2020年大连一中高三模拟测试英语试题word版.docx

PAGE PAGE 9 辽宁省大连市高三年级综合测试 英语试卷 第二部分 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、D) 中，选出最佳选项。 A All for animals It’s no secret that many animals around the world, from pets to wildlife and ocean creatures, are at risk. Fortunately, many groups are created to help animals of every size and shape. Most of these groups are looking for volunteers and supporters. Which organization will you choose if you want to save animals in some shows? PAWS B. WWF C. STC D. ACS What animal does the organization founded in 1959 protect? Bears B. Whales C. Elephants D. Sea turtles What is the purpose of the text? To encourage people to contribute. B. To show how to protect sea animals. C. To tell people how to adopt animals. D. To praise some animal groups’ activities. B Ensley made me a poet. When I was one, my parents and I moved into a tiny apartment off 20th Street. I wrote my first poem sitting in the corner of my bedroom, surrounded by toys. I was 7 or 8 and the poem was for my best friend who had moved away. I was angry with him for being willing to leave me, and when I get angry, I get mean. I figured his leaving would be easier to face, if I pushed him away first. But as soon as the moving truck pulled away, I realized how foolish I’d been. So I wrote him a poem to apologize. The poem was terrible, of course, but with it, a lifelong love affair began -- not with the boy who moved away, but with the written word. As an adult, I’d write poems about playing kickball in the parking lot of those Ensley apartment blocks, and poems about trips to see the candy lady and to the corner store. When people ask me where in Birmingham I grew up, I sometimes say “Everywhere”. We moved around a lot and the neighborhoods of Birmingham find their way into so much of what I write. I had to leave Birmingham to learn how to tell true stories in prose (散文). After college in Alabama and graduate school in Berkeley, California, I moved to Kentucky to be a newspaper re