广东省深圳市六校联盟2022-2023学年高三上学期10月期中英语试题

深圳市6校联盟2022—2023学年高三10月质量检测 英语 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、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。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。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交回。 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 Tristan da Cunha This British island group stands in the South Atlantic. The nearest landfall is South Africa, 1, 750 miles east. It’s the world’s most remote inhabited(有人居住的)island chain. There are no package tours for independent travelers, no hotels, no airports, no holiday reps, no night clubs, no restaurants, no jet skis nor safe sea swimming. There are around 10 sailings a year from Cape Town, South Africa, and Namibia, each taking five to six days to reach the islands. Bouvet Its cliffs(悬崖)are sheer. It’s almost entirely covered by a glacier. In winter, its seas are pack ice. And its nearest neighbor is Antarctica, 1, 000 miles to the south. The entire island is a nature reserve—so unless you can make a convincing case for visiting, you’ll be blocked by Norwegian authorities. Only arctic geological and marine biology surveying teams can get the permission. Visitors can only be landed by helicopter. Bishop Rock Regarded as the world’s smallest island with a building on it, Bishop Rock stands at the end of Britain’s Isles of Scilly. In 1847, engineers started building an iron lighthouse there but it was washed away in a storm. Its extraordinary successor, first lit in 1858, stands to this day. The St. Mary’s Boatsmen’s Association runs daily trips. But even on a “calm” day, you’re in for serious waves. Boreray Sixty miles off mainland Scotland, you’ll find the archipelago(群岛)of St. Kilda, with a main island, Boreray, which was abandoned in the 1930s when crops failed. Imagine the surprise of archaeologists when they found that Boreray was occupied in prehistoric times. Since Boreray comes under the protection of the National Trust for Scotland, you need its permission to visit. You also need lo