山西省平遥中学2016-2017学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题

2016-2017学年度第一学期平遥中学高一期中考试 英语试题 本试卷满分150分 考试时间100分钟 命题人 邓瑞卿 本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和II卷(非选择题)两部分,请将答案写在答题卡上。 第I卷 第一部分 听力 (1-20略) 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分60) 第一节(共15小题,每小题3分,满分45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。 A When Steve Jobs was born on Febuary24,1955, in San Francisco , California, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” But his mother told his future parents to promise that they would send Jobs to college. After Steve Jobs graduated from high school, he went to college but decided to drop out because it was so expensive that he had to sleep on the floor in his friends’ rooms. At 20, he and a friend(Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Jobs named their company -Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard (果园) in Oregon. After 10 years of hard time and failures, starting from two k