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2016-2017年孟津二高周周练英语试卷3.10班级姓名考号第二部分阅读理解（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。

ARobert Ballard is probably the most famous deep-sea explorer in the past 100 years. While he is best known for his historic discovery of the wreckage（残骸）of the R. M. S. Titanic which sank to the bottom of the sea in 1912, he also discovered the wreckage of the Bismarck and the Yorktown, Over his career, Dr. Ballard has completed over 120 deep-sea journeys and continues to push exploration to new depths with new technologies and strategies. His new high-tech Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island links scientists all over the world and makes it possible to identify new discoveries in realtime.Reporter: What were you like as a kid?Ballard: I was a very “active”kid with lots of interests including sports （football, basketball, and tennis）, fishing, and studies.Reporter: Do you have a hero?Ballard: My hero is Captain Nemo from the book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and his submarine the Nautilus.Reporter: What do you daydream about?Ballard: I dream about undersea exploration.Reporter: How did you get into your field of work?Ballard: It started with a scholarship to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, in the summer of 1959 when I was a junior in high school. That summer, I went to sea on two separate expeditions in Baja California with various oceanographers（海洋专家）. During one of those expeditions, I met Dr. Robert Norris, a Scripps graduate with a Ph. D. in marine geology, who invited me to come to the University of California, Santa Barbara where I ended up getting my undergraduate degree in Geology and Chemistry with minors in Math and Physics.Reporter: What’s the best piece of advice that anyone has ever given you that you can share with us?Ballard: Follow your dreams and don’t let anyone talk you out of them.Reporter: Do you have any good jokes?Ballard: I prefer sayings to jokes. My favorite is, “Never get into the thick of thin things.”21. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that Robert Ballard ________.A. is president of a university and travels a lotB. is the most famous deep-sea explorer in historyC. is still contributing to the development of deep-sea explorationD. is best famous for the discovery of the wreckages of three ships22. From the passage we know Nemo ________.A. is Jules Verne’s nicknameB. is the name of a shipC. is a sailor on a submarineD. is a character in a book23. What can we know about Ballard?A. He was lucky to meet Dr. Robert Norris.B. He once wrote a book about the sea.C. He loves jokes more than proverbs.D. He used to be tired of studying.24. What’s the passage mainly about?A. The great achievements of Robert Ballard.B. An interview with a famous deep-sea explorer.C. A brief introduction to famous Robert Ballard.D. What a famous deep-sea explorer is like.BA small robot may help children who are recovering from long-term illnesses in the hospital or at home.These children may feel isolated from their friends and classmates. The robot takes their place at school. Through the robot, the children can hear their teachers and friends. They also can take part in class from wherever they are recovering.A Norwegian company called No Isolation created a robot. The co-founders of No Isolation are Karen Dolva and Marius Aabel. The robot is called A V1. A V1 goes to school for a child who is at home while recovering from a long-term illness. And the child’s school friends must help. They carry the robot between classes and place the robot on the child’s desk.Dolva explains how the robot A V1 works. She says, from home, the child uses a tablet or phone to start the robot. Then she/he uses the same device to control the robot’s movements. At school, the robot becomes the eyes, ears and voice of the child. The child can take part in classroom activities from wherever she/he is recovering—whether at home or from a hospital bed. The robot is equipped with speakers, microphones and cameras that make communicating easy. It was designed to be tough. It is water resistant and can take a fall from a desk without damage.Inside A V1, there is a small computer connected to a 4G network. A small camera hooked up to a small computer could do the job. But that would not be the same. A V1 is large and looks like a human for a reason. Dolva says this is important because the robot is supposed to be a friend to the children.And robots are, quite simply, cool. The robot just became available to the public. Hopefully A V1 will help some children feel less lonely while they are absent from class.25. