黑龙江实验中学2016届高三上学期期末考英语试题及答案(2)

The Poseidon Resort
   The Poseidon resort is an underwater resort that gives visitors a beautiful view of sea life. This resort covers 255 acres. It’s covered and surrounded by a lagoon (咸水湖) that covers 5,000 acres and is about 90 feet under water, giving you a beautiful view of sea life right before your eyes. This resort even has a hotel for those who would prefer to have the unusual experience of sleeping and waking up to the beautiful scenery all around them.
The Sabeto Mud Pool
   If you’re looking for something unusual to do, you can’t pass up the mud pool at Sabeto. It is located in a mountain range with a huge group of geothermal (地热的) pools full of nice, warm mud. Getting down and into the mud in the pool is believed to have benefits for healthy skin. This is unusual, but adults and especially kids will love it.
Fire Walking
   Fire walking in Fiji is believed to have originated on the island of Beau. Fire walking is when you walk on white-hot stones barefoot. To do this, you have to be mentally prepared for it. Trust me; there is a lot of preparation and strict rules that travelers follow in order to do this safely.
The Fiji Museum
   The Fiji museum is unusual due to all the amazing artifacts you’ll see dating back 3,000-4,000 years. This museum has a certain attraction that makes it funny—a shoe. It’s been said that a man named Thomas Baker was eaten by the locals several centuries ago and the only thing left was his shoe. This unusual museum is a great idea if you bring the whole family to Fiji.
21. Visitors who have the unusual experience of sleeping at the Poseidon resort can _________.
   A. enjoy the excellent service in the hotel      B. open windows to see sea life swimming
   C. see sea life around them in the room D. only watch videos about sea life
22. Why do adults like to get down into the mud pool?
   A. To float on the warm mud B. To make them strong
   C. To play with the warm mud D. To keep their skin healthy
23. Which of the following things needs more courage and stricter rules?
   A. Trying fire walking B. Visiting the Poseidon resort
   C. Getting into the Sabeto Mud Pool D. Visiting the Fiji museum
24. The underlined word “artifacts” in Paragraph 5 means_______.
   A. historic things made by man B. things invented not long ago
   C. things that look very strange  D. useful things in people’s daily life
B
    CARDIFF, Wales — Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered in Wales to celebrate the tradition of storytelling.
    “It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again,” said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival in Wales.
    “Some of the tales, like those the Inuit from Canada, are thousands of years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time,” he said early this month.
Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do Kntadjait, or throat singing, which has few words and much sound. Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.
    Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving storytelling in Wales.
    “It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions. and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here.” Ambrose said.
25. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling _______.
A. will be more popular than TV                   B. will be popular again 
C. started in Wales                              D. are in the hands of some old people
26. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn _______.
A. about their life as early as thousands of years ago   
B. why they tell the stories in a throat-singing way
C. how cold it has been where the Inuit live
D. how difficult it is to understand the Inuit
27. The underlined phrase “in good hands” means _______.
A. controlled by rich people B. grasped by good storytellers
C. taken good care of D. protected by kind people
C
   The way we cook is important. In many countries, the two sources of heat used for cooking are natural gas and electric stoves. The World Health Organization(WHO) warns that millions of people are dying every year from indoor air pollution. The WHO finds that poor cooking, heating and lighting technologies are killing millions of people each year.
Indoor air pollution results from the use of dangerous fuels and cook stoves in the home. WHO officials say nearly three billion people are unable to use clean fuels and technologies for cooking, heating and lighting. And they say more than seven million people die from exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollution each year. Of that number, the WHO says about 4.3 million people die from household air pollution given off by simple biomass(生物燃料）and coal stoves.
These findings show that the home use of poisonous fuels is to blame for many of these deaths. These fuels include wood, coal, animal waste and so on. Carlos Dora is Coordinator in the WHO’ s Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health. He says people should not use unprocessed coal and kerosene(煤油）fuel indoors. He says opening a window or door to let out the harmful air will not correct the situation. It will only pollute the outdoors. “New technologies and clean fuels can rid people of this problem.”