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阶段滚动检测卷(二)
(时间:100分钟满分:120分)
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)
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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。
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Our world is getting smaller and smaller.Miss Yamada,whose plane could cover 800 kilometers an hour,
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flew around the world in less than fifty hours.The newest planes could go 600 miles (one mile equals 1.609
kilometers)an hour,and we are now developing planes that are even faster.
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But it used to take a lot longer to go around the world.Magellan's men were the first to make the trip.It
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took them more than two years to do so by ship
Magellan was from Portugal,but he sailed for the king of Spain.On September 20,1519,he left Spain with
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five ships and 240 men.After passing the south tip of South America,they reached the Pacific Ocean,on which
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they sailed more than one year.Very often they could not see a piece of land for months and they suffered greatly
from the lack of food and fresh water.Many of them died of hunger and diseases.They even had to live on
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sawdust ()Finally in April 1521,Magellan got to the Philippine Islands,where he was killed.His men
fled and continued their voyage across the Indian Ocean.It was with the greatest difficulty that they passed the
Cape of Good Hope.By the time they returned to Spain on December 21,1521,seven out of every eight men had
died.Magellan's voyage proved that men could sail around the world and that our earth is but a huge ball.
1.Miss Yamada could fly round the world in less than fifty hours because
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A.our world was getting smaller and smaller
B.her plane was the fastest at the time this passage was written
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C.they had developed planes that could go more than 600 miles an hour
D.her plane was very fast
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2.According to the passage,the newest plane at that time could go around the world in about
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A.fifty hours
B.thirty-five hours
C.forty-one hours
D.thirty-eight hours
3.Which of the following do you think is the best title for this passage?
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A.Magellan's Voyage
B.Going Around the World
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C.Sailing Ar