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　　成都外国语学校2016-2017学年度上期半期考试
　　高二英语笔试试卷
　　注意事项:
　　1.试题分第Ｉ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分。
　　2.满分150分，考试时间120 分钟。
　　3.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号准确无误地填写，填涂在答题卡规定的位置上；使用2B铅笔填涂。
　　4. 考试结束后将答题卡交回，不得折叠、损毁答题卡。
　　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
　　Visiting London can be an expensive trip, so establishing a budget and finding bargains when you arrive will help you get around London on the cheap. The following steps can help you find cheaper alternatives for transport for your London trip.
　　※Familiarize yourself with the city’s boroughs and specifically the area where you will be staying. You can use a street map, or an online map search engine, to establish where in the city you will be staying and the distance you are from the major tourist attractions you want to visit.
　　※Find a local provider of Transport for London tickets or travel cards, since your first bargain purchase will be an Oyster Card. Traveling around London with an Oyster Card will give you access to the cheapest option of transportation methods and the Oyster Card is accepted citywide on buses, boats and the London Underground, known by the locals as “the tube”.
　　※Seet your nearest Tube Station. The Tube is the cheapest and most reliable form of transportation and runs from around 6 a.m. until around 1 a.m. ..., depending on the line or the station.
　　There are 287 tube stations in London that accept the Oyster Card, with a high concentration in central London. If you are staying anywhere in central London, there will be a tube station less than 10 minutes away.
　　The Transport for London website offers a tube station search facility to find the nearest subway station to any location in the city. When you find a tube station, you can easily locate the closest bus stop by using the comparison bus-tube maps at the station’s entrance.
　　※Follow the Transport for London Tube Guide to your destinations and always plan ahead. Making a plan for transport will save you unnecessary expenses, wasted trips on the tube and doubling bacr journey .
　　1. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
　　A. To introduce the public transport system in London.
　　B. To show readers how to use the Oyster Card.
　　C. To prove the subway in London is easy to use.
　　D. To offer tips for saving transport costs in London.
　　2. Which of the following can help a traveler spend the least money on transport?
　　A. Trying different transportation methods.
　　B. Tases as much as possible.
　　C. Traveling with an Oyster Card.
　　D. Making a plan before your journey.
　　3. We can conclude from the passage that ________.
　　A. the subway is the cheapest means of transport in London.
　　B. only Tube stations in Central London accept Oyster Card.
　　C. subway lines in London run no less than 19 hours a day.
　　D. the transfer from subway to bus is very convenient.
　　B
　　Due to the increasing number of violence acts produced in schools all over the world, more and more parents prefer to have their children educated at home rather than at school. This way they can ensure their safety and well-being, although teachers and school representatives are trying to improve the situation in schools by increasing the number of the persons in charge of the safety of the students.