高一英语阅读理解

高一英语月考卷

一. 阅读理解（2*20）

阅读下列短文(A-D)，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中选出最佳选项。

A

Days at Sea

Two brothers from Miami, Bill and Simone Bultler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft (救生艇) in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.

Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Siboney, they met some whales. “They started to hit the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water.” Two minutes later, the b oat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.

For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water — two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw (生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks (鲨鱼) came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.”

About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn’t stand up. So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.

1. Bill and Simone were travelling _______ when they met some whales.

A. in a life-raft

B. in Miami

C. in Siboney

D. in Panama

2. The whales hit the side of the boat, and then _______.

A. they brought in a lot of water

B. they broke the side of the boat

C. they pulled the boat

D. they went under the water

3. After their boat sank, the brothers _______.

A. jumped into the life-raft

B. heard water

C. watched the boat go under water

D. stayed in the life-raft

4. During their days at sea, _______ saved their lives.

A. tins of food and bottles of water

B. a fishing-line and a machine

C. whales and sharks

D. twenty passing ships

B

Our surroundings（环境）are being polluted faster than man’s present efforts to prevent pollution. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more cars, larger cities and the growing use of man-made materials（材料）. What can explain and solve the problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by man─by his desire（欲望）for a modern way of life. We make “increasing industrialisation（工业化) our chief aim. So we are often ready to offer everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant (连续不断的) flow（流动）of people from the countryside into the cities, eager for the benefits of our modern society. But as our technological achievements (成就) have grown in the last twenty years,