2020-2021学年湖南省长沙市第一中学高二上学期期中英语试题（解析版）
长沙市第一中学2020-2021学年度高二上期中考试
英语
第二部分阅读（共两节；满分40分）
第一节（共11小题；每小题2.5分，满分27.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
The Isle of Wight, of the south Coast of England, is the best place in Europe for discovering dinosaur bones. Dinosaur Farm Museum was established in 1993. Since then, the museum has introduced the study of old bones to many more people.
What we offer
Visitors can enjoy our displays or watch us cleaning dinosaur bones and other fossils found in the island' beaches.
The museum has a variety of different fossils, many of them never displayed to the public before. As more are discovered all the time, you can be sure of seeing something new each time you visit.
We have a free Fossil Identification Service, so you can bring in any fossils you have and find out what they are. In addition, we have a reasonably-priced Museum Shop, where you can buy a souvenir of your visit., You could also bring a picnic and relax in our special picnic area.
Activities
Fossil hunts are organized by the museum and run all year around. Groups of up to 25 are guided on a local beach where they can search for fossils. All these hunts are fully licensed and insured, and guides can help to identify any fossils found and point out things of interest.
Due to the popularity of these hunts, all trips must be booked by a personal visit to Dinosaur Farm Museum.
Did
The BBC program "Live from Dinosaur Island" was filmed along the coast here, and Dinosaur Farm Museum was the base for the television crew.
Find out more
Check out our website at www. isleofweigh/diosaurfarm to learn in detail how we dig for dinosaurs. You can also read about the many different kinds of dinosaurs which lived in this area,
which was connected to Europe 120 million years ago.
1. What can visitors do at the museum according to the passage?
A. They can have a souvenir shop about dinosaurs.
B. They can help clean the dinosaur bones for free.
C. They can have a free Fossil Identification Service.
D. They can find out more details about dinosaurs worldwide.
2. Why must the fossil hints be looked by visiting the museum personally?
A. Because the hunts are fully licensed and insured.
B. Because the hunt are enjoyed by a large number of people.
C. Because the hunt are organized by the museum and run all years round.
D. Because the hunts are guided on a local beach where visitors can search for fossils.
3. The passage is most probably taken from ____________.
A. A history book
B. A science fiction story
C. A travel magazine
D. A conference interview
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. C
【解析】
本文是应用文。介绍了一家以恐龙为主题的博物馆的相关情况。在这里，你会看到恐龙化石，参现之余还可以在指定区域自带野餐休闲。更为吸引人的是你可以参加馆内组织的亲自寻之旅。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据What we offer部分的"We have a free Fossil Identification Service, so you can bring in any fossils you have and find out what they are.( 我们有一个免费的化石识别服务，所以你可以带你拥有的任何化石来鉴别)"可知，游客可以在博物馆免费鉴别化石。故选C项。【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据Activities部分的"Due to the popularity of these hunts, all trips must be booked by a personal visit to Dinosaur Farm Museum.( 由于这些狩猎活动很受欢迎，所有的参观都必须亲自去恐龙农场博物馆预订)”可知，是因为fossil hunts大受欢迎才需要自己亲自到场预订，故选B项。
【3题详解】
推理判断题。通读全文可知，文章主要介绍了恐龙博物馆所处的地理位置、展览内容、活动项目以及相关宣传信息，这属于旅游范畴，因此推断本文很可能出自一本旅游杂志。故选C 项。
B
securingDave was a makeup artist who regularly held makeup artistry classes at the local community college. He was well known as an excellent trainer and enjoyed great popularity. Usually, the majority of his students were middle-aged housewives who wanted to fine-tune their makeup skills so as to make themselves more attractive. But this time, it was beyond him that his class was attended by a man as well.
The new student was a gentleman in his best years with a seemingly boundless interest in makeup artistry. He was keen to learn as much as he could and asked questions whenever and wherever possible.
Understandably, the man was the number one subject of conversation when the other women were alone. Guesses quickly started to spread. Why did he learn makeup? Was he to seek for a woman to be his life partner? Doubts like this came crowding in.
Throughout the lessons ignoring the curious women around him, the man carefully listened and wrote everything down he learned, leaving the women more and more curious and puzzled. When the day and class were slowly coming to an end, one of them couldn't resist her curiosity, so she picked up the courage and asked him why he was so interested in makeup artistry. What followed was a dead silence. After what seemed century, he said his beloved wife partially lost her eyesight because of diabetes and she was no longer able to apply her makeup. Fearing being laughed at, she locked herself in her room, abandoning herself to great grief. She was absolutely beautiful even without m
akeup. But what upset her was that she simply felt not comfortable leaving the home without makeup. Sensing her loneliness in a colorless world, he was also at a loss as to what to do. Once informed of this lass, he determined to learn to make up without the hesitation, hoping to make a difference.

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