贵州省思南中学2017届高三上学期半期考试英语试题

思南中学2016-2017学年度第一学期半期考试 高三年级英语试题 注意事项: 1本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。 2答题前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。 3.全部答案在答题卡上完成,答在本试卷上无效。 第I卷[来源:学科网ZXXK] 第一部分:阅读理解 第一节: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。(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分) A Francis Bacon, one of the most important philosophers(哲人)of England, was born in London and educated at Cambridge University. When he was only 15, he went to France to work for the English ambassador(大使).Two years later he went back to England to study law. At the age of twenty-three he was chosen to parliament(议会). His ideas about how scientists should study things in nature help to bring the modern way of thinking, called the scientific method. One of Bacon’s best known books was his Essays. Each essay was a short piece of writing in which he tried to give a lesson by discussing sides of a subject such as studying, conversation, friends and healthy living. In many of his books, Bacon explained how scientists should study things as they really existed in nature an