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “isolated” in Paragraph 2?A. freedB. tiredC. bannedD. separated26. What can we know about A V1?A. It can go to school on its own.B. It is small and looks like a kid.C. It can replace children to attend classes.D. It was created by Dolva and Aabel.27. How are the movements of A V1 controled?A. By using a tablet or phone.B. By joining in classroom activities.C. Through a small speaker.D. Through a small camera.28. Who is A V1 mainly designed for?A. Children who have just recovered from illnesses.B. Children who can’t go to school for a long time.C. Children who are bored with going to school.D. Children who can’t see, hear or speak.COn March 25, 2013, two pandas were shipped from China to Canada. The pandas received a warm welcome to the North America from Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese ambassador(大使)Zhang Junsai.The pandas will spend five years at the Toronto Zoo, and then spend another five years at the Calgary Zoo. This is the first time in 20 years that pandas have been sent to a Canadian zoo. “I want to offer my sincere thanks to the government of China for sharing these two pandas, symbolizing peace and friendship, with all Can adians, ”said Prime Minister Harper.The pandas are named Er Shun and Da Mao. Er Shun, a five-year-old female, came from the Chongqing Zoo, in southwest China. Da Mao, a four-year-old male, traveled from Chengdu. The panda passengers were given plenty of snacks throughout the flight. Each panda received more than 200 pounds of bamboo and 100 pounds of apples.The number of pandas is decreasing and now there are only 1, 600 pandas left in the wild. And this is partly due t o the loss of their primary food source, bamboo. According to a recent study, warming temperatures are causing a shortage of bamboo in at least one region of China where pandas live.The climate in Er Shun and Da Mao’s new home in Canada isn’t perfect for growing bamboo. Twice a w eek, the Memphis Zoo, in Tennessee, will ship about 700 pounds of the green plant up north to the Toronto Zoo. While the pandas are far from China, zookeepers plan to make Canada feel like their home.29. We can know from the second paragraph that.A. China often sends pandas to CanadaB. Canada is very thankful for China’s helpC. the two pandas will spend ten years in CanadaD. the two pandas will only live in one place.30. According to the passage, the two pandas.A. are both four years oldB. are from the same Chinese zooC. can eat as many as 100 pounds of apples in a dayD. were given over 400 pounds of bamboo on the flight31. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?A. The reason for the decreasing number of pandas.B. The primary food source of pandas.C. The lifestyle of pandas in the wild.D. The effects of warming temperatures on bamboo.32. It can be learned from the passage that .A. pandas eat nothing but bamboo and applesB. the climate in Toronto is unfit for bamboo to growC. the animal that all Canadians like best is pandasD. China lent the two pandas just in order to help CanadDHealthy food is a general term (术语) applied to all kinds of food that is considered healthier than the types of food sold in supermarkets. For example, whole grains, dried beans, and corn oil are health food. A narrower classification (分类) of healthy food is natural food. This ter m is used to distinguish (区分) between types of the same food. Raw honey is a natural sweetener, while refined (提炼的) sugar is not. Fresh fruit is a natural food, but canned fruit, with sugars and other additives (添加剂), is not. The most exact term of all and the narrowest classification within health food that has been grown on a particular kind of farm. Fruits and vegetable that are grown in gardens, that are treated only with organic fe rtilizers, tha t are not sprayed with poisonous insecticides (杀虫剂), and that are not refined after harvest, are organic food. Meat, fish, dairy and poultry products from animals that are fed only on organically-grown food and that are not injected with hormones (激素) are organic food.In choosing the type of food you eat, then, you have basically two choices: inorganic, processed (加工) food, or organic, unprocessed food. A wise decision should include study of the reason why processed food contains chemicals, some of which are proved to be poisonous and that vitamin content is greatly reduced in processed food.Bread is typically used by healthy food supporters as an example of a processed food. First, the seeds from which the grain is grown are treated with a chemical that is extremely harmful. Later, the grain is sprayed with a number of very deadly insecticides. After the grain has been made into flour, it is made white with another chemica l that is also poisonous. Next, a dough conditioner is added along with a softener. The conditioner and softener are poisonous, and in fact, the softener has sickened and killed experimental animals.A very poisonous antifungal compound, is added to keep the bread from getting moldy (发霉的).Other food from the supermarket would show a similar pattern of processing and preserving (保存). You see, we buy our food on the basis of smell, color and texture, instead of vitamin content, and manufacturers give us what we want, even if it is poisonous. The alternative? Eat health foods, preferably the organic variety.33. What do all of the additives in bread have in common?A. They are all used to keep the bread from getting moldy.B. They are all poisonous.C. They are all organic.D. They all have all killed laboratory animals.34. What happens to food when it is processed?A. The basic content remains the same.B. Vitamin is not available after processing.C. The vitamin content increases a bit.D. The vitamin content is greatly reduced.35. We normally buy food on the basis .A. organic varietyB. beautyC. refined contentsD. color and texture第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。