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1、试卷类型 A 肇庆市中小学教学质量评估 2018 届高中毕业班第一次统一检测 英语 本试卷共 8 页 卷面满分 120分 考试用时 120分钟 注意事项 1 本试卷分第 I 卷 选择题 和第 II 卷 非选择题 两部分 答卷前 考生务必 将自己的姓名 考生号 考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上 因测试不考听 力 第 I 卷从第二部分的 阅读理解 开始 试题序号从 21 开始 2 回答第 I 卷时 选出每小题答案后 用铅笔把答题卷上对应题目的答案标号 涂黑 如需改动 用橡皮擦干净后 再选涂其它答案标号 写在本试卷上 无效 3 回答第 II 卷时 将答案写在答题卡卷 写在本试卷上无效 4 考试结束后 将
2、本试卷和答题卷一并交回 第 I 卷 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 题卡上将该项涂黑 A There are lots of ways to eperience Portland through its history shopping or cultural and culinary pursuits and they re all spectacular But you mustn t forget one of the most importa
3、nt parts of Portland pacage deals your hotel Consider these popular options when it s time to rest impton Hotel This accommodation offers Italian sheets designer bath products and a relaing spa and you ll never go hungry with fine dining at its on site restaurant Add on a balcony or a whirlpool tub
4、and you ll really be living in luury Benson Hotel It can hold its own when it comes to amenities too memory foam beds with Egyptian cotton sheets soaing bathtubs and two restaurants await And its location near both Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Craft is ideal
5、 for art lovers Modera Hotel It is just steps from Portland State University and the heart of downtown Modern furnishings and a 500 piece art collection are the icing on the cae of this four star hotel which also has a garden setting outdoor courtyard and restaurant Paramount Hotel It is a top pic t
6、hans to its location and affordability Those who see out cultural endeavors will enjoy proimity to Schniter Concert Hall and Portland Center for the Performing Arts and any type of traveler can enjoy the free Wi Fi and views of Director Par 21 Which of the following is an ideal hotel for art enthusi
7、asts A Benson Hotel B Portland Institute for Contemporary Art C Museum of Contemporary Craft D Egyptian Hotel 22 If a visitor has a tight budget he d better choose A impton Hotel B Benson Hotel C Modera Hotel D Paramount Hotel 23 Where can you find this passage A fashion magaine B holiday brochure C
8、 science report D business contract B Beneath the tranquil settings of Yellowstone National Par in the US lies an enormous magma chamber 熔岩腔膛 It s responsible for the geysers 间歇泉 and hot springs that define the area but for scientists at Nasa i t s also one of the greatest natural threats to human c
9、iviliation as we now a potential supervolcano When Nasa scientists came to consider the problem they conceived a plan to drill up to 10m down into the supervolcano and pump down water at high pressure The circulating water would return at a temperature of around 350C 662F thus slowly day by day etra
10、cting 提取 heat from the volcano But drilling into a supervolcano does not come without certain riss namely triggering the eruption you re intending to prevent Therefore the idea is to drill in from the supervolcano from the lower sides starting outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Par and e
11、tracting the heat from the underside of the magma chamber This way you re preventing the heat coming up from below from ever reaching the top of the chamber which is where the real threat arises Wilco says Such a plan could be potentially applied to every active supervolcano on the planet and Nasa s
12、 scientists are hoping that their blueprints willencourage more practical scientific discussion and debate for tacling the threat When people first considered the idea of defending the Earth from an asteroid 小行 星 impact they reacted in a similar way to the supervolcano threat Wilco says People thoug
13、ht As puny 微不足道的 as we are how can humans possibly prevent an asteroid from hitting the Earth Well it turns out if you engineer something which pushes very slightly for a very long time you can mae the asteroid miss the Earth So the problem turns out to be easier than people thin In both cases it re
14、quires the scientific community to invest brain power and you have to start early But Yellowstone eplodes roughly every 600 000 years and it is about 600 000 years since it last eploded which should cause us to sit up and tae notice 24 Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the underl
15、ined word conceived A approve B oppose C form D stop 25 According to Nasa s plan A Water pumped down at high pressure would return hot B Heat can be completely etracted from the volcano soon C Drilling into a supervolcano is by no means risy D Heat from below is epected to reach the top of the chamb
16、er 26 Asteroid is mentioned in the last paragraph to A warn people of its threat to the earth B encourage people to hope for possibilities C tell people human s coming tragic ending D eplain to people its cause and effect 27 What s the passage mainly about A A famous tourist resort B A potential supervolcano C A plan to deal with supervolcanos D A threat having been tacled C Not all people in Italy can tolerate football There are Canadians who won t love hocey A similar situation eists in Americ
