甘肃省镇原县镇原中学2017-2018学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

镇原中学2017-2018-1高二英语期中考试题 注意事项: 1.本试卷考试时间:100分钟 2.选出每小题答案后,用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑,如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在本试卷上,否则无效。 第一部分: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) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C,D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂上。 第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30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。 Passage A I travel a lot, and I find out different “styles” (风格) of directions every time I ask “How can I get to the post office?” Foreign tourists are often confused (困惑) in Japan because most streets there don’t have names; in Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.” In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell yo