精品解析：黑龙江省肇东市第一中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题解析

肇东市第一中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期末考试 英语试题 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。本试卷共150分。考试时间为120分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A For many people around the world, a subway journey means speeding from one dull station to the next，surrounded by too many uncomfortable, impatient people. But on the Moscow Metro, taking the subway is like walking through a national heritage site. Depending on where you get off，you'll receive a brief course in architectural movements and face colorful glass windows, marble(大理石)columns, gilded (鎏金的）mosaics and painted scenes from Russian history.   “These extraordinarily beautiful places are unlike any metro station I've ever seen，" says Vancouver-based photographer David Burdeny. When Burdeny, who himself has a master's degree in architecture, first found out about Moscow’s metro stations, he was struck by the work of art. In all, he has photographed 20 of the most beautiful stations. Burdeny had originally planned to focus on Russian stations more generally, taking photos of examples in both St. Petersburg and Moscow. “But when I saw the stations in Moscow, they just completely blew away the St. Petersburg ones，"he says. Shooting in the subway sounds simple, but it is not without challenges. For one thing, Burdeny had to figure out a way to access them between 12:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., when the stations were closed. In the end, he settled on Arbatskaya Metro Station, whose vaulted (拱顶的） arches he found the most beautiful. But it also represented a challenge he was not sure he was able to overcome: conveying the hugeness of the spaces. The Arbatskaya platform, for example, stretches 820 feet.“Some of the arches are quite long，” he says. “When you enter them, they' re just so completely grand." 1. We can learn from the text that David Burdeny_. A. is a world-famous architect  B. is studying Russian history[来源:Zxxk.Com] C. took the subway to and from work D. took