辽宁省沈阳铁路实验中学高二英语上学期第二次月考试题

沈阳铁路实验中学2015--2016学年度上学期第二次月考

高二英语

时间：100分钟分数：120分

第一部分阅读理解( 共两节，满分40分)

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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On the black market, ivory commands more than $1,000 per kilogram, making poaching(偷猎) a problem for African wildlife. But an American pilot is trying to end the killing by training the pilots who patrol(巡逻) the skies over Africa. Patty Wagstaff who is making a difference by helping her fellow pilots deal with difficult and life-threatening conditions.

Wagstaff is the lead teacher for a group of wildlife pilots in Kenya. “The pilots are good, basic pilots,”said Patty Wagstaff. “But they just haven’t had the training or the experience to mot make the mistakes yo u make when you’re not professionally trained.”

Patty Wagstaff’s pilots patrol plains, flying low to the ground at near-stall speed, looking for poachers.

“It’s so sad what’s happening,” she said. “ The poaching is getting worse. Flight is becoming more important because it’s been told by poachers that flying is the single biggest deterrent to them. So what these pilots are doing is really important.”

Red dust kicks up the h eart of the afternoon as the airplanes start their engines. And any maintenance is basic. Every airplane has crashed at least once or has been shot at by poachers.

The pilots gather every year for week-long clinics. The project is funded in part by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, named after the famed American aviator Charles Lindbergh, who flew the first alone, non-stop flight across the Atlantic.

Patty Wagstaff says her special skills help to remove objections to being taught by a woman.

“When it all comes down to it, we get up in the air and I can show them a few things,” said Patty Wagstaff. “And if they give me any problems, I’ll just flip them upside down, so.”

Poaching decreases when these pilots are in the air. And their love of flying combines with their love of nature.

“We have this amazing resource, this global resource that you find in very few places in the world that’s becoming more and more en dangered — elephants, and everything else we fly over every day here and it belongs to everything else we fly over every day here and it belongs to everybody,” said Wagstaff.

1.In the opinion of Wagstaff, Kenya’s pilots _________.

A. are lack of formal training

B. have no potential ability of flying

C. don’t know the basic knowledge of flight

D. have no sense of obeying discipline

2.It can be inferred in the text that_____.

A. Wagstaff taught pilots to learn from Lindbergh

B. Wagstaff could drive trouble-making pilots out of planes

C. some pilots used to be ashamed of having a woman teacher

D. poachers tried to find chance to kill Wagstaff

3.The main idea of the passage is about _______.

A. Wagstaff meets with life-threatening conditions in flight

B. Wagstaff flies across Kenya to catch poachers

C. Wagstaff took Lindbergh as her model

D. Wagstaff helps Kenya’s pilots battle poachers

4.From what Wagstaff said in the last paragraph, we know that he thought _____.

A. everybody has the duty to protect animals

B. her saw animals being killed every day

C. nowhere else can you find elephants but Kenya

D. his country was rich in wild life resources

B

It started with a nudge...

People are hooking up all over the Internet. It can be just for fun, or it can get serious. Love, jealousy: an online relationship involves all the emotions of an offline one. But there are some big differences.

True lies

Some people find it easier to type their true thoughts t han admit to them face-to-face. So in some ways you get more honesty online. You might learn about someone much faster in a chat window than on a date.

On the other hand, the Internet is the perfect place to tell lies: some small, some whoppers. It’s easy to create a whole new identity. And you can never be 100% sur e that the person you’re talking to is who they say they are.

If you get involved with someone online, you need proof of who they really are before you even consider taking the relationship further.

Remember that photos are no guarantee. There’s nothing to stop some old beggar sending you a picture of a swimwear model(or vice versa).

Keeping it real

Use the same rules to online rel ationships that you would like to meet in the real world. It’s great to joke, but set clear boundaries. And remember, it might take time before you can fully trust someone.

Stepping it up

Webcams and phone chats can get quite full on. It’s normal to feel nervous about having intimate conversations online. You should only go as far as you want and never feel pressured into anything you’re not co mfortable with.

The final option is meeting up. It could work, but make sure you know the dangers. Alternatively, you might never want your relationship to leave the chat room, that’s fine too.

5.Sometimes people online may _______.

A. easily speak their minds

B. become curious about other