2015德州二模英语试题及答案(2)

16．When will the speakers meet?
A．Tomorrow at 10：00 a．m．B．Wednesday at 9：00 a．m．C．Wednesday at 10：00 a．m．
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17．What is the talk mainly about?
A．How children spend their free time．
B．How Australians enjoy themselves．
C．What old people like in Australia．
18．According to the talk，what do most children do after school?
A．Read books．    B．Read newspapers．   C．Go out to play games．
19．When do the old people stay at home and watch TV?
A．In the evening．    B．In the morning．    C．In the afternoon．
20．How do young people probably feel when they go home on Sundays?
A．Nervous．    B．Anxious．    C．Relaxed．
第二部分  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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．
A
When my daughter Sally was five，I bought Grimm's Fairy Tales and read Snow White to her one night．At the end of the original Grimm tale，Snow White’s stepmother is made to put on red-hot iron shoes and dance until she falls down dead．
This came as something of a shock．I always thought fairytales had happy endings. And I didn’t want my five-year-old daughter going to sleep thinking：“Thank goodness they tortured(折磨)that old woman to death．”That’s when I decided to write fairy tales. 
In the years that followed，I wrote tales non-stop and read them to Sally at bedtime．The Corn Dolly was based on a child who was always complaining；The Silly King was just a silly story Sally loved；1 wrote The Witch and the Rainbow Cat for Sally because of her enormous  appetite  for  stories  about  witches  while Dr Bonocolus's Devil is a new version of the Faust legend．
Nifobobinus，however，was different．I wrote this book when Sally was older and engaged with all things girls have to do—who’s friends with who，who stuck a sticker on the back of whose boyfriend，or whatever thing she felt funny．
Nicobobinus，the boy who could do anything，came out of my desire for a more innocent world．He lived a 1ong time ago，in a city called Venice．Only his best friend，Rosie, knew he could，and nobody took any notice of anything Rosie said，because she was always having wild ideas anyway．
Nicobobinus was so different that it turned out to be an instant hit．The Times called me“an author setting out to rival the classic fairytales”．I asked Sally what she thought of Nicobobinus．She said it was her favourite．
21．What led the writer to start writing fairy tales for her daughter?
A．His daughter’s strong interest in fairy tales．
B．The frightening ends of past fairy tales．
C．His desire to let his daughter know more stories．
D．His attempt to fill his daughter’s bedtime with something．
22．We can infer from the third paragraph that the writer ____________．
A．was a very productive fairy tale writer    
B．created his stories out of his own interest
C．based all his stories on some old legends
D．never described witches in his fairy tales
23．When creating Nicobobinus，the first thing the writer considered was _____________．
A．what story the publisher wanted to get
B．the difference of the story from other stories
C．proper ways to keep his daughter Sally innocent
D．the shifts of his daughter’s interests
24．The underlined word“rival”in the last paragraph can be replaced by _____________．
A．follow    B．explore
C．challenge D．recommend