山西省太原市2017届高三上学期阶段性测评（期中）英语试题（含解析）

太原市2016—2017学年高三年级第一学期阶段性测试 英语试卷 第一部分听力理解（略） 第三部分阅读理解（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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。答案写在答题卡上。 A The human nose has given to the languages of the world many interesting expressions. Of course, this is not surprising. Without the nose, we could not breather or smell. It is part of the face that gives a person special character. Cyranode Bergerac said that a large nose showed a great man----brave, polite, manly and intellectual. Afamous women poet wished that she had two noses to smell a rose! Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher, made an interesting comment about the Cleopatra’s nose. If it had been shorter, he said, it would have changed the whole face of the world. [来源:Z*xx*k.Com] Historically, man’s nose had had a principalrole in his imagination. Man has referred to the nose in many ways to express his emotions. Expressions concerning the noserefer to human weakness: anger, pride, jealousyand revenge. In English there are a number of phrases ab