2019-2020学年高中英语阶段综合测评2(含解析)9.pdfVIP

学必求其心得，业必贵于专精 阶段综合测评（二 ) （时间：100分钟；满分： 120分）Ⅰ . 阅读理解(共 15 小题；每 小题 2 分，满分 30 分） A Ballard grew up in Southern California。 He spent his free time at the beach near his home. He enjoyed fishingand swimming。 He even learned to dive。 When Ballard wasnt at the ocean， he loved reading about it. At age 10， he read Twenty ThousandLeaguesUnder the Sea,a book which describes the undersea adventures of Captain Nemo。 Ballard decided he wanted to be like Captain Nemo when he grew up。 His parents helped him follow his dream. Ballard was a hardworking student。He spent many yearslearning all he could about the ocean. By the age of 28, he was an expert. In 1970，he took a job as a scientist at Woods Hole OceanographicInstitute in Massachusetts。 There he studied underwater mountains of the Atlantic Ocean。 He came up with ways to predict volcanoes under the oceans. 1 学必求其心得，业必贵于专精 Working with other scientists, Ballard also found previously unknown sea animals。 These animals lived far below the ocean s surface,where scientists had believed no animals could live。 By the 1980s，Ballard ’ vehicles to explore the ocean bottom。 His first find,the well-known ship Titanic,made Ballard famous。He was not happy with just one big find,however.He looked for and found other well。known ships。One was the German battleship Bismarck。Another was the USS。Yorktown ，an aircraft carrier (航空母舰） t hat sank during World War Ⅱ。 Today Robert Ballard is still an underwater explorer. He also heads an that some of the students will follow in his footsteps. After all, the world’ s huge oceansare mostly unknown。 Who knows what r