
　　注意事项：
　　1.本试卷分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
　　2.作答时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
　　第Ⅰ卷
　　第一部分听力(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
　　One day an old woman was traveling alone in the mountains. Suddenly she saw something shining in the stream. When she came close, she found it was a precious stone. She put the stone into her bag and went on with her trip.
　　The next day the old woman met a young man, who was also a traveler in the mountains. The young man looked very hungry, so the old woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked carefully, “The stone is beautiful. Would you like to give it to me?”
　　“Sure. Why not?”the woman said, and handed the stone to him.
　　The young man left happily with the stone. He knew it was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the woman.
　　“I’ve been thinking,”he said. “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back and hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within your bag.”
　　The woman opened her bag. It was almost empty. She looked at the young man and smiled, “I have nothing special in my bag, but I do have something precious —the joy of giving!”
　　The young man felt ashamed and left silently.
　　21. How did the young man find the precious stone?
　　A. He found it in his food. B. He dug it out in a valley.
　　C. He saw it in the woman’s bag. D. He noticed it shining in the stream.
　　22. What does the underlined word “security”in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
　　A. Money.          B. Worry.       C. Health.     D. Trouble.
　　23. The man returned the stone to the woman because ______.
　　A. he found the stone was not precious
　　B. he understood the real meaning of joy
　　C. he felt embarrassed at taking away the stone
　　D. he wanted to get something even more precious
　　24. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
　　A. A special stone B. The joy of giving
　　C. A woman and a young man D. An experience in the mountains
　　B
　　Usually, legends are stories of events from long ago. Urban legends, on the other hand, are stories in the recent past, perhaps even last weerban legends are that there are many different versions (版本) of the same story, with local information changed to make the story seem more real. Today, the Internet has become a common way for urban legends to spread very quickly.
　　A good example of an urban legend is the story of the girl who was killed by her jeans. In the 1980s, it was popular to wear very tight jeans. At that time, Levi’s sold special jeans that shrank