云南省昭通市2017年高三英语下学期第二次统一检测试题.docVIP

昭通市2017届高三复习备考统一检测试卷1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。答卷前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并认真核准条形码上的准考证号、姓名、考场号、座位号及科目，在规定的位置贴好条形码。 2. 回答第I卷时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号，写在本试卷上无效。 3. 回答第II卷时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 4. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答案卡一并交回。 第 I 卷 第一部分 阅读理解（共20小题; 每小题2分，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（AB、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Downtown Havana resident Margarita Marquez said she received a special Christmas gift this year: web access at home, a rarity in Cuba with one of the lowest internet penetration(渗透力) rates in the world. Marquez, a 67-year-old retired university professor, was among those selected by the government two weeks ago to participate in a pilot project bringing the web into the homes of 2,000 inhabitants of the historic center of the island’s capital. Most of Cuba’s 11.2 million people only have access to internet at Wi-Fi hotspots, and only then if they can afford the $1.50 hourly fee that represents around 5 percent of the average monthly state salary. Only 5 percent of Cubans are estimated to enjoy internet at home, which requires government permission. This is usually granted mainly to academics, doctors and intellectuals(知识分子). “It’s like a dream come true,” said Marquez, who lives with her sister in a second-story flat in a colonial-era building. “To be in touch with the outside world is important.” Her 80-year-old sister, Leonor Franco, said the news they had been selected came as a surprise and she was excited to be surfing the web for the first time. “I had never had any experience of internet,” she said, seated in front of a laptop she has owned for two years without web access, searching for videos of her favorite singers on YouTube. She said she wanted to learn how to surf the web properly so she could make the most of the experiment as long as the government provided free internet access. “From March we will have to start paying and we don’t know if we will be able to continu