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　　黑龙江省牡丹江市第一高级中学2016届高三上学期期中考试英语试题（解析版）
　　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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
　　A
　　The world consumes hundreds of billions of single-use plastic bags each year. They are difficult to recycle, wasteful and damage the nature. Environmental activists want to ban plastic bags or---as many communities have done ---charge a fee for them. But the plastic bag industry defends their use, saying people reuse plastic bags, and industry officials argue recycling is a matter of personal responsibility and should not be forced.
　　City officials say New Yorse 5.2 billion plastic bags each year. They are offered free with nearly every supermarket, or convenience store purchase. Many people like them, even if they sometimes feel guilty about using them. But what happens to those bags after they’ve been used in a huge environmental problem. They are found on beaches. They are caught in trees. They are swallowed by marine life.
　　Plastic bags are made of petroleum products and natural gas, and do not biodegrade (分解). And they are difficult to recycle. So New York City spends nearly $ 10 million dollars a year to send 100---thousand tons of plastic bags to landfills out of state.
　　In Washington, D.C., a five percent charge on all single-use bags led to about a 60 percent reduction and in Los Angeles County in California , a 10 cent charge on single-use bags led to a 95 percent reduction. With a 10 cent charge on bags, customers are much more likely to stop and thint whether they need a bag or not. And that’s really all that these laws are doing.
　　Who object to the limit of using plastic bags?
　　A. Plastic bag makers.          B. Government officials.   
　　C. Stores and supermarkets.     D. Most of the consumers.
　　1. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us _____.
　　A. the difficulty about dealing with plastic bags
　　B. the popularity of plastic bags in New York
　　C. the great convenience brought by using plastic bags
　　D. the usage and problems of plastic bags in New York
　　2. What measure does the writer introduce to reduce the use of plastic bags?
　　A. Reducing the production of plastic bags.
　　B. Charging for the use of plastic bags.
　　C. Offering paper bags instead of plastic bags.
　　D. Making people realize the harm of plastic bags.
　　【答案】
　　1.A
　　2.D
　　3.B
　　考点：生活类短文阅读。
　　【名师点睛】
　　本文是一篇生活类的短文阅读，说明对象是塑料袋，事情是塑料袋的使用对美国人民带来的影响，以及对坏影响采取的措施的一篇文章。这种文章，学生大可以不必担心做这类题，一般情况下，出题顺序都是按照文章段落分布的。做到首先找到文章的陈述对象（如：本文根据文章首句The world consumes hundreds of billions of single-use plastic bags each year，可以推测，本文的说明对象就是塑料袋）；其次这类文章的做题技巧中最重要的一点，带着问题找原文。（如：小题2，题干问的是第二段主要讲述的是什么，然后在原文中找到第二段，进行细致阅读，最后根据convenience store purchase和they’ve been used in a huge environmental problem可知，这段话是讲述使用塑料袋的好处和坏处的，故选D. the usage and problems of plastic bags in New York）；最后学生要注意，这类文章的最后一段，往往是收尾段，可以在最后一段里面找到关键句子，分析，然后来解决题目的最后一题。（如：本文的小题3，根据最后一段With a 10 cent charge on bags, customers are much more likely to stop and thint whether they need a bag or not，推测可知作者认为当使用付费制的情况下，人们就会思考是否真的对塑料袋有需要，减少塑料袋造成的垃圾问题，故选B）
　　B
　　Fascinated with images from the Mars Rover? It turns out you don’t have to go to space. The following spots may look like they are on another planet, but they are right here on earth.
　　* Socotra Island, Indian Ocean
　　The largest of the four-island Socotra Archipelago, the island has about 250 species of plants that are not found anywhere else in the world. This includes the canopy-topped dragon’s blood tree, which has blood-red resin(树脂）that runs down if the trunt deep. It can grow to 10 feet with a bulbous (球根的）trunk that swells with water absorbed in case of dry weather.
　　See it for yourself: There are regular flights from the Yemen capital of