:江苏省海安高级中学2018-2019学年高一（创新实验班）下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含解析

: 2019级创新实验班期中考试
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），满分100分，考试时间90分钟。
2．所有试题的答案均填写在答题纸上（选择题部分使用答题卡，请将选择题的答案直接填涂到答题卡上），答案写在试卷上的无效。
第I卷 (选择题 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)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Argument for awards
It’s always exciting every year in October when the Nobel Prizes are announced. We get to witness the acknowledgement (表彰) of some of humankind’s greatest minds in six fields – literature (文学), medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and activism for peace.
This year, however, part of the excitement will be taken away, since there won’t be a Nobel Prize in literature due to the fact that the Swedish Academy – the institution (机构) that awards the prize – was involved in a sexual harassment scandal.
People worry that a scandal like this will affect the reputation of the Nobel Prizes. But at the same time, we have to ask ourselves whether we really need these awards after all.
Ac