[]河北省定州市第二中学2016-2017学年高二上学期第一次月考英语试题

定州二中 高二第一次月考 英语试卷 考试时间90分钟 分值 120分 命题人：郝宏丽 卷 I I 阅读理解（共两节，满分20分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A When Julie Jones and Caroline Atkin were schoolgirls, they promised to be best friends for ever. Years later, Caroline died from a brain tumor at the age of 45, leaving five children. In her last weeks, she asked Julie to raise the children as her own. Julie, a single mother of three with a small income, didn’t hesitate. “I held her in my arms and said ‘You’ll be OK’, but I knew I was losing her.” She says. “The hospital rang me and I rushed there, but Caroline had just gone,” she says. “I went to her house. The children arrived home from school in a taxi and I gathered them in my arms and said: ‘Mommy has gone to Heaven.’” “Michael, who was 11, left the room. Kieran, ten, sat in great surprise; James, nine, broke down; while Emma, seven, and Chantelle, five uneasy. I brought them home.” Julie, mother of Adam, 20, Peter, 19, and 14-ye