2018年云南省高中毕业生复习统一检测英语试题

2018年省高中毕业生复习统一检测

英语

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第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

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A woman from Australia has found the world's oldest known message in a bottle nearly 132years after it was cast into the sea.

Tonya Illman discovered the drift (漂流) bottle half-buried in the sand on a beach in Western Australia, 180 kilometers north of the state capital Perth.

The message, dated 12 June 1886, was thrown into the Indian Ocean from the German ship Paula, which was en route from Cardiff, Wales, to its destination of Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). The bottle was one of the thousands thrown into oceans as part of a 69-year-long German experiment on global currents (洋流) to find faster shipping routes.

Until now, the previous world record for the oldest message in a bottle was 108 years, 4 months and 18 days from the time it was cast until its discovery.

Illman found the bottle near her son's car in the beach's soft sand.

"I was walking across when I saw something sticking out of the sand, so I went to take a closer look," Illman was quoted as saying.

"It just looked like a lovely old bottle, so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase. My son's girlfriend was the one who discovered the note when she went to tip the sand out.

"The note was damp, rolled tightly and tied with a string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it, we saw it was in German, with very faint German handwriting on it."

The Illmans took their find to the local museum which established that the bottle was a 19th Century Dutch gin bottle, and the German ship Paula sailed from Cardiff to Makassar (Indonesia) in 1886.

1. What can we learn about the newly-found bottle?

A. It was thrown overboard near Germany.

B. It was brought to a university for consultation.

C. It was one of the bottles cast into the ocean in 1886.

D. It was used for sending a message to today's Indonesia.

2. What do the underlined words "en route" in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. On the way.

B. Off the course.

C. In the center.

D. At the end.

3. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. 19th Century Dutch Gin Bottle Returned to Germany

B. Oldest Message in a Bottle Found on Australian Beach

C. German Ship Paula Sailed Across the Indian Ocean in 1886

D. 69-year-long German Experiment on Global Currents Ended

B

Students at the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead in February of 2018 are being asked to wear clear backpacks.

School officials have written to families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High pupils outlining the plans as part of new security measures. They say any student without a clear backpack will be given one at no cost. As well as introducing the transparent backpacks for quicker safety checks, there will also be airport-style metal detectors and school visitors will pass through special gates.

"We're going to man every gate at the school during school hours and for after-school activities," said the