山西省右玉一中20142015学年高二英语下学期期中试题概要1.docVIP

2014-2015学年第二学期期中考试(卷) 高二英语 考试时间：120分钟； 学校：__________姓名：__________班级：__________考号：__________ A The Antarctica is actually a desert. It is the only continent on the earth without a river or a lake. The Antarctica is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of snow falls each year. That is less than half an inch of water. Ten times that much moisture (水份) falls in parts of the Sahara. The little snow that falls in Antarctica never melts. It continues to pile up deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about eighty feet deep it is turned to ice by the weight of snow above it . 1. Antarctica is called a desert because it_______. A. is sandy. B. has the same temperature as a desert. C. has little moisture and no lakes or rivers. D. there are no people there. 2. Antarctica has_______. A. ten times as much moisture as the Sahara. B. the same amount of moisture as the Sahara. C. about one—tenth of the moisture of the Sahara. D. none of the above. 3. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it_______. A. never stops falling. B. piles up year after year. C. never melts. D. both B and C. 4. The snow turns to ice when______. A. it gets wet. B. the next snowfall comes. C. the temperature gets colder. D. the snow above it is heavy enough. Passage B Baths and bathing have long been considered of medical importance to man. In Greece there are the ruins of a water system for baths built over 3,000 years ago. The Romans had warm public baths. In some baths, as many 3,000 persons could bathe at the same time. Treating disease by taking bathing has been popular for centuries. Modern medical bathing first became popular in Europe and by the