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　　河南省濮阳市2017-2018学年高二上学期期末考试（A卷）英语试题
　　注意事项：
　　本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）。试卷满分120分，考试时间120分钟。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上（答题注意事项见答题卡），在本试题卷上答题无效。
　　第I卷
　　第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）略
　　第二部分 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
　　Welcome to Adventureland!
　　Everyone loves Adventureland! The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore, enjoy, and admire their wonders. Every visit will be an unforgettable experience. You will go away enriched, longing to come back. What are you going to do this time?
　　The Travel Pavilion
　　Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different ways of life. Visit the Amazon jungle village, the Turkish market, the Tai floating market, the Berber mountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you about their lives, and things they ma can try making a carpet, making fishing nets…
　　The Future Tower
　　This exhibition shows how progress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of the next century and the way we’ll be living then. Spend some time in our space station and climb into our simulator（模拟装置）for the Journey to Mars!
　　The Nature Park
　　This is not really one part several. In the Safari Par can drive among African animals in one of our Range Cruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on to theOcean Park to watch the dolphins and whales. And then there is still the Aviary to see…
　　The Pyramid
　　This is the center of Adventureland. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping center. Come here for information and ideas, too.
　　21. The Travel Pavilion is built to help visitors ______.
　　A. realize the importance of travelling
　　B. become familiar with mountain countries
　　C. learn something about different places in the world
　　D. learn how to make things such as fishing nets
　　22. When you visit The Future Tower, which of the following is NOT available for you to do?
　　A. Get to know about what people's life will be.
　　B. Have a journey to Mars.
　　C. Enjoy your time in its space station.
　　D. Learn about the impact of progress on our lives.
　　23. If you want to get a toy lion to take home, where will you most likely go?
　　A. The Travel Pavilion. B. The Nature Park.
　　C. The Future Tower. D. The Pyramid.
　　B
　　Nothing could stop Dad. After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family. He planted vegetables, fruit trees and even kept bees for honey.
　　And every week he cleaned Old Man McColgin’s chicse in exchange for manure（肥料）. The smell really burned the inside of your nose. When we complained about the terrible smell, Dad said the stronger the manure, the healthier the crops, and he was right. For example, just one of his cantaloupes filled the entire house with its sweet smell, and the taste was even sweeter.
　　As the vegetables started coming in, Dad threw himself into cooking. One day, armed with a basket of vegetables, he announced he was going to make stew（炖菜）. Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots. For about half an hour, the pressure built and the vegetables cooked. Finally, Dad turned of the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam. If we thought Dad’s pile of chicre was bad, this was 10 times worse. When Dad took off the lid, the smell nearly knocs out.
　　Dad carried the pot out and we opened doors and windows to air out the house. Just how bad was it? The neighbors came out of their houses to see if we had a gas leak!
　　Determined, Dad filled our plates with steaming stew and passed them around. It didn’t look that bad, and after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell,