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1、甘肃省白银市会宁县第一中学2014年高二上学期期末考试英语试卷（时间：100分钟;满分：120分）本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。 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30分）AThefirstnewspaperswerewrittenbyhandandputuponwallsinpublicplace.TheearliestdailynewspaperwasstartedinRomein59BC.Inthe700’sthewo
2、rld’sfirstprintednewspaperwaspublished.Europedidn’thavearegularlypublishednewspaperuntil1609,whenonewasstartedinGermany.ThefirstregularlypublishednewspaperintheEnglishlanguagewasprintedinAmsterdamin1620.In1621,anEnglishnewspaperwasstartedinLondonandwaspublishedon
3、ceaweek.ThefirstdailyEnglishnewspaperwastheDailyCourant(每日新闻).ItcameoutinMarch1702.In1690,BenjaminHarrisprintedthefirstAmericannewspaperinBoston.Butnotlongafteritwasfirstpublished,thegovernmentstoppedthepaper.In1704,JohnCampbellstartedTheBostonNewsletter(波士顿新闻通讯)
4、,thefirstnewspaperpublishedintheAmericancolonies.By1760,thecolonieshadmorethanthirtydailynewspapers.Therearenowabout1,800dailypapersintheUnitedStates.Today,asagroup,Englishlanguagenewspapershavethelargestcirculation(发行量)intheworld.Butthelargestcirculationforanews
5、paperisthatoftheJapanesenewspaperAsahiDhimbun(朝日新闻).Itsellsmorethan11millioncopieseveryday.1.Thefirstdailynewspapercameoutin_____.A.59BCB.700’sC.1609D.16202.ThefirstregularpublishednewspaperinEuropewasprintedin_____.A.EnglandB.GermanyC.FranceD.Sweden3.Thefirstpri
6、ntednewspaperinAmericacameoutin_____.A.WashingtonB.NewYorkC.BostonD.NewOrleans4.Todaythereareabout_____dailynewspaperprintedintheUnitedStates.A.1621B.1704C.1760D.18005.WhichisNOTtrueaccordingtothepassage?A.ThefirstregularlypublishednewspaperintheEnglishlanguagewa
7、sprintedinAmsterdam. B.Englishlanguagenewspapersellsmorethan11millioncopieseveryday.C.Europedidn’thavearegularlypublishednewspaperin1608.D.ThefirstdailyEnglishnewspapercameoutinMarch1702.BFadingbeautySheiswidelyseenasproofthatgoodlookscanlastforever.But,atnearly5
8、00yearsofage,timeiscatchingupwiththeMonaLisa.Thehealthofthefamouspicture,paintedbyLeonardoDaVinciin1505,isgettingworsebytheyear,accordingtotheLouvreMuseum(卢浮宫博
