广东顺德华侨中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期末教学质量检测英语试题 Word版含答案.docxVIP

PAGE  广东顺德华侨中学2015学年第二学期期末教学质量检测 高二英语（试题） 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，第I卷1页至7页，第II卷7页至8页，满分120分，考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔讲自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并用2B铅笔在答题卡上的相应位置填涂考生号。用2B铅笔讲试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能打在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔做大，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先坏道原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，不准使用铅笔盒涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第I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 In April 2014, the world’s oldest known message in a bottle was discovered floating in the Baltic Sea. It had spent 101 years lost in the ocean! The message was finally sent to the author’s granddaughter. A German fisherman named Konrad Fischer found the brown bottle near Kiel, Germany. He said he nearly threw the bottle back into the water after pulling it out of a fishing net. Then he noticed something inside. The bottle in good condition contained a Danish postcard with two German stamps, dated May 17, 1913. Although dampness had made most of the writing hard to read out, the readable part of the message asked whoever found it to return it to an address in Berlin. It even contained two stamps to pay for postage. From the address, researchers found that the postcard was written by a man named Richard Platz, who was 20 years old when he wrote the message. While he was hiking on the Baltic Sea coast with a nature appreciation group, he threw the bottle into the sea. Then the researchers began a search for any living relatives of his. Sure enough, they were able to find his 62-year-old granddaughter, Angela Erdmann, who still lives in Berlin. “It was almost unbelievable,” Erdmann said upon being presented with her grandfather’s bottle and message. “That was a pretty moving moment. Tears rolled down my face.” Erdmann never knew her grandfather, who died in 1946, but she said that the discovery of the bottle had made her want to learn mor