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山西大学附中 2021-2022学年第二学期高二2月（总第一次）模块诊断 英 语 试 题 考试时间: 100分钟 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分） 第一节 (共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins ($ 5.99) With the flight of its characters through a landscape destroyed by climate crisis, this novel does not indicate much hopefulness for the future. Within it is a series of situations and consequences made more severe in a future California short of water. Across the desert, we follow Watkins, characters through a place so transformed that it needs its own field guide of animals newly adapted for strange survival. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ($ 18.1) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate will affect us all. Its setting is not a deserted world, but a future that is almost upon us. This extraordinary novel from the visionary science fiction writer will change the way you think about the climate crisis. Breathing Fire by Jaim Lowe ($ 27) The front lines of the tight against climate change are peopled (挤满) with those who society has forgotten. Up to 30 percent of the firefighters battling wildfires in California each year are prisoners performing backbreaking labor while earning a 40th of what a civilian makes. This book follows six female prisoner firefighters and their worried families, looking into the human cost of environmental crisis Something Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman ($ 28) In Alexandra Kleeman’s new novel, a novelist new to Los Angeles teams up with a former child actor to investigate a conspiracy (BI UK). But this is L. A. , where wildfires burn all year long and the rich store water while the poor suffer from the consequence of climate crisis. Human weakness is pushing the city toward a disaster. 1. Which category does Breathing Fire fall into? A. Science fiction. B. Play. C. Non-fiction D. Biography 2.What is Alexandra Kleeman? A. A no