平凡的生活
高二上期末英语试卷
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一、阅读理解（本大题共 15 小题，共 30.0 分）
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If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “ Hey, Butterfly Man, ” his face would
break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it.
Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly, once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back — thanks to him. But years ago if you ’ d told him this was what he’d be doing someday, he would have laughed, “ You ’ re crazy.” As a boy, he ud to be “a little tough guy on the streets 大海的声音” . At age thirteen, he was caught by police for stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.
“ I knew it had hurt my mom, ” Bonner said after he got out of prison. “ So I told mylf I
would not put my mom through that pain again. ”
One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat ( 栖息地 ) for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue.
“ I saw the sign ‘机械制图教案 Butterfly Habitat ’ and asked, ‘ How can you have a habitat when the
butterflies can just fly away? ’” Bonner recalls. “ Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a magnifying glass ( 放大镜 ), ‘ Look at the leaves. ’ I could e all the caterpillars ( 蝴蝶的幼虫 ) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained, ‘ Without the plant, there are no butterflies. 上日下文’”女人的脚 Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly that needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he’ s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.
The butterfly ’ s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around.
For six years now Bonner has kept his promi to stay out of prison. While he ’ s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.
1.When he was young, Arthur Bonner ___.
A.broke the law and ended up in prison
B.was fond of shooting and hurt his mom
C.often laughed at people on the streets
D.一脉相承的意思是often caught butterflies and took them home
2.Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he ___.
A.found the butterfly had died out
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B.won many prizes from his professor
C.met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology
D.collected butterflies and put them into a lab
3.From the last ntence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has ___.
A. made Bonner famous B. changed Bonner灯具排行榜’ s life
C. brought Bonner wealth D. enriched Bonner ’ s knowledge
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
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