广东省深圳市深圳高级中学2020-2021学年高一下英语期中考试英语试题

深圳高级中学（集团）2020—2021学年第二学期期中测试题 高一英语 注意事项： 1.答题前，考生将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。需改动用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并收回。 考试时间120分钟，满分150分。 第一部分 阅读理解（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Are you interested in travelling? Here are famous national parks where travellers mostly like to go in America. 1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park Visitors: 11,388,893 The name “Great Smoky Mountains” comes from the fog over this mountain range situated along the North Carolina-Tennessee border. Established in 1934, it is not just home to a diverse ecosystem of plants and animals, but also home to rich Appalachian cultures. Visitors there can see over 100 waterfalls, go boating on Fontana Lake and hike the Appalachian Trail. It's also an excellent vantage point to see the leaves change in the fall. 2. Grand Canyon National Park Visitors: 6,254,238 The Grand Canyon is the result of over 70 million years of geological events creating the Colorado Plateau, glaciers and valleys, while the Colorado River carved its way through the valleys. It is truly a natural splendor! When President Roosevelt first visited it in 1903, he said, “The Grand Canyon fills me with awe. It is beyond comparison – beyond description.”16 years later, it was signed by President Woodrow Wilson, officially viewing the Grand Canyon a national park. 3. Yosemite National Park Visitors: 4,336,890 In addition to being a national park, Yosemite is designated as a World Heritage Site. Yosemite National Park is in Central California in the western Sierra Nevada. Though it covers around 1,168 square miles of area, visitors spend most of their time in the 5.9 square-mile area of the Yosemite Valley where there are some most famous sites like Yosemite Falls, and Cook’s Meadow Loop. 4. Zion National Park Visitors: 4,504,812 Settled in Southwestern Utah is Zion National Park. It has some of the most unique landscapes packed