松口中学2020届高三居家自主复习检测题四一英语
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第u卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷 和答题卡一并交回。
第I卷
第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选 项。
A
Samantha "Sammi” Janower
Samantha "Sammi” Janower, now 18 years old, was told 15 years ago that she had cancer. Chemotherapy （化疗）is the only option, so Sammi underwent （经历） 15 months of che
mo at the age of three. Today, her dad says the cancer survivor is determined to help other kids avoid having to go through what she has gone through. To that end, in 2017 her team of cyclists, Team Samantha, raid more than $327,000 for the hospital that saved her life by riding 192 miles in the Pan-Mass Challenge （PMC）, a bike-a-thon across their home state of Massachutts. One hundred percent of every dollar raid goes directly to the doctors and rearch that work on cancers like hers.
Annika Viswesh
Eighth-grade student Annika Viswesh, who attends the Stratford School in Sunnyvale, California, became legally blind when she was just one year old due to a condition known as amblyopia （弱视）.Various methods have helped to improve her sight over the years, but more than anything it was that very experience that pushed her to arch for better ways to treat and manage the condition, which affects about 12 million children worldwide. So, she created the Oculus Patch Assistant which helps to simplify and improve the effectiveness of amblyopic treatment. She is now working with doctors at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation to conduct field testing.
Jahkil Jackson
Jahkil Jackson, 9, of Chicago, founded Project I Am to help the homeless in his hometown. Within the last year, he's collected and handed out more than 3,000 “Blessing （祝福）Bags" filled with toiletry things, socks, and food. A frequent public speaker, Jahkil challenges children to find their enthusiasm and u it to make a difference. "When speak to other kids at schools and community centers, I always say, 'Don't wait until you are an adult to be great/ " Jahkil said, “'You can be great now!9,9
1.Why did Sammi found Team Samantha?
A.To improve medical conditions. B. To rai money for herlf.
C. To support cancer rearch. D. To attract cycling lovers.
2.What did Annika make efforts to do?
A.Help the legally blind e better. B. Find a long-treatment for amblyopia.
C.Carry out veral scientific studies at her school.
D.Search for economical ways to treat her condition.
3.What should kids do according to Jahkil?
A. Lend a hand to the homeless. B. Take action and contribute.
C. Take part in project I Am. D. Act like adults.
B
For Serena Aunon-Chancellor, joining the Young Astronauts Club was more than an after-school hobby, it was the very beginning of her journey to space! When Serena was growing up in the 1980s, National Aeronautics and Space Administration （NASA） launched （发射）space shuttles many times a year. One day as she watched a shuttle launch on TV, Serena's father said, "You want to work for NASA? You need to be an engineer." Serena9s father was an engineer himlf. And he was right: half of all astronauts have studies engineering. From then on, Serena planned to be an engineer.
When she turned sixteen, Serana's parents gave her a gift - a weeklong trip to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. Her experiences at Space Camp 一 using science, math, and technology to practice tasks - showed Serena that her childhood dream was possible. In college, Serena earned a degree in electrical engineering. Afterward, she attended medical school and studies aerospace （航空航天）medicine.
In 2006, Serena was employed as a doctor at NASA, helping astronauts in the United States and Russia. She loved helping people through medicine, but she still wanted to be an astronaut, too. The odds were against her. Every year thousands of people apply to the astronaut training program and only ten to fifteen people are chon. In 2009, Serena got the phone call she'd been hoping for since she was a kid: She was chon to be an astronaut!
Since becoming an astronaut, Serena has learnt wilderness survival skills, arched for meteors （陨石）in Antarctica, and sailed in a submarine （潜水艇）in the deep ocean. But her greatest adventure has not been any of tho. She has been in space since June
6, 2018, rving as a flight engineer in Expedition 56/57 to the International Space Station. Her dream of heading into space has come true! While in space, she has been conducting science experiments. Think of her she next time you look up at the stars!
4.Why did Serena want to be an engineer?
A.She was talented in engineering. B. She dreamed of being an astronaut.
C.She wanted to join the Young Astronauts Club.
D.She expected to follow in her father9s footsteps.
5.What did the trip to Huntsville mean to Serena?
A. It was very precious to her. B. It strengthened her family ties.
