祁县中学2015-2016学年高一上学期升学考试英语试题.docVIP

2015—2016学年度高一年级升学考试 英语试卷 2015. 8 时间：120分钟 分值：150分 第I卷 第一部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分60分） 第一节（共 15小题；每小题3分，满分45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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Dear Sir, I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along their route: the number 49 and number 16. But by the time the number 16 bus reaches Souk Road it is always full, so I can’t get on it. I have to wait for the number 49, because sometimes there are empty seats on it. The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day? The regulations (规章) say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. Why do the half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop? The regulations say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 of them. It is clear that our bus companies break the regulations and think little of their passengers. Can nothing be done to make your service better? Yours, Tired passenger 1. The writer has to take Bus No. 49 because______. A. it arrives on time B. it is not always full C. it travels faster D. it has fewer seats on it 2. The regulations say that each bus may carry ______ passengers at most. A. 20 B. 40 C. 60 D. 129 3. From the passage we can infer that the writer of the letter is probably ______. A. an airport worker B. a bus driver C. a very tired traveler D. an English teacher 4. What kind of letter is this passage? A. It’s a letter of thanks. B. It’s a letter of apology. C. It’s a lett