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深圳市2018届高三年级第一次调研考试
英 语
2018.3
本试题卷共10页。全卷满分120分，折算成135分计入总分。考试用时120分钟。
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第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Lost cities that have been found
The White City
In 2015, a team of explorers to Honduras in arch of"the Lost City of the Monke God"led to the discovery of the White City. They found drenchthe ruins in the mortal onlineMosquitia region of the Central American country which is known for poisonous snakes, vicious jaguars and deadly incts. It is believed that local people hid here when the Spanish conquerors(征服者) occupied their homeland in the16th century.
Canopus and Heracleion
Modern rearchers were tead by the ancient writings about the Egyptian cities Canopus and Heracleion- where Queen Cleopatra often visited. But the cities weren’t found until 1992, when a arch in Alexandria waters found that the two cities had been flooded for centuries. Artifacts(史前器物) showed that the cities once highly developed as a trade network, which helped rearchers piece together more about the last queen of Egypt.
Machu Picchu
A Yale professor discovered "the Lost City in the Clouds"in 1911. A combination of palaces, plazas, temples and homes, Machu Picchu displays the Inca Empire at the height of its rule. The city, plutocracywhich was abandoned in the 16th century for unknown reasons,was hidden by the local people from the Spanish conquerors for centuries keeping it so well prerved.
Troy
The ancient city of Troy in homer's The Iliad was considered a fictional tting for his characters to run wild. But in 1871, explorations in northwestern Turkey expod nine ancient cities layered (层叠) on top of each other, the earliest dating back to about 5,000 years before. It was later determined that the sixth or venth layer contained the lost city of Troy and that it阳光小美女 台词 was actually destroyed by an earthquake, not a wooden hor.
21. Why did people hide in the White City in the 16th century?
A. To survive the war
B. To arch for a lost city.
C. To protect their country.
D. To avoid dangerous animals
22. Which of the following was related to a royal family member?
A. The White City
B. Canopus and Heracleion
C. Machu Picchu
D. Troy
23. What can we learn about Troy?
A. It was built by Homer.
B. It consisted of nine cities
C. It had a history of 5,000 years
D. It was ruined by a natural disaster.
B
My motivation for starting our family tradition of reading in the car was purely lfish: I could not bear listening to A Sesame Street Christmas for another 10 hours. My three chil
dren had been addicted to this castte on our previous summers road trip
As I began to prepare for our next 500-mile car trip,I came across a book-Jim Trelea's The Read Aloud Handbook. This could be the answer to my problem. I thought. So I put Roald dahl's James and the Giant Peach into my bag. When I began to read aloud the tale of the boy who escapes the bad guys by hiding inside a giant成都花艺师培训 peach, my three kidsstiff argued and wrestled in their ats. But after veral lines, 查韦斯葬礼they were attracted into the rhythm of the words and began to listen
We soon learned that air curtainthe simple pleasure of listening to a well-written book makes the long miles pass more quickly. Sometimes the books we read became highlights of the trip. I read Wilson Rawls's Summer of the Monkeys as we spent two days driving to the beach. We arrived just behind the power crews restoring(恢复) electricity after a tropical storm. The rain continued most of the week, and the beach was covered with oil washed up by the storm. When we returned home, I asked my son what he liked about the trip. He answered without hesitation, "The book you read in the car.
Road trips still offer challenges, even though my children now are teenagers. But we continue to read as we roll across the country. And I'm beginning to e that reading aloud has done新目标英语九年级 more than help pass the time. For at least a little while, we are not shut in our own electronic worlds. And maybe we've started something that will pass on to the next generation.
