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02016-2017学年高一年级第一学期第二学段考试 英语试卷 (满分100分 考试时间90分钟) 命题: 审定: 请考生注意:所有题目的答案必须写在答题卡的指定位置,否则不得分。 第一部分阅读理解 (本大题共17小题,每题2分,满分34分) 第一节(共12小题;每小题2分,共24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,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 A Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid. About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible. In 1750, Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called “Bow Street Runners” because they worked near Bow Street. Fifty years later, there were 120 “Bow Street Runners”, but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829, the first Metropolitan(or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers