辽宁省葫芦岛市第一高级中学2017-2018学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题

2017-2018学年度第二学期期中考试 高二年级英语学科试题 命题人:高二备课组 审核人：姚丽娟 满分：120分 考试时间:100 分钟 第I卷 第一部分： 听力（略） 第二部分： 阅读理解（共两节；满分40分） 第一节 （共15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 Want a journey that is really more interesting than the destination? Then you might want to fly to one of these airports. The runway where planes have been known to drop off a cliff Taking off at the Matekane airstrip (飞机跑道) in Lesotho, South Africa, is a frightening experience, as the plane soars over an about 600-metre cliff face after taking off. Matekane's runway sits 2,286 metres up on a mountain gully (沟渠), so it takes nerves of steel to both land and take off. If a plane doesn't manage to pick up enough speed on the 400 metre-long airstrip, it falls off the cliff before it takes flight. The ice runway Many travellers find plane landings a terrifying enough prospect ordinarily, but imagine if the runway were made of ice! That's a reality for anyone flying into Doris Lake Aerodr