黑龙江省大庆第一中学2020-2021学年高二上学期第二次月考（期中）英语试题（pdf版）

1 大庆一中高二年级上学期第二次月考 英语试卷 时长：100 分钟 日期：2020.10 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分，共 120*1.25=150 分。 第 I 卷 第一部分阅读理解（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。 A People are always looking for lost cities and occasionally one is found: Borobudur in Indonesia, for example. But perhaps some of the places people look for never existed -- or did they ? Here are just a few famous mythical(神话里的) cities. El Dorado El Dorado is a story that began in 1537, when Spanish explorers found the Muisca people in the mountains of what is now Colombia. They heard the story of a man who covered himself with gold and dived into a lake. Then people began to talk of El Dorado – “the golden man". Soon people started to think of El Dorado as a place, too --a city of gold and amazing riches. Nowadays, the name “El Dorado" is still used to mean "a place where you can get rich quickly”. Atlantis There was once an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It was the mythical island of Atlantis. The people of the island were very rich, thanks to the natural resource on the island. For hundreds of years, they lived simple lives. But slowly they began to change. They started to want power. So the gods decided to destroy Atlantis. Suddenly, the island and its people were swallowed (淹没)by the sea and were never seen again. Shambhala In Tibetan Buddhist traditions, Shambhala is a mystical country that is hidden somewhere behind the Himalayas. Shambhala is a word from an old language that means “a place of peace” or “a place of happiness”. It is said that there is no war in Shambhala, and in the future, when the world is full of war, a huge army will come out of Shambhala, destroy the world’s bad rulers, and start a new Golden Age. Some people say this will happen in 2424. 1. Nowadays, the name“ El Dorado” means“_________”. A. Colombia B. the golden man C. a place of great wealth D. a city with mountains 2. Atlantis was destroyed by_________. A. the gods B. its people C. i