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　　思南中学2015----2016学年度高二年级下学期第一次英语月考试题
　　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，选出最佳选项。         
　　A
　　.        At the age of 16, Julia Butterfly Hill quit school and worked at a restaurant. For many years, she was only interested in making money and material things. Then one day she had a serious car accident, which changed her life. Hill said: “I realized I wanted to find a more powerful purpose for being here on this planet.”
　　As soon as she recovered, Hill traveled to California. There she saw ancient redwood trees, which are the largest trees in the whole world. The wood from redwood trunks is very hard. So the Pacific Lumber Company cut down many of the huge redwoods to use for construction. There are not many forests of these trees left. Many environmental activists want to protect the remaining trees. The redwoods are very important to the environment.
　　In 1997 Hill learned a group called Earth First was working to protect a particular group of trees. They decided to send someone up into a redwood tree, hoping this would stop the company from cutting the trees down. Julia Butterfly Hill volunteered.
　　Hill lived in the tree for over two years without ever coming down. Her home was a 6-by-8-foot tree house, 180 feet up. It is always cold and wet in a redwood tree. There were even very serious winter storms while Hill was in the tree. The wind and cold almost knocked Hill out of the tree. But she did not fall — she survived.
　　Finally, after years of arguing, the company decided to protect Luna, the tree Hill lived in. They signed an agreement to never cut down this huge redwood tree or the trees around it. When Hill put her feet on the earth again, she began to cry. But from that moment on Hill hasn’t stopped working to protect the environment.
　　21. Julia Butterfly Hill traveled to California _____.
　　A. to find a new job          B. to build a tree house
　　C. with the hope of joining Earth First
　　D. in expectation of doing something meaningful
　　22. The redwood trees were cut down mainly _____.
　　A. because they might fall over at any time B. because they had great economic value
　　C. to protect other trees in the forest   D. to make space for constructions
　　23. Julia Butterfly Hill’s living conditions in the tree were _____.
　　A. comfortable         B. cool        C. tough                       D. satisfying
　　24. What can we learn about Julia Butterfly Hill from the text?
　　A. She has a sense of social responsibility. B. She failed to protect the redwood tree.
　　C. She built a new house in the forest.   D. She is a self-centered woman
　　B
　　Clara Barton, born on Christmas in 1821, is widely known as one of the most honored women in American history. She began teaching school when most teachers were men at that time. Later, she became one of the first women ever to be employed by the government.
　　Her career in helping the sick began when her brother David became her first patient. He fell down from the roof of a house when Clara was just 11 years old. She stayed by his side and looked after him for three years, learning how to give him all his medicines.
　　When the Civil War began in 1861, she immediately recognized that the poorly equipped soldiers needed help. Instead of waiting for others to step in, Clara collected necessary things on her own, asked the public for donations and learned how to store and distribute them to soldiers. She also read to the soldiers and wrote letters for them.
　　After the Battle of Cedar Mountain in northern Virginia in 1862, Clara arrived at a field hospital at midnight with a vehicle full of supplies. A doctor named Paul Smith at that hospital would later write, “I thought heaven had sent out an angel that night — her assistance arrived at exactly the right time.”