周家中学2014-2015下6月份高二考试.doc

周家中学2014-2015学年度下学期第三次考试 高二英语试题 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 A captain of a boat lost his way in the middle of a storm. While trying to control the ship and avoid sinking, he started feeling annoyed. The water became bigger; the noise of the water hitting the boat, like a feather carried by the wind, almost led him to hopelessness. But he did not give up and tried harder every time the waves hit the boat. In his desperate attempts to stay strong and keep the boat steady, he was unable to hear one of his crew officers yelling at him. “Captain, Captain!” kept yelling the officer. He held on to one of the deck’s bars in order not to fall off the boat, “Captain, Captain!” insisted the officer. This time, while the officer was trying to approach him, a huge wave almost made the boat turn over and he fell and rolled on the deck till he luckily found another bar to hold on to. After several attempts, the officer finally was able to reach his fighting and tired captain, who had started to yell out his frustration and thoughts to the angry waves. “If I am a good and hard-working man, why does this happen to me? And why can’t I get out of this one? I have been sailing the open ocean for years to fish the best catch and get support for my family!! Why, why, why?!!!” At that moment, his crew officer was able to catch the captain’s shoulder and make him turn so that the captain could hear him. “Captain, Captain!” yelled again the officer. The captain looked at him angrily because the officer distracted him from his difficult task. “What do you need, officer? Don’t you see I am trying to control the ship and find our way back?” complained the captain. His officer kept holding on to the captain and pointed at the opposite direction, towards the stern (船尾)。 “Captain!” he replied. “The lighthouse is right over there, on the other side. We are going in the wrong direction!!” 1.The best title of the text would be “