甘肃省兰州第一中学2016-2017学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

兰州一中2016-2017-1学期期末考试试题 高 二 英 语 说明:本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分,满分100分。考试时间100分钟。交卷时只交答题卡。 第Ⅰ卷 (选择题) I:阅读理解:阅读下列各短文,从题中所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中选出最佳选项. (共10小题,每小题2分,满分20分) A Everyone knows that grains of sand can be grouped together to form a pagoda. In the same way, wealth starts with a goal saving a dollar at a time, which we call the piggy bank strategy. There are lessons in that time-honored coin-saving container. Any huge task seems easier when reduced to baby steps. If you wished to climb a 12,000-foot mountain, and could do it a day at a time, you would only have to climb 33 feet daily to reach the top in a year. If you want to take a really nice trip in 10 years for a special occasion, to collect the $15,000 cost, you have to save $3.93 a day. If you drop that into a piggy bank and then once a year put $1,434 in a savings account at 1% interest rate after-tax, you will have your trip money. When I was a child, my parents gave me a piggy bank to teach me that, if I wanted something, I shoul