海南侨中2020届高三第一次月考

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）

第一节（共10个小题；每个小题2.5分，满分25分）

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Denver Vacation Packages

Day 1

Your journey begins when you arrive at Denver International Airport. We’ll take you to some of Denver’s famous attractions including Red Rocks Park, Colorado State Capitol and the 16th Street Mall.

Day 2

We’ll start the day by driving north from Denver in to Wyoming and through Cheyenne to see the Crazy Horse Memorial. We’ll visit Mt. Rushmore and Devils Tower before retiring for the evening in Gillette.

Day 3

On this day we'll arrive at the high point of the tour: Yellowstone National Park. It is home to all manner of wildlife. There you will see some of the park’s most popular attractions like Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake. Accommodations for the evening are in West Yellowstone.

Day 4

Relax and enjoy a scenic drive through Yellowstone National Park, following the Snake River to Grand Teton National Park. Afterwards we'll visit Jackson, where the old West way of life is still alive.

Day 5

In the morning we’ll drive from Salt Lake City to the Utah State Capitol, and then visit the Salt Lake Temple, making a stop at Great Salt Lake Meridian before heading to beautiful Arches National Park. We'll stay overnight in Grand Junction.

Day 6

We'll drive up into the Rocky mountains, which were home first to indigenous (土生士长的) peoples and famous for hunting, in the morning and cross the Continental Divide. We'll arrive at the Coors Brewery around noon and join a guided tour of the brewery. All those over 21 years of age will be able to sample three different types of freshly-made beer,

21. What is the most interesting part of the tour?

A.Red Rocks Park.

B.Arches National Park.

C.Grand Teton National Park.

D.Yellowstone National Park

22. When can people experience the ancient western lifestyle?

A. On Day 1.

B. On Day 2.

C. On Day 4.

D. On Day 5.

23 What can tourists do on Day 6?

A. Pay a visit to a beer factory.

B.Go hunting with the locals

C. Watch wild animals closely.

D.Taste various beers freely.

Last week, Education Secretary Ame Duncan declared war on paper textbooks: "Over the next few years,"he said in a speech at the National Press Club, "textbooks should be abandoned." In their place would come a variety of digital-learning technologies, like e-readers and multi-media websites.

Such technologies certainly have their place. But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a fire to a tried-and-true technology-good old paper-that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet. And while e-readers and multi-media websites may seem appealing, the idea of replacing an effective learning platform with a widely hyped (炒作)but still unproven one is extremely dangerous.

An expert on reading, Maryanne Wolf, has recently begun studying the effects of digital reading on learning, and so far the results are mixed. She worries that Internet reading, in particular, could be such a source of distractions(分散注意力) for students that they may cancel out most other potential benefits of a Web-linked, e-learning environment and while it's true that the high-tech industry has sponsored substantial amounts of research on the potential benefits of Web-based learning, not enough time has passed for longitudinal(纵向的) studies to demonstrate the full effects.

In addition, digital-reading advocates claim that lightweight e-books benefit students' backs and save schools money. But the rolling backpack seems to have solved the weight problem, and the shocking costs to outfit every student with an e-reader, provide technical support and pay for regular software updates promise to make the e-textbook a very pricey choice.

As both a teacher who uses paper textbooks and a student of urban history, I can't help but wonder what parallels exist between my own field and this sudden, wholesale abandonment of the technology of paper.

24. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Multi-media websites and good old paper are kinds of digital-learning technologies.

B. Digital learning technologies will replace the paper textbooks sooner or later.

C. E-readers and multi-media websites are learning methods that are proved effective.

D. A tried-and-true technology is paper textbooks, long used in educational system.

25. What is the drawback of paper textbooks according to the passage?

A. Their weight.

B. Their price.

C. Their content.

D. Their appearance.

26. What worries Maryanne Wolf is that .

A. paper learning can provide more potential benefits

B. students may not focus on learning by digital reading

C. digital reading can't provide potential benefits for users

D. the results of digital reading effects are understandable

27. What is the authors attitude towards digital-learning?

A.Disapproving.

B. Supportive.

C. Objective.

D. Positive.