甘肃省临夏市2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题（特长班）.docVIP

甘肃省临夏市2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题（特长班） 第I卷（选择题，共50分） 一、阅读理解（共10小题，每小题3分，满分30分.） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡相应位置上将该项涂黑. A In the sea there are many islands . In its warm waters there are some little ones. We call them “Coral Islands” . A coral island is very nice to look at . It looks like a ring of land with tress , grass , and flowers on it . One part of the ring is open to the water . There is a little round lake inside the island . If you look into this lake , you will see beautiful coral . You may think they are flowers. If you look at a piece of coral , you will see many little holes in it . In each of these holes a very small sea animal has lived . These sea animals make the coral . They began to build under the water . Year after year , the coral grew higher and higher . At last it grew out of the water . Then the sea brought to it small trees and something else . After some years , these things changed into earth . Sometimes the wind brought seeds to this earth . Sometimes birds flew over it and brought seeds to the island . The little seeds grew . In a few years there were plants all over the island .In a few more years there were trees growing there . So you see , these islands were built little by little . The workers were very small . Do they not teach us a lesson ? Can you think what the lessons is ? 1. In the sea . A. there are coral islands in all places B. there are some coral islands C. the water is always warm D. we can see many flowers 2. A coral island looks like . A. a round cake B. trees , grass and flowers C. a ring of land D. a round lake 3. There are in the holes in corals . A. flowers B. little corals C. grass D. sea animals 4. From the story we learn that . A. small workers can’t do big things B. only big workers can do big things C. small workers