北京市房山区周口店中学2015届高三上学期期中考试英语试卷 Word版含答案_高中英语试卷

北京市房山区周口店中学2015届高三上学期期中考试英语试卷 Word版含答案

　　59. Nelson Mandela is loved by all the people of South Africa because _____.

　　A. he’s as popular as Kennedy and Churchill

　　B. he spent 27 in prison

　　C. he’s a great fighter against the racialism

　　D. he’s the first all-race elections president

　　60. Which of the following statements about Mandela’s portrait is true?

　　A. It helps develop business.

　　B. It appears on the Statue of Freedom.

　　C. It is used to raise money for the Statue of Freedom.

　　D. It is similar to that of John F. Kennedy or Winston Churchill.

　　61. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means “________.”

　　A. Mandela is as great as a god

　　B. We are proud to live in Mandela’s time

　　C. Mandela lives together with us all

　　D. We are proud to know Mandela

　　62. What can we infer from the text?

　　A. Mandela is very skilled politician.

　　B. Most articles specially stressed Mandela’s shortcomings.

　　C. The Statue of Freedom is a present for Mandela’s birthday.

　　D. The article may have appeared in a newspaper on Mandela’s birthday.

　　Did you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? The average women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s．Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent than women．Right? Wrong．Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size．Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain．The brain consists of “grey matter” and “white matter”．While men have more of the latter, the amount of “thinking” brain is almost exactly the same in both sexes．