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1、南宁三中下学期高二月考（一）英语试题第一部分：听力（共两节,满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A,B,C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。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。AI watch from the wooden bench in my backyard as the water from
2、the pipe quietly flows out onto the tomato plants. I watch the plants and rest easy, knowing the pipe is taking care of the plants. The drops soon seem to become rivers on the ground.I see these red-brown ants, crawling(爬行) along around their home. What will happen when the water reaches the ants? S
3、melling the danger, these poor tiny creatures all run away from the water and rush back to their home. They spend their whole lives working together to create and make better things, but now they are facing the end of it all. I think this is just a reflection of the world. I keep watching as the wat
4、er first attacks and then surrounds two ants. They struggle to stay floating as the water closes in on them, getting deeper and deeper. I try to get these two to come on my finger, but they refuse to let me save them. The water soon flows over them, as I remain helpless. Only then do they decide to
5、climb onto my dirt-covered finger. Not until facing the moment of death would they trust one like me.I check to see if they are alive, and both can move fine. Then I go to save other ants. However, the water washes everything away. How much I wish I could turn off this machine of death, but I cannot
6、. I must complete my job. It knocks me how much these little lives mean to me. When I was a small child, I would make a sport of killing them. Now, I cant hurt an insect, always thinking about what it would be like to be so small.21. What is the ants first reaction as the water approaches them?A. Th
7、ey attempt to stop it. B. They seek help at once.C. They ignore it and continue to work.D. They try to avoid the danger caused by it.22. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?A. Behind bad luck comes good luck.B. Where there is a will, there is a way.C. God helps those who he
8、lp themselves.D. Life is likely to be affected by setbacks.23. How does the author help save the two ants?A. He turns off the water pipe.B. He helps them float on the water.C. He lets them climb onto his finger.D. He changes the direction of the water.24. Whats the authors attitude towards those ant
9、s now?A. Sympathetic. B. Indifferent.C. Favorable. D. Cruel.BPeople who report news sometimes find themselves in the news. This is especially true for foreign correspondents (记者), who risk their lives to bring us important stories from dangerous parts of the world. To learn more about the life of a
10、foreign correspondent, we interviewed Tim Craig, who has covered the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.Q1: What draw you personally to dangerous places? Tim Craig (TC): Experiencing problems that still exist in the world, seeing the struggles that soldiers face to keep peace, and the calamity that p
11、eople meet during the war, and gaining a better understanding of how people from different countries live.Q2: What do you like about your job? TC: I like being able to talk to lots of different people about their problems and concerns. Sometimes the job can make you sad. You have to talk to kids who
12、 dont get enough to eat, or to someone whose mother or father was killed. But then I get to try to help these people by writing about their lives and problems.Q3 : Do you worry about your own safety? How do you deal with that? TC: Yes, I do worry, but I try not to think about it all the time. In Pak
13、istan, many places are still safe enough for me to travel to without having to worry a lot about being injured, killed or kidnapped(绑架). There are, however, some places where I have to think about my safety all the time. Generally, its best to travel with someone else so that we can help each other
14、if something goes wrong. In dangerous places,. I also try not to stay in one spot for too long.Q4: What are the most important qualities or skills a foreign correspondent needs? TC : Being independent and able to quickly make decisions, being a good planner in order to reach places that may be hard
15、to get to by car or plane, and being a good listener.25. What do we know about Tim Craig?A. He-suffers a lot during the war.B. He covers news in foreign areas.C. He works for world peace with soldiers.D. He once helped look after homeless children.26.What does the underlined word calamity in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Dilemma.B. Confusion.C. Misfortune.E. Embarrassment.27. When does Tim Craig feel sad about his job? A. When he tries to meet some requirements.B. When he has to travel to dangerous places. C. When he writes his experiences in the war.
