(练习)31 微阶段刷题过关卷(十一)-【提分教练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语必修第二册(外研版2019)

微阶段刷题过关卷十一 (时间：65分钟　分值：70分) Unit 6　Starting out, Understanding ideas & Using language 第Ⅰ卷(满分32.5分) Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20分) A Australians love the beach. Every summer hundreds of thousands of us reach our beaches. The Rip to River Classic is one of the oldest fun runs in Australia, held along the beach between Point Lonsdale and Ocean Grove in Victoria for the past 39 years. Hundreds of people choose to run the 10 km of beach to raise funds for the Ocean Grove Surf Lifesaving Club. The scene at the finishing line is chaotically (混乱地) festive. Lots of lookers walk around the tired runners. There are even food trucks. Local officer, Lisa Neville, is there to hand out prizes and introduce the heavily visited beach. Her words are overshadowed by questions from the media. But the beach can be hard for animals. Take hooded plovers (黑头鸻) — little birds that move across the sand for example. They seek out little creatures among the seaweed and nest on the beaches. The nest is just a shallow hole in the sand, exposed to passing predators (捕食者). The parent birds often pretend to be injured in an attempt to distract nest predators away. On a hot summer's day, the parent birds wet their feathers and sit on their eggs to cool them down. If we are too close, they won't approach, and the eggs will bake. That's if they're not discovered by predators first. To be honest, it's a surprise that some hooded plovers have survived on our crowded beaches. But it's a bird with many friends. Local volunteers get up early to stand guard over one of the hooded plovers' nesting areas at the starting line of the Rip to River Classic. Their presence ensures the runners stay down on the hard sand of the wave line to avoid spooking the incubating (孵卵的) birds. They are part of volunteers who station themselves on beaches to monitor nests and build fences and signs. They also educate beachgoers about the plovers, which, though cute, often get unnoticed. 【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。每年夏天很多澳大利亚人都选择去往海滩。热闹的人群会对一