甘肃省会宁县第四中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 含答案.doc

会宁四中2015-2016学年度第二学期高二级中期考试 英语试卷 注意事项： 1．本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上2．．第I卷第一部分??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0分)下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。A Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”? For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.? While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.? Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.? Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part:“She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.” 1. What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?? A. She had a famous sister. ???B. She was born into a rich family?. C.??She was born a slave. D. She was a slaveholder.