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　　兰州一中2016-2017-1学期高二年级期中考试试题
　　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）
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　　Hundreds of years ago，a Roman army came north from England to make war on Scotland. The Scots，a brave people，loved their country very much. They fought hard to drive the enemy out of Scotland，but there were too many Romans. It looked as if the Romans would win.
　　One night，the leader of Scots marched  his soldiers to the top of a hill. "We will rest here tonight，my men,”he said. "Tomorrow we will fight one more battle. We must win or we will die."
　　They were all very tired，so they ate their supper quickly and fell asleep. There were four guards on duty, but they were very tired as well and also fell asleep one by one.
　　The Romans were not asleep. Quickly they gathered at the foot of the hill. Slowly they climbed up the hillside,taking care not to mand. Closer and closer they came to the sleeping Scots. They were almost at the top. A few minutes more，the war would be over. Suddenly，one of them put his foot on a thistle(蓟). He cried out and his sudden cry woke the Scots. In a moment，they were on their feet and ready for battle. The fighting was hard but it did not last long. The Scots wiped out the Romans and saved their country.
　　The thistle is not a beautiful plant. It has sharp needles all over it. Few people like it. But the people of Scotland liked it so much that they made it their national flower.
　　1. Hundreds of years ago there was a war between ________.
　　A. Roman army and North England　　B. a brave people and the Scots 
　　C. England and Scots　　　　　　D. Roman army and the Scots
　　2. The Romans climbed up the hill quietly because ________.
　　A. they wanted to catch the four guards first      B. they didn't want to wake the Scots
　　C. they wanted to reach the top      D. they were afraid of the sharp needles of the thistle
　　3. The people of Scotland made thistle their national flower because ________.
　　A. it is a beautiful plant        B. it was the thistle that helped the Scots to win the battle
　　C. it had so many sharp needles all over it      D. it is fresh and lovely
　　B   
　　Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored(监控) in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking people’s e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.
　　“The ‘if it bleeds’rule works for mass media,”says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’re feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You don’t want them to thin as a Debbie Downer.”
　　Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, Web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative(消极的), but that didn’t necessarily mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr. Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times’website. He and a colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed”list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles. He found that science amazed Times’r