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1、204年全国统一高考英语试卷（新课标）第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节 （共第二节 5小题；每小题第三节 分，满分45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。AThe Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity ChallengeDare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Cha
2、llenge. The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 4 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity and how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that sho
3、ws what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue. Cambridge 029 by Friday, February 8th.Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored at a sp
4、ecial ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 2st. Guest speaker will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will be exhibit and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in the celebration and brunch will be se
5、rved.Between March 0th and March 5th, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at: .2. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge? A. School students B. Cambridge loca
6、ls C. CSF winners D. MIT artists22. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held? A. On February 8th B. On March 0th C. On April 2st D. On March 5th2. What type of writing is this text? A. An exhibition guide. B. An art show review.C. An announcement. D. An official report.BPassenger pigeons（旅鸽）once
7、flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 8th and 9th centuries described flocks（群）so large that they darkened the sky for hours.It was calculated that when its population reach its highest point, there were more than billion passenger pigeons a number eq
8、ual to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant birds in the world. Even as late as 870 when their numbers had already bee smaller, a flock believed to be mile wide and 20 miles (about 55 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.Sadly,
9、the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. mercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large n
10、ets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.By the closing decades of the 9th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans need for wood, which scattered（驱散）the flocks and forced the birds to g
11、o farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.In 897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 0 ye
12、ars. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden in September , 94.24. In the 8th and early 9th centur
13、ies, passenger pigeons .A. were the biggest bird in the worldB. lived mainly in the south of AmericaC. did great harm to the natural environmentD. were the largest bird population in the US25. The underlined word “undoing” probably refers to the pigeons .A. escape B. ruin C. liberation D. evolution2
14、6. What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons? A. To seek pleasure B. To save other birdsC. To make money D. To protect crops27. What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan? A. It was ignored by the public B. It was declared too lateC. It was unfair D. It was strictCA typic
15、al lion tamer（驯兽师）in peoples mind is an entertainer holding a whip （鞭）and a chair. The whip gets all of the attention, but its mostly for show. In reality, its the chair that does the important work. When a lion tamer holds a chair in front of the lions face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time. With its focus divided, the lion bees confused and is unsure about what to do next. When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the
