江苏省常州市教育学会学业水平监测2023-2024学年高一下学期4月期中英语试题

第二部分 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 21.Who is the text written for? A. Salesmen of disaster prevention items. B. Researchers on disasters. C. Outdoor explorers to avoid disasters. D.Cleaners after a disaster. 22. What is a must for people with wounds? A.Hard hat. B.Waterproof bandage. C.Long-sleeved shirt. D.Heavy work gloves. 23.Why is it necessary to take a rest from time to time? A.The equipment is too heavy. B.To avoid heat stress. C.The water is heavily polluted. D.To prevent harm from surroundings. B Abel Cruz is an industrial engineer living in Lima, the capital of Peru, which is located in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. When Abel Cruz was a boy,his weekly routine was to climb down a valley in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes to get the family's water from a spring. “It was downhill from the house, far away and steep,”he says. The Peruvian Andes are under the weather influences coming both from the Pacific Ocean and from the jungle and traditionally there is a "dry" and "rainy" season. Recent climatic changes have made the dry seasons even drier and longer. Cruz began dreaming up better ways to collect water. He noticed that some plants, for example,capture(捕获)rain and mist with their wide leaves. Eventually,he struck upon the idea of a fog net, a concept that he would go on to share around the world. Each vertical(垂直的)net is 215 square feet of man-made resin(树脂).Micro-droplets(滴液)of water gather together and then fall down into collection tanks. One net can collect 50 to 100 gallons per day. Locals can carry back the water in small containers like buckets for their small farms. Working in Lima, Peru, with support from the Creating Water Foundation, Cruz has installed(安装)more than 3,600 nets on the bare hillsides around the city to capture fog coming from the Pacific Ocean. This should help bring relief to the city of more than 9 million,which tends to have little r