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1、安徽省六安市第一中学2020届高三英语下学期线下考试自测卷（六）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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AHiring a Car OnlineOnline car hire promises to be cheap, quick and convenient. But is it? Neil McDougall clicks his mouse.A AJust click on the reservations button, fill in your home
2、 country, destination and dates, pick a car and youre into the booking form without any trouble and with all the charges laid out. Theres also a detailed rental guide explaining your contract.B C.ukOne to consider if youre going to the States for a visit, although, after Id worked through half the b
3、ooking process, it returned an error message without telling me which part of the process needed adjusting. I got there in the end. There is a useful section with detailed directions for some of the great drives of America.C Expeed.org.ukBook a flight with Expeed and when you continue on to the car-
4、hire section, the software already knows where you are going and when. However, you seem to be limited to cities with airports for your car hire, and additional taxes are presented.D CAnother site offering discounts for booking online, but also special late deals. Prices are fully inclusive of insur
5、ance. It is now offering a lowest rates guarantee, an extra discount for former clients and a package of free gifts to sweeten the deal.E C.ukAvoid unnecessary complexity online but the booking process is as good as it gets. Very quick and smooth, so much so that people with older computers may have
6、 trouble getting this information. Enter how many miles you expect to drive and tick your insurance, driver and child-seat choices and they will all be included in the final price. You must contact the location directly if you need a car within three days. And to hire a car abroad, theres a dull ema
7、il form to fill in and theyll get back to you.21. Which of the following websites presents some driving routes?A. C.uk. B. A.C. Expeed.org.uk.D. C.22. What limitation does Expeed.org.uk have?A. Customers have to pay high-rated taxes.B. Customers can hire a car only in certain places.C. Customers can
8、 hire only certain types of vehicles.D. Customers can hire a car only if youve booked a flight there.23. What is the disadvantage of C.uk?A. The final price is too high.B. Its online booking procedure is complex.C. People have to wait for three days to get the car.D. Its unsuitable for customers wit
9、h out-of-date computers.BMathew Brady tried to end war for all time. He used a new, powerful weapon. He used a camera.Brady opened his first photograph studio in 1844. The images he produced were daguerreotypes ( 银 版 照 片 ), not the photographs he would take later. Daguerreotypes recorded images on s
10、heets of copper coated with silver. They required long exposures, so the person being photographed would have to stay perfectly still for 3-15 minutes. That made daguerreotypes impractical for portraits. By 1855, Brady was advertising a new type of image that had just been invented: a photograph mad
11、e on paper.From the beginning of his career, Brady believed that photography could serve an important purpose. His images could create a record of national life. When the Civil War broke out, he wanted to document the war as a part of that record. His friends discouraged him, but Brady started to ta
12、ke photographs of war scenes. He gathered a group of photographers who worked in the field, taking photographs of battle scenes and military life. He also bought photographs from others who were returning from the field. His efforts culminated (达到顶点) in an 1862 display of photographs made after the
13、Battle of Antietam.The bloodshed (人员伤亡) shocked the visitors to the exhibit, most of whom had never seen afield of battle.Brady did not stop war with his work, but he did raise the awareness of the costs of war among common citizens. After the Civil War, people lost interest in his record of the war
14、. Because he could find few buyers for his photographs and did not earn enough money to pay for his wartime work, Brady went bankrupt ( 破产的). Years after the war, the government bought Bradys collection. It is now considered a priceless documentation of the War between the States. Other photographs
15、by Mathew Brady sell for thousands of dollars and are considered national treasures.24. By 1855, the new technology .A. allowed Brady to open his first photography studioB. made daguerreotypes have shorter exposure timeC. allowed photographs to be recorded on paperD. made Brady begin to take photos
16、of people25. When the Civil War broke out, Mathew Brady .A. began to take and collect pictures of the warB. started to realize the purpose of photographyC. established his exhibition centerD. went to the battlefield to report26. According to the text, Mathew Bradys photographs .A. helped stop the Civi
