201x-201X学年高二英语6月月考试题 (VII)

2017-2018学年高二英语6月月考试题 (VII)

第一部分听力(略)

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

Destination Travels

78 Soho St,

New York, NY

Dear Ms Pierce,

Thank you for trusting Destination Travels for your honeymoon plans. This letter includes all the

waiting for you in order to transfer you to the hotel. The transfer to and from the airport is offered by the hotel as part of your honeymoon package. The reservation has been made for a nine-night stay under your future husband’s last name. The price of the newlyweds’ suite includes breakfast and one more meal at the hotel restaurant. You can also use all of the hotel facilities—pool, gym, sauna, etc. for free as part of your honeymoon package. In addition, you can take scuba diving or snorkeling classes with the hotels trained staff at a reduced price—40% off.

Thank you for choosing Destination Travels. We guarantee your honeymoon with us will be an unforgettable experience. To aid us in improving our service, please visit our website at . destinationtravels. and plete the questionnaire.

Destination Travels wish you all the best.

Sincerely.

Rebecca Simms

Customer Service Manager

Destination Travels

1．After arriving at Puerto Rico Int, Airport, the couple can get directions from ________.

A. a Destination Travels Manager

B. an official of New York City Hall

C. a tourist information desk

D. a hotel worker

2．What service is offered by the hotel at no extra cost to the newlywed couple?

A. The snorkeling classes.

B. The airport express service.

C. A one-night stay.

D. The air tickets.

3．What does the customer service manager ask Ms Pierce to do?

A. Call the service department.

B. plete the order form.

C. Scan the website to find information.

D. Fill out the customer satisfaction survey.

B

Dutch beachber (海滩拾荒者) Wim Kruiswijk has accumulated a collection of 1,200 messages-in-bottles over the course of nearly 4 decades and has responded to almost all of them.

68-year-old Kruiswijk says that his unusual hobby began in 1983 when he found three drift bottles (漂流瓶) on his local beach, each containing letters and return addresses. He wrote to all three addresses and was surprised to receive responses from each one. It was this experience that aroused his interest in hunting and collecting messages in bottles, and he hasn’t stopped looking for them since.“I find my messages in bottles on the beach of Zandvoort, w here I live, and on the Dutch Islands,” Kruiswijk recently told Great Big Story. “Messages in bottles are slow mail. It takes you days, or weeks, or months to find a bottle. ”

In the early years, Kruiswijk would find as many as 50 bottles a year, but since xx that has slowed to around 20-30 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles, telling Dutch news site PZC, “I used to get a response at ha lf the bottle messages that I answered. Now that’s less; many people want ‘instant satisfaction’.”

Throwing a message in a bottle out into the sea is a longstanding human tradition dating back to the time of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, about 310 BC，who used the bottles to study water currents. Scientists still apply the method to this day, as a means to help researchers develop ocean circulation maps, and to crowdsource scientific studies of ocean currents.

In the past bottles have also been used to send distress messages from sailors in trouble. They also have been used for memorial tributes, or to send loved ones’ ashes on a final journey. One of the more mon uses though is just to send invitations out to prospective pen pals, a quaint notion in these modern times, but, as Kruiswijk so clearly shows, an effective one.

4．What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?

A. Kruiswijk found secrets hidden in drift bottles.

B. What made Kruiswijk bee a beachber.

C. How Kruiswijk formed the hobby of collecting drift bottles.

D. Kruiswijk liked to do some research on bottles thrown into the sea.

A. Satisfied.

B. Astonished.

C. Frightened.

D. Disappointed.

6．Why do Kruiswijk find fewer drift bottles than before?

A. People hate to receive messages from strangers.

B. Many drift bottles have not been washed up onto the beaches.

C. Drift bottles appearing on the beach are cleared up rapidly.

D. Fewer people are interested in Kruiswijk’s message in bottles.

7．What’s the purpose of Theophrastus using the bottle s?

A. To ask for rescue.

B. To look for a pen pal.

C. To study ocean currents.

D. To send a message to his loved person.