2020年高考英语快速阅读材料练习9

I．完形填空（共20小题；每小题 1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you didn’t know anything about it, a place with

a name l ike the Dead Sea might not sound very attractive. But the reality is that the Dead S ea is a very 36 place.

The main thing is the salt. I had 37 a little about the place, so I knew the Dead Sea is so 38 that it’s hard for 39 to live in it, which is 40 it’s called the Dead Sea. And I knew that it’s seven times as salty

as the ocean.

I was eager to 41 there, because the salt does more than keep the sea fish-free, it makes you 42 like you’re full of air. 43 my friends and I got tired of floating like soap bubbles, we put big rocks between our legs. The rocks helped us 44 lower in the water. We thought we

looked really funny, 45 then we noticed something that wasn’t so funny. Salt stings (刺痛). Even my friend’s 46 face began to hurt, so we 47 the Dead Sea as fast

as we could. And that’s when we found the 48 .

The mud b y the Dead Sea is 49 many minerals — nor

just salt — and these minerals are good for your 50 .

So people 51 in the mud, like puppies (小狗) playing in the grass. We 52 every inch of our bodies with black,

sticky mud 53 began to laugh very hard. And we 54 , so we can always remember h ow we look 55 our suits of mud.

36. A. common B. special C.

beautiful D. dangerous

37. A. read B. seen C. heardD.

found

38. A. strange B. wide C. deep D.

salty

39. A. plants B. animals C.

anything D. everything

40. A. how B. why C. because

D. thus

41. A. live B. swim C. visitD.

travel

42. A. float B. lie C. sleepD.

rise

43. A. Before B. Until C. AfterD.

While

44. A. sing B. dance C. drop D.

sink

45. A. as B. but C. sinceD.

even

46. A. frozen B. shocked C. lost D.

shaved

47. A. jumped into B. dived

into C. got out of D. looked out of

48. A. fish B. water C. rock D.

mud

49. A. lack of B. full of C. bad for

D. harmful to

50. A. breath B. stomach C. tasteD.

health

51. A. roll B. dive C. drinkD.

cry

52. A. struck B. moved C. covered

D. discovered

53. A. while B. and C. stillD.

or

54. A. watched games B. made

notes C. walked around D. took pictures

55. A. over B. in C. belowD.

with

II．阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

L’HAY-LES-ROSES, France: Three teenage girls admitted starting a fire in a suburban Paris housing project over

the weekend that killed 17 people, including three children, police said yesterday. A fourth girl was held

yesterday morning.

The fire in a 19-storey building south of Paris was

the third fatal blaze in the Paris area in nine days. The death toll rose to 16 after a man died late Sunday in a

hospital, where seven others were being treated for serious injuries, police said.

Three teenagers taken in for questioning on Sunday admitted having started the fire for fun, police said. Two