[]广东省汕头市潮师高级中学2016-2017学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题（含听力）

2016-2017学年第1学期高一英语期中考试题 （笔试答题时间120分钟，满分135分；另加听力15分；总分150分） 第I卷 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分） 第一节:话题语篇（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、 B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A ★★ Towards the end of Middle English, a sudden change in pronunciation started, with vowels (元音) being pronounced shorter and shorter. From the 16th century the British had contact (接触) with many people from around the world. This meant that lots of new vocabulary entered the language. The invention of printing also meant that there was now a common language in print. Books became cheaper and more people learned to read. Spelling and grammar became fixed, and the dialect of London became the standard. In 1604 the first English dictionary came out. Early Modern English and Late Modern English are mostly different in the number of words. Late Modern English has many more words, mainly because of the following two reasons: First, the Industrial Revolution (工业革命) led to the need for new words. Second, the British Empire covered one quarter of the earth’s surface, and the English language took in foreign words from many countries. From around 1600, the English colonization (殖民地化) of North America led to American English. Some English pronunciations and words “froze” when they reached America. In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English. Some expressions that are called “American English” are in fact from British expressions. They were kept in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain. Spanish also had an influence (影响) on American English. For example, words like canyon, ranch, stampede and vigilante are from Spanish. They entered English by the people of Spain who settled in the American West. French words and West African words also influenced American English. Today, American English has a greater influence, because of the USA’s movies, television, popular music, trade and technology. 1. What we c