湖北省年上学期大冶一中高二英语综合能力提升检测试题

湖北省2020年上学期大冶一中高二英语综合能力提升检测试题

第二部分阅读（共两节）

第一节

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选项。

A

Vacation Camps

Lake Idaho Camp

When: 2 weeks in July

Join our fun-filled camp on the banks of Lake Idaho! You can take part in exciting water sports, including canoeing and swimming. All equipment is provided. Our highly qualified（有资格的）instructors lead groups for all levels, including beginners. In the evenings, we organize campfire activities for children, with singing, drama, and storytelling, while adults can explore the nearby town of St. Albans.

Cost: $400, including all your delicious, healthy meals.

Everwell Forest Camp

When: 1 week in August

Teachers Matt and Alice Branson run our camp in the Everwell Forest. Open to children 8-12 years of age, the camp also offers participants the chance to try various arts and crafts, including painting, pottery, and woodwork. Places are limited to 20, so early booking is advised.

Cost: $150, including all meals.

Happy Shells Camp

When: 3 weeks in August

Happy Shells volunteer organization is looking for young people aged 15-20 to join our camp on the Florida coast. Participants will help to build protective fences（栅栏）around the nests of sea turtles（海龟）which come to the beaches during the summer to lay their eggs. At the end of the camp, participants receive a certificate（证书）that can be used for credit on high school and college courses.

Cost: $120 per week to cover food and hotel.

Powerhouse Boot Camp

When: 2 weeks in July or August

The name of the event could give some people the wrong idea. Participants actually stay in a hotel, not an outdoor camp. But it definitely is an intensive（集中的）course of physical training. If you want to get into shape fast, Powerhouse Boot Camp is for you.

Cost: $520 for two weeks.

21．Which camp provides a good chance to learn arts?

A．Lake Idaho Camp. B．Everwell Forest Camp.

C．Happy Shells Camp. D．Powerhouse Boot Camp.

22．How much will participants pay if they go to protect sea turtles?

A．$150. B．$260. C．$360. D．$400.

23．What can campers do in Powerhouse Boot Camp?

A．Camp outside the city. B．Take exercise in a hotel.

C．Sail and swim in the lake. D．Enjoy the sun on the beach.

B

Early in the morning, LaPierre boarded Boston’s Blue Line “L” to head to the Chicago Marathon. The train was full of excited marathoners. He took a seat next to a fellow runner and began chatting. Before long, LaPierre noticed a man who

seemed to be homeless moving from passenger to passenger, asking for spare change. That struck LaPierre as “really uncommon,” especially the way he stared down anyone he felt hadn’t given him enough.

At the Cumberland station, several stops before the one for the marathon, most of the passengers suddenly escaped from the car. LaPierre, surprised, rushed out to see what was going on, only to hear frightened people shouting that the man asking for money was, in fact, armed and robbing（抢劫）people.

Just then, the armed man himself exited the train car and went to the next one. LaPierre followed him. “I could not walk away kno wing there were children and people just trying to get to a race,” he says. The man was standing in the middle of the car when he turned and saw LaPierre, his head down, bull-rushing him. The two men fought for the gun—and their lives.

“You don’t move!” LaPierre shouted, pressing the armed man against a door. The man tried pushing him, but LaPierre pushed him back against the door, grabbing（夺取）the gun and handing it to a passenger, who quickly walked off the train with it. But LaPierre wasn’t in the cle ar. The man had partners who now surrounded LaPierre and began to threaten him. Then the police entered the car, and LaPierre let them take over.

This was not the first time LaPierre had jumped to the rescue. In 2015, he helped rescue a one-year-old and his mother from a car accident. Last summer, he volunteered to search for a snake that went missing from a backyard cage（笼子）in Newton. And a few years back, he helped stop a CVS drugstore robbery. “I just happen to be at the right place at the right mome nt,” he says.

24．How did LaPierre find the man asking for money?

A．Strange. B．Pitiful. C．Boring. D．Disappointing.

25．What did LaPierre do when seeing the armed man?

A．He took out his gun.

B．He called the policemen.

C．He tried to control the man.

D．He comforted the passengers.

26．How did LaPierre get rid of the robber’s partners?

A．The passengers helped him a lot.

B．The policemen arrived in time.

C．He fought with them violently.

D．He pointed the gun at them.

27．What does the last paragraph show?

A．LaPierre leads a difficult life.

B．LaPierre is a qualified policeman.

C．LaPierre likes fighting with bad guys.

D．LaPierre is always ready to help others.

C

Cartoons suit the way we like information to be presented these days: graphically（以书画形式）and in small chunks. We are used to cartoons and comic strips（连环漫画）that take a humorous look at modern life or provide a bit of escapism. But recently we have seen an increase in the number of graphic novels: book-length comics with a single, continuous narrative. Historically, graphic novels were not popular outside France, Belgium, Japan, and the US. The exception is the worldwide popularity of a young reporter-detective from Belgium, Tintin.

The creation of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin first appeared in a Belgian newspaper in 1929. Each story appeared as a cartoon strip week by week, but soon after was republished in book form. The main attraction for readers was that they were taken to parts of the world they had never seen and probably never would: Russia, the Congo and America. Hergé himself only traveled outside Belgium later in life, but his passion was educating his readers about other cultures and places.