辽宁省葫芦岛市第一高级中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题

辽宁省葫芦岛市第一高级中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试

题

满分：120分考试时间:100 分钟

第I卷

第一部分：听力（略）

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节；满分40分）

第一节（共15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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Want a journey that is really more interesting than the destination? Then you might want to fly to one of these airports.

The runway where planes have been known to drop off a cliff

Taking off at the Matekane airstrip (飞机跑道) in Lesotho, South Africa, is a frightening experience, as the plane soars over an about 600-metre cliff face after taking off.

Matekane's runway sits 2,286 metres up on a mountain gully (沟渠), so it takes nerves of steel to both land and take off. If a plane doesn't manage to pick up enough speed on the 400 metre-long airstrip, it falls off the cliff before it takes flight.

The ice runway

Many travellers find plane landings a terrifying enough prospect ordinarily, but imagine if the runway were made of ice!

That's a reality for anyone flying into Doris Lake Aerodrome --- a privately owned ice runway located on Doris Lake in Nunavut, Canada. The small airport is open from January to April and it mainly operates for gold mining.

The failed runway

The French tried to build a concrete airstrip at their Dumont D' Urville research station in the Antarctic more than two decades ago.

But they failed when the area was badly damaged by a storm, just months before its pletion.

Work was stopped because attempts to rebuild the airstrip would have negatively affected local wildlife, but small aircraft still use the long, snow-free area to land.

The inner-city water airstrip

Vancouver's seaplane terminal in Canada is home to the world's largest all-seaplane airline.

Flying down at high speed and then landing on water is exciting enough for most passengers, but what really makes this particular port so special is its location. It's located in the middle of downtown Vancouver, among the city's tallest skyscrapers.

21. What is special about the Matekane airstrip?

A. It is constructed on ice.

B. It is open for one month every April.

C. It was built for scientific research.

D. It is on the edge of a cliff.

22. Where is the inner-city water airstrip located?

A. In Canada

B. In France

C. In South Africa

D. In the Antarctic

23. Due to the environmental protection factor, ________ was never pleted.

A. the runway on Doris Lake

B. the runway at the Dumont D' Urville research station

C. the airstrip in the middle of downtown Vancouver

D. the Matekane airstrip in Lesco

B

When I flew into this country, the sides of the runway were littered with destroyed aircraft, large and small. On the seven-hour drive to our hospital, we passed old stone houses built into the sides of mountains with seemingly normal country life going on in the small villages, and I wished I were visiting this place as a tourist. But the conflict, which has been ongoing for almost two years, is impossible to ignore: we saw broken-down bridge, destroyed overpasses (天桥) a nd pieces of shrapnel (弹片) everywhere.