山西省大同市第一中学2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

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　　山西省大同市第一中学2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题
　　第Ⅰ卷 客观卷（共60分）
　　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）
　　A
　　Can you imagine that a small stamp should be worth $16,800?
　　Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on a two-penny stamp has made it worth a million and a half times its face value.
　　Maybe you think it impossible. But it is true. And this is how it happened.
　　The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the former British colony（殖民地）of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 and order for stamps was sent to London. Mauritius was about to become the fourth country in the world to put out stamps.
　　Before the order was filled and the stamps arrived from England, a big dance was planned by the commander-in-chief of all the armed forces on the island. The dance would be held in his house and letters of invitation would be sent to all the important people in Mauritius. Stamps were badly needed to post the letters. Therefore, an islander, who was a good printer, was told to copy the pattern of the stamps. He carelessly put the word “Post Office”instead of “Post Paid”, two words seen on stamps at that time, on the several hundred that he printed.
　　Today, there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left --- fourteen One-penny Reds and twelve Two-penny Blues. Because there are so few Two-Penny Blues and because of their age, collectors have paid as much as $16,800 for one of them.
　　1. When a mistake is made in the printing of the stamp, the stamp _____________.
　　A. will become useless and thrown away
　　B. is worth no more than its face value
　　C. is well worth buying
　　D. may increase in value
　　2. Why did Mauritius print some stamps too? Because _____________.
　　A. London stamps were not well printed
　　B. London would not print them
　　C. invitations to a big dance had to be posted quickly
　　D. Mauritius had a very good printer
　　3. The mistake on the island-printed stamps was in the ___________.
　　A. price
　　B. design
　　C. spelling of words
　　D. wrong use of words
　　4. What can be inferred from the passage?
　　A. In the 1840’s most countries of the world were not yet using stamps
　　B. Only in England were stamps printed
　　C. All people liy misprinted stamps
　　D. Stamps with printing mistakes are worth more than sixteen thousand dollars
　　B
　　In the United States the most popular form of folk dancing since the earliest days has been square dancing. In early times, when men and women worked in groups to build a barn (building where grain or animals kept) or harvest crops, they danced when the work was done. The music came from a violin from the most part, but if there was no one to play an instrument, clapping hands was used to produce the rhythm by which to dance. The early settlers danced in a store, in a barn, or in a farm kitchen.
　　A square is formed by four couples who stand facing the center of the square. Each couple stands on one side of the square, the boy on the left and girl on the right.
　　The caller is an important part of the dance since he tells the dancers which steps to do. If the dancers do not know the steps, he teaches them. It takes time for a learner to be a good caller, and good callers are always in need.
　　These are the names of some of the steps the dancers do. Form a square; Circle; Honour your partner; Promenade (walt slowly); Swing your partner; Form a star. There are many more. As the caller tells the dancers what to do next, they move to form the pattern he calls.
　　Large or small numbers of people can dance at one time. Sometimes 800 or 1,000 people may be dancing at the same time. Or there may be only one square of eight people.
　　Special clothes are worn by dancers while dancing, which makes the dancing more colorful to watch. The Special clothes tumecoses are different from place