[中学联盟]辽宁省大石桥市第二高级中学2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题
大石桥市二高中2016-2017学年度上学期期中考试
高二英语试卷
第I卷（选择题，共100分）
第一部分听力（30分）略
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Sam, a dog, was left behind in Colorado while his owners, Mr. And Mrs. Green moved to Southern California. They did not give the dog up. They found him a very nice home before they moved. They would have let Sam accompany them, but they were afraid the dog’s presence would make it difficult for them to rent a house when they reached their destination.
The Green family lived in Colorado for less than a year. Before that, they had lived in the same neighborhood in California to which they returned. So Sam had been there before, but only for a short time when he was young.
Several months after the Greens left Colorado, after they were comfortably settled back in California, they heard a scratch at the door. They couldn’t imagine who migh
t be there. It never occurred to them that it might be Sam, because they were sure he was happily set up with his new family back in Colorado. When they opened the door, the Greens saw a dirty, tired dog with very hurting feet. The animal looked a little bit like Sam, but no one could believe that Sam could have walked 840 miles on his own. The tired dog spent the night under the family car. The next day, when he was more rested, he performed some of his old tricks. The Greens knew they had their own dog back.
21. The story suggests that _______ .
A. dog owners have trouble renting B. many people treat their pets badly
C. keeping a dog is easy D. dogs are too much trouble
22. Which is the right order of the following events according to the passage?
a. Sam walked to California. b. The Greens moved to Colorado.
c. The Greens left Sam. d. The Greens returned to California.
e. Sam spent the night under the family car.
A. b, d, c, e, a B. b, c, d, a, e C. a, c, b, e, d D. c, e, d, a, b 
23. The underlined word “destination” in the first paragraph means _________. [来源:学_科_网]
A. the cost of living B. the country of one’s birth
C. the damage to oneself D. the place to which one is going
24. The Greens knew the dog was Sam ________.
A. because of his hurting feet B. from the color and the markings
C. by the way he walked D. after he did some tricks
B
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25. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To introduce a language school in Japan.
B. To hire language teachers to work in Japan.
C. To describe working conditions in Japan.
D. To make clear the requirements for Japanese teachers.
26. We know from the text that those who are going to Japan will _______
A. teach English only in Osaka B. receive a degree from a university
C. have free accommodation D. get trained for the job
27. Before going to Japan, you need _______.
A. to see the manager of NOVA France B. to take some computer courses
C. to write a letter to Japan D. to find a place to live
C
At one time, computers were expected largely to remove the need for paper copies of documents(文件) because they could be stored electronically. But for all the texts that are written, stored and sent electronically, a lot of them are still ending up on paper.
It is difficult to measure the quantity of paper used as a result of use of Internet-connected computers, although just about anyone who works in an office can tell you that when e-mail is introduced, the printers start working overtime. “I feel in my bones this revolution is causing more trees to be cut down ,” says Ted Smith of the Earth Village Organization.
Perhaps the best sign of how computer and Internet use pushes up demand for paper comes from the high-tech industry itself, which sees printing as one of its most promising new markets. Several Internet companies have been set up to help small businesses print quality documents from a computer. Earlier this week Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a plan to develop new technologies that will enable people to print even more so they can get a hard copy of a business document, a medical record or just a one-line e-mail, even if they are nowhere near a computer. As the company sees it , the more use of the Internet the greater demand for printers .
Does all this mean environmental concerns (环境问题) have been forgotten? Some activists suggest people have been led to believe that a lot of dangers to the environment have gone away.
“I guess people believe that the problem is taken care of, because of recycling（回收利用）,” said Kelly Quirke, director of the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco. Yet Quirke is hopeful that high-tech may also prove helpful. He says printers that print on both sides are growing in popularity.
The action group has also found acceptable paper made from materials other than wood, such as agricultural waste.
28. The growing demand for paper in recent years is largely due to .
A．the rapid development of small businesses
B．the opening up of new markets