肇庆市2018届高中毕业班第一次英语统一检测(英语)

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肇庆市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。

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There are lots of ways to experience Portland—through its history, shopping, or cultural and culinary pursuits—and they?re all spectacular. But you mustn?t forget one of the most important parts of Portland package deals: your hotel. Consider these popular options when it?s time to rest.

Kimpton Hotel

This accommodation offers Italian sheets, designer bath products, and a relaxing spa, and you?ll never go hungry with fine dining at its on-site restaurant. Add on a balcony or a whirlpool tub, and you?ll really be living in luxury.

Benson Hotel

It can hold its own when it comes to amenities, too: memory foam beds with Egyptian cotton sheets, soaking bathtubs, and two restaurants await. And its location near both Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Craft is ideal 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 cake of this four-star hotel, which also has a garden-setting outdoor courtyard and restaurant.

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Paramount Hotel

It is a top pick thanks to its location and affordability. Those who seek out cultural endeavors will enjoy proximity to Schnitzer Concert Hall and Portland Center for the Performing Arts, and any type of traveler can enjoy the free Wi-Fi and views of Director Park.

21. Which of the following is an ideal hotel for art enthusiasts?

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. Kimpton Hotel

B. Benson Hotel

C. Modera Hotel

D. Paramount Hotel

23. Where can you find this passage?

A. fashion magazine

B. holiday brochure

C. science report

D. business contract

B

Beneath the tranquil settings of Yellowstone National Park 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, it?s also one of the greatest natural threats to human civilization as we know: a potential supervolcano.

When Nasa scientists came to consider the problem, they conceived a plan to drill up to 10km 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 extracting (提取) heat from the volcano. But drilling into a supervolcano does not come without certain risks, 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 Park, and extracting 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,” Wilcox says.

Such a plan could be potentially applied to every active supervolcano on the planet, and Nasa?s scientists are hoping that their blueprints will encourage more practical scientific discussion and debate for tackling the threat.

“When people first considered the idea of defend ing the Earth from an asteroid (小行星)impact, they reacted in a similar way to the supervolcano threat,” Wilcox says. “People thought, …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 make the asteroid miss the Earth. So the problem turns out to be easier than people think. In both cases it requires the scientific community to invest brain power and you have to start early. But Yellowstone explodes roughly every 600,000 years, and it is about 600,000 years since it last exploded, which should cause us to sit up and take notice.”

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24. Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the underlined 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 extracted from the volcano soon.

C. Drilling into a supervolcano is by no means risky.

D. Heat from below is expected to reach the top of the chamber.

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. explain 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 tackled

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