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宾川四中2015—2016学年高一年级下学期4月月考试卷第二部分阅读理解（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。

AHave you ever heard of e-books? E-books are electronic books. They are no larger than an ordinary book, wit h a screen on which you can read.How does the e-book work?First, you call up websites on your computer and select books that you want. There are thousands of books provided by different websites on the Internet. Then download the books you like on to your e-book. You can download about 10 books at a time. Now you can just sit back and enjoy yourself reading.Compared with ordinary books, e-books have many advantages. First of all, e-books save space. You can put as many as 10 books into a thing no bigger than a pocket radio and then carry it everywhere. You can renew reading materials in your e-book as many times as you like. With the development of e-book technology, probably an e-library will appear. Then you just take your e-books there and download what you want to read. You no longer need to worry about whether your books are over-due or not.根据短文内容，选择可以完成句子的最佳答案。

21. E-books are ________.A. electronic booksB. no larger than an ordinary bookC. very popular in big cityD. A, B and C22. First, you ________.A. call up websi tes on your computerB. read books that you wantC. turn on your e-bookD. download the books you like23. You can download ________ books at a time.A. twoB. tenC. twelveD. twenty24. E-books ________.A. save spaceB. save moneyC. look like a pocket radioD. carry iBIt's hard to imagine life without the Internet. How greatly it has changed our lives in the past 15 years since it was widely used. At the same time, however, the Internet has also caused some traditions to fall away (消失).E-mail is quicker and cheaper. Getting a handwritten letter from a friend has become a rare (稀有的) pleasure.Who would like to pay 60 yuan for 12 songs in a plastic case if you can find music in the Interact for free? When almost any fact can be found within seconds through Google and Baidu, personal memory becomes less important. The Web can remember it for us.When was the last time you watched the world out of a window? When was the last time you read a favorite book once again? When was the last time you sat in the cinema with your family? More and more people lose themselves in the Internet. They show less interest and spend less time in the outside world.You’ve spent the past few years talking with your friends on QQ, or reading about his or her QQ square, so meeting a friend is no longer as important as it once was.Have you ever found yourself doing homework with one eye on a QQ Space window?A growing number of people say the Internet is stopping young people from fixing their attention on anything for a long time.When you surf the Internet, it feels like something you're enjoying and nobody knows it. But when you realize just how many people are watching your every move, it might just make you mad. Many people have realized their personal information can be found easily in the Internet even they don't want to.25. According to the passage, the Internet has been widely used since ___ ago.A. 12 yearsB. 14 yearsC. 15 yearsD. 60 years26.We can learn from Paragraph 5 that people spend more time these days.A. surfing the InternetB. going to the cinemaC. reading favorite booksD. watching the outside world27. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. Personal memory becomes more important.B. People get fewer handwritten letters from their friends now.C. You have to pay if you want to find some music in the Internet.D. Internet can help young people fix their attention on anything.28. From the passage we can learn that the writer ________ when some traditions are falling away.A. doesn’t careB. seems happyC. feels interestedD. is worriedCEveryone has heard of the San Andreas fault（断层）, which constantly threatens California and the West Coast with earthquakes. But how many people know about the equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri?Between December of 1811 a nd February of 1812, three major earthquakes occurred, all centered around the town of New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. Property damage was severe. Buildings were almost all destroyed. Whole forests fell at once, and huge cracks （裂缝） opened in the ground.The Mississippi River completely changed character, developing sudden fast-moving currents. Several times it changed its course, and once it appeared to run backwards. Few people were killed in the New Madrid earthquake, simply because few people lived in this area in 1811; but the severity of the quake is shown by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston, South Carolina, on the coast. Buildings shook in New York City, and clocks were stopped in Washington, D.C.Scientists now know that America’s two major faults are different. The San Andreas fault is a horizontal (水平的) boundary between two major land masses that are slowly moving in opposite directions. California earthquakes result when the movement of these two masses suddenly leans (倾斜) forward.The New Madrid fault, on the other hand, is a vertical（垂直的）fault; at some point, millions of years ago, rock was pushed up toward the surface, probably by volcanoes under the surface. Suddenly, the volcanoes cooled and the rock collapsed, leaving huge cracks. Even now, the rock continues to settle downwards, and sudden sinking motions start earthquakes in the region. The fault itself, a large crack in this layer of rock, with dozens of other cracks that split off from it, extends from northeast Arkansas through Missouri and into southern Illinois.Scientists who have studied the New Madrid fault say there have been numerous smallerquakes in the area since 1811; these smaller quakes indicate large ones are probably coming, but the scientists say they have no method of predicting when it will occur.29. The New Madrid fault is _______.A. responsible for forming the Mississippi RiverB. a fault in the flat positionC. a fault caused by rocks moving directly upwardD. a worse fault than the San Andreas fault30. Which of the following is NOT true about the New Madrid fault?A. Not many people were killed in the quakes in 1811.B. Bells were rung in church towers in Charleston to inform the coming quakes.C. The quakes stopped the clocks in Washington,D.C.D. The quakes were caused by sudden sinking motion.31. It can be concluded from the passage that _______.A. it is probably as dangerous to live in Missouri as in California.B. the New Madrid fault will eventually develop a mountain range in MissouriC. in the future California will become an islandD. California will be broken into small pieces by an eventual earthquake x.k.b.132. The author suggests that________.A. earthquakes occur only around fault areasB. horizontal faults are more dangerous than vertical onesC. vertical faults are more dangerous than horizontal onesD. faults are cracks on the earth’s surface caused by past movements of the earth’s land massesDIn the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queen’s a pple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeare’s novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese emperors took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterward.Poison has long been an important ingredient in literature and history, and it seems to always be associated with evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know aboutpoison?An exhibition, The Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until August, reported The New York Times.The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, aren’t much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has eno ugh venom to kill 10 grown humans.The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based game, visitors are presented with three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it.“Poisons can be bad for some things,'' Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. ''Yet they can also be good for others.''This is what visitors learn from the last part of the exhibition, which di splays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment.The blood toxins of vampire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝结), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chem ical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar o f its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just medi cine. Believe it or not, many substances that we regularly take in –chili, coffee and chocolate, etc. –owe their special flavors or stimulat ing effects to chemicals that plants make to poison insects.33. By mentioning Snow White and Romeo at the beginning of the story, the author intends to________.A. draw readers’ attention to the topic of the articleB. show that poison is always linked with evil and deathC. show that poison has long been involved in literatureD. get readers to think of more examples of the use of poison in stories34. What is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?A. To inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.B. To teach people how to handle poisonous animals.C. To give people more in-depth knowledge about poison.D. To show how poison has been used for medical treatment.35. Which of the following statements about the exhibition is TRUE according to the article?A. The exhibition will lead visitors to a real rainforest.B. Those who visit the exhibition can join in some iPad-based interactive games.C. Golden poison frogs are the most poisonous animals on display.D. Visitors can listen to lectures on recent studies of poisonous animals.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。