广东陆丰东海新龙中学2024-2025学年高一下学期第二次月考英语试题

东海新龙中学2024-2025学年度第二学期高一第二次月考

英语试卷

试卷满分：120分：考试时间：120分钟：命题

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四个选项中心出最佳选项。

A

National parks in Canada

Nahanni National Park

An adventure destination at the northern tip of the Earth and one of the first four Natural World Heritage Sites, the park covers an area of about 4,700 square kilometers. It is a vast, unexplored land, still preserving the original landscape of wilderness, mountains, canyons, and cliffs. There are countless roads in the world, but none of them reach there. You can only get into the park by small plane!

Best time: June to August.

Wood Buffalo National Park

As its name suggests, the park is a protected area for wood bison (美洲野牛). Thousands of wood bison live in the park, and many people come for them. It is the largest national park in Canada and the second largest in the world, with over 44,000 square kilometers of land bigger than Switzerland, where animals can play.

Best time: June to August.

Sambaa Deh Falls Territorial Park

Sambaa Deh Falls is a must visit! The rapids rolling between the rocks, the huge mist and the loud roar will take your breath away. Up the waterfall, there is also the beautiful Coral (珊瑚) Falls, and if Sambaa Deh Falls is a strong young man, Coral Falls is a beautiful young girl. Every year, a large number of coral fossils flow down the Coral Falls. Would you like to pick one up?

Best time: August and September.

Ivvavik National Park

Stretching from the British Mountains to the Arctic coast and ending with Alaska’s Brooks Range, Ivvavik National Park is a wonderful expanse of mountainous district. Plus! The park also contains many cultural sites of great significance to the aboriginal (土著的) people of the North. You can find answers to your aboriginal curiosity here.

Best time: March and April.

1. Which park can only be reached by air?

A. Ivvavik National Park. B. Wood Buffalo National Park.

C. Sambaa Deh Falls Territorial Park. D. Nahanni National Park.

2. Which is the best time to visit Sambaa Deh Falls Territorial Park?

A. September. B. June. C. March. D. January.

3. What can visitors do at Ivvavik National Park?

A. Collect coral fossils. B. Watch the wood bison.

C. Experience aboriginal culture. D. Enjoy the beauty by plane.

B

If someone said they’d pay you 1,800 dollars to stay off social media for six years, would you do it? Could you?

Sivert Klefsaas did just that. “I thought it was awesome” Sivert told CNN Tuesday, “I thought, ‘Ah what’s 6 more years?’”

In 2016, Lorna Goldstrand Klefsaas challenged her 12-year-old son Sivert to stay off social media until he was 18. If he completed the challenge, she’d award him the cash on his eighteenth birthday. On February 19, 2022, Sivert claimed his prize.

Lorna was inspired by a challenge she heard on the radio called the “16 for 16”, where a mother gave her daughter 1,600 dollars when she turned 16 if she stayed off social media, she told CNN. She decided to up the ante (提高赌注) to two extra years and 200 dollars more.

Sivert said it wasn’t too difficult to live without social media, and he didn’t think about it much during the six years. As a 12-year-old, Sivert said he wasn’t using social media much anyway. The only app he had prior to the bet was Snapchat — which he deleted a day after trying it out.

“I wouldn’t say there was ever a time when I thought I was about to break,” he said. “As it went on, it was more of a proud thing.” He also had his friends keep him up to date on the latest information or trends. “I got to avoid all the unnecessary drama that was on there,” Sivert added. It also meant he had more time to focus on his grades and sports instead, Sivert told reporters.

Now 1,800 dollars richer, Sivert told CNN he hasn’t thought about what to buy (when he was 12, he joked he’d get a house), but it’ll likely be something for his dorm room at the University of Northwester St. Paul, which

he’ll attend in the fall.

4. What made Lorna get the idea of challenging her son to stay off social media?

A. A TV programme. B. A CNN programme.

C. Her neighbor’s example. D. A radio programme.

5. How did Sivert feel about the challenge?

A. Too difficult. B. Satisfied. C. Critical. D. Unhappy.

6. What extra benefits did Sivert gain besides 1800 dollars?

A. A mobile phone. B. More friends.

C. Concentration on his study. D. Being admitted to university.

7. What is the best title for the text?

A. A teen stays off social media for 6 years

B. Social media have bad influence on teens

C. Teens are increasingly addicted to social media

D. A mother challenged her son to stay off social media

C

Asian elephants are an endangered species. Their numbers are somewhere between 39,000.44,000 and they spread across the vast continent — though almost half are located in India.

The main threat faced by Indian elephants, like all Asian elephants, is loss of habitat, which then results in human-elephant conflict. In South Asia, an ever-increasing human population has led to much illegal occupation of elephant habitat. Many construction projects of roads and railway tracks also break habitat into separate areas. Unable to mix with other groups, they run the risk of reproducing. Habitat loss also forces elephants into farmers’ fields for fowl. Once a farmer’s crops are destroyed, a conflict between humankind and the elephant is unavoidable.

Even though suitable habitat exists, illegal hunting remains a threat to elephants in many areas. In 1989, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) banned the international trade in ivory (象牙). However, there are still some ivory markets in a number of countries which make an illegal international trade. Although most of this ivory comes from poaching African elephants. Asian elephants are also poached for their ivory, as well as for their skin.

Catching wild elephants has become another threat to some wild populations, seriously reducing some numbers. Men would catch elephants to live with them and carry their heavy loads. India, Vietnam and Myanmar have banned catching elephants in order to protect their wild groups, but in some countries elephants are still caught each year for