2017-2018学年度高中英语 阶段仿真检测（二）新人教版选修10.docVIP

阶段仿真检测（二） A卷　学业水平达标 【说明】　本试卷满分120分，考试时间100分钟 Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) A A tiny island is like a world in miniature (缩影). Rapa island lies separately in the South Pacific, halfway between South America and New Zealand. Its first settlers turned to violence when faced with the pressures of the environment and competition. Rapa is a very remote place, like another planet. When settlers arrived there, there was an immediate impact on the environment. With the population expanding, you can see the same thing on a larger scale today. It leads to social fighting. The first people to live on Rapa arrived by boat in AD 1200. They at first set up camp in rock shelters along the coast and probably got along well with each other. The peace wouldn?t last. Rapa became fortified (设防的) about 300 years later. The island is 530 kilometers from its closest neighbor; those fortifications weren’t for outside invaders. The competition for resources led the people of Rapa to split into warring parts. When the Polynesians arrived in Rapa, there was great erosion (削弱), clearing of the land and so on. They also brought things with them, like different crops and rats, as well as their main food of taro. The date the settlers arrived is actually much later than what was considered before, meaning that their ancestors had hung up their long-distance boat paddles for about 1,500 years after settling westerly islands like Fiji and Tonga. The same thing happened on those islands, but to a lesser degree. There were enough small places in the immediate area that people could move on rather than fight for resources only when other islands were exhausted (匮乏). They finally traveled to Rapa. About 2,000 people at the time were all forced to stay_put. There was just nowhere else to go — this was the end of the line. 1．The text says Rapa island is like a world in miniature because ________. A．it has different forms of lands B．it is an island in the South Pacific C．it experienced the same problems as ot