广东省肇庆市高三第二次统测（期末）英语试题Word版含答案.doc

试卷类型：A 肇庆市中小学教学质量评估 2016届高中毕业班第二次统一检测题 英 语 本试卷共8页，卷面满分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，将自己所在县（市、区）、姓名、试 室号、座位号填写在答题卷上对应位置，再用2B铅笔在准考证号填涂区将考号涂黑． 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卷上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改 动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，答案不能写在试卷或草稿纸上． 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域 内相应的位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再在答题区内写上新的答案； 不准使用铅笔和涂改液．不按以上要求作答的答案无效． 第一部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分） （共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，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 Three Japanese tourists taking a holiday in Australia got stuck when their GPS told them they could drive from the mainland to an island, failing to mention the 15 kilometres of water and mud in between. As they drove their hired car from Moreton Bay to nearby North Stradbroke Island, they started to notice the firm surface they were driving on giving way to the well-known bay mud. However, being confident that their GPS would direct them to a road soon, they decided to drive on, managing to travel around 500 metres before their car was up to its tires in mud. To make matters worse, the tide(潮汐) started to come in and soon forced them to seek help and abandon the vehicle. Just four hours later the car was trapped in?two metres of water -- to the great amusement of onlookers on the shore and passengers on passing boats and ferries. Yuzu Noda, 21, said she was listening to the GPS and “it told us we could drive down there. It kept saying it would navigate(导航) us to a road. But we got stuck…there’s lots of mud.”She and her travel companions Tomonari Saeki, 22, and Keita Osada, 21, instead had to give up their plans for a day trip to the island and headed back to the Gold Coast of a lift from the RACQ tow truck(吊拖车) driver who was called to the trapped car. No such luck for the hired car though--after assessing the situation, no attempt was made to recover it. The students from Tokyo, who are due to return home tomorrow, said the experience would not put them off returning to Australia fo