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肇庆六中2015—2016学年第二学期第二次月考试题

高二英语

2016.5

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）

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Plan to get to the airport at least an hour early, or two during holidays and other busy times; this will reduce the stress of the flight. If all goes well, you will have time to relax, shop for last-minute items, or have a meal before the flight. Flight Delays

Find out why your flight is delayed. Call the free call numbers. Find out if other airlines are experiencing similar delays. If you believe the delay is due to something other than weather or air traffic problems, then mention your suspicion and ask the airline agent to book you on the next available flight, either on the same air-line or a competing one. This is called \airlines are required to do it. Flight Cancellations

If your flight is canceled, then make a reservation on the next flight to your destination. Usually, air-line personnel(职员) will try to book everyone on their next flight. Often they will put you on a competitor's next flight only if you request it.

If on-time arrival is important to you, when you check flights through our reservation system you can rate your choices based on their on-time arrival records. Be sure to also check the weather conditions, as they often affect flight schedules.

1. A person goes to the airport ahead of time mainly to _______.

A. buy what he wants in the airport C. get on the airplane immediately 2. If a person calls \

A. ask the reason for the plane delay

B. make sure the time for the next plane B. have a good rest in the airplane D. reduce the pressure of the flight

C. know if other flights' delays happen D. change for the ticket to the next flight 3. What would be the best title for the passage?

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A. Unpleasant travels B. Dangerous flights C. Airport travel tips

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D. Busy airport

La Gomera is the only place in the world that has a whistle(口哨) language. We do not know how and why it began because we do not know the complete history of the island. But we can certainly imagine the reasons for the beginning of the whistle language. There are many deep valleys on the island. A person on one side of a valley can not easily shout to a person on the other side. But he can whistle and be heard. Some of the best whistlers can be heard from four miles away and the record is seven miles.

The people who live on the island usually have good teeth, and this helps them to whistle well. They must also have good ears so that they can hear other whistlers.

We can understand why the whistle language continues. It is very useful on the island, and quite easy to learn. When somebody is hurt or ill, the whistle language takes the place of telephone. If the sick person is quite far away from the town, people pass the message from one to another. A boy guarding cattle on a hillside whistles to a man fishing from his boat. The last one is able to describe the trouble fully and exactly to the doctor in town. People help one another in the same way when a car breaks down or a cow is lost.

The whistle language is hundreds of years old, and probably it will continue to live on for hundreds of years more. Radio and TV often kill the special ways of speaking in different parts of a country. But on La Gomera you are nobody if you cannot whistle. Perhaps soon after TV arrives on the island, people there will be whistling the news and other facts and opinions. 4．If a person on La Gomera is ill, ______.

A. the whistle language will help pass the message to the doctor B. people will take him to town by carriage

C. his family will take him to the hospital D. others will phone the doctor in town 5. La Gomera is special because ______.

A. we don’t know its complete history

B. people have to shout if they want to communicate C. people there have good teeth and ears

D. people there use the whistle language to communicate with each other 6. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

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A. The whistle language has been used for hundreds of years on the island, but will not be

used any longer.

B. The whistle language can only be found on La Gomera.

C. It is not easy for a person to live on La Gomera if he cannot whistle.

D. The record shows that one best whistler can be heard by others from seven miles away. 7. Which of the following will be the best title of this passage?

A. The Secret Language B. Do You Know the Whistle Language? C. The Life of Islanders

D. La Gomera－a Mystery C

When Matthew Jones decided to donate a kidney (肾) to a stranger, the Michigan father of five had no idea he'd be starting a life-saving, \

His kidney donation to a Phoenix woman in 2007 set off a long-running organ donation that resulted in 10 sick people getting new kidneys over a year. It hasn't ended yet.

Jones, who lives in Petoskey, Michigan, heard a news report about a man giving a kidney to a stranger and thought he'd like to do that, too. He worked with a transplant（移植） center in Buffalo, NY, but no match worked out.

He eventually was referred to Dr Michael Rees, a transplant surgeon at University of Toledo Nedical Center, who was trying to design an advanced living-donor pairing system. It paired the 30-year-old Jones with Barb Bunnell, a 53-year-old Arizona woman whose husband wanted to donate a kidney to her but was incompatible.

Just after the July 18, 2007 surgery, Jones recalls feeling \he was well enough to go to a Diamondbacks baseball game five days later. Bunnell's grateful husband, Ron, then became what Rees believes is the world's first \donor, meaning he donated his kidney later.

Ron Bunnell was on a plane a week later to give his kidney to a 32-year-old Toledo woman, Angie Heckman. She's a waitress at a bar owned by her mother, Laurie Sarvo. Sarvo then gave a kidney to a woman in Columbus, Ohio, whose daughter then became the fourth donor in the chain.

On it ran through patient-donor pairs including two more married couples, a daughter and father, and two friends. The last operation was done last March, with a 60-year-old woman in Toledo getting a kidney from a Baltimore donor. That recipient's daughter wants to donate a

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