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保密★启用前 试卷类型:A 2021年深圳市高三年级第二次调研考试 英语 2021,4 试卷共10页,卷面满分120分,折算成130分计入总分。考试用时120分钟 注意事项: 1.答题前,先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上,并将准考证号条形码粘贴在 答题卡上的指定位置。用2B铅笔将答题卡上试卷类型A后的方框涂黑。 2.选择题的作答:每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂 黑。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 3.非选择题的作答:用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草 稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 4.考试结束后,请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交 第一部分阅读(共两节,满分50分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5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 London and Paris are two of Europe's biggest tourist destinations, just a few hours away from each other by road or rail and an hour's distance by air. what about the train-ferTy combination that many recall fondly from their childhoods Well, though it's budget-saving, this option is too time-consuming today, so better leave it to your memories. Since the UK is not part of the Schengen Area, passengers need to go through passport control prior to boarding Air trips Though flying between London and Paris is by no means recommended, there are still a few people traveling between the two dynamic cities by air. a very low one-way fare is possible through advanced booking but of course it's rare, and that doesn't include the taxi and rail fares 2021年深圳市高三年级笫二次调研考试英语试题第1页(共10页) was driven by the desire to see what lay at the ends of the world As we sailed north, icebergs of the size of buses floated past our small boat. Finally, we reached our destination- English Bay, where Dufferin landed and stepped off onto the horseshoe-shaped beach This was what I'd dreamt of: standing somewhere so pure and primitive. However, for many early polar explorers, the results were far less pleasant. The south, in particular, was a source of extreme danger My childhood interest in the South Pole was fueled by the unsuccessful yet heroic adventures of Emest Shackleton. He died in 1922 while preparing for his fourth adventure. The stories of robert Falcon Scott are also well-known; he and four companions died on their way back from the South pole So why do explorers put themselves at such risk? Much of it seems