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　　辽宁省大连市2014-2015学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题
　　注意事项：
　　1. 请在答题纸上作答，在试卷上作答无效。
　　2. 本试卷分第一卷和第二卷两部分，共120分，考试时间100分钟。
　　第一卷
　　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
　　Years ago there was a group of kids who would hang around at some local ponds（池塘） in the woods near their houses in Warwick, Rhode Island. In summer they caught frogs and fish. When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating. Time passed, and the ponds became the only open space for the kids to enjoy themselves in that neighborhood.
　　One day a thirteen-year-old boy from this group of kids read in the local newspaper that a developer wanted to fill in the ponds and build over a hundred small houses called apartments. So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures to stop the development. A group of citizens met and decided to support him.
　　At the meeting of the town planning organization，the boy was quite nervous at first and spoke very softly. But when he saw the faces of his friends and neighbors in the crowd and thought about what was happening to their favorite ponds，his voice grew louder. He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens. He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children. A few days later，the developer stopped his plan.
　　Nine years later, when that teen was a senior in college, he was informed that the developer was back with his proposal to build apartments. Now twenty-two years old, he was studying wetlands ecology. He again appeared before the town planning organization. This time as an expert, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of wetlands ecology to help to improve the development. Finally some apartments were built, but less than half the number the developer wanted. The ponds where those sed to hang around were protected by a piece of natural land, and are still there today.
　　1. The kids liked to ___________ at the local ponds in winter.
　　A. make a snowman                B. throw snowballs   
　　C. go skating                      D. go skiing
　　2. The boy thought that the town officials should be ___________ for the citizens.
　　A. responsible      B. modest       C. anxious         D. thankful
　　3. Which statement is true according to the passage?
　　A. The apartments were built as the developer had planned.
　　B. The grown-up boy helped to protect the wetlands as an expert.
　　C. The developer stopped the boy’s plan at the meeting years ago.
　　D. The ponds were filled in and some apartments were built on them.
　　4. The underlined word “restrictions” in the last paragraph probably means________.
　　A. rules           B. plans        C. advantages      D. limitations
　　B
　　A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.
　　The size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 years, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.
　　Humans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott,