广东省湛江第一中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题

湛江一中2015—2016学年度第二学期期末考试[来源:学科网] 高二级 英语科试卷 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 After I mastered my first concerto(协奏曲) at age fourteen, my parents decided to get me a nice violin. I tried out dozens of instruments before I found my match: a German violin. It was beautiful, but what I liked best about it was its voice. Confident and strong, it was everything I longed to be. I'm not sure how much that violin cost, but my parents made me promise never to let it out of my sight. They didn't understand that dragging a large violin case run counter to my daily middle school task of being invisible. I was a strange absent-minded kid. When I spoke up in class, my comments brought confused silence from teachers, and wild laughter from students. Like a deer in a wolf pack, I tried to be quiet and still. On the contrary, my new violin was almost shockingly loud. Together, we could drown out the rest of my middle school orchestra, which was