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2016届福建省福州格致中学校内高三第一学期期中考试 英语试卷 注意事项： 1、答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚。 2、请将准考证条码粘贴在右侧的[条码粘贴处]的方框内 3、选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔填写，字体工整 4、请按题号顺序在各题的答题区内作答，超出范围的答案无效，在草纸、试卷上作答无效。 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 Today we are going to talk about important transition words in English. We will focus on how to usetransition words to link ideas together. Some common transition words are and, furthermore, in addition to, not to mention, and in the same way. We don’ t always get a second chance to achieve our dreams. But some people are lucky, like Matthew McConaughey. Once almost unknown, the actor has recently found himself back on the list of the best actors in Hollywood. His new movie Interstellar is just another sign that his career reinvention has been an incredible success. “The film relies on McConaughey’ s performance to hold together the emotional story of a father and his daughter against the background of space travel and the end of the world,”Forbes commented. But only years ago, the Texas native was often the butt of jokes（笑柄）about being too handsome. In 1993, after meeting with director Richard Linklater, McConaughey starred in Dazed and Confused. And a Hollywood career was born, mostly in romantic comedies. For a long time, the whole world believed McConaughey was just a handsome guy with comic talent. But McConaughey stopped starring in that type of movie, and began to use his looks differently. Slowly he built up his reputation as a serious actor. In 2013, McConaughey was offered to play an AIDS activist in Dallas Buyers Club. The role saw the normally muscular actor losing 50 pounds in order to appear sick. His performance won him an Oscar for Best Actor. The actor gave thanks to someone he has always looked up to as a hero during his Oscar acceptance speech. When he was 15, the actor said, he decided that his hero would be himself in 10 years. But 10 years later, he pushed